Greece
Information
Association	Hellenic Handball Federation
Coach	Georgios Zaravinas
Captain	Charalampos Mallios
Most caps	Georgios Chalkidis (220)
Most goals	Savvas Karypidis (930)
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	1 (First in 2004)
Best result	6th (2004)
World Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2005)
Best result	6th (2005)
European Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2024)
Last updated on Unknown.

The Greece national handball team is the national handball team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Handball Federation.

Greece has a long tradition in handball. First of all, Greece made it to the handball 2005 World Cup and the 2004 Olympics where they beat Brazil, Korea and won against Egypt in a close game. In the Olympics they lost to eventual champions Croatia, and finished sixth in the tournament. In the World Cup they finished in the sixth position as well. Grecce will take part in the EHF Euro for the very first time in 2024.

Competitive record

Olympic Games

Olympic record
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1936 Berlin	did not qualify
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	did not qualify
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona
1996 Atlanta
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens	Quarter-finals	6th place	8	3	0	5	188	220
2008 Beijing	did not qualify
2012 London
2016 Rio de Janeiro
2020 Tokyo
Total	1/14	–	8	3	0	5	188	220

World Championships

World Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	did not qualify
1954
1958
1961
1964
1967
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005	Quarter-finals	6th place	9	4	1	4	245	246
2007	did not qualify
2009
2011
2013
2015
2017
/ 2019
2021
/ 2023
// 2025	to be determined
2027
Total	1/30	–	9	4	1	4	245	246

European Championships

European Championship record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1994	did not qualify
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2024	Qualified
2026	To be determined
2028
Total	1/18

Current squad

Greek squad at the 2023 World Championship Qualification

Position	No.	Player	Date of birth	Club
GK	16	Petros Boukovinas	(1994-03-08) 8 March 1994	AEK Athens
GK	40	Panagiotis Papantonopoulos	(2001-10-02) 2 October 2001	Ademar León
LW	2	Panteleimon Kostakidis	(1990-07-04) 4 July 1990	Filippos Verias
LW	18	Georgios Papavasilis	(2000-07-31) 31 July 2000	Olympiacos
RW	3	Nikolaos Tzortzinis	(2002-02-25) 25 February 2002	PAOK
RW	14	Nikolaos Passias	(1995-02-17) 17 February 1995	Olympiacos
RW	21	Dimitrios Tziras	(1991-04-05) 5 April 1991	AEK Athens
RW	38	Evangelos Arampatzis	(1996-08-23) 23 August 1996	AEK Athens
CB	11	Charalampos Mallios (c)	(1987-08-06) 6 August 1987	Diomidis Argous
CB	20	Charalampos Dompris	(1994-07-23) 23 July 1994	Olympiacos
CB	28	Anastasios Papadionysiou	(1990-08-11) 11 August 1990	AEK Athens
CB	24	Petros Kandylas	(1991-02-28) 28 February 1991	Olympiacos
RB	15	Stylianos Asvestas	(1999-03-21) 21 March 1999	Anorthosis Famagusta
RB	23	Athanasios Papazoglou	(2002-01-28) 28 January 2002	PAOK
RB	27	Efthimios Iliopoulos	(1996-12-19) 19 December 1996	AEK Athens
LΒ	6	Theodoros Boskos	(2001-04-07) 7 April 2001	Ademar León
LB	10	Christodoulos Mylonas	(1995-05-13) 13 May 1995	AEK Athens
LΒ	32	Nikolaos Kritikos	(1996-09-24) 24 September 1996	Olympiacos
LΒ	34	Ioannis Kalomoiros	(1998-05-23) 23 May 1998	AEK Athens
P	8	Nikolaos Liapis	(1999-08-24) 24 August 1999	Ademar León
P	13	Stefanos Michailidis	(1994-05-15) 15 May 1994	Olympiacos
P	19	Panagiotis Karampourniotis	(1998-03-18) 18 March 1998	Olympiacos

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile