Dynamo Astrakhan Explained

Clubname:	Zarja Kaspija Astrakhan
Founded:	1978
Fullname:	Zarja Kaspija Astrakhan
Ground:	Sportcomplex "Zvezdniy"
Chairman:	Valery Prozorovskii
Website:	http://www.zarya-kaspiya.ru/

Zarja Kaspija Astrakhan, also known as Dinamo Astrakhan, is a Russian handball team located in Astrakhan. Their home matches are played at the Sports Complex Star. They compete in the Russian Handball Super League.

In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Handball Federation banned Russian athletes, and the European Handball Federation suspended the Russian clubs from competing in European handball competitions.^[1]

Accomplishments

• Sovietic Liga:
  • Winners (1) : 1990
• Russian Handball Super League

• • Runners Up (8) : 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• EHF Champions League

• • Semifinalist (1) : 1991
• EHF Cup

• • Runner-Up (1) : 2003

European record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate
2016–17	EHF Cup	R1	RK Metaloplastika	30–24	17–20	47–44
		R2	HC Sporta Hlohovec	33–29	27–20	60–49
		R3	HC Midtjylland	29–29	26–35	55–64

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2024–25 season

Goalkeepers

• 1 Dmitry Koryakin
• 29 Matvej Krevchik
• 30 Eduard Maksutov

Left Wingers

• 2 Albert Gumarov

Right Wingers

• 18 Maksim Drazdou
• 22 Andrey Gordeev

Line players

• 6 Andrey Klimentiev
• 26 Vasily Ovcharuk
• 95 Vasily Nakonechny

Left Back

• 10 Mark Larin
• Leonid Kutepov
• Nikita Zakrevsky

Centre Back:

• 11 Dmitry Kantemirov
• 32 Pavel Filchev
• 34 Dmitrii Shelestiukov

Right Back:

• Valery Verein
• Alexey Koval

Notes and References

1. Web site: Russia and Belarus suspended by EHF. 1 March 2022. Handball Planet.