WHC Lada Togliatti

The HC Lada Togliatti (Russian Гандбольный клуб " Лада » Тольятти, Gandbolny club " Lada" Tolyatti, " Handball Club Lada Tolyatti " ) is a Russian women's handball club from Tolyatti.

History

The club was established on 7 April 1998. Although a previous club was actually based on the Children and Youth Sports School # 6 in 1996 was founded, but this mainly composed of inexperienced B young team played only in the third Russian league and was also there tend to relegation candidates.

In June 1997, now came Andrei Stepanov and Alexei Schaworonkow, former coach of the Russian second division Sapsibowez Novokuznetsk, after Tolyatti. The city of Novokuznetsk at that time had two second division teams, but this was no longer able to sponsor appropriate. So Stepanov and Schaworonkow went first to the larger neighboring Samara, where she mediated on to Tolyatti. With the new coaches came nine new players, and the following season the team played instead Sapsibowez Novokuznetsk in the second division. After a 4th place in the first season of HC Lada Togliatti now officially created from April 1998 1999 was promoted to the first division, the Russian Super League.

In the fall of 1999, said the AVTOVAZ Joint Stock Company, better known by its brand name Lada, the club 's support. Yuri Stepanov, one of the managers wanted to make Lada Tolyatti into an internationally renowned Handball Club. So took the later Russian women's national coach, Yevgeny Trefilow, as coach. While Schaworonkow in his hometown Urai, went where he is now coaching younger players, Andrei Stepanov stayed and became head of the founded in December 1999, the Special Olympics Children and Youth Sports School # 2 "Hand Ball" in Tolyatti. This school later became the foundation for the success Toljattis: From all over the country players have been spotted, then had to go through the hard-hitting elite Trefilows. The later Stars all came from his own youth: So in 2000 played three internationals in Tolyatti, 2001, there were twice as many.

After a 4th place in the 1999/2000 season the team was runner-up in 2001 yet, but from 2002 to 2006 Lada Tolyatti was always confident first. 2003 when the reserve of the club was promoted to the Russian Super League and was in his first season in ninth.

In 2002 they picked with the European Cup Winners' Cup as the first purely Russian team a European Cup. In early 2003, the club debuted in the EHF Champions League, but failed in the quarterfinals at the Danish club Viborg HK and the next year at RK Krim Ljubljana from Slovenia. 2005, the club failed even in the group stage and got down in the European Cup Winners' Cup, where to 1.FC Nürnberg failed due to the German club. 2006 was another against Krim Ljubljana terminus.

The summer of 2006 marked a radical turning point in the history of the club: The AVTOVAZ Joint Stock Company took over the club to 100 %, Yuri Stepanov was " patron ". The club called itself now primarily only HC Lada. Same time it was founded on the initiative of the Russian Federation of competition Zvezda Zvenigorod Club, presumably to have the purpose, the center of Russian woman handball in the future closer to Moscow. Coach Yevgeny Trefilow and the players Oksana Romenskaja and Natalia Schipilowa left the club in the direction of Zvenigorod. New coach was the unknown Alexei Gumjanow. However, the coaching change did not represent a weakening: In contrast to the authoritarian Trefilow the psychologist Gumjanow led almost a kind of democracy, and talked more with the players than Trefilow. As a result, it was established in 2007 behind Zvenigorod Although only second in the championship, but won the newly established Russian Cup and moved - a sensational first Russian team ever in a final of the EHF Champions League - after hitting teams like Viborg HK or Hypo Niederösterreich Austria; there finally they lost against Slagelse DT. In the Champions League 2007 /08 Lada Togliatti made ​​good figure and was able to reach the main round. There the Russians lost the first two games, but could still sensational qualify for the semifinals. There was a terminus, Hypo Niederösterreich Austria succeeded in revenge for the out in the previous year.

In summer 2011, again took over as coach Yevgeny Trefilow. Under his leadership, triumphed Lada Tolyatti 2012 at the EHF Cup.

Sponsors

The club is sponsored since its inception by the resident in Tolyatti automaker AVTOVAZ Joint Stock Company and bears his sponsor in the name.

Achievements

  • Champion of Russia: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Russian Cup winner: 2007
  • Champions League finalists: 2007
  • Winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup: 2002
  • Winner of the EHF Cup: 2012

Well-known former players

  • Irina Blisnowa
  • Lyudmila Postnowa
  • Oksana Romenskaja
  • Marija Sidorowa
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