Rossijski Futbolny Soyuz

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Rossijski Futbolny Soyuz
Rossijski-Futbolny-Soyuz-Logo.svg
founding 1912
FIFA accession 1912
UEFA accession 1992
president Alexander Djukov
National teams Men's
national team
Women's
national team
Homepage http://rfs.ru/

The Rossijski Futbolny Soyuz ( Russian Российский Футбольный Союз 'Russian Football Association' ; abbreviation RFS ) is the official football association of the Russian Federation .

According to its own statements, the RFS today unites 2½ million football players, 44,000 clubs, 156,000 teams and 37,000 referees. Alexander Djukov has been president since February 2019 . Before that it was Witali Mutko from September 2015 to the end of December 2017 .

The first division of the RFS is the Rossiyskaya Futbolnaja Premjer-liga (RFPL).

history

The RFS was founded on January 19, 1912 as Vserossijski Futbolny Soyuz 'All-Russian Football Association' and was incorporated into FIFA in the same year . The October Revolution interrupted the history of the association in 1917. A Soviet football association, the Sekzija futbola SSSR 'Football Section of the USSR' , was founded in 1934. Its admission to FIFA took place after the Second World War , in 1946. In 1954 the association was admitted to UEFA and later renamed Federazija Futbola SSSR , the Football Federation of the USSR . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , today's association was formed on February 8, 1992.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .