BM La Calzada

Club Balonmano La Calzada, also known as Motive.co Gijón for sponsorship reasons, is a women's handball team based in Gijón, Asturias which currently plays in División de Honor Femenina de Balonmano, the top tier in the Spanish league system.

History

BM La Calzada was founded on 18 October 1995 after the merge of local teams Club Balonmano Riscar and Asociación Deportiva Balonmano La Calzada.
In 2016, the club promoted for the first time to División de Honor and in 2018, the club won its first Copa de la Reina.

Season by season

Season	Tier	Division	Pos.	Copa de la Reina
2015–16	2	Div. Plata	1st
2016–17	1	Div. Honor	11th	Second round
2017–18	1	Div. Honor	4th	Champion
2018–19	1	Div. Honor	5th	Semifinalist
2019–20	1	Div. Honor	4th	Suspended

Trophies

Copa de la Reina:

* 2017–18

Current squad

;Goalkeepers

1 Raquel Álvarez Lafuente
Aida Fernández

;Wingers
;RW:

8 Paula Valdivia Monserrat

;LW:

10 María González Martínez
20 Lucía Laguna Aranda

;Line players

47 Nayla de Andrés Castillo

;Back players
;LB

23 Mina Novović
25 Lucia Fernandez Nieto
17 Lisa Chiagozie

;CB

Carol Silva
19 Marta Da Silva Fernández
66 Dorottya Zentai

;RB

6 Lorena Zarco
Rocío Rojas

Notable players