Coach: Georgi Yartsev
Key Players: A Mostovoi, Viktor Onopko, Aleksei Smertin
Honours: None
Qualification: 2nd, Group 10. Play-off v. Wales (1-0 agg.) 

After a bright start to their campaign, Russia's campaign started to go wrong when they lost 3-1 in Albania and 1-0 at home to Georgia.

In the potentially decisive match away to Switzerland, Russia went two goals down before Sergei Ignashevitch's brace rescued a point.

Georgi Yartsev replaced Valeri Gazzaev as coach and the new man got the results which enabled the Russians to claim a play-off spot ahead of the Irish.

In the first match against Wales, Yartsev’s men drew 0-0 at home but Vadim Evseev's first half goal saw the Russians book a place at the finals in Portugal.

European Championship Record

Year

Year

1960: Winners

1984: Did not qualify

1964: Runners-up

1988: Runners-up

1968: Semi-Finals

1992: Group Stage

1972: Runners-up

1996: Group Stage

1976: Did not qualify

2000: Did not qualify

1980: Did not qualify

2004: Qualified


*1960-88 as USSR, 1992 as CIS

The Matches

Date

Opponents

Venue

Comp

KO

12 Jun 04

Spain

Faro-Loulé (Algarve)

ECF

0-1

16 Jun 04

Portugal

Lisbon (Luz)

ECF

0-2

20 Jun 04

Greece

Faro-Loulé (Algarve)

ECF

2-1


The Squad

1 Sergei OVCHINNIKOV
2 Vladislav RADIMOV
3 Dmitri SYCHEV
4 Aleksei SMERTIN
5 Andrei KARIAKA
6 Igor SEMSHOV
7 Marat IZMAILOV
8 Rolan GUSEV
9 Dmitri BULYKIN
10 Aleksandr MOSTOVOI
11 Aleksandr KERZHAKOV
12 Viacheslav MALAFEEV
13 Roman SHARONOV
14 Aleksandr ANYUKOV
15 Dmitri ALENICHEV
16 Vadim EVSEEV
17 Dmitri SENNIKOV
18 Dmitri KIRICHENKO
19 Vladimir BYSTROV
20 Dmitri LOSKOV
21 Aleksei BUGAYEV
22 Evgeni ALDONIN
23 Igor AKINFEEV