The aim of this paper is to analyse the success of the Croatian handball National team at the Men’s European Championship in Poland in which participated 16 national teams divided into 4 groups of 4 teams. Croatian handball national team played a total of 8 games and recorded 5 wins and 3 losses as at the end was enough for third place and the bronze medal. The sample of entity involves 17 members of the national team (15 players and 2 goalkeepers), which are divided according to their playing positions in the attack, and the goalkeepers, and the paper is determined by each player's individual performance and efficiency by playing positions. In the attacking phase, a total of 6 variables of situational shooting efficiency were analysed from external, wing and line positions, breakthroughs, counter attacks and 7-m-throws, while the goalkeeper analyses involved successful and unsuccessful saves. This paper shows that from the 389 inside shots of the Croatian handball team, 250 were goals, giving the team a goal success rate of 64%. The most goals were scored from the 9 metre throw shots (68 goals). From the counter-attack position 52 goals were scored, from the wing position 41 goals, from the position of the pivot 30 goals, from the breakthroughs 25 goals, and the least goals were scored from the 7 meter throws (24 goals). The player with the most scored goals is a wing back, Manuel Štrlek, who scored 43 goals from 54 attempts (80% goal success rate). In the segment of goalkeeper, the most effective was Ivan Stevanović who defended 49 dialed shots out of 143 attempts, which equals to 34% defense efficiency.