HBC CSKA Moscow (women)

HBC CSKA Moscow () is a professional women's handball club from Moscow, Russia, that competes in the Russian Super League since season 2019–2020.

Achievements

Russia

• Russian Super League:
• Winners (3): 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24
• Finalist (1): 2021-22
• Russian Cup
• Winners (3): 2022, 2023, 2024
• Finalist (1): 2020
• Russian Supercup
• Winners (3): 2022, 2023, 2024
• Finalist (2): 2020, 2021

Europe

• EHF Champions League:
• Semifinalist: 2021

Crest, colours, supporters

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsor

The following table shows in detail HBC CSKA Moscow kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:

Kits

Arena

• Name: Volleyball Arena Dinamo
• City: Moscow, Russia
• Capacity: 3,000 spectators

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025–26 season

Goalkeepers

• 1 Anna Vereshchak
• 16 Evelina Anoshkina
• 99 Polina Kaplina

Left wingers

• 19 Yuliya Kozachenko
• 71 Yekaterina Levchina
• 91 Sofia Vasilyeva

Right wingers

• 4 Valeriya Sobkalo
• 17 Albina Murzaliyeva
• 93 Eva Zakharchenko

Line players

• 22 Valentina Tomilina
• 67 Anastasia Illarionova
• 20 Iriyna Shynkaruk

Left backs

• 8 Varvara Syomina
• 14 Veronika Nikitina

Centre backs

• 23 Natalia Chigirinova
• 25 Karina Sabirova
• 26 Yulia Krupennikova

Right backs

• 39 Antonina Santalova
• 5 Yuliya Bayeva
• 55 Yulia Garyaeva
• 86 Olga Yavon

Transfers

Transfers for the 2024–25 season

Joining

• Anna Vereshchak (GK)
• Valeriya Sobkalo (RW)
• Yekaterina Levchina (LW)
• Valentina Tomilina (LP)
• Veronika Nikitina (LB)
• Varvara Syomina (LB)

Leaving

• Elena Mikhaylichenko (LB)
• Polina Gorshkova (LW)
• Sara Ristovska (RW)
• Anastasiya Kulak (LB)

Technical staff

Staff for the current season

• Head Coach: Lyudmila Bodnieva
• Assistant of Head Coach:
• Goalkeeping Coach: Anna Sedoykina

Notable former club players

• Victoria Zhilinskayte (2019–2020)
• Yana Zhilinskayte (2019–2020)
• Olga Gorshenina (2019–2021)
• Elena Utkina (2019–2020)
• Marina Sudakova (2020–2022)
• Polina Vedekhina (2019–2022)
• Anna Sedoykina (2020–2022)
• Valeria Maslova (2022)
• Chana Masson (2019–2021)
• Sabina Jacobsen (2019–2021)
• Kathrine Heindahl (2020–2022)
• Ana Gros (2021–2022)
• Dragana Cvijić (2021–2022)

Head coach history

• Jan Leslie (2019–2021)
• Olga Akopyan (2021) (interim)
• Florentin Pera (2021–2022)
• Olga Akopyan (2022–2024)
• Oleg Kuleshov (July-October 2024)
• Nadezhda Muravyova (November 2024-March 2025)
• Lyudmila Bodnieva (2025-present)

Statistics

Top scorers in the EHF Champions League

(All-Time) – Last updated on 20 February 2022

European record

References