HBC CSKA Moscow (women)

For the parent multisport club, see CSKA Moscow.

HBC CSKA Moscow
Full name	HBC CSKA Moscow
Short name	CSKA
Founded	2019
Arena	Volleyball Arena Dinamo
Capacity	3,000
Head coach	Oleg Kuleshov
League	Russian Super League
2023-2024	1st
Club colours
Home Away
Website Official site

HBC CSKA Moscow (Russian: ПГК ЦСКА Москва) 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:

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2019-2020	Mizuno	Ruscon
2020-	Puma	TransContainer

Kits

HOME
2019-20	2020-

AWAY
2019-20	2020-21	2021-

Arena

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

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2024–25 season

Goalkeepers

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

Left wingers

• 19 Yuliya Kozachenko
• 71 Yekaterina Levchina

Right wingers

• 4 Valeriya Sobkalo
• 17 Albina Murzaliyeva

Line players

• 10 Viktoriya Shamanovskaya
• 22 Valentina Tomilina
• 67 Anastasia Illarionova

Left backs

• 8 Varvara Syomina
• 14 Veronika Nikitina

Centre backs

• 23 Natalia Chigirinova
• 33 Yekaterina Ilyina
• 25 Karina Sabirova

Right backs

• 39 Antonina Santalova
• 5 Yuliya Bayeva

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: Oleg Kuleshov
• Assistent of Head Coach: Nadezhda Muravyova
• 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 (2024-present)

Statistics

Top scorers in the EHF Champions League

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

Rank	Name	Seasons played	Goals
1	Ekaterina Ilina	2	101
2	Antonina Skorobogatchenko	2	94
3	Sara Ristovska	2	93
4	Daria Dmitrieva	2	91
5	Elena Mikhaylichenko	2	89
6	Polina Gorshkova	2	79
7	Ana Gros	1	71
8	Polina Vedekhina	2	68
9	Kathrine Heindahl	2	55
10	Marina Sudakova	2	44

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2020–21	Champions League	Group stage (Group B)	SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea	30–20	34–24	2nd
			Győri Audi ETO KC	27–27	24–31
			ŽRK Budućnost	25–22	27–23
			Borussia Dortmund	29–28	35–28
			Brest Bretagne Handball	30–28	25–24
			Odense Håndbold	27–23	25–26
			RK Podravka Koprivnica	30–26	36–20
		Round of 16	Krim Mercator	20–25	27–21	47–46
		Quarter-finals	CSM București	27–32	24–19	51–51
		Semi-final	Vipers Kristiansand	30–33
		Bronze-match	Győri Audi ETO KC	21–32
2021–22	Champions League	Group stage (Group B)	Vipers Kristiansand	27–24	28–32	4th
			RK Krim	21–21	21–24
			Odense Håndbold	21–28	27–27
			Győri Audi ETO KC	22–32	23–27
			Metz Handball	32–24	27–26
			Kastamonu	34–27	31–29
			IK Savehof	29–28	32–23
		Playoffs	CSM București	0–10	0–10	0–20