OBAC Odesa

Odessa British Athletic Club (In Russian: «Одесский британский атлетический клуб» ОБАК in short, meaning: Odessian British Athletic Club) was an earlier Imperial Russian athletic club from Odessa, which was established on 1878 by British workers of the Indo-European Telegraph Company who in 1877 moved from Kerch to Odessa.

History

The city of Odessa was the biggest city of the Imperial Russian South-West (see, Southwestern Krai) and was a municipality (Gradonachalstvo, an Imperial Russian administrative unit of the same level as governorate (gubernia) and oblast).^[1] In 1877 to the city from Kerch moved the Indo-European Telegraph Company that employed many Brits (subjects of British Crown).^[1] In 1878 they organized the Odessa 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

Odessa Football Championship: 1912, 1913

Statistics

Odessa Football League

Season	Games	Wins	Drews	Loses	Goals	Points	Standings	Trophies
1911	6	5	0	1	13–3	10	1	Cup of "Sports Journal"
1911/12	16	11	3	2	41–13	25	1	Jacobs Cup
1912/13	14	10	3	1	42–8	23	2	Bokhanov Shield
1913/14	14	7	1	6	28–23	15	4
1914/15	16	7	2	7	16	6
1915/16	10	3	1	6	16–20	7	4
1916/17	10	8	3