Samara is best known in football circles as the birthplace of Aleksandr Anyukov, but the city has produced 99 documented association football players in total. Other notable players include Arsen Zakharyan, Artur Rimovich Yusupov, Boris Kazakov and Giorgi Gorozia. Among them are 93 male and 6 female players. Documented players span more than 83 years, from 1923 to 2006.
