Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
The CIS Cup (Russian Кубок Содружества, Eng. Commonwealth Cup ) is an out partway through the 1993 football tournament for club teams. Participation is open to teams from the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States.
After Ukraine sent a representative in the first two years, since 1995, playing 15 Master of the former Soviet republics of the title holder. As an additional team, the U - 21 participated selection of Russia to fill the field to 16 teams. In the years 2007 and 2008, Serbia became the first non- CIS country ever to 16th place, but sent instead of the current master ( Red Star Belgrade or partisan ) only the worse -placed capital club OFK. 2009 and 2011 replaced Inter Turku or HJK Helsinki as Finnish master the masters of the Georgian league.
Meanwhile, the interest of viewers and clubs has declined sharply in the CIS Cup. After many teams of the former USSR are regularly represented in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the AFC Champions League, the trophy for the top national clubs an extra burden, so that in recent years (in addition to statements, even no longer participate in the competition ) reinforced second and third place were sent (eg 2010).
2012 took only 12 U-23 national teams ( the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Iran ) in the competition.
The game is played in Moscow in the closed space of the sports complex Olimpijski. Record title winner with six hits is Spartak Moscow.