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Handball team

Granitas-karys

Club · Lithuania · Lietuvos Lyga

«Granitas»

18 Matches
9 wins
9 losses
555–555 Goals
0 Difference
30.8 Scored per game
Form L 16 Sep · Home Dragunas Klaipeda · 30:40 W 20 Sep · Home Omonoia Cyp · 31:19 W 26 Sep · Away Vilnius · 32:26 W 27 Sep · Away HK Ogre/Miandum · 33:31 W 3 Oct · Home Alytaus · 33:29 W 10 Oct · Home Varenos · 40:25

In 1987 a team from Kaunas, playing under a name most of Europe had never heard, won the IHF Cup — and came back the following year to lose the final.

The club has changed its name four times: Atletas, then Politechnik, then Zalgiris through 1972, before Granitas settled as the permanent identity. Voldemaras Novickis, who won Olympic gold in 1988 and a world title in 1982, and Jonas Kaučikas, the leading scorer in that IHF Cup final, played through both eras.

Granitas took the league title every year from 1991 to 2005, fifteen championships in a row, then added two more in 2008 and 2009 for seventeen overall — a run no other club in the country has come near. The cup record runs alongside it: eleven titles between 1990 and 2018. Since 2009 the championships have stopped, replaced by silver in 2012 and 2022 and bronze on five further occasions, the gap itself a measure of how far ahead the club had been.

HC Dragūnas of Klaipėda is the team Granitas meets most often when a final is at stake, a fixture with no settled name but a habit of deciding where the trophies go. Games are still played at the LSMU Veterinary Academy hall on Tilžės Street, the same city where the run began under a different name in 1959.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
10 Oct Lietuvos Lyga Varenos H 40:25 W
3 Oct Lietuvos Lyga Alytaus H 33:29 W
27 Sep Baltic League HK Ogre/Miandum A 33:31 W
26 Sep Baltic League Vilnius A 32:26 W
20 Sep European Cup Omonoia Cyp H 31:19 W
16 Sep Lietuvos Lyga Dragunas Klaipeda H 30:40 L

Standing

Baltic League

Group stage · Group 2

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Granitas-karys 2 2 0 0 65:57 4
2 Pieno zvaigzdes 2 1 1 0 66:61 2
3 Tapa 1 1 0 0 26:25 2
4 Vilnius 1 0 1 0 26:32 0
5 HK Ogre/Miandum 2 0 2 0 66:74 0
Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 18
18 Matches
9 wins
9 losses
555–555 Goals
0 Difference
30.8 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 18
9wins: 9 · 50% 9losses: 9 · 50%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
16 Sep · Home Dragunas Klaipeda · 30:40
20 Sep · Home Omonoia Cyp · 31:19
26 Sep · Away Vilnius · 32:26
27 Sep · Away HK Ogre/Miandum · 33:31
3 Oct · Home Alytaus · 33:29
10 Oct · Home Varenos · 40:25
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 18 9 9
Scored 555 290 265
Conceded 555 282 273
Scored per game 30.8 32.2 29.4
Conceded per game 30.8 31.3 30.3
Difference 0 +8 −8

Fixtures of Granitas-karys

Honours of Granitas-karys

  • Lithuanian Championships 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 17
  • Lithuanian Handball Cup 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2016, 2018 11
  • IHF Cup 1987 1
  • Soviet Championship 1963 1