FK Spartaks is a Latvian football club that is based in Sloka, Jūrmala. In 2012, they finished 3rd in the Latvian First League championship and after winning the play-offs against JFK Olimps were promoted to the Latvian Higher League. The club plays its home matches at the Sloka Stadium with capacity of 2,500 people.[1]

Spartaks Jūrmala
Full nameJūrmalas Futbola un Peldēšanas skola/Spartaks (Jūrmala Swimming and Football School/Spartaks)
Nickname(s)Sarkanbaltie (Red-whites)
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007)
GroundSloka Stadium
Capacity2,500
ChairmanSpartaks Melkumjans
ManagerOskars Kļava
LeagueVirslīga
20228th
WebsiteClub website
Current season

History edit

FK Spartaks Jūrmala were founded at the start of 2007 as participants of the third tier of Latvian football. They won the Latvian Second League championship in the first year of their existence. The next 4 seasons were spent in the Latvian First League. In 2011, the club made its greatest leap since its foundation, managing to finish the season in the third position right behind Metta/Latvijas Universitāte and Liepājas Metalurgs-2. As reserve teams were not eligible to participate in the top tier championship, Spartaks were promoted via play-offs against JFK Olimps, which they won 4–1 on aggregate. Since 2012 Spartaks Jūrmala have been playing in the Latvian Higher League.[2] Spartaks finished their first season in the Latvian top-tier football in the fifth position of the league table, remaining in a middle-table position in the following two seasons as well, placing 7th in 2013 and 6th in 2014, respectively.

FK Spartaks have an engagement with the Jūrmala Swimming and Football School, the name of which is included in the official name of the club (Latvian: Jūrmalas Peldēšanas un Futbola skola).

From 2012 to 2014 Spartaks Jūrmala was one of two clubs representing the city in the Latvian Higher League and using the Sloka Stadium as their home-ground. After the relegation of FC Jūrmala in 2014, as of 2018 Spartaks remains as the sole representative of the coastal city in Latvian top-tier football.

Honours edit

Managers edit

Name Period
  Sergejs Golubevs 2007–09
  Pjotrs Trebuhovs 2010
  Artūrs Šketovs 2011
  Oļegs Blagonadeždins 2012
  Arminas Narbekovas Jul 23, 2012 – Dec 31, 2012
  Oleg Kubarev Feb 8, 2013 – Jul 28, 2013
  Aleksandrs Stradiņš Jul 2013 – Sept 2013 (caretaker)
  Jurijs Popkovs Sept 2013 – Dec 2013
  Fabio Micarelli Dec 2013 – May 2014
  Oļegs Blagonadeždins Jun 2014 (caretaker)
  Roman Pylypchuk Jun 2014 – Jan 2016
  Oleg Kubarev Jan 2016 – Nov 2016
  Marek Zub Feb 2017–July 2017
  Jozef Vukušič July 2017
  Valdas Urbonas 2017
  Samvel Babayan 2018
  Dmitrijs Kalašņikovs 2018
  Aleksandr Grishin April 2018–August 2018
  Tomas Ražanauskas August 2018–December 2018
  Nunzio Zavettieri January 2019
    Aleksei Yeryomenko[3] February 2020–

League and Cup history edit

Season Division (Name) Pos./Teams Pl. W D L GS GA P Latvian Football Cup
2007 3rd (2. līga) 1/(11) 1/32 Round
2008 2nd (1.līga) 11/(15) 28 9 6 13 32 44 33 1/8 finals
2009 2nd (1.līga) 12/(14) 26 4 2 20 22 71 14 did not participate
2010 2nd (1.līga) 9/(12) 22 6 4 12 32 41 22 did not participate
2011 2nd (1.līga) 3/(13) 24 16 4 4 74 22 52 1/8 finals
2012 1st (Virslīga) 5/(10) 36 13 10 13 61 56 49 1/4 finals
2013 1st (Virslīga) 7/(10) 27 7 4 16 30 49 25 1/8 finals
2014 1st (Virslīga) 6/(10) 36 14 9 13 38 32 51 1/4 finals
2015 1st (Virslīga) 5/(8) 24 5 6 13 20 36 21 1/2 finals
2016 1st (Virslīga) 1/(8) 28 17 4 7 46 22 55 Final
2017 1st (Virslīga) 1/(7) 24 14 4 6 36 26 46 1/2 finals
2018 1st (Virslīga) 5/(8) 28 12 6 10 48 37 42 1/4 finals
2019 1st (Virslīga) 5/(9) 32 13 5 14 49 64 44 1/8 finals

European record edit

Matches edit

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1Q   Budućnost Podgorica 0–0 3–1 3–1
2Q   Vojvodina 1–1 0–3 1–4
2016–17 UEFA Europa League 1Q   Dinamo Minsk 0–2 1–2 1–4
2017–18 UEFA Champions League 2Q   Astana 0–1 1–1 1–2
2018–19 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Red Star Belgrade 0−0 0−2 0–2
UEFA Europa League 2Q   La Fiorita 6−0 3−0 9−0
3Q   Sūduva Marijampolė 0−1 0–0 0–1
Notes
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • 2Q: Second qualifying round
  • 3Q: Third qualifying round

Sponsors edit

Sponsors

  Jūrmalas Pilsētas Dome
  Hanseatisches Fußball Kontor GmbH
  Sportland

Kit manufacturer

  Nike Inc.

Players and staff edit

As of 1 November 2022

Current squad edit

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   LVA Dāvis Veisbuks
2 DF   LVA Klavs Kramens
3 DF   LVA Timurs Azarovs
4 MF   LVA Deniss Meļņiks
5 MF   LVA Danila Patijcuks
7 MF   GHA Kwadwo Asamoah
8 MF   LVA Vladislavs Soloveičiks
10 FW   LVA Daniils Hvoinickis
11 MF   RUS Valentin Zekhov
12 GK   LVA Konstantīns Maculevičs
13 MF   FIN Adam Markhiyev
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF   LVA Raivis Skrebels
16 DF   LVA Daniels Grauds
17 FW   LVA Artjoms Zamullo
18 MF   LVA Kristians Godiņš
20 MF   UKR Yaroslav Terekhov
21 GK   LVA Iļja Isajevs
22 MF   LVA Artūrs Ļotčikovs
23 DF   LVA Deņiss Rogovs
26 FW   LVA Artūrs Ostapenko
27 DF   LVA Aleksandrs Solovjovs

Out on loan edit

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
DF   NGA Lucky Opara (on loan at Narva Trans)
MF   NGA Aliyu Yau Adam (on loan at Hapoel Acre)
MF   NGA Luiz Igbineweka (on loan at Mosta)
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   NGA Sunday Akinbule (on loan at Mosta)
FW   NCA Ariagner Smith (on loan at Panevėžys)

Staff edit

Name, surname Position
  Seržiks Melkumjans President
  Spartaks Melkumjans Chairman
  Alexei Eremenko Sr. Manager
  Saulius Cekanavičius Assistant manager
  Aleksandrs Proskurņins Goalkeeper coach
  Pāvels Fjodorovs Administrator
  Stefan Botezatu Physiotherapist

References edit

  1. ^ "Stadions". FK Spartaks Jūrmala. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Latvijas futbola virslīgā iekļūst Kauguru JPFS/"Spartaks"". Kasjauns.lv. Retrieved 2014-08-10.
  3. ^ @fkspartaks (February 11, 2020). "We are glad to announce that our new..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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