It was at this time that the European Cup competition was established, after the English press declared Wolves " Champions of the World " following their victories against such top European and World sides as South Africa, Racing, Spartak Moscow, and Honvéd in some of football's first live televised games.

She was also on the Spartak Moscow Region team, with Tina Thompson, Sue Bird, and Diana Taurasi.

The game was moved to the Spartak stadium in Vladikavkaz due to extreme weather in Moscow.

The European Cup was a little kinder to Basel in 1970, as they reached the Second Round, losing to AFC Ajax, after defeating Soviets Spartak Moscow in the first round.

On 12 September 2008, it was officially announced that Laudrup signed a 18-month contract with Spartak Moscow.

After having trials at clubs in FC Nantes and FC Metz, Sychev was picked up by FC Spartak Moscow in January 2002, where he scored eight goals in his first 12 matches, and it was during that time when he was transformed into a striker.

In August 2002 Sychev announced he was quitting Spartak, by giving his employers three months ' notice.

Spartak was destroyed when Prince Acroyear used Spartak's Worldmind to destroy Baron Karza.

Sumy was formerly home to the Ukrainian First League football team FC Spartak Sumy ( now defunct ).

# FC Spartak Moscow have never been relegated from the Russian Premier League ; it was relegated from the Soviet Top League only once in 1976.

On July 28, 2012 it was announced that Kim signed with FC Spartak Moscow for € 3 million and € 600, 000 variables.

In the beginning of 2003, Banants merged with Spartak Yerevan, but was able to limit the name of the new merger to FC Banants.

The club from Nijmegen was then drawn against larger European clubs Tottenham Hotspur, Udinese, Spartak Moscow, and Dinamo Zagreb.

But there was hope in the Netherlands after a 1-2 victory against Spartak Moscow in Russia with a very important goal from Lasse Schöne.

But in the 74th minute, there was a sensational moment: Tottenham scored twice to eventually draw 2-2 against Spartak and Collins John almost simultaneously scored to make the score 1-0 for N. E. C.

In 1994 he was hired as an assistant coach for the top Russian club at the time, Spartak Moscow.

When Oleg Romantsev, who was head coach of Spartak and of the Russian national team, decided to focus on the national team in 1996, Yartsev was appointed the head coach of Spartak.

Spartak was rebuilding at the time, but even with many young players in the lineup, they won the league that year.

For the next 3 years he was the manager of the Spartak Moscow veterans team.

Spartak Varna was founded on 28 August 1918 by a group of young people, who were playing football together for two years.

PFC Belasitsa Petrich was founded in 1923 as FC Manush Voivoda. From 1957 the club was called DFS Belasitsa after the union of the local football clubs " Stroitel ", " Cherveno zname ", " Torpedo " and " Spartak ", i. e. all the teams from Petrich.

These high-profile games continued against top national sides such as Racing Club of Argentina and Spartak Moscow of the USSR, before meeting Honvéd of Hungary in a landmark game for English football, televised live on the BBC.

66 fans died in the Luzhniki disaster during the UEFA Cup second round match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem in Moscow on 20 October.

Ferencváros beat Spartak Brno 2 – 1 on aggregate, Wiener Sport-Club 2 – 2 on aggregate, AS Roma 3 – 1 on aggregate, Athletic Bilbao 2 – 2 on aggregate, Manchester United F. C.

They went on to lose to Spartak Moscow in the second round.

Spartak Praha Sokolovo, tied on 40 points, lost the title by two goals of goal difference.

They did so in a " golden game " which had to be played because Spartak and Alania Vladikavkaz were level on points after the championship.

The club went on to confidently defeat both Dynamo's former main rival Spartak Moscow 3 – 0, and Dynamo's current main rival Shakhtar Donetsk in the final, winning the competition for the first time in its history.

Spartak has been entitled to place a golden star on its badge since 2003 to commemorate winning five Russian championships in 1992, 93, 94, 96 and 97.

During his time in Bulgaria, he was sent off only once ( on 13 May 2000, in a 0 – 1 away loss against Spartak Varna in an A PFG match ).

Alania underwent reorganization, were renamed Spartak Vladikavkaz and on 4 April were admitted into the Russian Second Division, South zone.

Later, former Spartak players Maksim Demenko and Vladyslav Vashchuk along with physio Artyom Katulin blamed Katulin's assistant Anatoly Schukin, who allegedly acted on behalf of manager Andrey Chernyshov.

Santa Cruz made his first appearance in the 2006 – 07 UEFA Champions League in a 4 – 0 home win against Spartak Moscow on 12 September, Santa Cruz scored Bayern Munich's second goal with a right-footed shot in the 52nd minute.

He was an honorary member of the committee that organized a benefit match for the victims between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, that took place on October 20, 2007.

On February 23, 2010, Tom Tomsk signed the Moldovan and former Spartak Moscow midfielder on a free transfer and on a two-year deal.

* Serghei Covalciuk's profile on Spartak Moscow website

He was re-signed to a further two-year contract with Spartak on December 23, 2009.

Kim Källström (; born 24 August 1982 in Sandviken ) is a left-footed Swedish midfielder playing for the Swedish national team and FC Spartak Moscow.

Due to several factors, including a recent severe loss of form and conflicts with Spartak Moscow's manager, Titov became unsettled and, in August 2008, left to join FC Khimki.

In August 2008, Karpin was named as Director General of Spartak Moscow, replacing Sergei Shavlo.

In early August 2010, Celtic accepted an offer of around £ 9. 5 million from Russian side Spartak Moscow and McGeady travelled to Moscow for talks.

He then signed a short term contract with his parent club FH Hafnarfjordur until August 2011 when he joined PFC Spartak Nalchik in the Russian Premier League on a short term contract.

In August 2010 he joined the Russian Premier League club PFC Spartak Nalchik on trial and signed a one-year contract with them on 26 August 2010.

On 15 August 2007, he scored his first goal for the club in their Champions League 3rd qualifying round tie against Russian side Spartak Moscow.