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FC Spartak Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional
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club based in
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. Having won 12 Soviet championships (second only to
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) and 10 Russian championships (a record jointly held with Zenit St Petersburg), it is the country's most successful club. They have also won a record 10
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s, 4 Russian Cups and one Russian Super Cup. Spartak have also reached the semi-finals of
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,
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and the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup.


History


Foundation and early period (1883–1941)

In the early days of Soviet football, government agencies such as the police, army, and railroads created their own
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. Many statesmen saw in the wins of their teams the superiority over the opponents patronising other teams. Almost all the teams had such kind of patrons;
Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...
aligned with the
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,
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with the
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, and Spartak, created by a trade union public organization, was considered to be "the people's team". The history of the football club and sports society "Spartak" originates from the Russian Gymnastics Society (), which was founded on 16 May 1883. The society was founded under the influence of the Pan-Slavic "
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" with the aim of promoting the "Sokolsk gymnastics" and then sports including fencing, wrestling,
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, skating, football, hockey,
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, boxing, skis, athletics, and cycling. In the RGO Sokol began to play football in the summer of 1897; the professional football section was founded in the spring of 1909. On 1 August 1920, the football team began to officially act under the name MCS, or Moscow Sports Club. In 1923, the MCS, later named Krasnaya Presnya (Red Presnya), was formed by Ivan Artemyev and involved Nikolai Starostin, especially in its football team. Presnya is a district of Moscow renowned for the radical politics of its inhabitants; for example, it represented the centre of the
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. The team grew, building a stadium, supporting itself from ticket sales and playing matches across the
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. As part of a 1926 reorganization of football in the Soviet Union, Starostin arranged for the club to be sponsored by the food workers union and the club moved to the 13,000 seat Tomsky
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, known as Pishcheviki. The team changed sponsors repeatedly over the following years as it competed with Dinamo Moscow, whose 35,000 seat Dynamo Stadium lay close by. As a high-profile sportsman, Starostin came into close contact with Alexander Kosarev, secretary of the
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(Communist Union of Youth) who already had a strong influence on sport and wanted to extend it. In November 1934, with funding from Promkooperatsiia, Kosarev employed Starostin and his brothers to develop his team to make it more powerful. Again the team changed its name, this time to "Spartak Moscow" (the name ''Spartak'' means "
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", a gladiator who led an uprising against
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). The club founders, four Starostin brothers, played a big role in the formation of the team. The Starostins played for the red-whites in the 1930s but right before
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they were subjected to repression as the leaders of the most hated team by the state authorities. Elder brother Nikolai Starostin wrote in his books that he had survived in the State Prison System due to his participation in football and with Spartak (after the political rehabilitation, in 1954, he would later return to the team as the squad's manager). In 1935, Starostin proposed the name ''Spartak''. It was inspired by the Italian novel ''Spartaco'', written by Raffaello Giovagnoli, and means
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("Spartak" in Russian), a
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-slave who led a rebellion against
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. Starostin is also credited with the creation of the Spartak logo. The same year, the club became a part of newly created Spartak sports society. Czechoslovak manager Antonin Fivebr is credited as the first head coach of Spartak, though he worked as a consultant in several clubs simultaneously. In 1936, the
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was established, where its first championship was won by Dynamo Moscow while Spartak won its second, which was held in the same calendar year. Before World War II, Spartak earned two more titles. In 1937, Spartak won the football tournament of Workers' Olympiad at
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.


Post-war period (1945–1991)

During the 1950s, Spartak, together with Dynamo, dominated the Soviet Top League. When the Soviet national team won gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, it consisted largely of Spartak players. Spartak captain Igor Netto was the captain of the national team from 1954 to 1963. In the 1960s, Spartak won two league titles, but by the mid-1960s, Spartak was no more regarded as a leading Soviet club. The club was even less successful in the 1970s and in 1976 Spartak was relegated into the lower league. The following season in 1979, fans stayed with the team despite being relegated to the lower division, keeping the stadium full. Konstantin Beskov became the head coach. He had made his name playing for Spartak's main rivals,
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). He introduced several young players, including
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and Georgi Yartsev. Spartak returned the following season and won the title in 1979, beating
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. On 20 October 1982, disaster struck during the
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match between Spartak and Dutch club
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. Sixty-six people died in a
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during the match, making it Russia's worst sporting disaster. In 1989, Spartak won its last USSR Championship, rivals Dynamo Kyiv 2–1 in the closing round. Spartak's striker Valery Shmarov scored the "golden"
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with almost no time left. The next season, Spartak reached the
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semi-final, consequently eliminating
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on penalties and
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(with 3–1 away victory), but losing to
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.


Modern period (1991–present)


Initial success (1991–2004)

A new page in the club's history began when the Soviet Union collapsed and its championship ceased to exist. In the newly created Russian league, Spartak, led by coach and president
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, dominated and won all but one title between 1992 and 2001. Season after season the team also represented Russia in the Champions League. Problems began in the new century, however. Several charismatic players ( Ilya Tsymbalar and
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among others) left the club as a result of conflict with Romantsev. Later, Romantsev sold his stock to oil magnate Andrei Chervichenko, who in 2003 became the club president. The two were soon embroiled in a row that would continue until Romantsev was sacked in 2003 with the club suffering several sub-par seasons until Chervichenko finally sold his stock in 2004. The new ownership made a number of front office changes with the aim of returning the team to the top of the Russian Premier League. Spartak has been entitled to place a golden star on its badge since 2003 to commemorate winning five Russian championships in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997. They have won the championship another four times since 1997.


Title-less run (2004–2016)

In 2004, Leonid Fedun became the club's President and second-largest shareholder behind his business partner Vagit Alekperov. In the 2005 season, Spartak, led by Aleksandrs Starkovs, finished second in the league to beat
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, Zenit Saint Petersburg and
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to the last Champions League place. Following a mixed start to the 2006 season and public criticism from Dmitry Alenichev, the team's captain and one of its most experienced players, Starkovs left his position to Vladimir Fedotov. In the 2012–13 season, Spartak qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League group stage and finished last after disappointing performances against
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and Benfica. In the league, Spartak finished in fourth place while in the cup it was eliminated in the round of 16 by
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0–0 , completing a disappointing season. Since 2013, the club have added another three stars as rules allowed teams to include titles won during the Soviet era. The next 3 seasons (2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16) were somewhat similar as Spartak finished 6th, 6th and 5th accordingly while the club did not qualify for European Competitions.


Revival (2016–2022)

By the beginning of the 2016–17 season, under ex-
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manager Massimo Carrera, Spartak had acquired a squad consisting of foreign talents such as Quincy Promes,
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, Zé Luís, Lorenzo Melgarejo and Russians such as Denis Glushakov, Roman Zobnin and Ilya Kutepov. Spartak won the 2016–17 Russian Premier League with the squad, winning most derbies and ultimately finishing with a difference of 7 points. The following season, Spartak participated in the
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group stage. Despite suffering its greatest ever loss in a 7-0 result against
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, the club achieved considerable victories, including a 5-1 win against
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. Having finished second 2020-21 Russian Premier League under manager Domenico Tedesco, whose contract expired at the season's end, Spartak followed up with a successful run in the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, now led by Rui Vitoria. Spartak topped its group, which included
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(which it defeated both home and away),
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and
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. It was set to face
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in the round of 16, but the club - along with all Russian club and national teams - was suspended from
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and the ECA until further notice due to
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, and the clubs continued to play with themselves. On 29 May 2022, in the final match of
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(manager since December 2021), Spartak won the 2021–22 Russian Cup.We can confirm Paolo Vanoli made a difficult decision to resign from FC Spartak Moscow's head coach position


New ownership (2022–present)

On August 22, 2022, PJSC Lukoil Oil Company announced the acquisition of Spartak Moscow and Otkritie Arena. This occurred after numerous changes at the club, such as the appointment of Spanish specialist Guillermo Abascal as manager, his assistants Carlos Maria Valle Moreno and Vladimir Slišković, physical training coaches Fernando Perez Lopez and Alexander Zaichenko, and goalkeeper coach Vasily Kuznetsov. At 33 years of age, Abascal became the youngest manager in the club's history. It was also reported that Leonid Fedun has resigned as President of the club and member of the board of directors. Under his leadership of more than 18 years, he left behind a mixed legacy. The club had won only a single Russian league, cup and supercup. Second place in the league was achieved six times, and four times the club head reached the group stage of the Champions League. A stadium solely for the use of the club was built for the first time. On September 26, 2022 Alexander Matytsyn, first vice president of Lukoil, became chairman of the board of directors of FC Spartak. Lukoil's top managers Pavel Zhdanov, Ivan Maslyaev, and Yevgeny Khavkin joined the board of directors, as did Spartak's general director Yevgeny Melezhikov (left the club in the summer of 2023), academy president Sergei Rodionov, as well as independent directors Oleg Malyshev and Yusuf Alekperov. Englishman Paul Ashworth was appointed sporting director. In December 2023, it was announced that the club was reviving a second team, closed in 2022 due to lack of funding. It will be entered in the second league.


Honours


Domestic competitions

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**Champions (22) (record): 1936 (autumn),
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1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...
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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
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1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
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1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
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1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...
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1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
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1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...
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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...
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1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
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1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
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1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
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1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
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1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...
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1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...
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1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
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1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
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1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
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1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...
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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
, 2011–12, 2020–21 *
Soviet Cup The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (),, , , (Moldovan Cyrillic: Купа УРСС), , , . was the premier football cup competition in the Soviet Union conducted by the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. The 1991–92 season of the tournam ...
/ Russian Cup **Winners (14) (record):
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
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1939 This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Ger ...
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1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
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1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country i ...
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1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
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1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...
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1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
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1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
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1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...
, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2021–22 **Runners-up (7):
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
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1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...
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1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
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1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
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1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
, 1995–96, 2005–06 * Russian Super Cup **Winners:
2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...
**Runners-up (4):
2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
* Soviet First League **Champions:
1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...
* USSR Federation Cup **Winners:
1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...


International

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Commonwealth of Independent States Cup The Commonwealth of Independent States Cup () is a defunct annual regional association football tournament, recognized by FIFA. The tournament was initially established for football clubs of the former Soviet Union republics in 1993 (a year late ...
**Winners (6):
1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
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1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
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1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
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2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...


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*Match Premier Cup **Winners:
2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
* Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy **Winners:
1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
* Copa del Sol **Winners:
2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...


European record


Notable European campaigns


UEFA club competition record


UEFA coefficient

''Correct as of 21 May 2025.''


League history


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Top goalscorers


Nickname

The team is usually called "red-and-whites," but among the fans "The Meat" (, "Myaso") is a very popular nickname. The origins of the nickname belong to the days of the foundation of the club; in the 1920s, the team was renamed several times, from "Moscow Sports Club" to "Red Presnya" (after the name of one of the districts of Moscow) to "Pishcheviki" ("Food industry workers") to "Promkooperatsiya" ("Industrial cooperation") and finally to "Spartak Moscow" in 1935, and for many years the team was under patronage of one of the Moscow food factories that dealt with meat products. One of the most popular slogans among both fans and players is: "Who are we? We're The Meat!" (? Мясо!", "Kto my? Myaso!")


Ownerships, kits and crests

FC Spartak Moscow's main colour is red. In 2014, Nike unveiled kit inspired by the club's new home.


Owners, kit suppliers and shirt sponsors


Rival teams and friendships

At present, Spartak's archrival is
CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow () is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. It was created in 1911 in the Russian Empire on base of OLLS (Skiing Society, founded 1901). Later, during the Soviet Union, Soviet era, it was the central part of the Armed Forces (sports ...
, although this is a relatively recent rivalry that has only emerged after the collapse of the USSR. Seven of ten matches with the largest audience in Russian Premier League (including top three) were Spartak-CSKA derbies. Historically, the most celebrated rivalry is with
Dynamo Moscow MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (), is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first institution created from the All-Union Dynamo Sports Club. Dynamo Mosco ...
, a fiercely contested matchup which is Russia's oldest derby. Matches against
Lokomotiv Moscow FC Lokomotiv Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Lokomotiv have won the Russian Premier League on three occasions; the Soviet Cup twice; and the Russian Cup (football), Russian Cup a record ...
and Zenit Saint Petersburg attract thousands of people as well, almost always resulting in packed stadia. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Spartak's
rivalry A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant ...
with
Dynamo Kyiv The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...
, one of the leaders of the USSR championship, was lost. Since Dynamo Kyiv now plays in the
Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...
, both teams must qualify for
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tournaments to meet each other. Since the mid-2000s the supporters of Spartak maintain brotherhood relations with Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) and
Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, ...
ultras – a friendship based on common Orthodox faith and same club colours. Also fans of Spartak have generally friendly relationships with
Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. The club will return to the Russian Premier League in the 2025–26 season. Their c ...
supporters, and of supporters of Polish club
Lech Poznań Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań (), is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division. ...
.


Stadium

Until 2014, Spartak had never had its own stadium, with the team historically playing in various Moscow stadia throughout its history, even once playing an exhibition match in
Red Square Red Square ( rus, Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad', p=ˈkrasnəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ) is one of the oldest and largest town square, squares in Moscow, Russia. It is located in Moscow's historic centre, along the eastern walls of ...
. The team played home games at various Moscow stadiums – especially at the Locomotiv and Luzhniki stadiums. After the purchase of the club by Andrei Chervichenko in the early 2000s, several statements were made about the speedy construction of the stadium, but construction did not begin. After a controlling stake in the club was bought by Leonid Fedun, real steps were taken to promote the stadium project, and in 2006, the Government of Moscow allocated land at Tushino Aeropol at a size of 28.3 hectares for the construction of the stadium. The project involved the main arena of 42,000 people with natural lawn, sports, and an entertainment hall for tennis, handball, basketball and volleyball for 12,000 spectators. The ceremony of laying the first stone took place on 2 June 2007. In February 2013, it was announced that as a result of a sponsorship deal with Otkritie FC Bank ("Discovery"), the stadium will be called
Otkritie Arena Lukoil Arena (), former Otkritie Bank Arena () and Otkritie Arena (), also known as Spartak Stadium () (the stadium's official name during the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup), is a multi-purpose stadium north-west of Moscow ...
for 6 years. The opening match at the new stadium took place on 5 September 2014, when Spartak drew with the Serbian side
Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...
(1-1). The first competitive match took place on 14 September 2014, in which Spartak defeated
Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. The club will return to the Russian Premier League in the 2025–26 season. Their c ...
3–1 in the 7th round of the championship.


