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The host team for the 2018 World Cup is Russia, who will be making their 11th World Cup appearance. Russia has had no success recently in the World Cup, losing in the first stage in 1994, 2002 and 2014. They will be trying to avoid joining South Africa as the only host team eliminated in the first stage. Russia is ranked well outside of the Top 50 in FIFA rankings, although it is worth noting that Russia didn’t have to play qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup and that meant they didn’t pick up many ranking points.
Russia 2018 World Cup Odds: +3300
Russia is given no real chance to win the 2018 World Cup, as they are listed as a longshot at +3300. Those odds may actually be low, considering Russia has not even made it out of the first stage in any recent World Cup. Russia has played very little meaningful matches of late, so it is hard to get too excited about their chances in the 2018 World Cup.
2018 World Cup Qualifying Results
Russia automatically qualified for the 2018 World Cup as the host team so they didn’t have to play any qualifying matches.
2018 FIFA World Cup Groups
| Group A |
Group B |
Group C |
Group D |
| Russia |
Portugal |
France |
Argentina |
| Saudi Arabia |
Spain |
Australia |
Iceland |
| Egypt |
Morocco |
Peru |
Croatia |
| Uruguay |
Iran |
Denmark |
Nigeria |
| Group E |
Group F |
Group G |
Group H |
| Brazil |
Germany |
Belgium |
Poland |
| Switzerland |
Mexico |
Panama |
Senegal |
| Costa Rica |
Sweden |
Tunisia |
Colombia |
| Serbia |
Korea Republic |
England |
Japan |
2018 FIFA World Cup Group A Schedule
| GROUP A: Russia - Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Uruguay |
| Match |
Date / Time (Local Time) |
Venue |
| Russia vs Saudi Arabia |
June, 14th / 18:00 |
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow |
| Egypt vs Uruguay |
June, 15th / 17:00 |
Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg |
| Russia vs Egypt |
June, 19th / 21:00 |
Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg |
| Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia |
June, 20th / 18:00 |
Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don |
| Uruguay vs Russia |
June, 25th / 18:00 |
Cosmos Arena, Samara |
| Saudi Arabia vs Egypt |
June, 25th / 17:00 |
Volgograd Arena, Volgograd |
Players to Watch
Russia has an experienced goalkeeper in Igor Akinfeev who is the team captain. Russia also features Alexsandr Kokorin, Oleg Shatov and Alan Dzagoev. Kokorin is the key scorer for Russia and he did score for Russia in the 2014 World Cup. He is just 23 years old but there is no question he is the player to watch at the 2018 World Cup for this club. He moved from Dynamo Moscow to Zenit St. Petersburg last year. Kokorin is one of the top scorers in the Russian Premier League and if Russia is to make any noise at the World Cup it will be due to Kokorin. He played well in some of the friendlies and the combination of Kokorin and Fyodor Smolov was impressive.
Head coach Stanislav Cherchesov said that Kokorin has made a lot of progress. "I spoke with him and he understood what he had to work on. Now we’re seeing the results. I know ‘Sasha’ (Kokorin) well and we've been working together for almost two years. Finally he’s playing in his natural position and getting more pleasure from it."
The Coach
Stanislav Cherchesov took over from Leonid Slutsky following the EURO 2016 finals.
Russia World Cup History
Russia has made 10 appearances at the World Cup with no titles. They made the quarterfinals as the Soviet Union at Sweden in 1958, at Chile in 1962 and at Mexico in 1970. The Soviet Union made the semifinals in 1966 at England but lost to West Germany in the semifinals and to Portugal in the third place game. Russia has done nothing since, losing in the first stage in 1994, 2002 and 2014.
Russia 2018 World Cup Predictions
Russia is the host team but they are a bit of an unknown because they haven’t played any qualifying matches. They have looked pretty good in some friendlies but it is hard to take too much away from matches where the other team isn’t fully engaged. Russia may be able to avoid humiliation and get out of the group stage at the 2018 World Cup, but it is hard to see them going much farther.
Russia 2018 World Cup Roster
GK - Igor Akinfeev (Captain)
GK - Vladimir Gabulov
GK - Andrey Lunyov
DF - Igor Smolnikov
DF - Fyodor Kudryashov
DF - Viktor Vasin
DF - Vladimir Granat
DF - Georgi Dzhikiya
DF - Roman Neustädter
DF - Ilya Kutepov
DF - Mário Fernandes
DF - Yevgeni Chernov
MF - Yuri Zhirkov
MF - Alan Dzagoev
MF - Aleksandr Samedov
MF - Aleksandr Golovin
MF - Aleksandr Yerokhin
MF - Magomed Ozdoyev
MF - Aleksei Miranchuk
MF - Dmitri Tarasov
MF - Konstantin Rausch
MF - Daler Kuzyayev
MF - Anton Miranchuk
FW - Aleksandr Kokorin
FW - Fyodor Smolov
FW - Dmitry Poloz
FW - Anton Zabolotny
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