FC Spartak Moscow

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 clubs. 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 aligned with the Militsiya, CSKA Moscow with the Red Army, 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 "Sokol movement" with the aim of promoting the "Sokolsk gymnastics" and then sports including fencing, wrestling, figure skating, skating, football, hockey, lawn tennis, 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 Moscow uprising of 1905.

The team grew, building a stadium, supporting itself from ticket sales and playing matches across the Russian SFSR. 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 Stadium, 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 Komsomol (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 "Spartacus", a gladiator who led an uprising against Ancient Rome).

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 World War II 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 Spartacus ("Spartak" in Russian), a gladiator-slave who led a rebellion against Rome. 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 Soviet Top League 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 Antwerp.

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, Dynamo Moscow). He introduced several young players, including Rinat Dasayev and Georgi Yartsev. Spartak returned the following season and won the title in 1979, beating Dynamo Kyiv.

On 20 October 1982, disaster struck during the UEFA Cup match between Spartak and Dutch club HFC Haarlem. Sixty-six people died in a crowd crush 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" free kick with almost no time left. The next season, Spartak reached the European Cup semi-final, consequently eliminating Napoli on penalties and Real Madrid (with 3–1 away victory), but losing to Marseille.

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 Oleg Romantsev, 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 Andrey Tikhonov 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 Lokomotiv Moscow, Zenit Saint Petersburg and Rubin Kazan 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 FC Barcelona, Celtic and Benfica. In the league, Spartak finished in fourth place while in the cup it was eliminated in the round of 16 by FC Rostov 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-Juventus manager Massimo Carrera, Spartak had acquired a squad consisting of foreign talents such as Quincy Promes, Fernando, 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 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage. Despite suffering its greatest ever loss in a 7-0 result against Liverpool F.C. at Anfield, the club achieved considerable victories, including a 5-1 win against Sevilla FC.

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 Napoli (which it defeated both home and away), Leicester City and Legia Warsaw. It was set to face RB Leipzig in the round of 16, but the club - along with all Russian club and national teams - was suspended from FIFA, UEFA and the ECA until further notice due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the clubs continued to play with themselves.

On 29 May 2022, in the final match of Paolo Vanoli (manager since December 2021), Spartak won the 2021–22 Russian Cup.

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

• Soviet Top League/Russian Premier League
  • Champions (22) (record): 1936 (autumn), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989 / 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2016–17
  • Runners-up (18): 1937, 1954, 1955, 1963, 1968, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1991, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011–12, 2020–21
• Soviet Cup/Russian Cup
  • Winners (14) (record): 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1971, 1992, 1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2021–22
  • Runners-up (7): 1948, 1952, 1957, 1972, 1981, 1995–96, 2005–06
• Russian Super Cup
  • Winners: 2017
  • Runners-up (4): 2004, 2006, 2007, 2022
• Soviet First League
  • Champions: 1977
• USSR Federation Cup
  • Winners: 1987

International

• Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
  • Winners (6): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001
  • Runners-up: 1997, 1998, 2002

Non-official

• Match Premier Cup
  • Winners: 2019, 2020, 2021
• Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy
  • Winners: 1982
• Copa del Sol
  • Winners: 2012

European record

Notable European campaigns

UEFA club competition record

UEFA coefficient

Correct as of 21 May 2025.

League history

[[Soviet Union]]

:{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin:auto; font-size:90%;" |- ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Cup !colspan=2|Europe !Top scorer (league) !Manager/acting manager |- ||1936 (s)||rowspan="40"|1st|| style="background:bronze;"|3||6||3||1||2||12||7||13||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Glazkov – 4|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Soviet Union Kozlov |- ||1936 (a)|| style="background:gold;"|1||7||4||2||1||19||10||17||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Glazkov – 7 |- ||1937|| style="background:silver;"|2||16||8||5||3||24||16||37||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Rumyantsev – 8||align="left"|Soviet Union Kvashnin |- ||1938|| rowspan="2" style="background:gold;" |1||25||18||3||4||74||19||39|| rowspan="2" style="background:gold;" |W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Sokolov – 18||align="left"|Soviet Union Kvashnin Soviet Union P.Popov |- ||1939||26||14||9||3||58||23||37|| colspan="2" |-||align="left"|Soviet Union Semyonov – 18||align="left"|Soviet Union P.Popov |- ||1940|| style="background:bronze;"|3||24||13||5||6||54||35||31||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Semyonov – 13 Soviet Union Kornilov – 13||align="left"|Soviet Union Gorokhov |- ||1944||colspan="8"|no league competition||SF||colspan="2"|-|| style="text-align:center;"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Kvashnin |- ||1945||10||22||6||3||13||22||44||15||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Timakov – 7||align="left"|Soviet Union Isakov Soviet Union Vollrat |- ||1946||6||22||8||5||9||38||40||21|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Salnikov – 9|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Soviet Union Vollrat |- ||1947||8||24||6||9||9||34||26||21|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Dementyev – 9 |- ||1948|| style="background:bronze;"|3||26||18||1||7||64||34||37|| style="background:silver;"|RU||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Konov – 15||align="left"|Soviet Union Kvashnin |- ||1949|| style="background:bronze;"|3||34||21||7||6||93||43||49||SF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 26|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Soviet Union Dangulov |- ||1950||5||36||17||10||9||77||40||44|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 34 |- ||1951||6||28||13||5||10||50||35||31||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 10||align="left"|Soviet Union Dangulov Soviet Union Gorokhov Soviet Union Glazkov |- ||1952|| rowspan="2" style="background:gold;" |1||13||9||2||2||26||12||20|| style="background:silver;"|RU||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Paramonov – 8|| rowspan="3" align="left" |Soviet Union Sokolov |- ||1953||20||11||7||2||47||15||29||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 14 |- ||1954|| rowspan="2" style="background:silver;" |2||24||14||3||7||49||26||31||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Ilyin – 11 |- ||1955||22||15||3||4||55||27||33||SF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Parshin – 13|| rowspan="5" align="left" |Soviet Union Gulyaev |- ||1956|| style="background:gold;"|1||22||15||4||3||68||28||34||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 16 |- ||1957|| style="background:bronze;"|3||22||11||6||5||43||28||28|| style="background:silver;"|RU||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Simonyan – 12 |- ||1958|| style="background:gold;"|1||22||13||6||3||55||28||32|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Ilyin – 19 |- ||1959||6||22||8||8||6||32||28||24||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Isaev – 8 |- ||1960||7||30||15||7||8||52||32||37||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Ilyin – 13|| rowspan="6" align="left" |Soviet Union Simonyan |- ||1961|| style="background:bronze;"|3||30||16||8||6||57||34||40||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Khusainov – 14 |- ||1962|| style="background:gold;"|1||32||21||5||6||61||25||47||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Sevidov – 16 |- ||1963|| style="background:silver;"|2||38||22||8||8||65||33||52|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Sevidov – 15 |- ||1964||8||32||12||8||12||34||32||32||SF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Sevidov – 6 |- ||1965||8||32||10||12||10||28||26||32|| style="background:gold;"|W||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Khusainov – 5 Soviet Union Reingold – 5 |- ||1966||4||36||15||12||9||45||41||42||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Osyanin – 15||align="left"|Soviet Union Gulyaev |- ||1967||7||36||13||14||9||38||30||40||R32||CWC||R16||align="left"|Soviet Union Khusainov – 8||align="left"|Soviet Union Salnikov Soviet Union Simonyan |- ||1968|| style="background:silver;"|2||38||21||10||7||64||43||52||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Khusainov – 14|| rowspan="5" align="left" |Soviet Union Simonyan |- ||1969|| style="background:gold;"|1||32||24||6||2||51||15||54||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Osyanin – 16 |- ||1970|| style="background:bronze;"|3||32||12||14||6||43||25||38||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Khusainov – 12 |- ||1971||6||30||9||13||8||35||31||31|| style="background:gold;"|W||ECC|| rowspan="2" |R32||align="left"|Soviet Union Kiselyov – 5 Soviet Union Silagadze – 5 Soviet Union Piskarev – 5 |- ||1972||11||30||8||10||12||29||30||26|| style="background:silver;"|RU||UC|| align="left" |Soviet Union Papaev – 4 Soviet Union Andreev – 4 Soviet Union Piskarev – 4 |- ||1973||4||30||14||8||8||37||28||31||QF||CWC||QF||align="left"|Soviet Union Piskarev – 12|| rowspan="3" align="left" |Soviet Union Gulyaev |- ||1974|| style="background:silver;"|2||30||15||9||6||41||23||39||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Piskarev – 10 |- ||1975||10||30||9||10||11||27||30||28||R16||UC||R64||align="left"|Soviet Union Lovchev – 8 |- ||1976 (s)||14||15||4||2||9||10||18||10||-||UC||R16||align="left"|Soviet Union Pilipko – 2 Soviet Union Lovchev – 2 Soviet Union Bulgakov – 2|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Soviet Union Krutikov |- ||1976 (a)|| style="background:pink;"|15||15||5||3||7||15||18||13||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Bulgakov – 6 |-bgcolor=LightCyan ||1977||2nd|| style="background:lightgreen;"|1||38||22||10||6||83||42||54||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Yartsev – 17|| rowspan="12" align="left" |Soviet Union Beskov |- ||1978||rowspan="14"|1st||5||30||14||5||11||42||33||33||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Yartsev – 19 |- ||1979|| style="background:gold;"|1||34||21||10||3||66||25||50||Qual.||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Yartsev – 14 |- ||1980|| rowspan="2" style="background:silver;" |2||34||18||9||7||49||26||45||SF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Soviet Union Rodionov – 7 |- ||1981||34||19||8||7||70||40||46|| style="background:silver;"|RU||ECC||QF||align="left"|Soviet Union Gavrilov – 21 |- ||1982|| style="background:bronze;"|3||34||16||9||9||59||35||41||Qual.||UC||R32||align="left"|Soviet Union Shavlo – 11 |- ||1983|| rowspan="3" style="background:silver;" |2||34||18||9||7||60||25||45||R16||UC||R16||align="left"|Soviet Union Gavrilov – 18 |- ||1984||34||18||9||7||53||29||45||QF||UC||QF||align="left"|Soviet Union Rodionov – 13 |- ||1985||34||18||10||6||72||28||46||R16||UC|| rowspan="3" |R16||align="left"|Soviet Union Rodionov – 14 |- ||1986|| style="background:bronze;"|3||30||14||9||7||52||21||37||SF||UC|| align="left" |Soviet Union Rodionov – 17 |- ||1987|| style="background:gold;"|1||30||16||11||3||49||26||42||R16||UC|| align="left" |Soviet Union Rodionov – 12 Soviet Union Cherenkov – 12 |- ||1988||4||30||14||11||5||40||26||39||QF||UC||R32||align="left"|Soviet Union Rodionov – 12 |- ||1989|| style="background:gold;"|1||30||17||10||3||49||19||44||QF||ECC||R16||align="left"|Soviet Union Rodionov – 16|| rowspan="3" align="left" |Soviet Union Romantsev |- ||1990||5||24||12||5||7||39||26||29||R16||UC||R32||align="left"|Soviet Union Shmarov – 12 |- ||1991|| style="background:silver;"|2||30||17||7||6||57||30||41||QF||ECC||SF||align="left"|Soviet UnionRussia Mostovoi – 13 Soviet UnionRussia Radchenko – 13 |- ||1992||-||colspan="8"|-|| style="background:gold;"|W||UC||R32|| style="text-align:center;"|-||align="left"|Soviet UnionRussia Romantsev |}

