MAY Moscow
| Full name | Sports club of the Moscow Aviation Institute |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Club colors | blue White |
| Website | sportclubmai.ru |
| Greatest successes | |
| National | Soviet champion 1960, 1965, 1968, 1970–1972, 1974, 1975 |
| International |
EP of the national champions : winner 1973, finalist 1974 EP of the cup winners : winner 1977 |
May Moscow ( Russian МАИ ; abbreviation for "Moscow Aviation Institute"), with full name sports club of the Moscow Aviation Institute ( Спортивный клуб Московского авиационного института shortly СК "МАИ" ), the Sports Club of the Moscow State Aviation Institute . The club, which was founded in 1930 and has 39 departments, became known for its success in handball .
The men's handball team became Soviet runners-up in field handball in 1959 and won the championship in 1960. The switch to indoor handball took place in 1962, MAY Moscow celebrated a total of seven other championships in 1965, 1968, 1970 to 1972, 1974 and 1975 and was held in 1969 and 1973 and between 1976 and 1980 each Soviet runner-up. This made MAI the most successful club in the history of Soviet men's handball behind city rivals ZSKA .
The club achieved its greatest success on the European stage when it entered three continental finals in the mid-1970s:
- European Champion Clubs' Cup 1972/73 : Winner (26:23 final victory over Partizan Bjelovar )
- European Champion's Cup 1973/74 : Finalist (17:19 defeat afterwards against VfL Gummersbach )
- European Cup Winners' Cup 1976/77 : Winner (18:17 final victory over SC Magdeburg )
The women's basketball team won the Soviet championship five times (1946, 1947, 1951, 1954, 1955).
Web links
- Official club website ( sportclubmai.ru )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Чемпионаты СССР по гандболу ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Победители и призеры российских чемпионатов ( Memento from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )