2006 FC Spartak Moscow season explained

Club:	Spartak Moscow
Season:	2006
Manager:	Aleksandrs Starkovs Vladimir Fedotov
Stadium:	Luzhniki Stadium
League:	Premier League
League Result:	2nd
Cup1:	Russian Cup
Cup1 Result:	Runners-up
Cup2:	Russian Cup
Cup2 Result:	Progressed to 2007 season
Cup3:	UEFA Champions League
Cup3 Result:	Progressed to UEFA Cup in 2007 season
League Topscorer:	Roman Pavlyuchenko (18)
Season Topscorer:	Roman Pavlyuchenko (21)
Prevseason:	2005
Nextseason:	2007

The 2006 FC Spartak Moscow season was the club's 15th season in the Russian Premier League season. Spartak finished the season in 2nd position, qualifying for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round. In the 2005–06 Russian Cup, Spartak finished as Runners-up to CSKA Moscow whilst progressing to the Last 16 of the 2006–07 Russian Cup which took place during the 2007 season. In the UEFA Champions League, Spartak reached the Group Stage, facing Bayern Munich, Internazionale and Sporting CP, before finishing third and progressing to the 2006–07 UEFA Cup Round of 32 against Celta Vigo.

Season events

On 26 April, Aleksandrs Starkovs resigned as manager,^[1] with Vladimir Fedotov being appointed as his replacement the following day.

Squad

^[2]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Dmitri Khomich		Gk	2006 12, df=yes	Alania Vladikavkaz	2005^[3]		5	0
12	Ivan Komissarov		GK	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2005		0	0
16	Yevgeniy Gubin		GK	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2005		0	0
30	Wojciech Kowalewski		GK	2006 12, df=yes	Shakhtar Donetsk	2003^[4]	2008	121	0
46	Aleksei Zuev		GK	2006 12, df=yes	Spartak-Zvezda Shchyolkovo	2001
Defenders
2	Géder		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Saturn Ramenskoye	2006		14	0
3	Martin Stranzl		DF	2006 12, df=yes	VfB Stuttgart	2006		39	0
13	Martin Jiránek		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Reggina	2004		74	2
15	Radoslav Kováč		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Sparta Prague	2005^[5]		70	10
17	Clemente Rodríguez		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Boca Juniors	2004		67	3
20	Ignas Dedura		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Skonto	2004^[6]		29	2
33	Ilya Gultyayev		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
35	Sergei Kabanov		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2002		3	0
36	Fyodor Kudryashov		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Sibiryak Bratsk	2005		2	0
38	Yevgeny Krug		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Chkalovets-Olimpik Novosibirsk	2005		0	0
47	Aleksei Yefimtsev		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
49	Roman Shishkin		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2004		31	1
59	Andrei Ivanov		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		1	0
77	Yevgeni Shpedt		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Chkalovets-Olimpik Novosibirsk	2005^[7]	2007 (+2)	2	0
Midfielders
7	Denis Boyarintsev		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Rubin Kazan	2005		61	9
9	Yegor Titov		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	1995		391	93
11	Aleksandr Pavlenko	^[8]	MF	2006 12, df=yes	Lausanne-Sport	2001		110	10
14	Dmitri Torbinski		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2001		36	0
23	Vladimir Bystrov		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Zenit St.Petersburg	2005^[9]	2008	57	10
24	Mozart		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Reggina	2005^[10]		45	7
25	Maksym Kalynychenko		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2000		160	27
27	Serghei Covalciuc		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Karpaty Lviv	2004		56	2
37	Yehor Luhachov		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Lokomotyv Kyiv	2006		0	0
39	Aleksei Rebko		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2001		17	0
42	Amir Bazhev		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
Forwards
10	Roman Pavlyuchenko		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Rotor Volgograd	2003		136	60
18	Mihajlo Pjanović		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Red Star Belgrade	2003^[11]	2007	62	17
19	Fernando Cavenaghi		FW	2006 12, df=yes	River Plate	2004^[12]		60	17
21	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Arsenal	2006		24	1
32	Nikita Bazhenov		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Saturn Ramenskoye	2004^[13]		43	6
40	Artem Dzyuba		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		8	0
58	Artyom Fomin		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2006		0	0
Away on loan
4	Gabriel Tamaș		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Galatasaray	2004^[14]	2007	24	0
6	Florin Șoavă		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Rapid București	2004^[15]	2008	42	1
40	Aleksandr Laktionov		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2005		1	0
	Aleksei Solosin		GK	2006 12, df=yes	Youth Team	2004		0	0
	Aleš Urbánek		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Sigma Olomouc	2004^[16]	2007	8	0
	Andrejs Rubins		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Shinnik Yaroslavl	2005	2008	7	0
Players that left Spartak Moscow during the season
5	Adrian Iencsi		DF	2006 12, df=yes	Rapid București	2004^[17]	2006	48	2
8	Dmitri Alenichev		MF	2006 12, df=yes	Porto	2004		195	31
37	Tarmo Kink		FW	2006 12, df=yes	Real Tallinn	2003^[18]		6	0

Left club during season

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
31 January 2006	FW		Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	Arsenal	Undisclosed	^[19]
14 March 2006	DF		Martin Stranzl	VfB Stuttgart	Undisclosed	^[20]
25 August 2006	DF		Géder	Saturn Ramenskoye	Undisclosed	^[21]

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
Winter 2006	DF		Luc Zoa	Anzhi Makhachkala	Undisclosed
Winter 2006	FW		Pavel Pogrebnyak	Tom Tomsk	€2,000,000	^[22]
5 January 2006	DF		Nemanja Vidić	Manchester United	Undisclosed	^[23]

