Odesa British Athletic Club (In Russian: «Одесский британский атлетический клуб» ОБАК in short, meaning: Odesian British Athletic Club) was an earlier Imperial Russian athletic club from Odesa, which was established on 1878 by British workers of the Indo-European Telegraph Company who in 1877 moved from Kerch to Odesa.
History
The city of Odesa 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 Odesa 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
- Odesa Football Championship: 1911, 1912,
☆2> 1913
Statistics
Odesa 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 |
Known Players
- Ernest Jacobs
- Hubert Townend
- Sergey Utochkin
OBAC Players in 1912
OBAC in 1914
