Vodnik Arkhangelsk

"Vodnik" redirects here. For other uses, see Vodnik (disambiguation).

Vodnik Arkhangelsk

File:Vodnik logo.png
Founded	1925
Based in	Arkhangelsk, Russia
Stadium	Trud Stadium (10,000 seats)
Head coach	Eduard Trifonov
National championships	9

Vodnik plays at Trud

File:USSR badge - Vodnik sports society.jpg

Member pin of the VSS Vodnik, of which the club used to be a part.

Vodnik (Russian: Водник) is a bandy club from Arkhangelsk in Russia. Vodnik was founded in 1925 and in the mid-1990s it became a major team in both Russian and international bandy. During the existence of the Soviet Union the club was a part of the Voluntary Sports Societies of the USSR Vodnik.

Vodnik became Russian champions in 1996 to begin a run of nine national championships in ten seasons, missing out only in season 2000–01 when Yenisey won after scoring the winning goal against them in the last minute. In the Bandy World Cup, Vodnik was the runner-up in 2002 after Swedish Sandvikens AIK, but won the tournament in 2003 and 2004. The team also won the European Cup in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

For the 2005–06 season almost all players left for Dynamo Moscow, when that club had qualified for the highest division again after a few seasons in the second tier.

Honours

Domestic

• Russian Champions:
  • Winners (9): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Cup

• Russian Bandy Cup:
  • Winners (6): 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2005

International

• World Cup:
  • Winners (2): 2003, 2004
  • Runners-up (1): 2002
• European Cup:
  • Winners (3): 2002, 2003, 2004
• Champions Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2004
• Rink Bandy World Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1990

Vodnik-2

Vodnik's second team Vodnik-2 plays in the Russian Bandy Supreme League, the second tier of Russian bandy.

External links

• http://vodnik29.ru/ Official team website
• http://vodnik.info/ Site of Vodnik fans