VK CSKA Moscow (women)

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VK CSKA Moscow
Logo CSKA Moscow.png
Russian volleyball association
Club data
founding 1936
address Moscow
Homepage http://cskavolley.ru/
Volleyball department
successes 6x Soviet champion
1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1985
2x Soviet cup winner
1972, 1984
7x European
cup winner 3x Russian cup winner
1998, 2001, 2005
Was standing: 08-07-2010

The VC CSKA Moscow ( Russian женский волейбольный клуб ЦСКА ) was a women - volleyball team from Moscow that the army sports club CSKA Moscow was one and, with a total of seven European Cup wins and eleven national titles the most successful volleyball teams in Europe.

history

The women's volleyball team of the Army Sports Club of the Red Army was established in 1936, and in 1938 it took part in the Soviet championship for the first time. She took second place. In the following 19 years, the team withdrew from the championship and played at regional level and at tournaments in Moscow.

Only in 1957 did ZSKA return to the national championship and finished fifth at the end of the season. In the following 35 years, the team belonged uninterruptedly to the top division and was one of the dominant teams in the Soviet Union and Europe, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. In total, ZSKA won six Soviet championships, eight runner-up titles and took third place four times. Add the Cup victories coming in 1972 and 1984 and a total of seven titles at the European level: CSKA won in 1966, 1967 and 1986 the European Champions Cup and 1973, 1974, 1988 and 1998, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup .

After the dissolution of the USSR, CSKA won the cup competition in 1998, 2001 and 2005, in the top division the team took second place in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2007 and third place in 1992, 1993, 1998 and 2000.

In the summer of 2007, the entire CSKA Moscow sports club faced significant financial problems and almost ceased to exist. The volleyball team continued to compete in the Super League before the women's volleyball division was dissolved in 2008. A year later, the men's team was also dissolved.

successes

  • three-time winner of the European Cup : 1966, 1967, 1986
  • Finalist of the European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1968, 1969
  • Winner of the European Cup Winners' Cup : 1973, 1974, 1988, 1998
  • Finalist of the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1975
  • Finalist of the CEV Top Teams Cup : 2007
  • Soviet champion: 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1985
  • Soviet runner-up: 1938, 1962, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1987
  • Soviet cup winner: 1972, 1984
  • Russian Cup Winner: 1998, 2001, 2005
  • Russian runner-up: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007

Well-known former players

See also

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