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Telekom Baku

Telekom Baku (formerly named Rabita Baku) was an Azerbaijani women's volleyball club. Telekom was an eight-time champion of Azerbaijani Superleague and the winner of the 2011 FIVB Club World Championship.[1][2]

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History

Stamp of Azerbaijan 2011 FIVB clubs world champions

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 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]

After eight Azerbaijani Superleague titles, in 2015 Rabita Baku merged with Telekom Baku adopting the name of the latter,[7] due to financial difficulties but retained the commitments in the Azerbaijani Superleague and the 2015–16 CEV Champions League and transferring to the new team the Telekom young players.[8]

Team

As Telekom Baku

Season 2016–2017, as of November 2016.[9]

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As Rabita Baku

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Honours

Rabita Baku in 2012.

International success

Domestic success

  • Azerbaijan Superleague:
    • Winners (7): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014–15
    • Runners-up (5): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
    • Third (1): 2002-03

References

  1. CEV. "VakifGunesTTelekom completes Turkish fairy tale in Istanbul". Archived from the original on 2011-03-24. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  2. "Halkbank and Rabita to host Champions League Final Four tournaments". Luxembourg: FIVB. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  3. "Dinamo disappoints Baku home crowd by claiming the last spot in final". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  4. "Bronze consolation for Rabita at home Final Four". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-16. Archived from the original on 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  5. ""Telekom" Çempionlar Liqasında..." ["Telecom" in the Champions League ...]. Apa Sport. 2015-05-25. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
  6. "Telekom Baku - Team details". CEV. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  7. Francesca Ferretti left the club in february 2015.
  8. Yana Azimova arrived in february 2015.
  9. Tetori Dixon arrived in january 2014.
  10. Gina Mancuso arrived in december 2013.
  11. Brenda Castillo arrived in November 2012.
  12. Katsiaryna Zakreuskaya left the club in January 2013.
  13. Suzana Ćebić left the club in november 2013.
  14. Pelin Çelik left the club in october 2011.

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