The Croatia men's national volleyball team represents Croatia in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches. It is governed by the Croatian Volleyball Federation.

Results 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

World Championship YearRoundPosition 1994Did not qualify 1998 2002First Round19th 2006Did not qualify 2010 2014 2018 2022 2025 2027To be determined 2029

Challenger Cup YearRoundPosition 2018 Did not qualify 2019 2022 2023 2024Quarterfinals5th10123TotalQualified: 1/510123

European Championship European Championship recordQualification recordYearRoundPosition1948–1991Part of Part of 1993Did not enterDid not enter 1995 1997Did not qualify8351117 199910732310 2001615816 20036331011 2005Preliminary Round8th523996511710 2007Preliminary Round14th30349660182 2009Did not qualifyDid not enter 2011835916 201310461621 2015Preliminary Round15th303096421410 2017Did not qualify606618 201961537 2021Round of 1614th6331014431108 2023Round of 1611th6331112642136 2026Did not qualify404412 2028To be determinedTo be determinedTotalQualified: 5/17238153453—

European League YearRoundPosition 2004League Round7th12 3 9 2005did not compete 2006Final14 9 5 2007did not compete 2008 2009League Round12th12 0 12 2010did not compete 2011League Round8th12 4 8 2012did not compete 2013Final14 11 3 2014did not compete 2015League Round9th10 3 7 2016did not compete 2017 2018Silver League Champions13th8 7 1 2019Golden League League Round8th6 3 3 2021Silver League Semifinals15th8 4 4 2022Golden League Semifinals8 5 3 2023Golden League Semifinals8 3 5 2024Golden League Final8 7 1 2025Golden League League Round10th6 1 5 2026League Round15th6 3 3 TotalParticipated: 14/22 1326369 Top tier (Golden League): 12/14 116 52 64

Mediterranean Games YearRoundPosition 1993did not compete 1997Semifinals 2001did not compete 2005Preliminary Round9th 2 0 2 3 6 2009did not compete 2013 2018Quarterfinals5th 5 3 2 9 11 2022Winners 6 5 1 17 5

Team

Current squad

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

Notable players 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

Former squads 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

Player statistics

+ Most appearances Player Matches Years 83 2000–2015 75 71 70 59 –2010 55 53

Record against other teams As of 13 Oct 2015

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See also Croatia women's national volleyball team

External links Official website FIVB profile