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Spartak

Full name

Football Club Spartak Moscow

Nickname(s)

Myaso (The Meat)^[1], Red-Whites

Founded

1922

Ground

Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
(Capacity 84,745)

Chairman

Leonid Fedun

Manager

Stanislav Cherchesov

League

Russian Premier League

2007

RPL, 2nd





Home colours





Away colours

FC Spartak Moscow (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Спартак» Москва) is a football club from Moscow, Russia.

Spartak have won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dynamo Kyiv) and 9 of 14 Russian championships. They have also won the Soviet Cup 10 times and the Russian Cup 3 times. Spartak have also reached the semi-finals of all three European club competitions.

The football club is a part of the Spartak Moscow sports society. Other teams in the society include ice hockey club Spartak Moscow.

1 History
2 League positions
3 Nickname
4 Rival teams
5 Stadium
6 Current squad
7 Honours
8 European Cups
9 Managers
10 References
11 External links

See also: FC Presnya Moscow

See also: Nikolai Starostin

In the early days of Soviet football many government agencies such as the police, army, and railroads created their own clubs. In 1921 the Moscow Sport Circle (Moscow sport club of Krasnopresnensky district) (Russian: МКС, Московский кружок спорта), later named Krasnaya Presnya was formed by Ivan Artemev and involved Starostin, especially in its football team.[4] The team grew, building a stadium, supporting itself from ticket sales and playing matches across Russia.[5] As part of a 1926 reorganisation of football in the USSR, Starostin arranged for the club to be sponsored by the food workers union and the club moved to the 13,000 seat Tomskii Stadium and was known as Pishcheviki . The team changed sponsors repeatedly over the following years as it competed with Dinamo Moscow, whose 35,000 seat Dinamo 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.[6] 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.[7] It took its name from the Roman slave rebel and athlete Spartacus

It became part of the Spartak Sports Society during its establishment on April 19, 1935

In 1935 Starostin proposed the name Spartak that was derived from Spartacus, a gladiator-slave who led a rebellion against Rome, and was inspired by eponymous book by Raffaello Giovagnoli. Starostin is also credited with the creation of the Spartak logo.^[2] The same year the club became a part of newly created Spartak sports society.

Spartak's first logo

Czech manager Antonin Fivebr is credited as the first head coach of Spartak, though he worked as a consultant in several clubs simultaneously^[3]. In 1936 the Soviet Top League was established. The first Championship was won by Dynamo Moscow, while in the second one held the same year Spartak came first. Before the WWII Spartak gained two more titles.

During 1950-s Spartak together with Dynamo Moscow dominated in the Soviet Top League. When the USSR national football team won gold medals on the Melbourne Olympics, it considered 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 mid-60s 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.

During the following season, the stadium was still full as the club's fans stayed with the team during its time in the lower division. Konstantin Beskov, who became the head coach (ironically, as a footballer Beskov made his name playing for Spartak's main rivals, Dynamo Moscow), introduced several young players, including Rinat Dasayev and Georgi Yartsev. Spartak came back the next year and won the title in 1979, beating Dynamo Kyiv and thanks to Spartak supporters, the period is considered to be the start of the modern-style fans' movement in the Soviet Union.

On October 20, 1982, disaster struck during the UEFA Cup match between Spartak and HFC Haarlem. Scores of people were trampled. The official number of deaths is 66 but many people believe this number to be significantly higher.

In 1989 Spartak won the its last USSR Championship defeating 2-1 the main rival Dynamo Kyiv in the closing round. Spartak's striker Valery Shmarov scored the "golden" free kick with almost no time left. The next season Spartak reached European Cup semifinal consequently eliminating Napoli (by penalties) and Real Madrid (with 3-1 away victory) but losing to Olympique de Marseille.

A new page in the club’s history began when the USSR 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. Year after year the team also represented Russia in the Champions League.

Problems began in the new century. Several charizmatic 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.^[4]

In the 2005 season, Spartak, led by Aleksandrs Starkovs, finished 2nd in the league following an impressive run to beat Lokomotiv, Zenit and Rubin 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.

Spartak was entitled to place a golden star on its badge in 2003 in commemoration of having won five Russian championships (this having been achieved in 1997).

The team is usually called "red-and-whites", but among the fans "The Meat" 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 1934, and for many years the team was under patronage of one of the Moscow food factories which dealt with meat products.

One of the most favourite slogans of both the fans and players is "Who are we? We're The Meat!" "Meats by Ste'

The other nickname is "Svin'i" ("Pigs"), although, unsurprisingly, this is considered offensive by the team's fans.

At present, Spartak's arch rival is CSKA Moscow; although this is a relatively recent rivalry having only emerged in the last twenty years. One of the most celebrated rivalries is "Spartak-Dinamo", with neighbours Dinamo Moscow. However, this has faded somewhat due to Dinamo's poor performances. Matches against Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg attract thousands of people as well, almost always resulting in packed stadiums. Another rivalry became a "lost" derby with the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was with Dynamo Kyiv, one of the leaders of the USSR championship but now playing in the Ukrainian championship.

