 Vardar is the most successful handball team in the country, having won thirteen national League and Cup titles.RK Vardar was founded in 1961, as part of the Vardar Sports Club in Skopje, which had been founded in 1947.The handball team rose to power in the late 1990s becoming one of the two clubs (RK Pelister being the other) to dominate the Macedonian handball scene after the independence of the country.