Players


Current squad


Out on loan


Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries, or held any club record. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Spartak. For further list, see List of FC Spartak Moscow players. ;Russia/USSR * Dmitri Alenichev * Dmitri Ananko * Ari * Zelimkhan Bakayev * Nikita Bazhenov *
Vladimir Beschastnykh Vladimir Yevgenyevich Beschastnykh ( rus, Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Бесча́стных, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʲɪˈɕːasnɨx; born 1 April 1974) is a Russian football manager and a former player who ...
* Artyom Bezrodny *
Diniyar Bilyaletdinov Diniyar Rinatovich Bilyaletdinov (, ; born 27 February 1985) is a Russian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He began his career at FC Lokomotiv Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow, where he made 185 appearan ...
* Denis Boyarintsev * Viktor Bulatov * Yevgeni Bushmanov *
Maksim Buznikin Maksim Buznikin (born 1 March 1977) is former Russia international forward or attacking midfielder. Buznikin spent his prime years playing for Spartak Moscow and Lokomotiv Moscow. In 2005 Buznikin was chosen Rostov's footballer of the year. H ...
* Vladimir Bystrov * Stanislav Cherchesov * Nikita Chernov * Andrey Chernyshov * Valery Chizhov * Denis Davydov * Daniil Denisov * Maksim Demenko * Soslan Dzhanayev * Georgi Dzhikiya * Artyom Dzyuba *
Vadim Evseev Vadim Valentinovich Yevseyev ( rus, Вади́м Валенти́нович Евсе́ев, p=vɐˈdʲim vəlʲɪnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ jɪfˈsʲe(j)ɪf; born 8 January 1976) is a Russian association football, football coach and a former player. H ...
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Aleksandr Filimonov Aleksandr Vladimirovich Filimonov (; born 15 October 1973) is a former association football goalkeeper from Russia. He won the 2011 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup with the Russia national beach soccer team. During his professional career, he wa ...
* Denis Glushakov * Maksim Glushenkov * Sergei Gorlukovich *
Vladimir Granat Vladimir Vasilyevich Granat ( rus, Владимир Васильевич Гранат, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ɡrɐˈnat; born 22 May 1987) is a Russian professional association football, football coach and a former centre-ba ...
* Maksim Grigoryev * Oleg Ivanov * Valeri Karpin * Valery Kechinov * Zaur Khapov * Dmitri Khlestov * Daniil Khlusevich * Aleksandr Kokorin * Dmitri Kombarov * Aleksey Kosolapov * Yuri Kovtun * Fyodor Kudryashov * Vasili Kulkov * Ilya Kutepov * Oleg Kuzmin * Igor Lediakhov * Ruslan Litvinov * Yevgeni Makeyev * Aleksandr Maksimenko *
Ramiz Mamedov Ramiz Mamedov (; ; born 21 August 1972) is a retired Soviet and Russian football player of Azerbaijani descent, best known as a defender for Spartak Moscow in the 1990s. Club career Mamedov's career as player started in 1991 and finished in 2 ...
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Aleksandr Mostovoi Aleksandr Vladimirovich Mostovoi ( ; born 22 August 1968) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Known as ''O Zar de Balaídos'' ("The Tsar of Balaídos") from his lengthy spell at Celta de Vigo, he ...
* Mukhsin Mukhamadiev * Ruslan Nigmatullin *
Yuri Nikiforov Yuriy Valeryevich Nikiforov (alternate spelling Valeriovych; , ; born 16 September 1970) is a professional football coach and a former player who played mainly as a central defender. He is an assistant coach with the Russia national team. C ...
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Viktor Onopko Viktor Savelyevich Onopko (; born 14 October 1969) is a former Russian Association football, football Defender (association football), defender. He is the assistant manager of both FC Rostov in the Russian Premier League and the Russia national ...
* Sergei Parshivlyuk * Roman Pavlyuchenko * Sergei Pesyakov *
Nikolai Pisarev Nikolai Nikolayevich Pisarev (; born 23 November 1968) is a Russian association football, football manager and a former player. He is an assistant coach with Russia national football team. International career Pisarev played his first game for ...
* Pavel Pogrebnyak * Ilya Pomazun * Dmitri Popov * Danil Prutsev * Andrey Pyatnitsky * Dmitri Radchenko * Rashid Rakhimov * Aleksei Rebko * Artyom Rebrov * Ivan Saenko * Aleksandr Samedov * Aleksandr Selikhov * Igor Shalimov * Aleksandr Sheshukov *
Aleksandr Shirko Aleksandr Petrovich Shirko (; born 24 November 1976) is a Russian football scout and a former player. Playing career Shirko started his professional career with Spartak Moscow, with whom he won six Russian Premier League titles, from 1996 to ...
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Roman Shirokov Roman Nikolayevich Shirokov ( ; born 6 July 1981) is a Russian international football official and a former player. He is the general director of Leon Saturn Ramenskoye. As a player, he played as a midfielder. Club career Early career Before ...
* Roman Shishkin * Aleksandr Sobolev *
Dmitri Sychev Dmitri Yevgenyevich Sychev ( rus, Дми́трий Евге́ньевич Сычёв, Dmitriy Yevgen’yevich Sychyov, ˈdmʲitrʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ sɨˈtɕɵf, Ru-Dmitri Yevgenyevich Sychev.ogg; born 26 October 1983) is a Russian p ...
* Vladislav Ternavsky *
Andrey Tikhonov Andrey Tikhonov may refer to: * Andrey Tikhonov (footballer) (born 1970), Russian football manager and footbeller * Andrey Tikhonov (mathematician) (1906–1993), Soviet Russian mathematician and geophysicist * Andrey Tikhonov (runner) (born ...
