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The Slovenian referee’s pair, Bojan Lah and David Sok, is the best in the world of handball in 2025! Slovenians won Handball-Planet.com award for the third time in a row leveling the record of Croatian pair Gubica-Milosevic.

For the 10th year in a row Handball-Planet.com organized the Contest for the WORLD HANDBALL REFEREE 2024 powered by Nexe Grupa, based on opinion of handball journalists from all over the world and handball fans (over 24.000 votes), who voted in the two weeks and added their votes to the existing number of points given by the expert’s jury.

VOTES IN TOTAL (JURY + FANS)Lah – Sok (Slovenia) 20 + 10              30Garcia – Marin (Spain) (41%, 4,529 Votes) 17 + 7     24Nacevski – Nikolov (North Macedonia) (2%, 256 Votes) 11 + 1           12Konjicanin / Konjicanin (Bosnia and Herzegovina)  8 + 4                 12

World Handball Referees 2025 (website + Instagram)

Lah / Sok (Slovenia) (53%, 12,558 Votes + 31)           10Garcia / Marin (Spain) (40%, 9,483 Votes + 39)           7Konjicanin / Konjicanin (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (6%, 1,388 Votes + 108)          4Nacevski / Nikolov (North Macedonia) (2%, 415 Votes + 87)                          1

Total Voters: 24,109

JURY MEMBERS:

Jonas Risager Nyhøj  (TV 2 – Denmark)
Jasmin Tajić (Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
Johan Flinck (Aftonbladet, Sweden)
Života Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
Sergey Prigolovkin (handballfast.com, Russia)
Rici Gjamovski (mkdhandball.mk, North Macedonia)
Lojze Grčman (Podcast Roling, Slovenia)
Luca Zadra (Pallamano Italia)
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Uros Samardzic (TV Arena Sport, Serbia)JURY MEMBERS FROM THE TOP HANDBALL NATIONS

Our goal that handball world gets a public and fair contest for the World best players of the year, since 2010 received a big support from the parts of handball globe. WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2020 Jury powered by Nexe is made of the people with their names and CV’s with the clear aim to get opinion from different countries, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, TV 2 NO, , Arena Sport, Oslobodjenje), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handball Woche, Balkan-Handball.com,etc, …

WINNERS

2016 – Nacevski / Nikolov (Macedonia)
2017 – Gjeding / Hansen (Denmark)
2018 – Raluy / Sabroso (Spain)
2019 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2020 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2021 – Raluy / Sabroso (Spain)
2022 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2023 – Lah / Sok (Slovenia)
2024 – Lah / Sok (Slovenia)
2025 – Lah / Sok (Slovenia)

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