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{{Infobox national handball team
| Name = Greece
| Badge = Flag of Greece.svg
| Badge_size = 170px
| Nickname =
| Association = [[Hellenic Handball Federation]]
| Coach = [[Georgios Zaravinas]]
| Assistant coach = Georgios Mastorogiannis
| Captain =
| Most caps = [[Giorgos Chalkidis|Georgios Chalkidis]] (240)
| Most goals = [[Savvas Karypidis]] (930)
| Ranking =
| Points =

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| Summer Olympics apps = 1
| Summer Olympics first= 2004
| Summer Olympics best = 6th ([[Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2004]])
| World cup apps = 1
| World cup first = 2005
| World cup best = 6th ([[2005 World Men's Handball Championship|2005]])
| Regional name = [[European Men's Handball Championship|European Championship]]
| Regional cup apps = 1
| Regional cup first = [[2024 European Men's Handball Championship|2024]]
| Regional cup best = 23rd ([[2024 European Men's Handball Championship|2024]])
}}
The '''Greece national handball team''' is the national [[team handball|handball]] team of [[Greece]] and is controlled by the [[Hellenic Handball Federation]].

Greece has a long tradition in handball. First of all, Greece made it to the handball 2005 World Cup and the 2004 Olympics where they beat Brazil, Korea and won against Egypt in a close game. In the Olympics they lost to eventual champions Croatia, and finished sixth in the tournament. In the World Cup they finished in the sixth position as well. Greece will take part in the EHF Euro for the first time in 2024.

==Competitive record==
===Olympic Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%;"
!colspan=9|[[Handball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic record]]
|-
!Games
!Round
!Position
!{{Tooltip|Pld|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Drawn}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!{{Tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|GER|Nazi}} [[Handball at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Berlin]]
|colspan=8|''did not qualify''
|-
|colspan=9|''Not held from 1948 to 1968''
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRG}} [[Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics|1972 Munich]]
|rowspan=8 colspan=8|''did not qualify''
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Handball at the 1976 Summer Olympics|1976 Montreal]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|URS|1955}} [[Handball at the 1980 Summer Olympics|1980 Moscow]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Handball at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Los Angeles]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Handball at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|1992 Barcelona]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Handball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|1996 Atlanta]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Handball at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2000 Sydney]]
|-
|align=left style="border: 3px solid red"|{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Handball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2004 Athens]]||Quarter-finals||6th place||8||3||0||5||188||220
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2008 Beijing]]
|rowspan=5 colspan=8|''did not qualify''
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2012 London]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2016 Rio de Janeiro]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2020 Tokyo]]
|-
|align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Handball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2024 Paris]]
|-
!Total!!1/14!!–||8||3||0||5||188||220
|}

===World Championships===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!colspan=9|[[IHF World Men's Handball Championship|World Championship record]]
|-
!Year
!Round
!Position
!{{Tooltip|GP|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Draw}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!{{Tooltip|GS|Goals scored}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
|-
|{{Flagicon|Nazi Germany}} [[1938 World Men's Handball Championship|1938]]||colspan="8" rowspan="18" | ''did not qualify''
|-
|{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[1954 World Men's Handball Championship|1954]]
|-
||{{Flagicon|East Germany}} [[1958 World Men's Handball Championship|1958]]
|-
||{{Flagicon|West Germany}} [[1961 World Men's Handball Championship|1961]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[1964 World Men's Handball Championship|1964]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[1967 World Men's Handball Championship|1967]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|France}} [[1970 World Men's Handball Championship|1970]]
|-
||{{Flagicon|East Germany}} [[1974 World Men's Handball Championship|1974]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Denmark}} [[1978 World Men's Handball Championship|1978]]
|-
||{{Flagicon|West Germany}} [[1982 World Men's Handball Championship|1982]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Switzerland}} [[1986 World Men's Handball Championship|1986]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Czechoslovakia}} [[1990 World Men's Handball Championship|1990]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[1993 World Men's Handball Championship|1993]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Iceland}} [[1995 World Men's Handball Championship|1995]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Japan}} [[1997 World Men's Handball Championship|1997]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Egypt}} [[1999 World Men's Handball Championship|1999]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|France}} [[2001 World Men's Handball Championship|2001]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Portugal}} [[2003 World Men's Handball Championship|2003]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Tunisia}} [[2005 World Men's Handball Championship|2005]]||Quarter-finals||6th place||9||4||1||4||245||246
|-
||{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[2007 World Men's Handball Championship|2007]]||colspan="8" rowspan="10" | ''did not qualify''
|-
|{{Flagicon|Croatia}} [[2009 World Men's Handball Championship|2009]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[2011 World Men's Handball Championship|2011]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Spain}} [[2013 World Men's Handball Championship|2013]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Qatar}} [[2015 World Men's Handball Championship|2015]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|France}} [[2017 World Men's Handball Championship|2017]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Denmark}}/{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[2019 World Men's Handball Championship|2019]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Egypt}} [[2021 World Men's Handball Championship|2021]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Poland}}/{{Flagicon|Sweden}} [[2023 World Men's Handball Championship|2023]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Croatia}}/{{Flagicon|Denmark}}/{{Flagicon|Norway}} [[2025 World Men's Handball Championship|2025]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[2027 World Men's Handball Championship|2027]]||colspan="8" rowspan="3"|''to be determined''
|-
|{{Flagicon|France}}/{{Flagicon|Germany}} [[2029 World Men's Handball Championship|2029]]
|-
|{{Flagicon|Denmark}}/{{Flagicon|Iceland}}/{{Flagicon|Norway}} [[2031 World Men's Handball Championship|2031]]
|-
!Total!!1/32!!–!!9!!4!!1!!4!!245!!246
|}

