Handball Club Lada

Handball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League.

Handball Club Lada
Full name	Handball Club Lada
Short name	Lada
Founded	1998
Arena	Olymp Sportlomplex, Togliatti
Capacity	2,700
President	Irina Bliznova
Head coach	Alexey Alekseev
League	Russian Super League
2021–22	3rd
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

HC Lada

Location of HC Lada

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 in its international debut and reaching the final of the 2007 Champions League and the next edition's semifinals.^[1]

The following three seasons were less successful, with Dynamo Volgograd retrieving the leading position. On the other hand, Lada won the 2012 EHF Cup,^[2] its second international title, while attaining the national championship's bronze in 2009, 2011 and 2012.^[3]

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.^[4]

Titles

• Russian Super League
  • Gold: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Silver: 2001, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Bronze: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2021
• Russian Cup
  • Gold: 2006
  • Silver: 2007, 2009, 2015, 2019
  • Bronze: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Champions League
  • Finalist: 2007
• Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winner: 2002
• EHF Cup
  • Winner: 2012, 2014

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R2	Vipers Kristiansand	29–23	26–32	55–55
		R3	Viborg	29–26	28–22	57–48
		Group D	Nykøbing Falster	35–32	23–35	3rd place
			Metzingen	26–27	24–23
			Glassverket	32–21	25–26

Kits

AWAY
2019–20	2020-

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021–22 season

Goalkeepers 16 Valiantsina Voitulevich 31 Daria Dereven Wingers RW 02 Olga Fomina 77 Anastasiya Novoselova LW 22 Natalia Reshetnikova 28 Alena Nosikova 47 Valentina Barynina Line players 04 Yana Zhilinskayte 07 Julia Kakmolja 75 Alena Amelchenko

Back players LB 78 Irina Nikitina 23 Anna Golubeva CB 14 Veronika Nikitina 25 Olga Sherbak 35 Valeriia Kirdiasheva 36 Anastasia Portyagina 88 Arishina Liubov RB 29 Valeriya Ganicheva

Transfers

Transfers for the 2022–23 season

Joining Karina Sisenova (RB) (from HC Astrakhanochka)

Leaving

Staff members

Staff for the 2021-22 season.

• President: Irina Bliznova
• Head coach: Alexey Alekseev
• Assistant coach: Yekaterina Marennikova
• Assistant/Goalkeeping coach: Tatiana Erokhina

Notable former players

• Yekaterina Marennikova (2004-2010, 2011-2012)
• Nadezhda Muravyeva (2002-2010, 2011-2015)
• Natalya Shipilova (2001-2006, 2010-2013)
• Irina Bliznova (2004-2012, 2014, 2016, 2019-)
• Olga Chernoivanenko (2008-2014, 2018-)
• Ekaterina Davydenko (2006-2014, 2018-)
• Daria Dmitrieva (2015-2019)
• Tatiana Erokhina (2002-2013, 2014-2016)
• Oksana Korolyova (2001-2002, 2002-2007)
• Yekaterina Atkova (2008-2009)
• Mariya Basarab (2008-2014)
• Yelena Dmitriyeva (2001-2004)
• Tatyana Dronina (2010-2011)
• Olga Gorshenina (2009-2014)
• Elena Utkina (2015-2019)
• Anna Kareyeva (2001-2004)
• Yekaterina Ilyina (2013-2013)
• Olga Akopyan (2015-2016)
• Elizaveta Malashenko (2013-2017)
• Irina Nikitina (2006-2013)
• Irina Poltoratskaya (2001-2004)
• Lyudmila Postnova (2003-2010)
• Daria Samokhina (2007-2017)
• Mariya Sidorova (2001-2012)
• Irina Snopova (2016-2018)
• Inna Suslina (2001-2014)
• Polina Vyakhireva (2004-2007)
• Victoria Zhilinskayte (2008-2014)
• Yana Zhilinskayte (2008-2014)
• June Andenæs (2013)
• Natalia Parhomenko (2013-2014)
• Yuliya Andriychuk (2013-2014)

Kit manufacturers

• Kempa