Dinamo Volgograd () is a Russian women's

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

club from

Volgograd Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...

. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented

Rotor Volgograd SC Rotor Volgograd () is a Russian professional football club from the large city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (formerly Stalingrad). The club plays in the second-tier Russian First League, and are the largest and best supported Volgograd club. ...

following the

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and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003. Dynamo is the most successful team in the

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with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set a record winning all the matches. It in international competitions won three titles: the 1995

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and

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and the 2008

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. In 2000 it became the first Russian team to reach the Champions League's semifinals since the USSR's break-up. In reaction to the

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, the

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banned Russian athletes, and the

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suspended the Russian clubs from competing in European handball competitions.

Honours

Women's EHF Cup The Women's EHF European League is an annual competition for women's handball clubs of Europe. It is organized by the European Handball Federation, EHF. It is currently the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the ...

:''Winners (1):'' 2008 *

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:''Winners (1):'' 1995 *

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:''Winners (1):'' 1995 * Russian League :''Winners (12):'' 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

European record

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2020-21 season.'' ;Goalkeeper * 1 Anna Vereshchak * 12 Ekaterina Karabutova * 26 Maria Duvakina * 50 Nadezhda Kolesnikova ;LW * 2 Ekaterina Litvnova * 8 Anzhelika Lebdeva ;RW * 3 Ekaterina Mayorova * 13 Anastasia Starshova * 33 Anna Sheina ;Line player * 24 Tatiana Medvedeva * 33 Elena Dukart * 67 Victoria Turushina * 81 Daria Stasenko ;Back players ;LB * 7 Olesya Goryachenko * 11 Ksenia Zubova * 17 Stefania Belolipetskaya * 49 Oksana Kolodyazhnaya ;CB * 9 Sofia Krakhmaleva * 36 Ekaterina Dolmatova * 56 Ekaterina Skivko * 77 Elizaveta Dudkina ;RB * 24 Elina Sidnina * 99 Sofia Lyzhina

Notable players

* Viktoriya Borshchenko * Anastasiya Pidpalova * Viktoriya Tymoshenkova * Jaqueline Anastácio * Mayssa Pessoa * Asma Elghaoui * Karyna Yezhykava *

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* Nadezda Muravyeva *

Elena Fomina Elena Fomina is a former Russian women's soccer, football midfielder, who played for ShVSM Izmailovo in the Russian women's football championship She previously played for FC Spartak Moscow (women), Spartak Moscow, FC Chertanovo Moscow (women), ...

* Liudmila Bodnieva * Yelena Avdekova * Maya Petrova * Daria Dmitrieva * Olga Levina *

Ksenia Makeeva Kseniya Vladimirovna Makeyeva ( rus, Ксения Владимировна Макеева, , ˈksʲenʲɪɪ̯ə mɐˈkʲe(ɪ̯)ɪvə; born 19 September 1990) is a Russian handball player for Rostov-Don and the Russia women's national handball t ...

* Antonina Skorobogatchenko * Anna Sedoykina * Yelena Polenova * Anna Punko * Aleksandra Stepanova * Anastasia Suslova * Polina Vedekhina * Valentina Vernigorova * Polina Vyakhireva * Tatiana Khmyrova * Anna Kochetova * Yaroslava Frolova

References

External links

Official site
Dynamo Volgograd

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