Dinamo Volgograd

Dinamo Volgograd (Динамо Волгоград) is a Russian women's handball club from Volgograd. Founded in 1972 as Burevestnik Volgograd, it represented Rotor Volgograd following the collapse of the Soviet Union and was subsequently named Aqva before taking its current name in 2003.

Dynamo is the most successful team in the Russian Super League with nine titles, and in the 2001-02 season it set a record winning all the matches. It in international competitions won three titles: the 1995 Challenge Cup and Champions Trophy and the 2008 EHF Cup. In 2000 it became the first Russian team to reach the Champions League's semifinals since the USSR's break-up.

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.

Honours

 * Women's EHF Cup
 * Winners (1): 2008


 * Women's EHF Challenge Cup
 * Winners (1): 1995


 * EHF Women's Champions Trophy
 * Winners (1): 1995


 * Russian League
 * Winners (12): 1993, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Current squad

 * Squad for the 2020-21 season.


 * Goalkeeper
 * 1 🇷🇺 Anna Vereshchak
 * 12 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Karabutova
 * 26 🇷🇺 Maria Duvakina
 * 50 🇷🇺 Nadezhda Kolesnikova
 * LW
 * 2 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Litvnova
 * 8 🇷🇺 Anzhelika Lebdeva
 * RW
 * 3 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Mayorova
 * 13 🇷🇺 Anastasia Starshova
 * 33 🇷🇺 Anna Sheina
 * Line player
 * 24 🇷🇺 Tatiana Medvedeva
 * 33 🇷🇺 Elena Dukart
 * 67 🇷🇺 Victoria Turushina
 * 81 🇷🇺 Daria Stasenko


 * Back players
 * LB
 * 7 🇷🇺 Olesya Goryachenko
 * 11 🇷🇺 Ksenia Zubova
 * 17 🇷🇺 Stefania Belolipetskaya
 * 49 🇷🇺 Oksana Kolodyazhnaya
 * CB
 * 9 🇷🇺 Sofia Krakhmaleva
 * 36 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Dolmatova
 * 56 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Skivko
 * 77 🇷🇺 Elizaveta Dudkina
 * RB
 * 24 🇷🇺 Elina Sidnina
 * 99 🇷🇺 Sofia Lyzhina

Notable players

 * 🇺🇦 Viktoriya Borshchenko
 * 🇺🇦 Anastasiya Pidpalova
 * 🇺🇦 Viktoriya Tymoshenkova
 * 🇧🇷 Jaqueline Anastácio
 * 🇧🇷 Mayssa Pessoa
 * 🇹🇳 Asma Elghaoui
 * 🇧🇾 Karyna Yezhykava
 * 🇫🇷 Katty Piejos
 * 🇷🇺 Nadezda Muravyeva
 * 🇷🇺 Elena Fomina
 * 🇷🇺 Liudmila Bodnieva
 * 🇷🇺 Yelena Avdekova
 * 🇷🇺 Maya Petrova
 * 🇷🇺 Daria Dmitrieva
 * 🇷🇺 Olga Levina
 * 🇷🇺 Ksenia Makeeva
 * 🇷🇺 Antonina Skorobogatchenko
 * 🇷🇺 Anna Sedoykina
 * 🇷🇺 Yelena Polenova
 * 🇷🇺 Anna Punko
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandra Stepanova
 * 🇷🇺 Anastasia Suslova
 * 🇷🇺 Polina Vedekhina
 * 🇷🇺 Valentina Vernigorova
 * 🇷🇺 Polina Vyakhireva
 * 🇷🇺 Tatiana Khmyrova
 * 🇷🇺 Anna Kochetova
 * 🇷🇺 Yaroslava Frolova