On June 2, 2004, Russia coach Georgi Yartsev named his final 23-man squad.

Aleksandr Mostovoi was expelled from the team and sent home on June 15, due to alleged attacks on the cohesion of the group.

Contents

1 Squad 2 Qualifying 2.1 Group 10 2.2 Play-off 3 Final tournament 3.1 Group A

Squad

#	Name	Club in 2004	Date of Birth	Age	Pld	Goals	Y	Y/R	R
Goalkeepers
12	Viacheslav Malafeev	Zenit St. Petersburg	04.03.1979	25	2	0	1	0	0
1	Sergei Ovchinnikov	Lokomotiv Moscow	10.11.1970	33	2	0	0	0	1
23	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	08.04.1986	18	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
16	Vadim Evseev	Lokomotiv Moscow	08.01.1976	28	3	0	1	0	0
17	Dmitri Sennikov	Lokomotiv Moscow	24.06.1976	27	2	0	0	0	0
21	Alexei Bugayev	Torpedo Moscow	25.08.1981	22	2	0	0	0	0
13	Roman Sharonov	Rubin Kazan	08.09.1976	27	2	0	3	1	0
14	Aleksandr Anyukov	Krylya Sovetov Samara	28.09.1982	21	1	0	1	0	0
Midfielders
4	Alexei Smertin	Portsmouth	01.05.1975	29	2	0	2	0	0
2	Vladislav Radimov	Zenit St. Petersburg	26.11.1975	28	2	0	1	0	0
7	Marat Izmailov	Lokomotiv Moscow	21.09.1982	21	2	0	0	0	0
5	Andrei Kariaka	Krylya Sovetov Samara	01.04.1978	26	3	0	1	0	0
8	Rolan Gusev	CSKA Moscow	17.09.1977	26	2	0	1	0	0
19	Vladimir Bystrov	Zenit St. Petersburg	31.01.1984	20	1	0	0	0	0
22	Evgeni Aldonin	CSKA Moscow	22.01.1980	24	2	0	1	0	0
10	Aleksandr Mostovoi	Celta Vigo	22.08.1968	35	1	0	0	0	0
15	Dmitri Alenichev	Porto	20.10.1972	31	3	0	2	0	0
20	Dmitri Loskov	Lokomotiv Moscow	12.02.1974	30	1	0	0	0	0
6	Igor Semshov	Torpedo Moscow	06.04.1978	26	1	0	0	0	0
Forwards
9	Dmitri Bulykin	Dinamo Moscow	20.11.1979	24	3	1	0	0	0
3	Dmitri Sychev	Lokomotiv Moscow	26.10.1983	20	2	0	0	0	0
11	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	Zenit St. Petersburg	27.11.1982	21	1	0	0	0	0
18	Dmitri Kirichenko	CSKA Moscow	17.01.1977	27	1	1	0	0	0
Coach
	Georgi Yartsev		11.04.1948	56

• Key: Pld - Games played; Y - Yellow cards; Y/R - Yellow/Red cards; R - Red cards
• Date format: dd.mm.yyyy

Qualifying

Group 10

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Switzerland	15	8	4	3	1	15	11	+4
2. Russia	14	8	4	2	2	19	12	+7
3. Republic of Ireland	11	8	3	2	3	10	11	-1
4. Albania	8	8	2	2	4	11	15	-4
5. Georgia	7	8	2	1	5	8	14	-6

September 7, 2002 Russia 4 – 2 Republic of Ireland October 16, 2002 Russia 4 – 1 Albania March 29, 2003 Albania 3 – 1 Russia April 30, 2003 Georgia 1 – 0 Russia

June 7, 2003 Switzerland 2 – 2 Russia September 6, 2003 Republic of Ireland 1 – 1 Russia September 10, 2003 Russia 4 – 1 Switzerland October 11, 2003 Russia 3 – 1 Georgia

Play-off

First leg: November 15, 2003 Russia 0 – 0 Wales

Second leg: November 19, 2003 Wales 0 – 1 Russia

• Russia won 1 - 0 on aggregate.

Final tournament

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Portugal	6	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2
2. Greece	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
3. Spain	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
4. Russia	3	3	1	0	2	2	4	-2

June 12, 2004
Spain	1 – 0 (0-0)	Russia	19:45	Estádio do Algarve	Details
June 16, 2004
Russia	0 – 2 (0-1)	Portugal	19:45	Estádio da Luz	Details
June 20, 2004
Russia	2 – 1 (2-1)	Greece	19:45	Estádio do Algarve	Details