Chekhovskiye Medvedi Explained

Clubname:	Chekhovskie Medvedi
Full Name:	Chekhovskie Medvedi Handball Club
Founded:	1972 (as CSKA) 2001
Ground:	Olimpiysky Sport Palace
Capacity:	3,000
Manager:	Vladimir Maksimov
League:	Russian Handball Super League
Season:	2023-24
Position:	2nd
Colour1:	Purple
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Website:	http://www.ch-medvedi.ru/
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Chekhovskie Medvedi (Russian: Чеховские Медведи, English: Chekhov Bears) is a professional handball club from Chekhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. They compete in the Russian Handball Super League and in the SEHA League. After the launching of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Handball Federation in February 2022 temporarily suspended the team.^[1]

The organization was founded in 2001 on the basis of the disbanded original CSKA Moscow Handball Club.

Accomplishments

As CSKA Moscow

• EHF Champions League
  • Winners (1): 1987–88
• EHF Cup Winner's Cup
  • Winners (1): 1986–87
• EHF Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1990–91
• Soviet Handball Championship
  • Winners (9) (record): 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987
• Soviet Handball Cup
  • Winners (3): 1984, 1985, 1986
• Russian Handball Super League
  • Winners (4): 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001

As Chekhovskiye Medvedi

• EHF Cup Winner's Cup
  • Winners (1): 2005–06
• Russian Handball Super League
  • Winners (21) (record): 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Russian Handball Cup
  • Winners (15) (record): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
• Russian Super Cup
  • Winners (9) (record): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home leg	Away leg	Aggregate
2021–22	EHF European League	Group Stage Group B	Nantes	31–35	0–10	6th place
			Lemgo	28–30	27–30
			GOG	32–39	26–27
			Benfica	27–32	35–38
			Cocks	0–10	33–27

Team

Squad for the 2024–25 season

Goalkeepers

• 12 Dmitry Pavlenko
• 16 Artem Grushko

Left Wingers

• 2 Donat Morozov
• 19 Roman Ostrashchenko

Right Wingers

• 24 Dmitry Kornev
• 39 Ilya Dzemin

Line players

• 31 Victor Futsev
• 55 Aleksandr Ermakov
• Vadim Ibrakov

Left Backs

• 3 Dmitrii Santalov
• 25 Evgeniy Dzemin
• 83 Kirill Akramov

Central Backs

• 9 Kirill Kotov
• 44 Dmitriy Kandybin

Right Backs

• 17 Aleksandr Kotov
• 93 Anton Aksyukov

Transfers

Transfers for the 2024–25 season

Joining

• Vadim Ibrakov (P) (end of loan HC Kaustik Volgograd)

Leaving

• Artsiom Kulak (CB) (to Saint Petersburg HC)
• Nikita Kamenev (RB) (to GK Permskie Medvedi)
• Nikolai Emelianenko (P) (to Saint Petersburg HC)

Notable players

• Pavel Sukosyan
• Konstantin Igropulo
• Vitali Ivanov
• Alexey Kostygov
• Alexey Kamanin
• Pavel Atman
• Sergei Gorbok
• Sergei Shelmenko
• Oleg Skopintsev

Notes and References

1. Web site: European Handball Federation suspends Russia and Belarus.