Russia

:{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin:auto; font-size:90%;" |- ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Cup !colspan=2|Europe !Top scorer (league) !Manager/acting manager |- ||1992||rowspan="30"|1st|| rowspan="3" style="background:gold;" |1||26||18||7||1||62||19||43||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Russia Radchenko – 12|| rowspan="4" align="left" |Russia Romantsev |- ||1993||34||21||11||2||81||18||53||R32||CWC||SF||align="left"|Russia Beschastnykh – 18 |- ||1994||30||21||8||1||73||21||50|| style="background:gold;"|W||UCL||GS||align="left"|Russia Beschastnykh – 10 |- ||1995|| style="background:bronze;"|3||30||19||7||5||76||26||63||SF||UCL||GS||align="left"|Russia Shmarov – 16 |- ||1996|| rowspan="6" style="background:gold;" |1||35||22||9||4||72||35||75|| style="background:silver;"|RU||UCL||QF||align="left"|Russia Tikhonov – 16||align="left"|Russia Yartsev |- ||1997||34||22||7||5||67||30||73||QF||UC||R32||align="left"|RussiaUzbekistan Kechinov – 11|| rowspan="6" align="left" |Russia Romantsev |- ||1998||30||17||8||5||58||27||59|| style="background:gold;"|W||UCL UC||Qual. SF||align="left"|RussiaUkraine Tsymbalar – 10 |- ||1999||30||22||6||2||75||24||72||R32||UCL||GS||align="left"|Russia Tikhonov – 19 |- ||2000||30||23||1||6||69||30||70||SF||UCL UC||GS R32||align="left"|Russia Titov – 13 |- ||2001||30||17||9||4||56||30||60||QF||UCL||2nd GS||align="left"|Russia Titov – 11 Brazil Robson – 11 |- ||2002|| style="background:bronze;"|3||30||16||7||7||49||36||55||R32||UCL|| rowspan="2" |GS||align="left"|Russia Beschastnykh – 12 |- ||2003||10||30||10||6||14||38||48||36|| style="background:gold;"|W||UCL|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Russia Pavlyuchenko – 10|| align="left" |Russia Romantsev Russia Chernyshov Russia Fedotov Italy Scala |- ||2004||8||30||11||7||12||43||44||40||R32||UC UIC||R16 QF|| align="left" |Italy Scala Latvia Starkov |- ||2005|| rowspan="3" style="background:silver;" |2||30||16||8||6||47||26||56||R32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Russia Pavlyuchenko – 11||align="left"|Latvia Starkov |- ||2006||30||15||13||2||60||36||58|| style="background:silver;"|RU||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Russia Pavlyuchenko – 18||align="left"|Latvia Starkov Russia Fedotov |- ||2007||30||17||8||5||50||30||59||SF||UCL UC||GS R32||align="left"|Russia Pavlyuchenko – 14||align="left"|Russia Fedotov Russia Cherchesov |- ||2008||8||30||11||11||8||43||39||44||R32||UCL UC||Qual. R32||align="left"|Russia Bazhenov – 6 Russia Pavlyuchenko – 6 Russia Pavlenko – 6 Brazil Welliton – 6||align="left"|Russia Cherchesov Denmark M. Laudrup |- ||2009|| style="background:silver;"|2||30||17||4||9||61||33||55||QF||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Brazil Welliton – 21||align="left"|Denmark M. Laudrup Russia Karpin |- ||2010||4||30||13||10||7||43||33||10||R16||UCL UC||Qual. GS||align="left"|Brazil Welliton – 19|| rowspan="2" align="left" |Russia Karpin |- ||2011–12||style="background:silver;"|2||44||21||12||11||68||48||75||R16||UC||Qual||align="left"|NGR Emenike – 13 |- ||2012–13||4||30||15||6||9||51||39||51||R16||UCL||GS||align="left"|ARM Y. Movsisyan – 13||align="left"|Spain Emery Russia Karpin |- ||2013–14|| rowspan="2" |6||30||15||5||10||46||36||50||R16||UC||Qual||align="left"|ARM Y. Movsisyan – 16||align="left"|Russia Karpin Russia Gunko |- ||2014–15||30||12||8||10||42||42||44||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|NED Promes – 13||align="left"|CHE Yakin |- ||2015–16||5||30||15||5||10||48||39||50||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|NED Promes – 18||align="left"|RUS Alenichev |- |2016–17|| style="background:gold;"|1||30||22||3||5||46||27||69||R32||UC||Qual||align="left"|NED Promes – 11||align="left"|RUS Alenichev ITA Carrera |- ||2017–18|| style="background:#deb678;"|3||30||16||8||6||51||32||56||SF||UCL||GS||align="left"|NED Promes – 15||align="left"|ITA Carrera |- ||2018–19||5||30||14||7||9||36||31||49||QF||UCL UEL||Qual. GS||align="left"|CPV Zé Luís – 10||align="left"|ITA Carrera RUS Kononov |- ||2019–20||7||30||11||6||13||35||33||39||QF||UEL||Qual. ||align="left"|RUS A.Sobolev – 12||align="left"|RUS Kononov DEU Tedesco |- ||2020–21||style="background:silver;"|2||30||17||6||7||52||34||57||R16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|SWE Larsson – 15|| align="left" |DEU Tedesco |- ||2021–22||10||30||10||8||12||16||19||38||W|| colspan="1" | UEL||R16||RUS A.Sobolev – 9|| align="left" |PRT Rui Vitoria ITA Vanoli |} Notes

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, 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, a fiercely contested matchup which is Russia's oldest derby. Matches against Lokomotiv Moscow 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 with Dynamo Kyiv, one of the leaders of the USSR championship, was lost. Since Dynamo Kyiv now plays in the Ukrainian Premier League, both teams must qualify for UEFA tournaments to meet each other.

