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Location of HC LadaHandball Club Lada is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League.
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 |
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| 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
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Team
Current squad
- Squad for the 2021–22 season
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Transfers
- Transfers for the 2022–23 season
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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
References
- ^ Profile and record in the European Handball Federation's website
- ^ Lada wins Women's EHF Cup. European Handball Federation
- ^ Results and tables in Scoresway
- ^ "Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF". Handball Planet. 1 March 2022.
