Serbia

Serbia have gone through changes after appointing Uros Bregar as head coach in April 2021. The former Slovenia national team head coach took over the helm ahead of the 2021 IHF Women's World Championship 2021 qualifying matches, and with a rejuvenated squad wants to put Serbia back on track at the major events. At their ninth EHF EURO they will aim to return to their best after finishing no higher than ninth place since 2014.

Serbia's biggest EHF EURO success happened in 2012 when they, as hosts, finished fourth. Since then, Serbia have struggled at major events and failed to qualify for the main round of the EHF EURO in 2014 and 2020.

After finishing 13th at the last EHF EURO in Denmark and Norway, Serbia parted ways with Ljubomir Obradovic and turned a new page by appointing Uros Bregar as head coach. Since then, they qualified both for the 2021 World Championship and EHF EURO 2020, and won bronze at the Mediterranean Games 2021.

Even though Serbia will miss some of the star players from the last final tournament, they still have a good mixture of experienced and younger players. Jovana Stoiljkovic from Chambray Touraine Handball, Jelena Lavko from Baia Mare, and a good goalkeeping duo in the shape of Jovana Risovic and Sara Graovac will be among the players leading the team.

Even though they ended the world championship in 12th place, Serbia were close to qualifying for the quarter-finals, missing out by one point in the main round. A good performance in qualifying group 6 for this EHF EURO, with four wins and two defeats, as well as their Mediterranean Games bronze, makes Serbia no easy opponent. With strong support and on a good day, they can upset Denmark, Sweden and Slovenia in Celje.

As he took over Serbia's national team, Bregar had to deal with the absence of key players such as Andrea Lekic, Katarina Krpez-Slezak and Dragana Cvijic who have all retired from the national team.

Read more about the Serbian team HERE.