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Telekom Baku (formerly named Rabita Baku) was an
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
i women's
volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
club. Telekom was an eight-time champion of Azerbaijani Superleague and the winner of the 2011 FIVB Club World Championship.


History

The Rabita Bank was founded in 2001 as Rabitachi Baku, and then took Rabita Baku in 2004. Club participated for the first time in an official competition in the European CEV Cup 2007–08, but was eliminated immediately by OK Hit Nova Gorica. In the season 2008–09, reaches the quarter-finals of the Challenge Cup and was eliminated from the Club Voleibol Albacete and wins for the first time the championship in the final against Azerrail. The season 2009-10 campaign starts with a good buy: the team wins the championship again and get the third place in the CEV Cup, losing in the semifinals against Futura Volley Busto Arsizio, but winning the final for bronze against VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg. In the season 2010 - 11, club participated for the first time in the Women's CEV Champions League and reached final of this competition, just losing to
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of Turkey. Rabita hosted the 2013–14 CEV Champions League Final Four, there the club won the Bronze medal after falling 0–3 to the Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals, but defeating 3–0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place match. After eight Azerbaijani Superleague titles, in 2015 Rabita Baku merged with Telekom Baku adopting the name of the latter, due to financial difficulties but retained the commitments in the Azerbaijani Superleague and the
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and transferring to the new team the Telekom young players.


Team


As Telekom Baku

''Season 2016–2017, as of November 2016.''


As Rabita Baku


Honours


International success

*
FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship is an international women's club volleyball competition organised by the '' Fédération Internationale de Volleyball'' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first conte ...
: ** Champion (1): 2011 ** Runners-up (1):
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* Women's CEV Champions League: ** Runners-up (2): 2010-2011, 2012-2013 ** Third (1): 2013-2014


Domestic success

* Azerbaijan Superleague: ** Winners (7): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12,
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, 2013-14, 2014–15 ** Runners-up (5): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08 ** Third (1): 2002-03


References


External links


Volleyball in AzerbaijanCEV Profile
Azerbaijani volleyball clubs Volleyball clubs established in 2004 2004 establishments in Azerbaijan Sports teams in Baku {{Azerbaijan-sport-stub