Katrin Klujber

The native form of this personal name is Klujber Katrin Gitta. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Katrin Klujber (born 21 April 1999) is a Hungarian handballer for Ferencvárosi TC and the Hungarian national team.^[1][2]

Katrin Klujber
Klujber in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Katrin Gitta Klujber
Born	(1999-04-21) 21 April 1999 (age 26) Dunaújváros, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current club	Ferencvárosi TC
Number	42
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2015–2018	Dunaújvárosi KKA
2018–	Ferencvárosi TC
National team 1
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2019–	Hungary	96	(520)
Medal record European Women's Handball Championship 2024 Austria/Hungary/Switzerland Junior World Championship 2018 Hungary Youth European Championship 2015 Macedonia
1 National team caps and goals correct as of 16 December 2024

In September 2018, she was included by EHF in a list of the twenty best young handballers to watch for the future.^[3]

She made her international debut on 24 March 2019 against Japan. Since then she represented Hungary at three European Championship (2020, 2022, 2024), and three World Championship (2019, 2021, 2023) tournaments. At the 2024 European Championship she was the tournament top scorer with 60 goals.^[4] She also participated in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in 2020 and the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024, where the team finished 7th and 6th, respectively.

She started playing handball at her hometown club Dunaújvárosi KKA, where she was promoted to the first team in 2015.^[5]

In 2018, she joined Hungarian top club Ferencváros.^[5] Until then she had primarily played as a wing player, but here she transitioned to a back.^[5] With Ferencvaros she won the Hungarian championship in 2021 and 2024, and the Hungarian cup in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Honours

National team

• European Women's Handball Championship:
  • Bronze Medalist: 2024
• IHF Women's Junior World Championship:
  • Winner: 2018
• Youth European Championship:
  • Bronze Medalist: 2015

Club

Dunaújvárosi KKA

• EHF Cup:
  •  Gold: 2016

Ferencvárosi TC

• Nemzeti Bajnokság I:
  •  Gold: 2021, 2024
  •  Silver: 2019, 2022, 2023
• Magyar Kupa:
  •  Gold: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  •  Silver: 2019
  •  Bronze: 2021
• EHF Champions League:
  •  Silver: 2023

Individual

• Hungarian Handballer of the Year: 2022,^[6] 2024^[7]
• All-Star Right Back of the Summer Olympics: 2024^[8]
• All-Star Right Back of the European Championship: 2022,^[9] 2024^[10]
• Top Scorer of the European Championship: 2024^[4]
• Top Scorer of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I: 2024
• All-Star Right Wing of the EHF European Junior Championship: 2017^[11]
• Youth Handball Player of the Year in Hungary: 2016
• EHF Female Player of the Month: February 2019, October 2019
• Handball-Planet.com All-Star Young Right Back of the year: 2019/2020
• Handball-planet Young World Female Handball Player: 2019–2020^[12]

Personal life

Her cousin, Vivien Grosch, is also a professional handballer. They are both part of the national team's extended squad.^[13] She studies Communication and Media Science at the University of Dunaújváros.^[14]