Zdravko Zovko
Personal information
Born	(1955-05-25) 25 May 1955 (age 69) Gornje Kolibe, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Club information
Current club	Siófok KC (manager)
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1972–1986	Medveščak Zagreb
1986–1989	C.C. Ortigia Siracusa
National team
Years	Team	Apps
1974–1984	Yugoslavia	119
Teams managed
1990–1994	Zagreb Loto
1993–1995	Croatia (men)
1995–1998	Laško Pivovara Celje
1999–2000	Croatia (men)
1999–2000	Badel 1862 Zagreb
2000–2007	MKB Veszprém
2007–2010	Croatia (women)
2007–2010	Podravka Koprivnica
2011	TSV Lohr
2011–2013	Zvezda Zvenigorod
2013–2015	Croatia (men) (assistant coach)
2015–2017	Dunaferr SE
2017–2018	RK Zagreb (youth)
2018–2020	Győri ETO (assistant coach)
2020–2021	Siófok KC
2021	Siófok KC (assistant coach)
Medal record Men's handball Representing  Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Team World Championship 1974 East Germany Team 1982 West Germany Team Mediterranean Games 1979 Split Team 1983 Casablanca Team Representing  Croatia European Championship 1994 Portugal Coach World Championship 1995 Iceland Coach Mediterranean Games 1993 Languedoc-Roussillonu Coach

Zdravko Zovko (born 28 May 1955^[1]) is a retired Croatian handball player.^[2]

Zovko spent his entire playing career in RK Medveščak from Zagreb and in Syracuse, Sicily, for C.C. Ortigia. He won three Yugoslav Cups with the club and during his last season at the club got to the semi-finals of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup.^[3] In Italy he won three italian championship in a row.

Zovko competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, representing Yugoslavia. He played in six matches and contributed with five goals to win the gold medal. Apart for winning the Olympic gold Zovko won a silver and bronze medal for Yugoslavia at the 1982 & 1974 World Championships.^[4]

As a manager he has coached RK Zagreb, KC Veszprém and RK Podravka,^[5] before joining Zvezda Zvenigorod in May 2011.^[6]

In April 2013, Zovko became the assistant coach of Slavko Goluža in the Croatian national handball team.^[7]

Medveščak Zagreb

• Yugoslav Cup (3): 1978, 1983, 1986

Ortigia Siracusa

• Serie A (3): 1987, 1988, 1989

Zagreb^[8]

• Yugoslav First League (1): 1990–91
• Croatian First League (4): 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94 1999–00
• Croatian Cup (4): 1992, 1993, 1994, 2000
• European Champions Cup (2): 1991–92, 1992–93, Finalist (1): 1999–00
• European Super Cup (1): 1993

Celje

• First Slovenian League (3): 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98
• Slovenian Cup (3): 1996, 1997, 1998

Veszprem

• Hungarian First League (5): 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06
• Magyar Kupa (5): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
• EHF Champions League Finalist (1): 2001–02
• EHF Men's Champions Trophy Finalist (1): 2002

Podravka Koprivnica

• Croatian First League (3): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10
• Croatian Cup (3): 2008, 2009, 2010

Dunaferr

• EHF Cup (1): 2015–16

Individual

• Best handball coach in Croatia by SN & CHF: 1994, 1995 and 2002

• Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar – 1995^[9]

• Profile on Database Olympics
• Zdravko Zovko at Olympedia (archive)
• Női kézi NB I: Danyi Gábor és Zdravko Zovko is távozik a Siófoktól – hivatalos

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