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FC Spartak Kostroma

FC Spartak Kostroma (Russian: ФК «Спартак» Кострома) is a Russian association football club from Kostroma, founded in 1959. The highest level it achieved in its history was second-highest Soviet First League, where it played in 1981 and 1982. In the past, the club was called Tekstilshchik Kostroma (1961–1963), Tekmash Kostroma (1964–1966) and Zvolma-Spartak Kostroma (1992). It was dissolved in the summer of 2018 due to lack of financing.[1] For the 2022–23 season, the club was resurrected once again and entered the third-tier Russian Second League.[2]

Current squad

As of 20 February 2025, according to the Second League website.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Russia RUS Gleb Kosteley
3 DF Russia RUS Sergei Bugriyev
4 DF Belarus BLR Nikita Supranovich
5 DF Russia RUS Denis Zhilmostnykh
7 MF Russia RUS Vitaly Zhironkin
8 MF Russia RUS Dmitri Sadov
10 MF Russia RUS Kirill Korolkov
13 FW Russia RUS Ilya Rubtsov (on loan from Shinnik Yaroslavl)
14 MF Russia RUS Dmitry Kaptilovich
15 MF Russia RUS Kirill Brisev
18 DF Russia RUS Maksim Ignatyev
22 MF Russia RUS Anatoli Nemchenko
23 FW Russia RUS Maksim Chikanchi
24 MF Russia RUS Ivan Kudryashov
No. Pos. Nation Player
26 FW Russia RUS Dmitry Smirnov
31 GK Russia RUS Roland Dzhobava (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)
40 DF Russia RUS Nikolay Genchu
50 MF Russia RUS Denis Fayzullin
55 MF Russia RUS Aleksandr Saplinov
56 MF Russia RUS Viktor Demyanov
62 MF Russia RUS Yevgeny Kovalevsky (on loan from Krasnodar)
68 GK Russia RUS Mikhail Gaydash
69 MF Russia RUS Kirill Chursin
77 MF Russia RUS Ilya Meshcheryakov
78 DF Russia RUS Gennadi Kiselyov
80 MF Russia RUS Arseny Khorin (on loan from Rodina Moscow)
91 DF Russia RUS Aleksandr Kulikov (on loan from Krasnodar)

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Russia RUS Denis Terekhov (at Znamya Truda until 31 December 2025)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Russia RUS Aleksey Larin (at Irtysh Omsk until 30 June 2025)

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Spartak.

References

  1. ^ "Кострома остается без профессионального футбола" (in Russian). GTK Kostroma. 16 May 2018. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ "79 футбольных клубов получили лицензию для выступления в ФНЛ-2" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.