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Greece
Greece
Information
Association	Hellenic Handball Federation
Coach	Georgios Zaravinas
Assistant coach	Georgios Mastorogiannis
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)
Best result	23rd (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. Greece will take part in the EHF Euro for the 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
2024 Paris
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
2027	to be determined
/ 2029
// 2031
Total	1/32	–	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	Preliminary round	23rd	3	0	0	3	72	100
2026	To be determined
2028	To be determined
Total	1/18		3	0	0	3	72	100

Current squad

The squad for the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship.^[1]^[2]

Head coach: Georgios Zaravinas

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
5	CB	Dimitrios Panagiotou	(2004-05-21) 21 May 2004 (age 20)	1.82 m	12	18	Doukas School
6	LB	Theodoros Boskos	(2001-04-07) 7 April 2001 (age 23)	1.90 m	24	62	BM Puente Genil
8	P	Nikolaos Liapis	(1999-08-24) 24 August 1999 (age 25)	1.93 m	33	66	AEK Athens
11	CB	Charalampos Mallios	(1987-08-06) 6 August 1987 (age 37)	1.84 m	74	214	AEK Athens
12	GK	Eleftherios Papazoglou	(1997-07-03) 3 July 1997 (age 27)	1.92 m	2	0	AC PAOK
13	P	Stefanos Michailidis	(1994-05-15) 15 May 1994 (age 30)	2.00 m	31	24	Olympiacos
14	LB	Nikolaos Passias	(1995-02-17) 17 February 1995 (age 29)	1.92 m	56	73	Olympiacos
15	RB	Achilleas Toskas [de]	(2004-10-01) 1 October 2004 (age 20)	1.91 m	16	52	Bianco Monte Drama
16	GK	Petros Boukovinas	(1994-03-08) 8 March 1994 (age 30)	1.88 m	66	14	TV Großwallstadt
18	LW	Georgios Papavasilis	(2000-07-31) 31 July 2000 (age 24)	1.82 m	27	26	Olympiacos
19	P	Panagiotis Karampourniotis	(1998-02-20) 20 February 1998 (age 26)	1.96 m	28	25	Olympiacos
20	RB	Athanasios Papazoglou	(2002-01-28) 28 January 2002 (age 22)	1.92 m	11	13	AC PAOK
21	RW	Dimitrios Tziras	(1991-04-05) 5 April 1991 (age 33)	1.90 m	85	307	Olympiacos
24	CB	Petros Kandylas	(1991-02-28) 28 February 1991 (age 33)	1.97 m	63	52	Olympiacos
28	P	Anastasios Papadionysiou	(1990-08-11) 11 August 1990 (age 34)	1.90 m	85	129	AEK Athens
38	RW	Evangelos Arampatzis	(1996-08-04) 4 August 1996 (age 28)	1.84 m	47	86	AEK Athens
40	GK	Panagiotis Papantonopoulos	(2001-10-02) 2 October 2001 (age 23)	1.90 m	23	0	Olympiacos
77	LB	Savvas Savvas [de]	(1997-07-07) 7 July 1997 (age 27)	1.92 m	12	41	Olympiacos
99	LW	Christos Kederis [el]	(1994-04-29) 29 April 1994 (age 30)	1.69 m	22	38	AEK Athens