GK Neva St. Petersburg

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GK Neva St. Petersburg
Full name Gandbol'nyy Club Neva Saint Petersburg
Founded 1964
Club colors blue White
Hall Jubileiny Sports Complex
Places 7,700
Trainer Dmitri Torgovanov
league Super League
2012/2013
rank 2nd place
International EHF Champions League 2012/13
group stage
Website spbhandball.ru
home
Away
Greatest successes
National Russian champion
1993
International EHF Champions League
group stage 2010/11
European Cup Winners' Cup
2nd round 2003/04
EHF Challenge Cup
quarter-finals 2005/06

GK Newa Sankt Petersburg ( Russian Гандбольный Клуб Нева Санкт-Петербург ) is a handball club from the Russian city ​​of Saint Petersburg . The association was founded in the 1950s as "Vulkan" (Вулкан). From 1964 he was allowed to participate in the Soviet championship as "Bolshevik" (Большевик). After a demotion to the third division, the club returned in 1973 as "Neva" (Нева) back in the top division. In 1993 they won the first edition of the Russian Super League . 2001 the association was renamed again in "Stepan Razin-Neva" (Степан Разин-Нева). After the main sponsor withdrew, the team had to be relegated from the Super League. With the help of the university he managed to rise again as "University Neva" (Университет-Нева). Since 2009 the club has been called "Sankt-Petersburg Handball Club" (Санкт-Петербургский гандбольный клуб) and was able to establish itself as the second force behind Medvedi Chekhov .

successes

National
  • Russian champion 1993
  • Russian runner-up in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014
International

Well-known former players

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