Club Balonmano La Calzada, also known as Motive.co Gijón for sponsorship reasons, is a women's

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

team based in

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which currently plays in

División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano or Liga Guerreras Iberdrola after sponsorship of Iberdrola, is the premier women's professional handball league in Spain. It is administered by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation (RFEBM). It was establis ...

, the top tier in the Spanish league system.

History

BM La Calzada was founded on 18 October 1995 after the merge of local teams ''Club Balonmano Riscar'' and ''Asociación Deportiva Balonmano La Calzada''. In 2016, the club promoted for the first time to División de Honor and in 2018, the club won its first

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Season by season

Trophies

: (1) ** 2017–18

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2023–24 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 1 Raquel Álvarez Lafuente * Aida Fernández ;Wingers ;RW: * 8 Paula Valdivia Monserrat ;LW: * 10 María González Martínez * 20 Lucía Laguna Aranda ;Line players * 47 Nayla de Andrés Castillo ;Back players ;LB * 23 Mina Novović * 25 Lucia Fernandez Nieto * Lisa Chiagozie ;CB * Carol Silva * Marta Da Silva Fernández * Dorottya Zentia ;RB * 6 Lorena Zarco * Rocío Rojas

Notable players

* Rocío Campigli *

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References

External links

Official website
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