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5 unusual facts about FC Spartak Moscow


1990–91 S.S.C. Napoli season

The reliable home form of the 1989-90 season disappeared, whilst the European Cup dream ended already in the Last 16 against Spartak Moscow.

Andrey Kozlov

Kozlov was near the Spartak sports center with his driver, Alexander Semyonov, when they were shot.

Dennis Wilshaw

In his time, Wolves were one of the greatest teams in the world and he played in victories over Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Valencia, Honvéd and Real Madrid.

Leonid Fedun

Fedun owns 9.2% of Lukoil shares and the Russian football club Spartak Moscow.

Nicolai Vollquartz

It was another five years before he officiated a Champions League group stage match – the Group B match between Sporting CP and Spartak Moscow on 5 December 2006 – but it was to be his only experience in the group stage.


1994 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

The second edition of the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was won by Spartak Moscow.

Aleksandrs Starkovs

After his success as the national team coach, he joined Spartak Moscow winning the silver medal of the Russian league in 2005, but in April 2006 he was forced to quit due to total obstruction from the team's fans and a conflict with former team captain Dmitri Alenichev.

Emmanuel Emenike

On 28 July 2011, he was sold to Spartak Moscow for €10 million due to the match fixing scandal involving Fenerbahce and Emenike.

Fyodor Kudryashov

In 2004 while playing for the Siberia selection, he was noticed by Sergey Shavlo, who was Spartak Moscow scout at that time.

Generali Arena

Sparta was hit by a 55,000 CHF fine from European football governing body UEFA in 2001 following racist slurs from the crowd targeted at black Brazilian Luis Robson in a UEFA Champions League match at Letna against Spartak Moscow.

Lacina Traoré

On 2 April 2011, Traoré scored his first league goal of the season and set up a goal for Vladislav Kulik in a 3–1 win over Spartak Moscow.

Pro Evolution Soccer 6

It's not only retired "legendary players" that can be bought, Juan Sebastián Verón (playing for Estudiantes de la Plata by then), Fernando Cavenaghi (then at Spartak Moscow), Freddy Adu (at DC United then) being the most notable cases.

Roman Eremenko

Eremenko moved to Finland with his family at the age of three when his father, former FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Spartak Moscow player Alexei Eremenko Sr., came to play in Finland with FF Jaro.

Unai Emery

On 13 May 2012, Leonid Fedun, owner of Russian team FC Spartak Moscow, announced Emery as club coach for the following two seasons.


see also

Oleg Smirnov

Oleg Aleksandrovich Smirnov (b. 1964), Soviet and Russian footballer with FC Spartak Moscow, FC Rotor Volgograd and FC Shinnik Yaroslavl