GK Permskie Medvedi

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Permskie Medvedi
Full name Gandbolnij Club Permskie Medvedi
Nickname (s) Bears
Founded 1999
Club colors Red Black
Hall VP Sukharev Sport Complex, Perm
president Alexander Kirilenko
executive Director Alexei Nikiforov
Trainer Lev Voronin
league Super League
2012/2013
rank 4th Place
International EHF European Cup 3rd round
Website permmedvedi-handball.ru
home
Away
Greatest successes
National Russian Championship
4th place 2011/12
Russian Cup
Winner 2014
International EHF Europa Pokal
3rd round 2012/13
2nd round 2013/14

The Gandbolnij Klub Permskie Medwedi ( Russian Гандбольный клуб Пермские медведи ) is a handball club from the Russian city ​​of Perm .

history

The club was founded in 1999 and joined the Russian Handball Federation a year later. From the 2000/01 season, the Perm bears played in the second Russian division. After she only finished 23 of 25 places in her first season, she was runner-up in 2005/06 and 2006/07. In 2008/09 finally the championship title and the associated promotion to the Russian Handball Super League succeeded .

In the first season of 2009/10 in the upper house, the club had to go into the relegation round, but was able to secure relegation by a 10th place. Following was Lev Voronin hired as the new head coach. The 2000 Olympic champion led the team to 7th place for the next two years. In the 2011/12 season they also reached the final in the Russian Cup competition, where they lost to the series champion Medvedi Chekhov . Since they were qualified for the EHF Champions League , Permskie Medwedi was allowed to play internationally for the first time. In the EHF Europa Pokal 2012/13 , PGU-Kartina TV Tiraspol and Wacker Thun were eliminated. In the third round they won the home game against KIF Kolding 30:27, but were eliminated due to the 24:41 defeat in the second leg. In the 2012/13 season they lost in the semi-finals of the Super League play-offs again to Medvedi Chekhov and in the game for third place SKIF Krasnodar . Nevertheless, you could play in the 2013/14 season again in the European Cup. In the EHF Europa Pokal 2013/14 they failed in the second qualifying round to Brest GK Meschkow . After knocking out Medvedi Chekhov in the semi-finals of the Cup with 34:32, they defeated GK Neva St. Petersburg in the final with 28:26 and won the Russian Cup for the first time.

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