===European Championships===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!colspan=9|[[European Men's Handball Championship|European Championship record]]
|-
!Year
!Round
!Position
!{{Tooltip|GP|Games played}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Draw}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Lost}}
!{{Tooltip|GS|Goals scored}}
!{{Tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
|-
|-
|{{flagicon|PRT}} [[1994 European Men's Handball Championship|1994]]|| colspan="8" rowspan="15" | ''did not qualify''
|-
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[1996 European Men's Handball Championship|1996]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[1998 European Men's Handball Championship|1998]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CRO}} [[2000 European Men's Handball Championship|2000]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SWE}} [[2002 European Men's Handball Championship|2002]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SLO}} [[2004 European Men's Handball Championship|2004]]
|-
|{{flagicon|CHE}} [[2006 European Men's Handball Championship|2006]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NOR}} [[2008 European Men's Handball Championship|2008]]
|-
|{{flagicon|AUT}} [[2010 European Men's Handball Championship|2010]]
|-
|{{flagicon|SRB}} [[2012 European Men's Handball Championship|2012]]
|-
|{{flagicon|DNK}} [[2014 European Men's Handball Championship|2014]]
|-
||{{flagicon|POL}} [[2016 European Men's Handball Championship|2016]]
|-
||{{flagicon|CRO}} [[2018 European Men's Handball Championship|2018]]
|-
||{{flagicon|AUT}}{{flagicon|NOR}}{{flagicon|SWE}} [[2020 European Men's Handball Championship|2020]]
|-
||{{flagicon|HUN}}{{flagicon|SVK}} [[2022 European Men's Handball Championship|2022]]
|-
||{{flagicon|GER}} [[2024 European Men's Handball Championship|2024]]|| Preliminary round ||23rd ||3 ||0 ||0 ||3 ||72 ||100
|-
||{{flagicon|DEN}}{{flagicon|NOR}}{{flagicon|SWE}} [[2026 European Men's Handball Championship|2026]]|| colspan="8" | ''did not qualify''
|-
||{{flagicon|POR}}{{flagicon|ESP}}{{flagicon|SUI}} [[2028 European Men's Handball Championship|2028]]|| colspan="8" | ''to be determined''
|-
!Total||1/18|| ||3||0||0||3||72||100
|}

==Current squad==
The squad for the [[2024 European Men's Handball Championship]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.handball.org.gr/portal/national-teams/andron/4328-h-euro-2024|title=H αποστολή της Εθνικής Ανδρών για το EURO 2024|date=8 January 2024|publisher=handball.org.gr|access-date=8 January 2024|language=el}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://res.ehf.eu/doxtore/TLCEQLGQDD/fK_X1QX1VKN5lrK6XWr8vQWdN9CB2cv_dU4Pf2vuqQM|title=Team roster: Greece|publisher=res.ehf.eu|date=12 January 2024|access-date=12 January 2024}}</ref>

Head coach: [[Georgios Zaravinas]]

