Dinamo Volgograd

Dinamo Volgograd (Russian: Динамо Волгоград) is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003.

Dinamo Volgograd
Full name	Handball Club Dinamo Volgograd
Short name	HC Dinamo Volgograd
Founded	1972
Arena	Dynamo Sports Hall
Capacity	1,500
Head coach	Oleg Kuleshov
League	Super League
2020-21	9th
Home Away
Website Official site

Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League 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 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008 EHF Cup. 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 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Handball Federation banned Russian athletes, and the European Handball Federation suspended the Russian clubs from competing in European handball competitions.^[1]

Honours

• Women's EHF Cup

Winners (1): 2008

• Women's EHF Challenge Cup

Winners (1): 1995

• EHF Women's Champions Trophy

Winners (1): 1995

• Russian League

Winners (12): 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R1	SS/VOC Amsterdam	29–19	27–22	56–41
		R2	SPONO Eagles	35–23	38–28	73–51
		R3	Hypo Niederösterreich	29–23	32–26	61–49
		Group B	Brest Bretagne Handball	25–20	21–27	1st place
			Alba Fehérvár KC	31–26	31–24
			HC Leipzig	32–24	33–27
		1/4	SG BBM Bietigheim	26–33	31–26	57–59

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2020-21 season.

Goalkeeper 01 Anna Vereshchak 12 Ekaterina Karabutova 26 Maria Duvakina 50 Nadezhda Kolesnikova LW 02 Ekaterina Litvnova 08 Anzhelika Lebdeva RW 03 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 07 Olesya Goryachenko 11 Ksenia Zubova 17 Stefania Belolipetskaya 49 Oksana Kolodyazhnaya CB 09 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
• Katty Piejos
• Nadezda Muravyeva
• Elena Fomina
• Liudmila Bodnieva
• Yelena Avdekova
• Maya Petrova
• Daria Dmitrieva
• Olga Levina
• Ksenia Makeeva
• Antonina Skorobogatchenko
• Anna Sedoykina
• Yelena Polenova
• Anna Punko
• Aleksandra Stepanova
• Anastasia Suslova
• Polina Vedekhina
• Valentina Vernigorova
• Polina Vyakhireva
• Tatiana Khmyrova
• Anna Kochetova
• Yaroslava Frolova