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Petar Metličić
Petar Metličić
Personal information
Born	25 December 1976 (age 48); Split, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Right back
Youth career
	Team
–	RK Split
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1993–1998	RK Brodomerkur Split
1998–2002	RK Metković Jambo
2002–2005	CB Ademar León
2005–2010	BM Ciudad Real
2010–2012	RK Pivovarna Laško Celje
2012–2013	Montpellier
National team
Years	Team
1997–2009	Croatia
Teams managed
2015–2017	Croatia (assistant)
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing Croatia
Olympic Games
World Championship
Statoil World Cup
European Championship
Mediterranean Games

Petar Metličić (born 25 December 1976) is a Croatian former handball player. He was captain of the Croatian national team^[1] from 2006 to 2009, after the departure of Slavko Goluža.^[2] He won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens^[3]^[4] as well as at the 2003 World Championship in Portugal.

At club level he played in the top tier in Croatia, Spain, Slovenia and France. He has won the EHF Champions League three times and the EHF Champions Trophy twice with BM Ciudad Real as well as the IHF Super Globe and EHF Cup Winner's Cup with CB Ademar León, and the EHF Cup with RK Metković Jambo.

In September 2007 he opened, alongside his former colleague Ivano Balić, the "Balić-Metličić" handball academy. Metličić is also a coach in the academy.^[5]

From February 2015 to January 2017 he served as an assistant coach to Željko Babić in the Croatia men's team.^[6]

Honours

Player

Brodomerkur Split

Croatian First A League
- Runner up (2): 1996–97, 1997–98
Croatian First B League - South
- Winner (1): 1994–95

Metković Jambo

Croatian First League
- Winner (1): 2001–02 (revoked)
Croatian First A League
- Winner (3): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01
Croatian Cup
- Winner (2): 2001, 2002
EHF Cup
- Winner (1): 2000
- Finalist (1): 2001

Ademar Leon

EHF Cup Winner's Cup
- Winner (1): 2005
Supercopa ASOBAL
- Finalist (1): 2003

Ciudad Real

Liga ASOBAL
- Winner (4): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
- Runner up (1): 2005–06
Copa del Rey
- Winner (1): 2008
- Finalist (2): 2006, 2009
Copa ASOBAL
- Winner (3): 2006, 2007, 2008
- Finalist (1): 2010
Supercopa ASOBAL
- Winner (1): 2008
- Finalist (2): 2009, 2010
EHF Champions League
- Winner (3): 2005–06, 2007–08, 2008–09
EHF Champions Trophy
- Winner (2): 2006, 2008
IHF Super Globe
- Winner (2): 2007, 2010

Pivovarna Laško Celje

1. NLB Leasing liga
- Runner up (1): 2011–12
Slovenian Cup
- Winner (1): 2012

Montpellier

LNH Division 1
- Runner up (1): 2012–13
Coupe de la France
- Winner (1): 2013

Individual

Best Croatian handball player by Sportske novosti & HRS – 2003
Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport – 2004

Orders

Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 2004^[7]

References

^ "Croatia" Archived 5 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine – European Handbal Federation (Retrieved on January 25, 2008)
^ "Petar Metličić - legendarni kapetan zlatne generacije". Gol.hr.
^ Profile: "Petar Metlicic" Archived 25 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 25, 2008)
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Petar Metličić". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
^ "O klubu". www.balicmetlicic.com. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^ "Rukometna reprezentacija dobila novog izbornika!" (in Croatian). Večernji list. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "Petar Metličić biografija". hoo.hr (in Croatian).