VC Dinamo Krasnodar (women's volleyball team)
# VC Dinamo Krasnodar (women's volleyball team)

Dinamo Krasnodar (Russian: Динамо Краснодар) is a Russian professional women's volleyball club based in Krasnodar. It was founded in 1946 and plays in the super league, the top Russian league.

## History

### Soviet years

Founded in 1946, the club participated in the 1946 Soviet Women's Volleyball Championship (National championship) finishing in 11th place (out of 18 teams). From that point, the club competed only at regional level until 1955 when it returned to the National championship remaining there until 1966 when it was relegated to a lower national level. In the years that followed, the club had mixed results being promoted and relegated many times without achieving any real tangible success.

### Russian years

The club competed in the "B" league of the Russian Women's Championship in 1992–93 and gained promotion to the Super League. A year later it won its first title, the 1994 Russian Cup. It was relegated after a poor campaign in the 1997–98 Super League where it finished last. It took a decade for the club to return to the Super League, only returning in the 2009–10 season. Since then the club has become consistent and competitive, it qualified for a European competition for the first time, the Women's CEV Cup in 2010–11 reaching the final. On domestic level the club added two more Russian Cups (2014 and 2015). European success soon came in the form of titles in the 2012–13 CEV Challenge Cup and CEV Cups of 2014–15 and 2015–16. In 2015, the club was given a wildcard to participate of the FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship in Switzerland and reached the tournament's final.

## Honours

### National competitions

* Russian Cup: 3

    1994, 2014, 2015

### International competitions

* CEV Cup: 2

    2014–15, 2015–16
* CEV Challenge Cup: 1

    2012–13

## Team roster

Season 2018–2019, as of January 2019.

| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Bogumila Biarda | Opposite | 1.91 | 90 | (1999-05-24) 24 May 1999 (age 24) |
| 2 | Ekaterina Pipunyrova | Outside hitter | 1.88 | 70 | (2000-02-10) 10 February 2000 (age 23) |
| 3 | Maria Perepelkina | Middle blocker | 1.87 | 72 | (1984-03-09) 9 March 1984 (age 39) |
| 7 | Maria Khaletskaya | Opposite | 1.95 | 78 | (1994-07-31) 31 July 1994 (age 28) |
| 8 | Mariia Bibina | Libero | 1.76 | 62 | (1995-03-26) 26 March 1995 (age 28) |
| 10 | Anna Matienko | Setter | 1.82 | 63 | (1981-12-07) 7 December 1981 (age 41) |
| 11 | Viktorija Rusakova | Outside hitter | 1.88 | 80 | (1988-10-23) 23 October 1988 (age 34) |
| 13 | Esenia Mishagina | Setter | 1.78 | 61 | (2001-12-01) 1 December 2001 (age 21) |
| 14 | Maria Bogovskaia | Outside hitter | 1.87 | 73 | (2001-06-20) 20 June 2001 (age 22) |
| 15 | Olga Zubareva | Middle blocker | 1.90 | 78 | (1998-08-11) 11 August 1998 (age 24) |
| 16 | Yuliya Grigoreva | Middle blocker | 1.90 | 81 | (1986-11-16) 16 November 1986 (age 36) |
| 17 | Angelina Sperskaite | Outside hitter | 1.88 | 74 | (1997-02-11) 11 February 1997 (age 26) |
| 18 | Ekaterina Tretyakova | Libero | 1.76 | 60 | (1984-10-19) 19 October 1984 (age 38) |
| 20 | Olga Zvereva | Outside hitter | 1.85 | 75 | (2000-03-05) 5 March 2000 (age 23) |

## Notable players

* Vera Duyunova
* Nataliya Kudreva
* Valentina Ogienko
* Lyudmila Shchetinina
* Zoya Yusova
* Olga Fateeva
* Tatiana Kosheleva
* Svetlana Kryuchkova
* Yulia Merkulova
* Maria Perepelkina
* Lyubov Sokolova
* Yevgeniya Startseva
* Elena Zarubina
* Natalya Mammadova
* Fabíola de Souza
* Fe Garay
* Rosir Calderón
* Helena Havelková
* Anja Spasojević
* Neriman Özsoy
* Foluke Akinradewo
* Destinee Hooker
