Georges Duperron

Georges Duperron

Personal information
Full name	Georges Aleksandrovich Duperron
Date of birth	(1877-09-24)24 September 1877
Place of birth	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Date of death	23 July 1934(1934-07-23) (aged 56)
Place of death	Leningrad, Soviet Union
Teams managed
Years	Team
1910–1913	Russian Empire

Georges Aleksandrovich Duperron (Russian: Георгий Александрович Дюперрон), born 24 September 1877, died 23 July 1934, was a Russian sports journalist, football organizer and one of the founders of the Olympic movement in Russia. He was of French descent.

Duperron was a footballer who played at the first ever football match in Russia. It was arranged on 24 October 1897 in Saint Petersburg.^[1] In 1901, he was one of the organizers of the first Russian football league, the . After the establishment of the Russian Olympic Committee in 1911, Duperron was elected as its first secretary.^[2] From 1913 to 1915, he was a member of the International Olympic Committee.^[3] Duperron was also the first manager of the Russian Empire national football team as the team participated in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.^[4]

Duperron published more than 30 books about football, athletics, gymnastics and winter sports.^[2] He wrote articles for the sport magazines Samokat, Le Cycliste and Sport.

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