Rabita Baku
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| Full name | Rabitə Bakı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground |
Sarhadchi Sport Olympic Center Baku, Azerbaijan (Capacity: 2600) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |
 Jalil Jafarov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager |
 Dejan Brđović | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Azerbaijan Superleague | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Club home page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rabita Baku is an Azerbaijani women's volleyball club.[1][2]
History
The Rabita Bank was founded in 2001 as Rabitachi Baku, and then take its current name in 2004. Since the first edition of the Superleague, the club is one of the stars of the championship teams, now getting third place. 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 VakıfBank of Turkey.[3]
Rabita hosted the 2013–14 CEV Champions League Final Four,[4] there the club won the Bronze medal after falling 0-3 to the Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals,[5] but defeating 3-0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place match.[6]
Roster 2013-2014
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) |
| 3 |  Katarzyna Skorupa |
Setter | 1.83 |
| 4 |  Rachel Rourke |
Wing Spiker | 1.93 |
| 5 | Nataša Krsmanović |
Middle Blocker | 1.87 |
| 6 |  TeTori Dixon |
Middle Blocker | 1.90 |
| 7 | Kayla Banwarth |
Libero | 1.75 |
| 8 |  Áurea Cruz |
Wing Spiker | 1.80 |
| 9 |  Brenda Castillo |
Libero | 1.67 |
| 11 | Brittnee Cooper |
Middle Blocker | 1.87 |
| 12 | Cursty Jackson |
Middle Blocker | 1.83 |
| 13 |  Nootsara Tomkom |
Setter | 1.69 |
| 15 | Sanja Starović |
Opposite | 1.95 |
| 16 | Foluke Akinradewo |
Middle Blocker | 1.89 |
| 17 | Katarzyna Skowrońska |
Opposite Hitter | 1.89 |
| 18 |  Dóra Horváth |
Wing Spiker | 1.88 |
Honours
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International success
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FIVB Club World Championship:
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Champion (1): 2011 -
Runners-up (1): 2012
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Women's CEV Champions League:
Domestic success
References
- ↑ Rabita Baku VC
- ↑ Rabita Baku (Women)
- ↑ CEV. "VakifGunesTTelekom completes Turkish fairy tale in Istanbul". Retrieved 2011-03-20.
- ↑ "Halkbank and Rabita to host Champions League Final Four tournaments". Luxembourg: FIVB. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
- ↑ "Dinamo disappoints Baku home crowd by claiming the last spot in final". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
- ↑ "Bronze consolation for Rabita at home Final Four". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
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