Zoran Ilić

The native form of this personal name is Ilics Zorán. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Zoran Ilic
Personal information
Born (2002-01-02) 2 January 2002 (age 22)
Senta, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian / Hungarian
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club HSV Hamburg
Youth career
Years Team
2016–2017
 NEKA
Senior clubs
Years Team
2017–2019
 NEKA
2019–2023
 Telekom Veszprém
2020
 → Wisła Płock (loan)
2020–2021
 → BFKA-Veszprém (loan)
2023–
 HSV Hamburg
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020–
 Hungary 34 (42)
Medal record
Junior World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2023 Germany/Greece

Zoran Ilic (Serbian: Зоран Илић, romanized: Zoran Ilić; Hungarian: Ilics Zorán; born 2 Januar 2002) is a Serbian-Hungarian handball player for HSV Hamburg and for the Hungary national team.

Career

Club

Ilić moved from Serbia to Hungary as a teenager, and started his career at NEKA. He made his debut in the first team in 2018, and in that season he scored 4 goals in 9 matches in the then still Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B team. In 2019, the Hungarian record champion moved to Telekom Veszprém, where he initially played in the second team, but was able to play 5 matches in the first team, in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, in which he scored 2 goals. He also made his debut in the EHF Champions League (his coach and mentor at the club, Momir Ilić, has a similar background but is not a relative).[1]

In the fall of 2020, Veszprém loaned Ilić to Polish team Wisła Płock,[2] but after three months he decided to return to Hungary and finish his studies.[3] He scored 21 goals in six matches in the Polish Superliga, and 11 goals in 3 matches in the Champions League for Wisła. In the 2021/22 season, he participated in the BL Final 4 in Cologne, where he also scored a goal in the bronze medal match.[4] At the end of the 2022/23 season, he became champion and cup winner with Veszprém, after which he left for the German team HSV Hamburg.[5] He had scored 80 goals in 44 first-class matches for Veszprém, and 17 goals in 27 matches in the EHF Champions League.[citation needed]

National team

He made his debut in the Hungary men's national handball team on 4 November 2020, in a Eurocup match against the Spain men's national handball team; Hungary won 32–29[6] but he did not score in the match. He was 9th with the Hungarian team at the 2021 Youth European Championship. He was included in the extended squad of the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship,[7] but in the end he did not become a member of the reduced squad. As a member of the junior national team, he participated in the 2022 Junior European Championship where the Hungarian team finished 5th.[8] He was included in the extended squad for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship,[9] but again did not make the cut for the reduced squad.[10] He also participated in the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship as a member of the Hungary team (8th place, 9 matches / 10 goals). He participated in the 2023 Junior World Championship, where he was voted the best right back[11] and Hungary won the silver medal.[12] He also participated in the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship (5th place, 8 matches / 7 goals) followed by the 2024 Paris Olympics where the Hungarian team finished 10th (5 matches / 9 goals).

Honours

National team

Club

BFKA-Veszprém
Telekom Veszprém

Individual

References

  1. ^ 7m | Zoran Ilic: "It was always my dream to play for Veszprem!", SEHA Liga, 3 March 2023
  2. ^ "Veszprem's kid Zoran Ilic to join Orlen Wisla Plock on loan". Handball Planet. 1 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Hazatér Lengyelországból a magyar kézis, hogy befejezze a tanulmányait". 5 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Hétméteresekkel kapott ki, BL-negyedik a Telekom Veszprém". Infostart.hu. 19 June 2022.
  5. ^ "HSVH verpflichtet ungarischen WM-Teilnehmer Zoran Ilic". 10 February 2023.
  6. ^ GYÖRGY, RUSZNÁK (4 November 2020). "Férfi kézi Eurokupa: Magyarország–Spanyolország - NSO". NSO.hu.
  7. ^ MTI, H. D. (11 December 2020). "Férfi kézilabda: Gulyás István bő keretet hirdetett a vb-re - NSO". NSO.hu.
  8. ^ https://www.utanpotlassport.hu/2022/07/18/kezi-ujra-az-elitben-minden-idok-harmadik-legjobb-szereplesevel-eb-otodik-lett-a-ferfi-u20-as-valogatott
  9. ^ Szabolcs KOZICZ (7 December 2021). "Men's EHF EURO 2022 Official Squad Lists" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Végleges a magyar férfi kézilabda-válogatott Eb-kerete". 8 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Egy magyar játékos is bekerült a junior kézi-vb álomcsapatába". 3 July 2023.
  12. ^ "U21-es férfi kézi-vb: Németország–Magyarország döntő - NSO". NSO.hu. 2 July 2023.
  13. ^ "IHF | News". www.ihf.info.
  14. ^ https://mksz.hu/cikk/3926
  15. ^ https://www.nemzetisport.hu/kezilabda/kezilabda-bode-biro-blankat-es-rosta-miklost-valasztottak-az-ev-jatekosanak-2994759