Russia’s national football team brings together the country’s senior international selection under the RUS identity. The profile combines the latest 57-player roster with a dated coaching timeline, recorded competition participation and a profile of the federation, colours, venues and traditions surrounding the Sbornaya. The team’s story connects the 1912 origins of Russian international football with the Soviet legacy, the modern post-1992 era and the celebrated 2008 European Championship campaign. The recorded snapshot places the latest squad context alongside that longer national history.
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Russia Team Roster
The recorded roster contains 57 players across four listed positions. Midfield is the largest group with 21 entries, ahead of 17 defenders, 10 goalkeepers and nine attackers. The attacking options include A. Dzyuba, F. Chalov, K. Tyukavin and M. Glushenkov. A. Golovin, D. Barinov and I. Oblyakov are among the midfielders, while I. Diveev, M. Osipenko and V. Karavaev are listed in defence. The goalkeeping group includes M. Safonov, A. Maksimenko and A. Mitryushkin. Shirt numbers appear where supplied, but the roster does not establish selection hierarchy, formations or starting roles.
position Goalkeeper
Ilya Lantratov
Anton Mitryushkin
Aleksandr Maksimenko
Evgeni Latyshonok
Evgeni Staver
Andrey Lunev
Stanislav Agkatsev
Denis Adamov
David Volk
Matvey Safonov
position Defender
Ilya Rozhkov
Aleksandr Soldatenkov
Igor Diveev
Dzhamalutdin Abdulkadyrov
Vyacheslav Karavaev
Danil Krugovoy
Maksim Osipenko
Evgeni Morozov
Turpal-Ali Ibishev
Valentin Paltsev
Arsen Adamov
Ilya Samoshnikov
Viktor Melekhin
Yuri Gorshkov
Aleksandr Siljanov
Matvey Lukin
Ilya Vakhania
position Midfielder
Dmitri Barinov
Aleksey Batrakov
Kirill Shchetinin
Zelimkhan Bakaev
Nikita Krivtsov
Aleksandr Golovin
Andrey Mostovoy
Sergey Pinyaev
Anton Miranchuk
Danil Glebov
Matvey Kislyak
Ivan Komarov
Kirill Glebov
Artem Karpukas
Lechi Sadulaev
Ruslan Litvinov
Danil Prutsev
Ivan Oblyakov
Aleksandr Chernikov
Aleksey Miranchuk
Daniil Fomin
position Attacker
Tamerlan Musaev
Nikolay Komlichenko
Fedor Chalov
Konstantin Tyukavin
Ivan Sergeev
Dmitri Vorobjev
Yaroslav Gladyshev
Artem Dzyuba
Maksim Glushenkov
Last Russia Coachs
The latest coherent recorded coaching appointment is Valeri Karpin’s start on 1 July 2021, although the available chronology does not establish him as the current holder. Stanislav Cherchesov’s tenure ran from August 2016 to July 2021, following Leonid Slutskiy from August 2015 to June 2016. Fabio Capello led the side from July 2012 to July 2015. Together, these dated entries outline the senior team’s coaching sequence without confirming a later appointment.
Leonid Slutskiy
History
| Coach | Coach country | Coach since | Coach until |
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| Leonid Slutskiy | Russia | 1 October 2023 | 1 October 2023 |
| Valeri Karpin | Estonia | 1 July 2021 | |
| Stanislav Cherchesov | Russia | 1 August 2016 | 1 July 2021 |
| Leonid Slutskiy | Russia | 1 August 2015 | 1 June 2016 |
| Fabio Capello | Italy | 1 July 2012 | 1 July 2015 |
| Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat | Netherlands | 1 July 2010 | 1 June 2012 |
| Guus Hiddink | Netherlands | 1 August 2006 | 1 June 2010 |
| Aleksandr Borodyuk | Russia | 1 January 2006 | 1 July 2006 |
| Yuri Semin | Russia | 1 April 2005 | 1 November 2005 |
Russia Transfers
For Russia, additions to the national squad are selection decisions rather than transfer activity. Players become available through call-ups, eligibility and returns to international duty, while their club registrations remain separate from the national team. No individual arrival or call-up change is identified in the available selection information. The 57-player recorded squad represents roster context at that point, not a list of newcomers, and does not establish when any player entered the selection.
