Neftyanik Omsk Women

In 2024 Neftyanik won the Premier League consolation tournament by beating Dynamo-Novosibirsk 70:59. Siberian opposition is familiar to the club: in 1988 it won the Cup of Siberia and the Far East, the regional trophy of the Soviet era.

The team from Omsk, now called Neftyanik-Titan, was founded on 30 October 1965 by Sergey Nikolayenko, who also coached it. For its first five years it was called Spartak; it became Neftyanik in 1970. In 1966, its first full year, it finished second in the RSFSR championship. In 1976 it won the Trud Central Council Cup. In 1977 it came 12th in the USSR First League.

The modern era is played in a hall with 500 seats, the Ivan Dvornoy Sports Complex on Dianova Street. From 2014 to 2020 the team played at the Avangard arena. The colours are brown, white and orange. The wolf on the badge, introduced in 2021, was drawn by the club director, Roman Gusev.

Yelena Yolgina (Mishkaryova) was named best point guard from 2014 to 2017, and Kseniya Chinayeva (Kornienko) best centre in 2018 and 2019. Lyubov Turchenyuk came back to Omsk in 2015 after a spell with Vologda-Chevakata. In the Russian Cup, known as the Kuzin Cup, the club reached the semi-finals in 2006/07 and the quarter-finals in 2021/22.

Between 2014 and 2020 Neftyanik finished on the podium of Superleague B in all seven seasons: silver in 2014, 2017 and 2018, bronze in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020.