Carpathian Trophy (men's handball)
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The Carpathian Trophy (Romanian: Trofeul Carpaţi) is an annual men's friendly handball tournament organised by the Romanian Handball Federation. The first edition took place in Bucharest in 1959.
It reached the 44th edition in December 2022. There is no precise format for the tournament, even though recently there were four participating teams.
Editions
| Year | Host city | Final Rankings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Fourth place | Fifth | Sixth place | |||
| 2001 Details |
 Iași |
Romania |
 Greece |
Romania B |
 Bulgaria | |||
| 2002 Details |
Iași |
 Turkey |
Romania |
Romania B |
 Ukraine |
 Egypt |
Bulgaria | |
| 2003 Details |
Iași |
Romania |
Romania B |
Ukraine |
 Macedonia |
 Belarus |
Bulgaria | |
| 2004 Details |
Timișoara |
Romania |
 Jordan |
Macedonia |
 Netherlands |
Turkey |
Egypt | |
| 2005 Details |
Timișoara |
Romania |
Netherlands |
 Italy |
Turkey | |||
| 2006 Details[1] |
Timișoara |
Romania |
Turkey |
Macedonia |
Italy | |||
| 2007 Details[2] |
Drobeta-Turnu Severin |
Romania |
 Montenegro |
Ukraine |
Macedonia | |||
| 2010 Details[3] |
Oradea |
 Tunisia |
Romania |
Macedonia |
Belarus | |||
| 2011 Details[4] |
Piatra Neamţ |
Romania |
Ukraine |
Romania B |
Jordan | |||
| 2012 Details[5] |
Oradea |
Romania |
Ukraine |
Turkey |
Romania B | |||
| 2018 Details |
Călărași |
Romania |
 Portugal |
 Bahrain |
Tunisia | |||
| 2019 Details |
Bucharest |
North Macedonia |
Romania |
Netherlands |
 Algeria | |||
| 2021 Details |
Cluj-Napoca |
Romania |
Turkey |
Switzerland and Iran withdrew due to Covid-19 cases in their squads. | ||||
| 2022 Details |
Oradea |
Egypt |
 Slovakia |
Romania |
Algeria | |||
- Some editions were initially planned but cancelled due to schedule.
