 In the play-offs they won against RK Prevent and then RK Drava Ptuj in the finals; RK Celje was a better opponent twice, however, as the runners-up of the league, Gorenje qualified to the EHF competitions, where they reached the semi-finals of the EHF Cup.The 2002–03 season was historic in many ways for Gorenje.The club was at the top of the Slovenian handball competitions all these years and had some respectable achievements in Europe, but the team from Velenje never made it quite to the top in either competition.