CIS national football team

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The Commonwealth of Independent States national football team (Russian: Сборная СНГ по футболу, Sbornaya SNG po futbolu) was a transitional national team of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union in 1992. It was accepted that the team would represent the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) that was formed as a loose union of former union republics of the Soviet Union after the union's dissolution. Of the fifteen former Soviet republics, twelve participated in the CIS team: all eleven members of the CIS plus Georgia, which at the time was outside the CIS, but not the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The CIS team was created to allow the Soviet national team to participate in Euro 1992 having already secured their place in the tournament after participating in qualifying, and having done so before the Soviet Union was dissolved. The only way to preserve the spot for the post-Soviet team was to take part in the competition as a unified team.

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