The midfielder of ZHFC "Dynamo" stops performing at a professional level.
Samoilova made her debut in the top league of Russian women's football back in 2011 – as part of the ZHFC Kubanochka from Krasnodar. For this club, a pupil of Krasnodar football played 7 seasons, during which she reached the final of the Russian Cup three times (2014, 2015, 2016).
In 2018, Elina joined Lokomotiv Moscow, with which she won the Russian Championship (2021), the Cup twice (2020, 2021) and the Russian Super Cup (2021, 2022), as well as silver (2019, 2020) and bronze (2022, 2023) Super League medals.
The footballer also played for Russian national teams of different ages: junior U-17 (3 matches, 2 goals), youth U-19 (38 matches, 1 goal, 3 yellow cards), national (26 matches).
In January 2024, Elina Samoilova became a Dynamo Moscow player. She scored her first goal for the blue and white already in her debut match - from the penalty spot against FC Krasnodar (2:0). In March last year, Elina was recognized by the fans as the best Dynamo player at the end of the month, and her second goal in the goal of Rubin (2:0) after a smart execution of a free kick, he became Dynamo's best goal in June of the same year.
At the end of the 2024 season, Elina Samoilova (2442 minutes) and Maria Galai (2439 minutes) became the only Dynamo players to take part in all official blue and white games: 24 in the Super League, 2 in the Winline Cup of Russia. In addition, the midfielder made 238 rebounds, taking third place in this indicator in the entire Super League.
This season, the player has played 12 games for the blue and white, in which she scored three goals. The last match played by Samoilova for Dynamo was the meeting of the 13th round of the Winline Super League against the Ryazan-VDV Housing and Communal Services (0:0), which took place on June 21 in Ryazan.
In total, the 30-year-old football player played 38 matches for the Dynamo Housing and Communal Complex, scored 8 goals and made 2 assists.
We thank Elina for the time spent in our club, dedication, honest and responsible attitude.
We wish her success and good luck in her future professional activities!