FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 / Russia

This article covers the Russian national football team at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup . Russia took part in the Confederations Cup for the first time and, as the host of the 2018 World Cup, was automatically qualified for this tournament.

Squad

Alexander Belenow , Roman Neustädter , Andrei Semjonow and Roman Sobnin were deleted from the provisional list. Artyom Dzjuba also dropped out due to an injury .

Since Roman Neustädter, who played in Turkey, was ultimately not taken into account, Russia was the only participating team that only featured players from the domestic league.

No.	Surname	society	International matches	Länderspiel- gates	birthday	debut	Last use	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
01	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	98	0	0Apr 8, 1986	2004	06/09/2017	3
12	Vladimir Gabulov	Arsenal Tula	10	0	Oct 19, 1983	2007	03/25/2013
16	Guilherme	Moscow locomotive	02	0	Dec 12, 1985	2016	06/01/2016
Defender
06th	Georgi Djikia	Spartak Moscow	01	00	Nov 21, 1993	2017	06/05/2017	3		1
10	Ruslan Kambolov	Rubin Kazan	02	00	0Jan. 1, 1990	2015	06/09/2017
23	Dmitri Kombarov	Spartak Moscow	44	02	Jan. 22, 1987	2012	06/09/2017	1
13	Fyodor Kudryashov	FK Rostov	08th	00	0Apr 5, 1987	2016	06/09/2017	3		1
14th	Ilya Kutepov	Spartak Moscow	04th	00	July 29, 1993	2016	03/28/2017
18th	Yuri Schirkow	Zenit St. Petersburg	75	02	Aug 20, 1983	2005	06/09/2017	3		1	1
03	Roman Schischkin	FK Krasnodar	15th	00	Jan. 27, 1987	2007	06/09/2017	1
02	Igor Smolnikov	Zenit St. Petersburg	20th	00	0Aug 8, 1988	2013	06/09/2017	1
05	Viktor Wassin	CSKA Moscow	06th	01	0Oct 6, 1988	2010	06/09/2017	3		1
midfield player
04th	Yuri Gasinsky	FK Krasnodar	05	00	July 20, 1989	2016	March 24, 2017
08th	Denis Glushakov	Spartak Moscow	51	05	Jan. 27, 1987	2011	06/09/2017	3		1
17th	Alexander Golovin	CSKA Moscow	12	02	May 30, 1996	2015	06/09/2017	3		1
21st	Alexander Yerochin	FK Rostov	08th	00	Oct 13, 1989	2016	06/09/2017	3
20th	Maxim Kanunnikov	Rubin Kazan	10	00	July 14, 1991	2014	03/28/2017	1
15th	Alexei Miranchuk	Moscow locomotive	09	02	Oct 17, 1995	2015	06/09/2017	1
19th	Alexander Samedov	Spartak Moscow	39	05	July 19, 1984	2011	06/09/2017	3	1	1
22nd	Dmitri Tarasov	Moscow locomotive	05	01	18 Mar 1987	2013	06/05/2017	1
striker
11	Alexander Bukharov	FK Rostov	06th	01	March 12 1985	2009	06/09/2017	3
07th	Dmitri Polos	FK Rostov	10	01	July 12, 1991	2014	06/09/2017	3
09	Fyodor Smolov	FK Krasnodar	21st	07th	0Feb 9, 1990	2012	06/09/2017	3	1
Coaching staff
	Stanislav Cherchessov	Trainer	49	00	0Sep 2 1963	2016		3

Source: rfs.ru (positions), eu-football.info appearances and goals before the start of the tournament

1. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 8 as a goalkeeper for the Soviet Union, 2 for the CIS and 39 for Russia

preparation

To prepare for the tournament, the Russians prepared near Innsbruck from May 25th to June 3rd and then traveled to Budapest , where they beat Hungary 3-0 on June 5th . Immediately afterwards they traveled back to Moscow and played there for the first time on June 9th against Confederate Cup participants Chile . The game ended 1-1.

Group stage

Moscow Kazan St. Petersburg

Venues

In Group A, Russia met European champions Portugal, the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner Mexico and Oceania champions New Zealand. There were two wins, one draw and three defeats in six games against Portugal. They had previously won two games against Mexico. The Russians had never played against the New Zealanders before the tournament, but there was a game in the Soviet Union's 1982 preliminary round against New Zealand that was won 3-0.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	Mexico	3	2	1	0	006: 400	+2	07th
3.	Russia	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
4th	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	001: 800	−7	00

Sat, June 17, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Russia	-	New Zealand	2: 0 (1: 0)
Wed, June 21, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Moscow
Russia	-	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 1)
Sat, June 24, 2017, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Mexico	-	Russia	2: 1 (1: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Artem Dzyuba will not be playing in the Confederations Cup ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Men's National Team of Russia ( English ) rfs.ru. Archived from the original on October 20, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
3. ↑ NATIONAL TEAM: Russia ( English ) eu-football.info. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
4. ↑ Russia A-team planning ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.