One of the best players of last season will continue to play for our club.
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 player of the Moscow Dynamo. 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 against Rubin (2:0) after a smart execution of a free kick became the best goal of Dynamo 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.
In total, the 29-year-old football player played 26 matches for Dynamo, scored 5 goals and made 2 assists.