{{Nat hs start}}
{{Nat hs player|no=5|pos=CB|name=[[Dimitrios Panagiotou]]|age={{Birth date and age|2004|5|21|df=y}}|height=1.82 m|apps=12|goals=18|club=[[A.C. Doukas School|Doukas School]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=6|pos=LB|name=[[Theodoros Boskos]]|age={{Birth date and age|2001|4|7|df=y}}|height=1.90 m|apps=24|goals=62|club=[[BM Puente Genil]]|clubnat=ESP}}
{{Nat hs player|no=8|pos=P|name=[[Nikolaos Liapis]]|age={{Birth date and age|1999|8|24|df=y}}|height=1.93 m|apps=33|goals=66|club=[[AEK H.C.|AEK Athens]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=11|pos=CB|name=[[Charalampos Mallios]]|age={{Birth date and age|1987|8|6|df=y}}|height=1.84 m|apps=74|goals=214|club=[[AEK H.C.|AEK Athens]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=12|pos=GK|name=[[Eleftherios Papazoglou]]|age={{Birth date and age|1997|7|3|df=y}}|height=1.92 m|apps=2|goals=0|club=[[P.A.O.K. H.C.|AC PAOK]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=13|pos=P|name=[[Stefanos Michailidis]]|age={{Birth date and age|1994|5|15|df=y}}|height=2.00 m|apps=31|goals=24|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=14|pos=LB|name=[[Nikolaos Passias]]|age={{Birth date and age|1995|2|17|df=y}}|height=1.92 m|apps=56|goals=73|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=15|pos=RB|name={{ill|Achilleas Toskas|de}}|age={{Birth date and age|2004|10|1|df=y}}|height=1.91 m|apps=16|goals=52|club=[[Bianco Monte Drama 1986|Bianco Monte Drama]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=16|pos=GK|name=[[Petros Boukovinas]]|age={{Birth date and age|1994|3|8|df=y}}|height=1.88 m|apps=66|goals=14|club=[[TV Großwallstadt]]|clubnat=GER}}
{{Nat hs player|no=18|pos=LW|name=[[Georgios Papavasilis]]|age={{Birth date and age|2000|7|31|df=y}}|height=1.82 m|apps=27|goals=26|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=19|pos=P|name=[[Panagiotis Karampourniotis]]|age={{Birth date and age|1998|2|20|df=y}}|height=1.96 m|apps=28|goals=25|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=20|pos=RB|name=[[Athanasios Papazoglou (handballer)|Athanasios Papazoglou]]|age={{Birth date and age|2002|1|28|df=y}}|height=1.92 m|apps=11|goals=13|club=[[P.A.O.K. H.C.|AC PAOK]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=21|pos=RW|name=[[Dimitrios Tziras]]|age={{Birth date and age|1991|4|5|df=y}}|height=1.90 m|apps=85|goals=307|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=24|pos=CB|name=[[Petros Kandylas]]|age={{Birth date and age|1991|2|28|df=y}}|height=1.97 m|apps=63|goals=52|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=28|pos=P|name=[[Anastasios Papadionysiou]]|age={{Birth date and age|1990|8|11|df=y}}|height=1.90 m|apps=85|goals=129|club=[[AEK H.C.|AEK Athens]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=38|pos=RW|name=[[Evangelos Arampatzis]]|age={{Birth date and age|1996|8|4|df=y}}|height=1.84 m|apps=47|goals=86|club=[[AEK H.C.|AEK Athens]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=40|pos=GK|name=[[Panagiotis Papantonopoulos]]|age={{Birth date and age|2001|10|2|df=y}}|height=1.90 m|apps=23|goals=0|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=77|pos=LB|name={{ill|Savvas Savvas|de}}|age={{Birth date and age|1997|7|7|df=y}}|height=1.92 m|apps=12|goals=41|club=[[Olympiacos H.C.|Olympiacos]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs player|no=99|pos=LW|name={{ill|Christos Kederis|el|Χρήστος Κεδέρης}}|age={{Birth date and age|1994|4|29|df=y}}|height=1.69 m|apps=22|goals=38|club=[[AEK H.C.|AEK Athens]]|clubnat=GRE}}
{{Nat hs end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website}}
*[https://www.ihf.info/member-federations/greece/5135 IHF profile]

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{{National sports teams of Greece}}

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