Volgograd is best known in football circles as the birthplace of Leonid Slutsky, but the city has produced 109 documented association football players in total. Other notable players include Emil Balayev, Yuriy Kalitvintsev, Denis Dorozhkin and Sergei Strukov. Among them are 107 male and 2 female players. Documented players span more than 91 years, from 1912 to 2003.
