VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg

The VK Uralochka - NTMK (Russian волейбольный клуб Уралочка - НТМК ) is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Yekaterinburg ( Sverdlovsk Oblast ), founded in 1966, with 25 national championships and eight European Cup victories is the most successful women's team in Russia.

History

The club was founded in 1966 as a DSO Trud from the transport company Yakov Sverdlov out. In December of the same year, the club earned the right to participate in the top division of the Soviet Union. First coach of the team was A.W. Kiltschewsky. As of 1968, called the club Uralochka Sverdlovsk, after he pass DSO Senit said. In 1969, he got down from the top flight and Kiltschewsky left the club.

Since 1969, more than 40 years, the team of Nikolai Vasilyevich Karpol is trained, who led them, especially in the 1970s and 1980s to a variety of titles. Between 1986 and 2005 the team continuously all national championship titles won. In addition, she won a total of eleven times the European Champions Cup and was in the 1980s and 1990s, the dominant women's volleyball team in Europe.

Between 1991 and 2001 the club played as Uralochka Yekaterinburg before it received its present name. The group from Nizhny Tagil NTMK occurs as title sponsor of the team. Most home games will be played in the club Metallurg- in Nizhny Tagil Forum, which holds 3,200 spectators. A few games also sports palace for team sports ( divs ) will be held in Yekaterinburg, which seats up to 5,000 spectators.

Achievements

  • Soviet Master (11): 1978-1982, 1986-1991
  • Soviet runner-up: 1984, 1985
  • USSR Cup Winner ( 3): 1986, 1987, 1989
  • Russian Master (14): 1992-2005
  • Winners of the European Cup of Champions ( 8): 1981-1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995;
  • Finalist of the European Cup or the Champions League: 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003
  • Winners of the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1986
  • Finalist of the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1985
  • Finalist CEV Cup: 2009.
  • Bronze medal at the Volleyball Club World Cup 1992
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