This thesis aimed to analyze the media image of the Croatian handball team at the European Handball Championship 2022 on portals "index.hr", "jutarnji.hr" and "24sata.hr". All three portals were selected according to the results of the Digital Reports survey on the readership of portals in Croatia in the period from January 2020 to January 2021. According to the aforementioned research, three selected portals were the most read in Croatia. This research was intended to investigate the extent to which the selected portals wrote about the European Handball Championship in 2022, to what extent they wrote about the Croatian national handball team at the aforementioned championship, what the topics were the articles and ultimately what image the media created about the national team. Before describing and presenting the results obtained by the research, the theoretical basis in the context of defining sports journalism and its divisions is given, all European handball championships so far and the history of the portals used in the research are briefly described. A total of 568 articles were processed. Differences in the amount of articles were observed compared to the days when the Croatian handball team played and when it did not play. Likewise, it was observed that portals in most cases opted to write informative articles. In the end, the answer to the main question that this work dealt with was brought, and that is what kind of media image was created about the Croatian handball team, and the answer is negative. The main reasons are poor result and verbal conflict between the coach and former national team players.