Handball Club Lada Togliatti

Handball Club Lada Togliatti
Full name	Handball Club Lada Togliatti
Founded	1998
Arena	Olymp Sportlomplex, Togliatti
Capacity	2,700
Head coach	Akopyan Levon
League	Russian Super League
2014-15	Russian Super League, 2nd
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WHC Lada Togliatti is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti playing in the Russian Super League.

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

• Cup Winners' Cup
  • 2002,
• EHF Cup
  • 2012,2014
• Russian Super League
  • 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008

Current squad

Squad for the 2015–16 season

Goalkeepers 01 Tatiana Erokhina 12 Margarita Orlova 92 Elena Utkina Fomina Wingers 03 Polina Gorshkova 08 Daria Samokhina 21 Aleksandra Sannikova 24 Yulia Golubeva 28 Alena Nosikova 57 Anna Krasnova Line players 07 Julia Kakmolja 45 Daria Denikaeva

Back players 06 Irina Bliznova 09 Ekaterina Kudriavtseva 10 Olga Levina 11 Daria Dmitrieva 14 Veronika Garanina 23 Varvara Iureva 29 Natalia Chigirinova 34 Elizaveta Malashenko 41 Yana Kostomakha 55 Ksenia Karpacheva

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