Since the mid-2000s the supporters of Spartak maintain brotherhood relations with Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) and Olympiacos ultras – a friendship based on common Orthodox faith and same club colours. Also fans of Spartak have generally friendly relationships with Torpedo Moscow supporters, and of supporters of Polish club Lech Poznań.

Stadium

Main article: Otkritie Arena

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. 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 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 (1-1). The first competitive match took place on 14 September 2014, in which Spartak defeated Torpedo Moscow 3–1 in the 7th round of the championship.

Players

Current squad

Other players under contract

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

• Russia Dmitri Alenichev
• Russia Dmitri Ananko
• Russia Ari
• Russia Zelimkhan Bakayev
• Russia Nikita Bazhenov
• Russia Vladimir Beschastnykh
• Russia Artyom Bezrodny
• Russia Diniyar Bilyaletdinov
• Russia Denis Boyarintsev
• Russia Viktor Bulatov
• Russia Yevgeni Bushmanov
• Russia Maksim Buznikin
• Russia Vladimir Bystrov
• RussiaCISUSSR Stanislav Cherchesov
• Russia Nikita Chernov
• RussiaUSSR Andrey Chernyshov
• Russia Valery Chizhov
• Russia Denis Davydov
• Russia Daniil Denisov
• Russia Maksim Demenko
• Russia Soslan Dzhanayev
• Russia Georgi Dzhikiya
• Russia Artyom Dzyuba
• Russia Vadim Evseev
• Russia Aleksandr Filimonov
• Russia Denis Glushakov
• Russia Maksim Glushenkov
• RussiaUSSR Sergei Gorlukovich
• Russia Vladimir Granat
• Russia Maksim Grigoryev
• Russia Oleg Ivanov
• RussiaCIS Valeri Karpin
• Russia Valery Kechinov
• Russia Zaur Khapov
• RussiaCIS Dmitri Khlestov
• Russia Daniil Khlusevich
• Russia Aleksandr Kokorin
• Russia Dmitri Kombarov
• Russia Aleksey Kosolapov
• Russia Yuri Kovtun
• Russia Fyodor Kudryashov
• RussiaCISUSSR Vasili Kulkov
• Russia Ilya Kutepov
• Russia Oleg Kuzmin
• RussiaCIS Igor Lediakhov
• Russia Ruslan Litvinov
• Russia Yevgeni Makeyev
• Russia Aleksandr Maksimenko
• Russia Ramiz Mamedov
• RussiaCISUSSR Aleksandr Mostovoi
• RussiaTajikistan Mukhsin Mukhamadiev
• Russia Ruslan Nigmatullin
• RussiaUkraineCIS Yuri Nikiforov
• RussiaCIS Viktor Onopko
• Russia Sergei Parshivlyuk
• Russia Roman Pavlyuchenko
• Russia Sergei Pesyakov
• Russia Nikolai Pisarev
• Russia Pavel Pogrebnyak
• Russia Ilya Pomazun
• Russia Dmitri Popov
• Russia Danil Prutsev
• RussiaCIS Andrey Pyatnitsky
• RussiaUSSR Dmitri Radchenko
• RussiaTajikistan Rashid Rakhimov
• Russia Aleksei Rebko
• Russia Artyom Rebrov
• Russia Ivan Saenko
• Russia Aleksandr Samedov
• Russia Ilya Samoshnikov
• Russia Aleksandr Selikhov
• RussiaCISUSSR Igor Shalimov
• Russia Aleksandr Sheshukov
• Russia Aleksandr Shirko
• Russia Roman Shirokov
• Russia Roman Shishkin
• Russia Aleksandr Sobolev
• Russia Dmitri Sychev
• Russia Vladislav Ternavsky
• Russia Andrey Tikhonov
• Russia Yegor Titov
• Russia Dmitri Torbinski
• RussiaUkraine Ilia Tsymbalar
• Russia Nail Umyarov
• Russia Andrey Yeshchenko
• RussiaCISUSSR Sergei Yuran
• Russia Anton Zabolotny
• Russia Anton Zinkovsky
• Russia Roman Zobnin
• USSR Nikolay Abramov
• USSR Vsevolod Bobrov
• USSR Aleksandr Bubnov
• USSR Fyodor Cherenkov
• USSR Rinat Dasayev
• USSR Yuri Gavrilov
• USSR Anatoli Ilyin
• USSR Anatoli Isayev
• USSR Valentin Ivakin
• USSR Vagiz Khidiyatullin
• USSR Galimzyan Khusainov
• USSR Anatoly Krutikov
• USSR Gennady Logofet
• USSR Evgenii Lovchev
• USSR Eduard Malofeyev
• USSR Vladimir Maslachenko
• USSR Anatoli Maslyonkin
• USSR Alexander Mirzoyan
• USSR Gennady Morozov
• USSR Igor Netto
• USSR Aleksei Paramonov
• USSR Viktor Pasulko
• USSR Gennady Perepadenko
• USSR Sergey Rodionov
• USSR Oleg Romantsev
• USSR Sergey Shavlo
• USSR Valeri Shmarov
• USSR Nikita Simonyan
• USSR Yuri Susloparov
• USSR Georgi Yartsev

