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Russia reached the quarter-final of the World Cup for the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Also was the first win of Russia in a knockout stage of World Cup since 1966, still like Soviet Union. Ignashevich became the oldest player to score an own goal at the World Cup, aged 38 years and 352 days. [21]
The match was held at the Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 2 July 2017, [5] and was contested by the winners of the semi-finals, Chile and Germany. [6] [7] Germany won the final 1–0 via a 20th-minute goal from Lars Stindl to claim their first and only FIFA Confederations Cup title. [8] It was the last FIFA Confederations Cup ...
The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st edition of the World Cup, FIFA's football competition for national teams, held in Russia between 14 June and 15 July 2018. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Russia qualified for the finals automatically as tournament hosts, while 208 teams competed for the remaining 31 spots through qualifying rounds organised by the six FIFA ...
UEFA Euro 1972 was the fourth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA's football competition for national teams. [1] Qualifying rounds were played on a home-and-away round-robin tournament basis prior to the semi-finals and final taking place in Belgium, between 14 and 18 June 1972. [2]
From its inception, the Russian squad has participated in four World Cups (1994, 2002, 2014 and 2018 – the latter as hosts), one Confederations Cup and five European Championship (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016). This is a list of the Russia national football team results from 1992 to 2019.
UEFA Euro 1988 was the eighth edition of the UEFA European Football Championship, UEFA's football competition for national teams. [1] Qualifying rounds were played on a home-and-away round-robin tournament basis prior to the final tournament taking place in West Germany, between 10 and 25 June 1988. There, the eight qualified teams were divided ...
The group consisted of Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Russia. [1] [2] Using FIFA World Rankings as a measure of the strength of the teams, The Guardian calculated in 2007 that the strongest "Group of Death" of all time was the Euro 1996 Group C. The teams (and world rankings) were Germany (2), Russia (3), Italy (7) and the Czech ...
In this game, Sergei Ignashevich became the oldest player to ever appear in a World Cup match for Russia/USSR (38 years & 335 days old). [5] [8] For Saudi Arabia, this was their second biggest defeat in World Cup, after the 0–8 defeat to Germany in 2002. These losses are also the biggest defeats for any Arab team to have participated in the ...