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Head to head

Russia vs South Africa

If they played today

Russia at home
57% / 23% / 20%
Russia win / draw / South Africa win
Russia–South Africa
  • 1–0 11.3%
  • 1–1 10.9%
  • 2–0 10.2%
  • 2–1 9.8%
  • 0–0 6.3%
Neutral venue
49% / 25% / 26%
Russia win / draw / South Africa win
Russia–South Africa
  • 1–1 11.8%
  • 1–0 10.8%
  • 2–1 9.5%
  • 2–0 8.6%
  • 0–1 7.4%
South Africa at home
41% / 26% / 33%
Russia win / draw / South Africa win
Russia–South Africa
  • 1–1 12.4%
  • 1–0 10.1%
  • 0–1 8.8%
  • 2–1 8.7%
  • 1–2 7.6%

Probabilities come from each team's current Elo rating, so they answer “if they met today” rather than predicting a scheduled fixture. See the methodology for how the model works and where it is weakest.

Elo since debut

Side by side

 RussiaSouth Africa
Current Elo18451694
Elo rank31st66th
Peak Elo1970 (1983)1792 (1996)
Matches played749484
All-time record385W 197D 167L216W 146D 122L
Goals for1301652
Goals against735458
Biggest win11–1 vs India · 1955-09-16 · Friendly8–0 vs Australia · 1955-09-17 · Friendly
Biggest loss0–16 vs Germany · 1912-07-01 · Olympic Games3–9 vs Netherlands · 1958-11-12 · Friendly
World Cups won00
Expected World Cups0.730.02

When they've met

Russia and South Africa have never played each other.