Mateo Maraš (born 17 December 2000) is a Croatian handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and for the Croatian national team.
Career Club Mateo started his career in the RK Balic-Metlicic team from Split. In the 2020/21 season, he was loaned to North Macedonia's RK Eurofarm Pelister, with which he played in the EHF European League. In the spring of 2021, RK Eurofarm Pelister signed him permanently. There were other offers as well: from RK Zagreb, RK Celje, Ademar León and Fenix Toulouse Handball, but he decided on RK Eurofarm Pelister's offer. In 2022, the Hungarian top team MOL Tatabánya KC bought him from RK Eurofarm Pelister. He was also able to play in the EHF European League with MOL Tatabánya KC. In January 2025, it was announced that he would transfer to Paris Saint-Germain from the summer.
National team On April 28, 2021, he played for the first time in the Croatia men's national handball team against Slovakia and scored 4 goals. He represented Croatia at the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship. He was included in the large squad of the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship. He also participated in the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship as a member of the Croatia men's national handball team. (11th place, 5 matches / 9 goals). He was included in the large squad of the men's handball team participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but in the end he was not included in the traveling team. He also participated in the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship as a member of the Croatia men's national handball team (2nd place, 9 matches / 25 goals) and 2026 European Men's Handba Championship (3rd place, 3 matches / 9 goals).
Personal life His father, Ivica Maraš, was also a national team handball player and was a member of the Croatian delegation for the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship.
Honours National team World Championship: : 2025 European Championship: : 2026
Club RK Eurofarm Pelister Macedonian Handball Super League : 2021, 2022 Macedonian Handball Cup : 2021, 2022 Macedonian Handball Super Cup : 2021
MOL Tatabánya KC Nemzeti Bajnokság I : 2023, 2024 Magyar Kupa : 2025 Paris Saint Germain LNH Division 1 : 2026
References
External links Mateo Maraš at EHF Mateo Maraš at MKSZ