Russia does not register departures in the club-market sense. Squad changes occur when players are omitted, withdraw, become unavailable or return to their clubs after international duty. No specific omission or withdrawal is identified in the available selection information. The 57-player recorded roster therefore describes selection availability at that point, not a list of players leaving the national team, and it cannot support claims about sales, loans or permanent exits.
Transfers Synthesis
Russia’s selection cycle operates through international call-ups rather than club-market movement. Eligibility, federation selection and player availability determine who enters a squad, while a player’s club registration remains outside the national team’s movement record. Returns to international duty can restore a player to the pool, and omissions, withdrawals or unavailability can remove a name without constituting a transfer. The 57-player recorded roster is therefore a snapshot of selection availability, not a sequence of arrivals and departures. No individual additions, omissions or withdrawals are identified in the available selection information, so the record cannot support a named account of changes between camps. The broader context is a recurring national-team process shaped by international fixtures and competition requirements, with the senior selection drawing from the eligible player pool rather than acquiring or releasing contracted footballers.
Leagues Russia has participated in
Russia’s recorded competition portfolio spans friendlies and major UEFA and FIFA events. Friendlies have the most recent activity, with participation recorded from 2017 through 2025 and activity still recent. UEFA Nations League entries run from 2018 to 2022, while Euro Championship participation is recorded from 2008 to 2020. World Cup participation covers 2014 to 2018, with European qualifying recorded in 2020. The Confederations Cup appears for 2017. These older tournament entries are historical rather than current participation claims.
More about Russia
Russia is a national football selection representing the Russian Federation, with a football identity rooted in 1912. Its modern governing body is the Russian Football Union, established in its post-Soviet form in 1992, and the team belongs to UEFA. The modern side is linked to a longer Russian and Soviet international tradition: the All-Russian Football Union dates from 1912, the Soviet Union served as the principal predecessor between 1923 and 1991, and Russia continued the national football story after the dissolution of the USSR.
The team is widely known as the Sbornaya, meaning the selected team. Its visual identity draws on white, blue and red, the colours of the Russian tricolour, while the badge uses a golden double-headed eagle over a football in the national palette. Russia has no single permanent home venue. Senior fixtures have been staged across major arenas, including Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium and VTB Arena, as well as modern grounds in Saint Petersburg, Sochi and Nizhny Novgorod. This rotation gives the national team a broad geographic presence rather than a fixed club-style base.
Football has a substantial nationwide following and shares the country’s sporting spotlight with ice hockey. Supporter traditions commonly include patriotic displays, coordinated chants and brass-band accompaniment. The strongest historical milestones span several eras. The Soviet team won the inaugural European Nations’ Cup in 1960, reached the final in 1964 and 1972, and finished fourth at the 1966 World Cup. In the post-Soviet period, Russia’s defining tournament achievement was the semi-final at Euro 2008. The federation also maintains an ecosystem of youth selections, including under-17, under-19 and under-21 teams, which provides a structured pathway toward the senior squad.
Last matches statistics for Russia
| match | shots | Poss. | Pass % | Fouls | Cards | Saves |
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Qatar
1 - 4
Russia
|
7 / 19 |
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91 | 14 | 2 | 1 |
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Russia
2 - 1
Iran
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5 / 14 |
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79 | 11 | 3 | 1 |
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Russia
3 - 0
Bolivia
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8 / 15 |
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81 | 15 | 1 | 4 |
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Russia
1 - 1
Peru
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4 / 9 |
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82 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
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Russia
0 - 2
Chile
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2 / 16 |
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81 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
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Russia
3 - 1
Nicaragua
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7 / 23 |
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86 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
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Russia
0 - 0
Mali
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7 / 17 |
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88 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
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Egypt
1 - 0
Russia
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1 / 8 |
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85 | 19 | 2 | 3 |
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Russia
3 - 0
Burkina Faso
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6 / 17 |
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88 | 14 | - | 2 |
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Russia
3 - 0
Trinidad and Tobago
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10 / 21 |
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88 | 19 | 1 | 1 |
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Russia vs Trinidad and Tobago
Friendlies 2026 - 1543832
Russia vs Burkina Faso
Friendlies 2026 - 1543827
Russia vs Nicaragua
Friendlies 2026 - 1536909
Russia vs Chile
Friendlies 2025 - 1436253
Russia vs Peru
Friendlies 2025 - 1436810
Russia vs Bolivia
Friendlies 2025 - 1435557
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