Dynamo_Moscow_(women’s_basketball)

Dynamo Moscow (women's basketball)

Dynamo Moscow (women's basketball)

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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]

The team pictured before a game.

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

  • Tatiana Nikolaevna Ovechkina serves as the president
  • Potapov Andrey Valerievich serves as head coach
  • Zhigil Vladimir Vladimirovich serves as an assistant coach[2]

Honours

Former players


References

  1. Profile in FIBA Europe's website
  2. "Женский баскетбольный клуб "ДИНАМО" Москва". www.wbcdynamo.ru. Retrieved 2021-04-14.



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