OBAC Odesa
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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
Indo-European Telegraph Company who in 1877 moved from Kerch
to Odesa.
History
The city of
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
- Odesa Football Championship: 1911, 1912,
☆2> 1913
Statistics
Odesa Football League
Known Players
- Ernest Jacobs
- Hubert Townend
- Sergey Utochkin
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OBAC Players in 1912
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OBAC in 1914
References
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