The team has participated at multiple Paralympic Games, winning gold in the 2000 and 2012 editions.
Russian Cerebral Palsy Football Federation (RCPFF) manages the national team.
[6] In 2016, after getting an endorsement by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA), the IFCPF Anti-Doping Code was formally amended to allow for out of competition testing.
This was done through a WADA approved Whereabouts Programme managed through ADAMS.
[24] While they had qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, the Russian team was suspended for the Games.