Zorky () is a

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club based in Krasnogorsk,

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. Its team currently plays in the

Russian Bandy Super League The Russian Bandy Super League (), is a men's professional bandy league in Russia, the top division of Russian bandy. There is no definite rule which teams will be relegated or promoted. Besides results on the ice, financial resources and infrast ...

, the top tier of the Russian bandy championship.

History

The club was founded in 1954. Zorky have had some recent successes and reached the finals of the

Bandy World Cup The Bandy World Cup is an international bandy competition played in Sweden at the beginning of the bandy season every year, in autumn. The participating teams qualify based on their results in the previous bandy season. The World Cup is not playe ...

, Russian Cup and Champions Cup in the 2006–07 season only to lose to

Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...

in all three matches. In 2009 they reached the World Cup final again, this time losing to Hammarby. In 2012, they won the World Cup. The team was the best team of the regular season of the

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but lost the final against Dynamo Moscow for the national championship. For the 2016–17 season, the team almost got bankrupt and was relegated to the

Russian Bandy Supreme League Russian Bandy Supreme League or the Vysshaya Liga () is the second tier of Russian bandy, below Russian Bandy Super League. In the 2016–17 season, 23 teams competed in three groups. In the 2022/23 season, 22 teams competed in four groups. Th ...

. For the 2017–18 season, it returned to the Super League. The club also has a women's team. This won the national championship for women in 2012 and in 2015. Zorky's home shirts are yellow.

Honours

Domestic

* Russian Champions (men): ** Winners (3): 1979, 1992, 1993

Cup

Russian Bandy Cup Russian Cup (Кубок России) is a cup competition for Russian bandy teams, held almost every year since 1937. The cup is now administered by the Russian Bandy Federation. The cup is contested by the current teams of the Russian Bandy Sup ...

: ** Winners (6): 1985, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993

International

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: ** Winners (2): 1990, 2012 ** Runners-up (2): 2006, 2009 *

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a round robi ...

: ** Winners (1): 1992 * Champions Cup: ** Winners (3): 2010, 2011, 2012 ** Runners-up (3): 2006, 2007, 2009

Zorky-2

Zorky's second team Zorky-2 plays in the

, the second tier of Russian bandy.

References

External links

Official Website
{{Russian Bandy Super League Bandy clubs in Russia Bandy clubs in the Soviet Union Sport in Moscow Oblast 1961 establishments in Russia Bandy clubs established in 1961 Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast