Staff of the National Team of Russia headed by Leonid Slutskiy announced the list of players which will be invited to the National Team for preparation for EURO-2016 qualifying matches against Sweden (5 September, Moscow, 19.00 (Moscow time)) and Liechtenstein (8 September, 21.45 (Moscow time)).

There 24 players in the list.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St.Petersburg), Artem Rebrov (Spartak Moscow).

Defenders: Alexey Berezutskiy, Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich (all – CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat, Dmitry Kombarov (both – Spartak Moscow), Yury  Zhirkov (Dynamo Moscow), Oleg Kuzmin (Rubin Kazan), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St.Petersburg).

Midfields: Yury Gazinskiy, Pavel Mamaev (both – Krasnodar), Denis Glushakov, Roman Shirokov (both – Spartak Moscow), Igor Denisov, Alexey Ionov (both – Dynamo Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Erokhin (Ural Ekaterinburg), Oleg Shatov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Denis Cheryshev (Real Madrid, Spain).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St.Petersburg), Alexander Kokorin (Dynamo Moscow), Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar).

The players of Leonid Slutskiy will start their preparation for the matches on 31 August.