Ardeşen GSK

Ardeşen GSK (Turkish: Ardeşen Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü, lit. 'Ardeşen Youth and Sports Club') is a women's handball club from Ardeşen in Rize Province, Turkey.^[1] Founded in 2008, the team play their home matches in the Ardeşen RTEÜ MYO Hall.^[2] Club chairman is Sultan Rauf Oğuz. The team is managed by Hikmet Vurgun.^[3] The team is nicknamed "Dişi Atmacalar" ("Female Hawks").^[4]

FullnameArdeşen Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü

ShortnameArdeşen GSK

Founded2008

ArenaArdeşen RTEÜ MYO Hall

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Ardeşen GSK

Full name	Ardeşen Gençlik ve Spor Kulübü
Short name	Ardeşen GSK
Founded	2008
Arena	Ardeşen RTEÜ MYO Hall
President	Sultan Rauf Oğuz
Head coach	Ali İhsan Tekin
Captain	Perihan Topaloğlu
Website Official site

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Club colors and logo

The club's colors are maroon and white.^[5]

The logo of the club is composed of a maroon-colored circle with the club's title and foundation year on it in white, which frames a hawk head and the club's initials both resembling a powerful handball shoot.

Competitions

Domestic

The team played in the Turkish Women's Handball League from 2008 until their promotion to the Turkish Women's Handball Super League in the 2012–13 season. In the 2013–14 season, they finished the league at third place. Ardeşen GSK ranked fourth in the 2014–15 league losing in the play-off to Kastamonu Bld. GSK.

International

Ardeşen GSK played in the 2013–14 Women's EHF Challenge Cup and advanced to the quarterfinals, however they were defeated by the Swedish team H 65 Höör.^[6] They failed to advance to the semifinals in the 2014–15 Women's EHF Challenge Cup losing to the Polish team Pogoń Baltica Szczecin by 57–59.^[7] The team lost to the Russian HC Lada Togliatti by 50–80 in the last 16 of 2015–16 Women's EHF Cup Winners' Cup's knockout stage.^[8]

European record

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Season	Competition	Round	Club	1st leg	2nd leg	Aggregate

2013–14	Challenge Cup	1/8	HC Naisa Niš	26–27	30–25	56–52
2013–14	Challenge Cup	1/4	H 65 Höör	22–29	21–26	43–55

2014–15	Challenge Cup	R3	Energa AZS Koszalin	34–27	31–31	65–58
		1/8	RK Zelina	32–29	28–30	60–59
		1/4	Pogoń Baltica Szczecin	31–28	26–31	57–59

2015–16	EHF Cup Winners' Cup	R2	Skuru IK	32–20	25–30	57–50
		R3	Team Esbjerg	31–22	26–30	57–52
		1/8	Handball Club Lada	22–31	28–49	50–80

2016-17	Challenge Cup	R3	ŽRK Danilovgrad	30–23	28–24	58–47
2016-17	Challenge Cup	1/8	HC Lokomotiva Zagreb	25–33	20–24	45–57

2017–18	Challenge Cup	R3	DHB Rotweiss Thun	36–17	23–23	59–40
		1/8	AC Alavarium / Love Tiles	34–22	41–27	75–49
		1/4	Kristianstad Handboll	23–26	28–25	51–51
		1/2	MKS Selgros Lublin	28–23	20–36	48–59