Alvaro Načinović (born 22 March 1966) is a former Croatian handball player who competed for Yugoslavia and Croatia respectively.

The same year he won the IHF Men's Junior World Championship with Yugoslavia U-21 in his club's home venue in Rijeka.

In September of the same year the club played against Laško Pivovara Celje in the first round of European Champions Cup.

With poor league results and a coaching aftermath going in his club Načinović left for Celje at the end of the season.

[8] In 1995 he played against Badel 1862 Zagreb in the 1/8 final of the EHF Champions League and lost by one goal on aggregate.

The club's success was due to veteran players such as Načinović, Mladen Prskalo, Marin Mišković, Zvonimir Kutija, Mario Brož, Dario Jagić, Janko Mavrović and younger players like Mirjan Horvat and Igor Montanari Knez.

[11] As a young player Načinović showed great promise and got called up to play for Yugoslav U-19 team at IHF Men's Junior World Championship in Italy 1985 and Yugoslavia in 1987 where his team and won the final against Spain in his hometown of Rijeka at Dvorana Mladosti.

Three months later Načinović competed at 1988 Summer Olympics where Yugoslavia got to the semi-finals losing (18:24) to Soviet Union who would win the tournament.

He played in Croatia's first tournament appearance at 1993 Mediterranean Games in Languedoc-Roussillon where they won a gold medal.