Vinko Kandija (May 23, 1934 – September 3, 2002) was a Croatian handball player and coach.
Kandija won over 40 titles and trophies in the game with male and female teams.
His coaching career led him from club to club, and he achieved excellent results everywhere, especially with women's teams, he won fifty different titles thanks to his persistent work and expertise, becoming one of the most successful and most respected handball coaches in the country and abroad, and because of his style of coaching and leadership, he was named the "last romanticist".His biggest achievement was winning the Women's European Champions Cup four times and Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup one in 1984–85.