Krasnoyarsk is best known in football circles as the birthplace of Eduard Malofeyev, but the city has produced 71 documented association football players in total. Other notable players include Sergei Chepchugov, Anton Mitryushkin, Aleksei Isayev and Yevgeni Pesegov. Among them are 61 male and 10 female players. Documented players span more than 85 years, from 1922 to 2007.