;Europe

• Armenia Yura Movsisyan
• Armenia Aghvan Papikyan
• Armenia Aras Özbiliz
• AUT Emanuel Pogatetz
• AUT Martin Stranzl
• Azerbaijan Vali Gasimov
• Azerbaijan Emin Makhmudov
• AzerbaijanCroatia Filip Ozobić
• Belarus Vasili Baranov
• Belarus Yegor Filipenko
• Belarus Artem Kontsevoy
• Belarus Miroslav Romaschenko
• Belarus Konstantin Kovalenko
• Belarus Raman Vasilyuk
• Belarus Valery Vyalichka
• BUL Ivelin Popov
• Croatia Danijel Hrman
• Croatia Mario Pašalić
• Croatia Stipe Pletikosa
• Croatia Ognjen Vukojević
• Czech Republic Martin Jiránek
• Czech Republic Radoslav Kováč
• Czech Republic Alex Král
• Czech Republic Marek Suchý
• Estonia Tarmo Kink
• FIN Roman Eremenko
• Georgia Valeri Abramidze
• Georgia Jano Ananidze
• Georgia Otar Khizaneishvili
• Georgia Giorgi Lomaia
• Georgia Kakhaber Mzhavanadze
• GeorgiaCIS Kakhaber Tskhadadze
• GER Malik Fathi
• GER André Schürrle
• GER Serdar Tasci
• HUN Szabolcs Sáfár
• Republic of Ireland Aiden McGeady
• ITA Salvatore Bocchetti
• Latvia Andrejs Rubins
• Latvia Andrejs Štolcers
• Lithuania Ignas Dedura
• Lithuania Gintaras Staučė
• LUX Christopher Martins
• Macedonia Goran Maznov
• Macedonia Igor Mitreski
• Moldova Serghei Covalciuc
• Moldova Alexandru Gațcan
• Moldova Oleg Reabciuk
• Montenegro Nikola Drinčić
• Netherlands Jorrit Hendrix
• Netherlands Quincy Promes
• Netherlands Guus Til
• Netherlands Demy de Zeeuw
• Poland Bolesław Habowski
• Poland Wojciech Kowalewski
• Poland Maciej Rybus
• Portugal Gedson Fernandes
• Romania Adrian Iencsi
• Romania Florin Şoavă
• Romania Gabriel Tamaş
• Serbia Srđan Babić
• Serbia Nikola Maksimović
• Serbia Marko Petković
• SerbiaSerbia and Montenegro Nemanja Vidić
• Serbia and Montenegro Dušan Petković
• Serbia and Montenegro Mihajlo Pjanović
• Serbia and Montenegro Goran Trobok
• Slovenia Miha Mevlja
• Sweden Kim Källström
• Sweden Jordan Larsson
• Ukraine Andriy Dykan
• Ukraine Oleksandr Hranovskyi
• Ukraine Maksym Kalynychenko
• Ukraine Oleh Naduda
• Ukraine Serhiy Nahornyak
• Ukraine Maksym Levytskyi
• Ukraine Dmytro Parfenov
• Ukraine Serhiy Pohodin
• Ukraine Oleksandr Pomazun
• Ukraine Yuriy Sak
• Ukraine Eduard Tsykhmeystruk
• Ukraine Dmytro Tyapushkin
• Ukraine Vladyslav Vashchuk ;South and Central America
• Argentina Fernando Cavenaghi
• Argentina Tino Costa
• Argentina Juan Insaurralde
• Argentina Nicolás Pareja
• Argentina Clemente Rodríguez
• Argentina Marcos Rojo
• Brazil Luiz Adriano
• Brazil Alex
• Brazil Ayrton
• Brazil Alexandre Lopes
• Brazil Fernando
• Brazil Rômulo
• Brazil Russo
• Costa Rica Manfred Ugalde
• Jamaica Shamar Nicholson
• Jamaica Robert Scarlett
• Paraguay Lucas Barrios
• Paraguay Jesús Medina
• Paraguay Lorenzo Melgarejo
• Suriname Myenty Abena
• Trinidad and Tobago Levi García
• USA Adam Wolanin

