Football World Cup 2002 / Russia

The Russian national football team at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea :

qualification

Russia had little trouble qualifying directly for the finals as group winners. The only defeat was against Slovenia.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Russia	18: 5	23
2	Slovenia	17: 9	20th
3	Yugoslavia	22: 8	19th
4th	Switzerland	18:12	14th
5	Faroe Islands	6:23	7th
6th	Luxembourg	4:28	0

Game results

0September 2, 2000	Switzerland	-	Russia	0: 1
October 11, 2000	Russia	-	Luxembourg	3-0
March 24, 2001	Russia	-	Slovenia	1: 1
March 28, 2001	Russia	-	Faroe Islands	1-0
April 25, 2001	Yugoslavia	-	Russia	0: 1
0June 2, 2001	Russia	-	Yugoslavia	1: 1
0June 6, 2001	Luxembourg	-	Russia	1: 2
0September 1, 2001	Slovenia	-	Russia	2: 1
0September 5, 2001	Faroe Islands	-	Russia	0: 3
0October 6, 2001	Russia	-	Switzerland	4-0

Russian contingent

Note: The German-language Wikipedia refers in the description of the Cyrillic script to the German transcription given by the Duden. When writing articles about the individual players, however, it is desirable that a redirect is created with the English transcription.

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ruslan Nigmatullin	Hellas Verona	07.10.1974	3	0	0	0	0
12	Stanislav Cherchessov	FC Tirol Innsbruck	09/02/1963	0	0	0	0	0
23	Alexander Filimonov	Dynamo Kiev	10/15/1973	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Yuri Kovtun	Spartak Moscow	05/01/1970	1	0	0	0	0
3	Yuri Nikiforov	PSV Eindhoven	09/16/1970	3	0	1	0	0
5	Andrei Solomatin	CSKA Moscow	09.09.1975	3	0	2	0	0
7th	Viktor Onopko	Real Oviedo	10/14/1969	3	0	0	0	0
13	Vyacheslav Dayev	CSKA Moscow	09/06/1972	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Igor Chugainov	Uralan Elista	04/06/1970	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Dmitri Sennikov	Moscow locomotive	06/24/1976	1	0	1	0	0
midfield player
4th	Alexei Smertin	Girondins Bordeaux	05/01/1975	2	0	1	0	0
6th	Igor Semschow	Torpedo Moscow	04/06/1978	2	0	1	0	0
8th	Valery Karpin	Celta Vigo	02/02/1969	3	1	0	0	0
9	Yegor Titov	Spartak Moscow	05/29/1976	3	1	0	0	0
10	Alexander Mostovoi	Celta Vigo	08/22/1968	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Dmitri Alenichev	FC Porto	October 20, 1972	2	0	2	0	0
17th	Sergei Semak	CSKA Moscow	02/27/1976	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Marat Izmailov	Moscow locomotive	09/21/1982	2	0	0	0	0
21st	Dmitri Chochlow	Real Sociedad	12/22/1975	3	0	0	0	0
striker
11	Vladimir Bestzhastnych	Spartak Moscow	04/01/1974	3	1	0	0	0
16	Alexander Kerhakov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	11/27/1982	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Ruslan Pimenov	Moscow locomotive	11/25/1981	2	0	1	0	0
22nd	Dmitri Sychev	Spartak Moscow	10/26/1983	3	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Oleg Romanzew		04/01/1954

Preliminary round

Russia had three points after the second game. The last game against the up to then disappointing Belgians had to decide. A tie would be enough. In a dramatic game it was 1: 1 until shortly before the end. Then the Belgians scored two goals in four minutes and looked like the sure winners. But the Russians fought and scored the next goal in the 88th minute. The Belgians had to survive a few anxious minutes, but the score stayed that way. Russia was eliminated as third in group H of the preliminary round.

Game results

0June 5, 2002	Russia	-	Tunisia	2-0
0June 9, 2002	Japan	-	Russia	1-0
June 14, 2002	Belgium	-	Russia	3: 2