FC Spartak Kostroma

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FC Spartak Kostroma
Full nameFootball Club Spartak Kostroma
Founded1959
GroundUrozhay Stadium
Capacity3,000
Owner9 Kostroma companies + Kostroma Oblast
General directorAleksey Koryakov
ManagerYevgeny Taranukhin
LeagueRussian First League
2024–25Russian Second League,
Division A,
Gold Group
First stage: 2nd
Second stage: 1st (promoted)
Websitefcspk.ru

FC Spartak Kostroma (Russian: ФК «Спартак» Кострома) is a Russian association football club from Kostroma, founded in 1959.

History

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] On 28 May 2025, Spartak secured promotion to the second-tier Russian First League.[3]

Current squad

As of 11 September 2025, according to the First 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  RUS Sergei Yeshchenko
2 DF  RUS Nikolai Tarasov
3 DF  RUS Sergei Bugriyev
4 DF  BLR Nikita Supranovich
5 DF  RUS Denis Zhilmostnykh
6 MF  BLR Kirill Kaplenko
7 MF  RUS Denis Bokov (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
8 MF  RUS Dmitri Sadov
11 MF  RUS Yegor Nazarenko (on loan from Dynamo Moscow)
17 DF  RUS Ilya Kalachyov
18 DF  RUS Maksim Ignatyev
22 MF  RUS Anatoli Nemchenko
23 FW  RUS Maksim Chikanchi
24 MF  RUS Ivan Kudryashov
No. Pos. Nation Player
31 GK  RUS Roland Dzhobava (on loan from Lokomotiv Moscow)
35 MF  RUS Ivan Yenin
55 MF  RUS Aleksandr Saplinov
56 MF  RUS Viktor Demyanov
57 MF  RUS Marat Tlekhugov
66 DF  RUS Yaroslav Makarenko
68 GK  RUS Mikhail Gaydash
69 MF  RUS Kirill Chursin
78 DF  RUS Gennadi Kiselyov
80 MF  RUS Arseny Khorin (on loan from Rodina Moscow)
85 DF  RUS Sergei Puchkov
86 GK  RUS Nikita Korets (on loan from Rubin Kazan)
99 FW  RUS Artur Garibyan (on loan from Rodina Moscow)

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  RUS Denis Terekhov (at Znamya Truda until 31 December 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.
  3. ↑ ""Спартак" из Костромы обеспечил выход в Первую лигу" (in Russian). Mail.ru. 28 May 2025.