Dinamo Volgograd

Dinamo Volgograd
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

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.

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[edit]

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[edit]

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