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
Tolyatti
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playing in the
Russian Super League
The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...
.
Founded in 1998, Lada became the leading team in the Super League winning five championships in a row between 2002 and 2006 and a sixth one in 2008. It also built itself a name in Europe winning the 2002
Cup Winners' Cup
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The competition's official name was originally the European Cup Winners' Cup; it was renamed the UEFA Cup Winne ...
in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals.
The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position. On the other hand, Lada won the 2012 EHF Cup, its second international title, while attaining the national championship's bronze in 2009, 2011 and 2012.
In reaction to the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
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, the
International Handball Federation
The International Handball Federation (IHF) is the administrative and controlling body for handball and beach handball. IHF is responsible for the organisation of handball's major international tournaments, notably the IHF World Men's Handball C ...
banned Russian athletes, and the
European Handball Federation
The European Handball Federation (EHF) is the umbrella organisation for European handball. Founded on 17 November 1991, it is made of 50 member federations and two associated federations (England and Scotland), and is headquartered in Vienna, Au ...
suspended the Russian clubs from competing in European handball competitions.
Titles
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Russian Super League
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2021
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* Russian Cup
**''Gold'': 2006
**''Silver'': 2007, 2009, 2015, 2019
**''Bronze'': 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
* Champions League
**''Finalist'': 2007
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Cup Winners' Cup
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**''Winner'': 2002
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EHF Cup
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:''Transfers for the 2022–23 season''
; Joining
* Karina Sisenova (RB) (from
HC Astrakhanochka
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Yelena Dmitriyeva
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*
Olga Gorshenina
Olga Anatolyevna Gorshenina (; born 9 November 1990) is a Russian handballer for CSKA Moscow and the Russian national team.
International honours
*EHF Cup:
**''Winner'': 2012, 2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western ...
Natalia Parhomenko
Natalia Parhomenko (née Vysotska; born 21 March 1979) is a Ukrainian handball
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Lada
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