OBAC Odesa explained

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Odesa British Athletic Club (In Russian: «Одесский британский атлетический клуб» ОБАК in short, meaning: Odesian British Athletic Club) was an earlier Imperial Russian athletic club from Odesa, which was established on 1878 by British workers of the Indo-European Telegraph Company who in 1877 moved from Kerch to Odesa.

History

The city of Odesa was the biggest city of the Imperial Russian South-West (see, Southwestern Krai) and was a municipality (Gradonachalstvo, an Imperial Russian administrative unit of the same level as governorate (gubernia) and oblast).[1] In 1877 to the city from Kerch moved the Indo-European Telegraph Company that employed many Brits (subjects of British Crown).[1] In 1878 they organized the Odesa British Athletic Club (OBAC) which among other sports competitions cultivated the game of association football.[1]

They played at the field located in a neighborhood of Malofontanskaya doroga (Little-fountain Road), not far from a sea shore.[1] For a long time OBAC was composed exclusively out of English only and beside playing between themselves, they conducted annual meetings with footballers of the Romanian city of Galați.[1]

Honors

☆2> 1913

Statistics

Odesa Football League

SeasonGamesWinsDrewsLosesGoalsPointsStandingsTrophies
1911650113–3101 Cup of "Sports Journal"
1911/1216113241–13251 Jacobs Cup
1912/1314103142–8232 Bokhanov Shield
1913/141471628–23154
1914/1516727166
1915/161031616–2074
1916/171083

Known Players

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20190909133743/http://www.kopanyi-myach.info/index.aspx?page=history01 The football in south-western part of Russian Empire (Футбол в юго-западной части Российской Империи)