Fabio Capello is facing calls to resign as the manager of Russia, after the latest in a dismal string of results saw the team lose 1-0 at home to Austria in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Sunday. The country’s football federation is considering whether to sack him.

Its acting president, Nikita Simonyan, told the R-Sport agency the federation will discuss whether to remove Capello. Russian media have reported that a clause in the Italian’s contract means the federation would have to pay £15m in compensation.

Mikhail Gershkovich, a former Russia assistant manager, told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper that Capello was unable to inject any emotion into the team and called on him to do the honourable thing and resign.

“Don Fabio should awaken his conscience and leave himself. What kind of severance pay are we talking about? The team is in a dead end. The worst thing is that after every defeat Capello has a whole host of reasons to explain it, but it’s never about him. And the whole problem is with him!”

A number of Russian parliamentarians have expressed disbelief at how badly the team are playing under Capello. In the past 10 competitive games, Russia have managed two victories, one against Liechtenstein and one against Montenegro, awarded after the match was abandoned because of crowd trouble.

“First and foremost the coach should be ashamed after this kind of game,” said Igor Ananskikh, the chair of the Russian parliament’s sports committee. “We need to admit honestly that Capello is not for us and he can’t bring anything useful to our team. It’s time to be decisive and part company.”

“If we keep playing like this, it’s probably time we ourselves offered to hand over the 2018 World Cup to someone else,” MP Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter, parodying the calls in some quarters in the wake of the Fifa scandal to revisit the decision that gave Russia the 2018 tournament.

Disdain from Russian parliamentarians is nothing new for Capello, who faced a squall of criticism after Russia’s dismal exit from the World Cup in Brazil last summer. Nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky called him a “thief” for making off with such a big salary, and said it was hard to take Capello seriously as a football manager because he “looks like a schoolteacher”.

Capello’s new contract was signed before the tournament in Brazil, and includes a hefty payment in the case of early severance. Some Russian media sources have pointed to a secret “second contract” signed by Capello in Russia. If this is proven to be true, the trainer could be fired without severance pay. Capello’s representatives have strenuously denied any such second contract.

Capello’s salary has previously been in the headlines because he went several months without receiving it, with the Russian federation saying it simply could not afford to pay. The oligarch Alisher Usmanov stepped in with a loan to cover most of the arrears owed to Capello but it is unlikely the federation will want to fork out for the severance pay. Its president, Nikolai Tolstykh, was dismissed last month.