WBC Dynamo Moscow (Russian: ЖБК Динамо Москва) is a Russian professional women's basketball club playing in the Russian Premier League. Founded in 1923, in the early stages of the Soviet Championship, it won its first 6 seasons and 5 more titles up to 1958. Dynamo culminated this era reaching in 1959 the final of the inaugural edition of the European Cup, which they lost to Slavia Sofia.[citation needed]
Four decades later Dynamo emerged briefly as the leading Russian team, winning four Russian Championships in a row and reaching the Euroleague's Final Four in 2000. While the team gradually declined in subsequent years, in 2007 it won the EuroCup, its first international FIBA trophy.[1]
Personnel and staff
edit- Tatiana Nikolaevna Ovechkina serves as the president
- Potapov Andrey Valerievich serves as head coach
- Zhigil Vladimir Vladimirovich serves as an assistant coach[2]
Honours
edit- FIBA EuroCup: 2007, 2013, 2014
- USSR Championship: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1958
- Russian Super League A: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Former players
editReferences
edit- ^ Profile in FIBA Europe's website
- ^ "Женский баскетбольный клуб "ДИНАМО" Москва". www.wbcdynamo.ru. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
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