The FIFA World Cup 2018 is scheduled to be held in Russia from June 14 to July 15, 2018. A total of 64 matches will be played in 12 venues located in 11 cities. The final will be held at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Current World Cup squad
Igor Akinfeev, Vladimir Gabulov, Soslan Dzhanaev, Andrey Lunev; Vladimir Granat, Sergei Ignashevich, Fedor Kudryashov, Ilya Kutepov, Roman Neustadter, Konstantin Rausch, Andrey Semenov, Igor Smolnikov, Mario Fernandes; Yuri Gazinskiy, Alexsandr Golovin, Alan Dzagoev, Alexsandr Erokhin, Yuri Zhirkov, Daler Kuzyaev , Roman Zobnin, Alexsandr Samedov, Anton Miranchuk, Alexsandr Tashaev, Denis Cheryshev; Artem Dzyuba, Aleksey Miranchuk, Fedor Smolov, Fedor Chalov.
2018 FIFA World Cup
In Group A, Russia, as a host, played three matches and won two of them very easily. In the last match against Uruguay, they got defeated and could not top the group. They were second in the standings. They have scored 8 goals in the group stage.
Coach for 2018 :
Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov.
Stanislav Cherchesov
Fixtures:
June 14: vs Saudi Arabia
June 19: vs Egypt
June 25: vs Uruguay
Past records
No. of times team has played in WC (number): 10
No. of matches played (number): 40
No. of matches won: 17
No. of matches lost: 15
No. of times lost in finals (Number):
No. of times world cup won (number):
No. of goals scored in WC: 66
Top 3 players to watch: Igor Akinfeev, Yuri Zhirkov, Denis Glushakov
Road to WC (text): Though ranked 65 in FIFA rankings, they are qualified as they are the hosts.
Player who has played most world cups (appearances): Lev Yeshin: 3
Player who has scored most no. of goals (Player:No. of goals): Valentin Ivanov: 6
Team analysis | Russia: Tall order
