The Russian Empire national football team was the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

team representing the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

from 1910 to 1914.

History

The Russian Empire played its first unofficial international in October 1910 against Bohemia national team, a 5–4 win.Матчи
Сборная России по футболу (in Russian). Retrieved 18 June 2014. The

All-Russian Football Union The Russian Football Union (russian: Российский Футбольный Союз, ''Rossiyskiy Futbolnyy Soyuz'' or RFS) is the official governing body of association football in the Russian Federation. With headquarters in Moscow, it org ...

was founded in January 1912 and it was admitted to

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in the same year. The first official international for the team was the second round match against Finland national team at the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

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, with the Finns competing separately despite being a part of Russia at the time. The development of league football in Russia was stopped by the outbreak of

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

in 1914.History of Russian Football
The Premier Site for Russian Culture. Retrieved 18 June 2014. Meetings with the Germany national team and France national team were planned for the spring of 1915, but the matches were cancelled. A large number of players were killed in the war and others fled the country after the 1917

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

. The

Soviet Union national football team The Soviet Union national football team ( rus, сбо́рная СССР по футбо́лу, r=sbórnaya SSSR po futbólu) was the national Association football, football team of the former Soviet Union. After the Dissolution of the Soviet U ...

was formed in August 1923Soviet Union - International Results 1911-1935 - Details
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 18 June 2014. and it was accepted by FIFA as the successor of the Russian Empire football team, itself becoming the

Russia national football team The Russia national football team (russian: Сборная России по футболу, Sbornaya Rossii po futbolu) represents the Russia, Russian Federation in men's international association football. It is controlled by the Russian Footb ...

in 1992.

Football at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Russia squad

Managers

Georges Duperron Georges Aleksandrovich Duperron (russian: Георгий Александрович Дюперрон), born 24 September 1877, died 23 July 1934, was a Russian sports journalist, football organizer and one of the founders of the Olympic movement in ...

(1910–1913) *

Robert Fulda Robert Ferdinandovich Fulda (russian: Ро́берт Фердина́ндович Фу́льда; 18 April 1873 – 16 February 1944), was a Russian sports and flight enthusiast who is considered as the "pioneer of Russian sport". Life Fulda wa ...

(1914)

Competitive record

Olympic Games

International record

The Russian Empire national football team played a total number of 8 official and 8 unofficial internationals between October 1910 and July 1914.All Time Results
The Website of Russian and USSR National Football Team. Retrieved 18 June 2014. ⁽¹⁾Russian Empire's score is shown first.

Head-to-head record

''Up to matches played on 12 July 1914.''

Player records

Player records include official internationals only.

Most capped players

Top goalscorers

References

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