Dynamo Moscow (women's basketball)

For the sports club's departments, see Dynamo Moscow.

WBC Dynamo Moscow (Russian: ЖБК Динамо Москва) is a Russian professional women's basketball club playing in the Russian Premier League. Founded in 1923, in the early stages of the Soviet Championship, it won its first 6 seasons and 5 more titles up to 1958. Dynamo culminated this era reaching in 1959 the final of the inaugural edition of the European Cup, which they lost to Slavia Sofia.^{[citation needed]}

The team pictured before a game.

Four decades later Dynamo emerged briefly as the leading Russian team, winning four Russian Championships in a row and reaching the Euroleague's Final Four in 2000. While the team gradually declined in subsequent years, in 2007 it won the EuroCup, its first international FIBA trophy.^[1]

Personnel and staff

• Tatiana Nikolaevna Ovechkina serves as the president
• Potapov Andrey Valerievich serves as head coach
• Zhigil Vladimir Vladimirovich serves as an assistant coach^[2]

Honours

• FIBA EuroCup: 2007, 2013, 2014
• USSR Championship: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958
• Russian Super League A: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001

Former players

Svetlana Abrosimova Ilona Korstin Oxana Rakhmatulina Tatiana Shchegoleva

Natalia Vodopyanova Nuria Martínez Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota Seimone Augustus

Rebekkah Brunson Crystal Langhorne Ana Dabović