Spartak has never had its own stadium and the team has played in various Moscow stadiums throughout its history and even once an exhibition match on Red Square. Currently, the club's home ground is the 5-star Luzhniki arena which officially belongs to another Moscow club, Torpedo.

However, the club's new board has recently declared that "Spartak will soon play on their own stadium". The federal government has agreed to give land for the stadium near the Tushino air field. The construction will begin in 2007 and is expected to end in 2009. ^[5]

As of 18 August 2007, according to the Russian Premier League official website.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Dmitri Khomich
2	DF	Géder
3	DF	Martin Stranzl
5	MF	Mozart
6	MF	Florin Costin Şoava
7	MF	Denis Boyarintsev
9	MF	Yegor Titov (captain)
10	FW	Roman Pavlyuchenko
11	FW	Welliton
13	DF	Martin Jiránek (vice-captain)
14	MF	Dmitri Torbinsky
15	DF	Radoslav Kováč
18	FW	Aleksandr Prudnikov
20	MF	Aleksei Rebko
22	GK	Stipe Pletikosa

No.	Position	Player
23	MF	Vladimir Bystrov
25	MF	Maksym Kalynychenko (vice-captain)
27	MF	Sergei Kovalchuk
30	GK	Wojciech Kowalewski (vice-captain)
32	FW	Nikita Bazhenov
34	MF	Renat Sabitov
36	DF	Fyodor Kudryashov
37	MF	Yegor Lugachyov
40	FW	Artyom Dzyuba
49	DF	Roman Shishkin
55	MF	Oleg Dineyev
59	DF	Andrey Ivanov
70	DF	Ignas Dedura
89	MF	Ádám Dudás

The following players are listed by Spartak's website as reserve players. Those of them who have a number assigned are eligible to play for the first team.

No.	Position	Player
12	GK	Ivan Komissarov
16	GK	Yevgeniy Gubin
17	FW	Artyom Fomin
31	MF	Sergey Parshivlyuk
33	DF	Ilya Gultyayev
38	MF	Artur Maloyan
52	MF	Yevgeniy Andreyev
57	MF	Maksim Grigoriev
60	MF	Vladislav Ryzhkov

No.	Position	Player
77	DF	Yevgeni Shpedt
	GK	Stanislav Manyov
	DF	Mikhail Badyautdinov
	DF	Konstantin Kadeyev
	MF	Nikita Antonov
	MF	Maksim Zhitnev
	MF	Yevgeniy Makeyev

President: Leonid Fedun
Director: Sergey Shavlo
Manager: Stanislav Cherchesov
Assistant manager: Sergey Rodionov
Goalkeeping coach: Gintaras Staučė
Fitness coach: Tony Beretzki
Reserves team coaches: Valery Kechinov, Miroslav Romaschenko and Andrey Shiryayev
Physios: Vladimir Zotkin, Yury Vasilkov and Liu Hungsheng

Champion of the USSR 1936 (autumn), 1938, 1939, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1969, 1979, 1987, 1989
Champion of Russia 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Runners-Up in the Russian League 2005, 2006, 2007
USSR Cup 1938, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1958, 1963, 1965, 1971, 1992
Winner of the Russian Cup 1994, 1998, 2003
Winner of USSR Federation Cup 1987
CIS Cup Champions 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001
Ciutat de Barcelona Trophy Champions 1982

UEFA Champions League 1/2 Final in 1991
Cup Winners Cup 1/2 Final in 1993
UEFA Cup 1/2 Final in 1998

Name	Period	Trophies
Antonin Fivebr	1936
Mikhail Kozlov	August 1936-1937
Konstantin Kvashnin	1937-September 1938, 1944, 1948
Pyotr Popov	September 1938—1939; 1941
Vladimir Gorokhov	1940, 1942-1943
Pyotr Isakov	1945 (January-August), caretaker
Alber Wolrat	September 1945-1947
Abram Dangulov	1949-May 1951
Pyotr Isakov	1945 (January-August), caretaker
Georgi Glazkov	June-December 1951
Vasily Sokolov	1952-1954
Nikolay Gulyaev	1955—1959, 1966, 1973—1975
Nikita Simonyan	1960-September 1965, July 1967-1972
Sergei Salnikov	January-July 1967
Anatoly Krutikov	1976
Konstantin Beskov	1978-1988
Oleg Romantsev	1989-1995, 1997-May 2003
Georgi Yartsev	1996
Vladimir Fedotov	May-June 2003 (caretaker), September-December 2003 (caretaker), April 2006-June 19, 2007
Andrei Chernyshov	June-September 2003
Nevio Scala	January-September 2004
Aleksandrs Starkovs	September 2004-April 2006
Stanislav Cherchesov	June 19? 2007-