Dynamo Moscow (women's basketball)

For the sports club's departments, see Dynamo Moscow.

WBC Dynamo Moscow (Russian: ЖБК Динамо Москва) is a Russian professional women's basketball club playing in the Russian Premier League. Founded in 1923, in the early stages of the Soviet Championship, it won its first 6 seasons and 5 more titles up to 1958. Dynamo culminated this era reaching in 1959 the final of the inaugural edition of the European Cup, which they lost to Slavia Sofia.[citation needed]

The team pictured before a game.

Four decades later Dynamo emerged briefly as the leading Russian team, winning four Russian Championships in a row and reaching the Euroleague's Final Four in 2000. While the team gradually declined in subsequent years, in 2007 it won the EuroCup, its first international FIBA trophy.[1]

  1. ^ Profile in FIBA Europe's website