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	Yves Karakatzanis
Head coach	Alexey Alekseev
League	Russian Super League
2019-20	2nd
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

HC Lada

Location of HC Lada

Founded in 1998, Lada soon 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]

Titles

• Russian Super League
  • Gold: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Silver: 2001, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • Bronze: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016
• 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

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2020–21 season

Goalkeepers 01 Anastasia Lagina 31 Daria Dereven 93 Irina Mikhaylyuta Wingers RW 02 Olga Fomina 21 Aleksandra Sannikova 77 Anastasiya Novoselova LW 22 Natalia Reshetnikova 28 Alena Nosikova Line players 07 Julia Kakmolja 10 Viktoryia Shamanouskaya 75 Alena Amelchenko

Back players LB 14 Veronika Nikitina 23 Anna Golubeva CB 25 Olga Sherbak 35 Valeriia Kirdiasheva 36 Anastasia Portyagina RB 06 Irina Bliznova 18 Ekaterina Gaiduk 45 Polina Masalova

Transfers

Transfers for the 2020-21 season

Joining

Leaving Elena Mikhaylichenko (LB) (to CSKA Moscow) Eva Demidovich (RB) (to CSKA Moscow)

Technical staff

Staff for the 2019-20 season.

• Head coach: Alexey Alekseev
• Assistant coach: Yekaterina Marennikova
• Assistant/Goalkeeping coach: Tatiana Erokhina
• Team Leader: : Anastasia Zubova
• Doctor: Sergey Rakhmaey
• Masseur: : Natalya Smirnova

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) Polina Gorshkova (2006-2019) Alena Ikhneva (2010-2014) 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

References

1. Profile and record in the European Handball Federation's website
2. Lada wins Women's EHF Cup. European Handball Federation
3. Results and tables in Scoresway