SKA-Sverdlovsk (russian: СКА-Свердло́вск) is a professional

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

club from

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, established in 1935 as part of the Sports Club of the Army (SKA). SKA-Sverdlovsk has historically been a very successful club having won the

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

in 1974 and the

national championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the be ...

several times. Team pictur

Honours

Domestic

* List of Russian bandy champions, Russian Champions: ** Winners (12): 1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1994

International

: ** Winners (1): 1974

Notable players

* Nikolay Durakov — Seven-time world champion bandy.

References

External links

Official website
Bandy clubs in Russia Bandy clubs in the Soviet Union Sport in Yekaterinburg Bandy clubs established in 1935 1935 establishments in Russia {{Bandy-team-stub