Velenje Women Slo

In 1966 Metka Pocajt, a sports teacher in Velenje, started teaching girls handball. In 1969 they became a club, Ženski rokometni klub 'Gorenje' Velenje, named for its sponsor. Its first match in the Slovenian First League was played on 7 September 1969.

The early seasons were unsettled. Velenje went down after that debut season and came back up in 1970/71. In 1973/74 they finished second in the league. The sponsorship agreement with Gorenje ended, and in September 1974 the club became ŽRK Velenje. The following season, after promotion to the Yugoslav Second League, they were relegated again. Promotion to the elite 1. B Yugoslav League came in 1981/82, and they finished fourth in their first season there.

Until 1975 the team played on an outdoor court by the lake. That year it moved into Rdeča dvorana, the Red Hall, which seats 2,500 and gave the red-and-black kit a permanent home.

Ana Gros passed through the youth teams from 2001 to 2005. She went on to become Slovenia's all-time leading scorer, with 767 goals in 159 caps, and carried the flag for Slovenia at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Lana Puncer, a pivot born in 2006, was called up to the senior national team in September 2024.

The club has never won a senior national championship or the Slovenian Cup. It reached the Cup's Final Four in 2015 and lost the semi-final to Celje, 20:15. In 2019 it lost a semi-final to Krim Mercator 46:20. In 2023 it reached the Final Four again and finished fourth.