;Africa

• Cameroon Jerry-Christian Tchuissé
• Cameroon Christopher Wooh
• Cape Verde Zé Luís
• DR Congo Théo Bongonda
• Ghana Lawrence Adjei
• Ghana Alexander Djiku
• Ghana Waris Majeed
• Ghana Quincy Owusu-Abeyie
• Morocco Abdelillah Bagui
• Liberia Sylvanus Nimely
• Nigeria Emmanuel Emenike
• Nigeria Victor Moses
• Senegal Keita Baldé
• Senegal Ali Ibra Kebe
• Zambia Fashion Sakala

;Asia

• Uzbekistan Jafar Irismetov
• Uzbekistan Oston Urunov

Staff

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

Coaches

References

References

1. (22 August 2022). "Russian oil firm Lukoil acquires Spartak Moscow soccer club". [[Reuters]].
2. [http://fcspartak.ru/content/ist/ History of Spartak] {{Webarchive. link. (5 May 2006 , fcspartak.ru {{in lang). ru
3. "History of Spartak 1936".
4. {{ill. Robert Edelman. de, Spartak Moscow: A History of the People's Team in the Worker's State. Cornell University Press, 2009.
5. "Labour Olympiads 1925-1937".
6. Зайкин, В.. [[Izvestia. Известия]]. link. (20 July 1989)
7. link. (16 October 2007 , Eduard Nisenboim, ''uefa.com'')
8. (7 December 2017). "Антирекорд: "Спартак" потерпел в Ливерпуле крупнейшее поражение в истории".
9. "Which sports have banned Russian athletes?". BBC Sport.
10. (28 February 2022). "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". [[FIFA]].
11. (15 March 2022). "Russian football clubs banned from UEFA cups, Spartak Moscow ousted from Europa League after suspension".
12. (29 May 2022). ""Спартак" обыграл "Динамо" и стал 4-кратным победителем Кубка России". Russian Premier League.
13. [https://twitter.com/fcsm_eng/status/1535017628611268608 We can confirm Paolo Vanoli made a difficult decision to resign from FC Spartak Moscow's head coach position] {{Webarchive. link. (20 June 2022)
14. (2 September 2022). "Lukoil buys Spartak from former executive {{!}} Upstream Online".
15. "Контракт футбольного тренера Абаскаля со "Спартаком" рассчитан на два года - ТАСС".
16. (2022-06-17). "Новый тренерский штаб "Спартака" пополнился тремя иностранцами".
17. "Леонид Федун владел "Спартаком" 18 лет и 4 месяца, за это время команда выиграла 3 титула".
18. (26 September 2022). "Вице-президент ЛУКОЙЛа Матыцын возглавил совет директоров "Спартака"".
19. (2023-06-21). "Мележиков покинул "Спартак". Чем запомнился бывший гендиректор клуба".
20. "Глава совета директоров "Спартака": красно-белый альянс должен побеждать - Интервью ТАСС".
21. (2023-12-15). ""Спартак" возрождает вторую команду".
22. "Club coefficients". [[UEFA]].
23. (28 February 2022). "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions". UEFA.
24. "Spartak Moscow and Nike Unveil the New Home and Away Kit for 2014-15 Season".
25. "РОСГОССТРАХ – ЧЕМПИОНАТ РОССИИ. ПРЕМЬЕР-ЛИГА. 15-й тур• ЦСКА – "СПАРТАК" – 1:2• 70 000 – НОВЫЙ РЕКОРД ЧЕМПИОНАТОВ РОССИИ!• Самые посещаемые матчи в истории чемпионатов России".
26. "Spartak Moscow squad". Russian Premier League.