Croatia men's national volleyball team

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Prior to 1992 Croatia men's national volleyball team competed as a part of Yugoslavia men's national volleyball team.

Competitions Croatia men's national volleyball team has never qualified for or competed at:

• the Olympic Games
• the World Cup
• the World Grand Champions Cup
• the World League
• the Junior World Championship
• the Youth Olympic Games

Year	Round	Position
1994	Did not qualify
1998
2002	First Round	19th
2006	Did not qualify
2010
2014
2018
2022
2025
2027	To be determined
2029

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
2018	Did not qualify
2019
2022
2023
2024	Quarterfinals	5th	1	0	1	2	3
Total	Qualified: 1/5		1	0	1	2	3

European Championship record										Qualification record
Year	Round	Position	GP	MW	ML	SW	SL	Squad		GP	MW	ML	SW	SL
1948–1991	Part of  Yugoslavia									Part of  Yugoslavia
1993	Did not enter									Did not enter
1995
1997	Did not qualify									8	3	5	11	17
1999										10	7	3	23	10
2001										6	1	5	8	16
2003										6	3	3	10	11
2005	Preliminary Round	8th	5	2	3	9	9	Squad		6	5	1	17	10
2007	Preliminary Round	14th	3	0	3	4	9	Squad		6	6	0	18	2
2009	Did not qualify									Did not enter
2011										8	3	5	9	16
2013										10	4	6	16	21
2015	Preliminary Round	15th	3	0	3	0	9	Squad		6	4	2	14	10
2017	Did not qualify									6	0	6	6	18
2019										6	1	5	3	7
2021	Round of 16	14th	6	3	3	10	14	Squad		4	3	1	10	8
2023	Round of 16	11th	6	3	3	11	12	Squad		6	4	2	13	6
2026	Did not qualify									4	0	4	4	12
2028	To be determined									To be determined
Total	Qualified: 5/17		23	8	15	34	53	—

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
2004	League Round	7th	12	3	9
2005	did not compete
2006	Final		14	9	5
2007	did not compete
2008
2009	League Round	12th	12	0	12
2010	did not compete
2011	League Round	8th	12	4	8
2012	did not compete
2013	Final		14	11	3
2014	did not compete
2015	League Round	9th	10	3	7
2016	did not compete
2017
2018	Silver League Champions	13th	8	7	1
2019	Golden League League Round	8th	6	3	3
2021	Silver League Semifinals	15th	8	4	4
2022	Golden League Semifinals		8	5	3
2023	Golden League Semifinals		8	3	5
2024	Golden League Final		8	7	1
2025	Golden League League Round	10th	6	1	5
Total	Participated: 13/21		126	60	66
	Top tier (Golden League): 11/13		110	49	61

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1993	did not compete
1997	Semifinals
2001	did not compete
2005	Preliminary Round	9th	2	0	2	3	6
2009	did not compete
2013
2018	Quarterfinals	5th	5	3	2	9	11
2022	Winners		6	5	1	17	5

Croatia squad for 2022 Mediterranean Games

• Bernard Bakonji
• Petar Đirlić
• Tino Hanžić
• Ivan Mihalj
• Tomislav Mitrašinović
• Kruno Nikačević
• Stipe Perić
• Hrvoje Pervan
• Marko Sedlaček
• Filip Šestan
• Petar Višić
• Ivan Zeljković

Team coached by Cédric Énard

• Tomislav Čošković
  • best server of the 2006 European League
• Inoslav Krnić
  • best setter of the 2006 European League
• Igor Omrčen
  • top scorer of the 2004 European League
  • top scorer of the 2006 European League
• Tsimafei Zhukouski
  • best server of the 2013 European League
• Ivan Raič
  • top scorer and best spiker of the 2013 European League
• Danijel Galić
  • best receiver of the 2013 European League

• silver medal at the 2006 European League: Tsimafei Zhukouski, Danijel Galić, Darko Nojić, Igor Omrčen, Šime Vulin, Jura Boriskijević (L), Dragan Puljić, Mario Zelić, Toni Kovačević, Tomislav Čošković, Inoslav Krnić, Roko Sikirić
  • coach: Rade Malević
• silver medal at the 2013 European League: Tsimafei Zhukouski (C), Matija Sabljak, Darko Nojić, Nikola Ščerbakov, Ivan Raič, Sven Šarčević (L), Marko Sedlaček, Ivan Ćosić, Mladen Jurčević, Fran Peterlin, Goran Išek, Ivan Tropan
  • coach: Igor Šimunčić

Most appearances

Player	Matches	Position	Years
Igor Omrčen	83		2000–2015
Inoslav Krnić	75
Toni Kovačević	71
Darko Nojić	70
Tomislav Čošković	59		–2010
Danijel Galić	55
Tsimafei Zhukouski	53