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Yegor Titov Yegor Ilyich Titov (; born 29 May 1976) is a Russian Association football, football coach and former player who played as an Midfielder#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder. He was known for his Playmaker, playmaking abilities, vision, ba ...
* Dmitri Torbinski * Ilia Tsymbalar * Andrey Yeshchenko * Sergei Yuran * Anton Zinkovsky * Roman Zobnin * Nikolay Abramov * Vsevolod Bobrov * Aleksandr Bubnov * Fyodor Cherenkov *
Rinat Dasayev Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev (, ; born 13 June 1957) is a Russian football coach and a former goalkeeper. Throughout his club career, he played for Volgar Astrakhan, Spartak Moscow and Sevilla. At international level, he played at three Wo ...
* Yuri Gavrilov * Anatoli Ilyin * Anatoli Isayev * Valentin Ivakin * Vagiz Khidiyatullin * Galimzyan Khusainov *
Anatoly Krutikov Anatoly Fyodorovich Krutikov (; 21 September 1933 – 8 November 2019) was a Russian football (soccer), footballer and manager. Club career Krutikov played in nearly 300 Soviet league matches for FC Spartak Moscow, winning the Soviet Top Leagu ...
* Gennady Logofet * Evgenii Lovchev * Eduard Malofeyev * Vladimir Maslachenko * Anatoli Maslyonkin * Alexander Mirzoyan * Gennady Morozov * Igor Netto * Aleksei Paramonov * Viktor Pasulko * Gennady Perepadenko * Sergey Rodionov *
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* Sergey Shavlo * Valeri Shmarov *
Nikita Simonyan Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan (, , 12 October 1926) is a Soviet and Russian former Association football, football Forward (association football), striker and coach of Armenians, Armenian descent. He was born in Armavir, Russia, Armavir. As of 2021 ...
* Yuri Susloparov * Georgi Yartsev ;Europe *
Yura Movsisyan Yura Movsisyan (; born August 2, 1987) is an Armenian former professional association football, footballer who played as a striker (association football), striker. Most notably, Movsisyan played for FC Spartak Moscow, Spartak Moscow in the Russi ...
* Aghvan Papikyan * Aras Özbiliz * Emanuel Pogatetz * Martin Stranzl * Vali Gasimov * Emin Makhmudov * Filip Ozobić * Vasili Baranov * Yegor Filipenko * Artem Kontsevoy *
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Konstantin Kovalenko Konstantin Valeryevich Kovalenko (; ; born 2 February 1975) is a Belarusian and Russian former professional Association football, footballer. He also worked as a youth coach with FC Krasnodar in Russia. Career He made his professional debut in ...
* Raman Vasilyuk * Valery Vyalichka * Ivelin Popov * Danijel Hrman * Mario Pašalić * Stipe Pletikosa *
Ognjen Vukojević Ognjen Vukojević (born 20 December 1983) is a Croatian football manager and former professional player. He is currently the manager of the Croatia national under-20 team, an assistant manager of Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv, and a ...
* Martin Jiránek *
Radoslav Kováč Radoslav Kováč (; born 27 November 1979) is a Czech Republic, Czech Association football, football manager and former player. He is the manager of FC Slovan Liberec, Slovan Liberec. Kováč played both in Midfielder, midfield and in Defender ( ...
* Alex Král *
Marek Suchý Marek Suchý (born 29 March 1988) is a Czech professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for FK Mladá Boleslav, Mladá Boleslav and former captain of the Czech Republic national football team, Czech Republic nationa ...
* Tarmo Kink *
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* Valeri Abramidze * Jano Ananidze * Otar Khizaneishvili * Giorgi Lomaia * Kakhaber Mzhavanadze * Kakhaber Tskhadadze * Malik Fathi * André Schürrle * Serdar Tasci * Szabolcs Sáfár * Salvatore Bocchetti * Andrejs Rubins * Andrejs Štolcers * Ignas Dedura *
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* Christopher Martins * Goran Maznov * Igor Mitreski * Serghei Covalciuc * Alexandru Gațcan * Oleg Reabciuk * Nikola Drinčić * Jorrit Hendrix * Quincy Promes * Guus Til * Demy de Zeeuw * Bolesław Habowski * Wojciech Kowalewski * Maciej Rybus * Aiden McGeady * Adrian Iencsi * Florin Şoavă * Gabriel Tamaş * Srđan Babić * Nikola Maksimović * Marko Petković *
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* Dušan Petković * Mihajlo Pjanović *
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* Miha Mevlja * Kim Källström * Jordan Larsson * Andriy Dykan * Oleksandr Hranovskyi * Maksym Kalynychenko * Oleh Naduda * Serhiy Nahornyak * Maksym Levytskyi * Dmytro Parfenov * Serhiy Pohodin * Oleksandr Pomazun * Yuriy Sak * Eduard Tsykhmeystruk * Dmytro Tyapushkin *
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* Tino Costa * Juan Insaurralde *
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* Clemente Rodríguez *
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Staff

* Owner: Vagit Alekperov, Leonid Fedun * Managing Director: Yevgeni Melezhikov * Director of Sports: Francis Cagigao * Caretaker head coach: Vladimir Slišković * Assistant coach: Carlos Valle * Goalkeeping coach: Vasili Kuznetsov * Physical coach: Fernando Perez Lopez * Reserves team head coach: Aleksei Lunin * Reserves team assistant coach: Aleksei Melyoshin * Reserves team goalkeeping coach: Vasili Kuznetsov


Coaches


References


Further reading

* * Riordan, Jim (2008). ''Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak''. HarperCollins Oub Ltd. .


External links

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Official fan page

Spartak stadium website
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