Russian football teams have taken part in European competitions since the 1966–67 season, as part of the Soviet Union until the 1991–92 season, and as an independent country from then on.
For the 2022–23 UEFA competitions, the associations were allocated places according to their 2021 UEFA country coefficients, which take into account their performance in European competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21.
In the 2021 rankings used for the 2022–23 European competitions, Russia's coefficient points total is 38.382 and is ranked by UEFA as the 32nd best association in Europe out of 55.