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
Winter 2006	GK		Aleksei Solosin	Fakel Voronezh	End of Season
Winter 2006	MF		Andrejs Rubins	Shinnik Yaroslavl	End of Season
Winter 2006	MF		Florin Șoavă	Krylia Sovetov	End of Season
Winter 2006	FW		Aleksandr Laktionov	Aktobe	End of Season
Summer 2006	DF		Gabriel Tamaș	Celta Vigo	Summer 2007
Summer 2006	MF		Aleš Urbánek	Artmedia Petržalka	Summer 2007

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date
10 September 2006^[24]	MF		Dmitri Alenichev	Retired
31 December 2006	GK		Aleksei Solosin	Saturn Ramenskoye
31 December 2006	GK		Aleksei Zuev	Avangard Podolsk	2008
31 December 2006	DF		Sergei Kabanov	Alania Vladikavkaz
31 December 2006	FW		Mihajlo Pjanović	Rostov

Competitions

Premier League

See main article: 2006 Russian Premier League.

League table

Russian Cup

2005-06

See main article: 2005–06 Russian Cup.

Final

2006-07

See main article: 2006–07 Russian Cup. Round of 16 took place during the 2007 season.

UEFA Champions League

See main article: 2006–07 UEFA Champions League.

Qualifying rounds

See main article: 2006–07 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds.

Group stage

See main article: 2006–07 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

|-|colspan="14"|Players away from the club on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Spartak Moscow but left during the season:|}

Goal scorers

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1	FW		10	Roman Pavlyuchenko	18	0	0	3	21
2	FW		19	Fernando Cavenaghi	5	4	0	0	9
3	MF		9	Yegor Titov	8	0	0	0	8
4	MF		23	Vladimir Bystrov	6	0	1	0	7
	MF		24	Mozart	4	2	0	1	7
6	FW		18	Mihajlo Pjanović	3	2	0	0	5
	MF		25	Maksym Kalynychenko	3	0	0	2	5
	DF		15	Radoslav Kováč	2	1	0	2	5
	MF		7	Denis Boyarintsev	2	0	1	2	5
10	FW		32	Nikita Bazhenov	3	0	0	0	3
	MF		11	Aleksandr Pavlenko	1	1	1	0	3
12	DF		13	Martin Jiránek	2	0	0	0	2
13	FW		21	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	1	0	0	0	1
	DF		17	Clemente Rodríguez	1	0	0	0	1
	DF		49	Roman Shishkin	1	0	0	0	1
TOTALS					60	10	3	10	83

Clean sheets

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1	GK		30	Wojciech Kowalewski	5	0	1	2	8
2	GK		46	Aleksei Zuev	1	2	0	0	3
3	GK		1	Dmitri Khomich	1	0	0	0	1
TOTALS					7	2	1	2	12

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		2005-06 Russian Cup		2006-07 Russian Cup		UEFA Champions League		Total
2		DF	Géder	5	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	7	1
3		DF	Martin Stranzl	5	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	8	0
5		DF	Adrian Iencsi	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
7		MF	Denis Boyarintsev	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
9		MF	Yegor Titov	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
10		FW	Roman Pavlyuchenko	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	9	1
11		MF	Aleksandr Pavlenko	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
13		DF	Martin Jiránek	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	6	0
14		MF	Dmitri Torbinski	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
15		DF	Radoslav Kováč	9	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	10	1
17		DF	Clemente Rodríguez	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	0
18		FW	Mihajlo Pjanović	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
19		FW	Fernando Cavenaghi	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
21		FW	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
23		MF	Vladimir Bystrov	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	8	0
24		MF	Mozart	7	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	12	1
25		MF	Maksym Kalynychenko	3	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	7	0
27		MF	Serghei Covalciuc	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
30		GK	Wojciech Kowalewski	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
32		FW	Nikita Bazhenov	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
40		FW	Artem Dzyuba	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
46		GK	Aleksei Zuev	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
49		DF	Roman Shishkin	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
77		DF	Yevgeni Shpedt	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players away on loan:
4		DF	Gabriel Tamaș	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players who left Spartak Moscow season during the season:
Total				82	4	12	1	3	0	14	0	111	5

Notes and References

1. Web site: Александр Старков подал в отставку Подробнее на РБК . sportrbc.ru . Sport RBC . 28 April 2020 . Russian . 26 April 2006.
2. Web site: Russian Premier League Squads & Stats 2006.
3. Web site: Rubins ready for Spartak . uefa.com/ . UEFA . 22 April 2020 . 5 January 2005.
4. Web site: Kowalewski staying with Spartak . uefa.com . UEFA . 19 April 2020 . 7 November 2003.
5. Web site: Spartak secure Kovác signature . uefa.com/ . UEFA . 22 April 2020 . 7 March 2005.
6. Web site: Spartak decide on Dedura . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 31 August 2004.
7. Web site: Spartak sign defensive prodigy . uefa.com/ . UEFA . 22 April 2020 . 20 January 2005.
8. Pavlenko was born in Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), but also qualified to represent Russia internationally, making his debut for Russia U21 in 2003.
9. Web site: Bystrov seals Spartak switch . uefa.com/ . UEFA . 22 April 2020 . 30 June 2005.
10. Web site: Mozart hits right note with Spartak . uefa.com/ . UEFA . 22 April 2020 . 19 August 2005.
11. Web site: Pjanovic secures Spartak deal . uefa.com . UEFA . 19 April 2020 . 18 August 2003.
12. Web site: Spartak spend big on Argentinians . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 27 July 2004.
13. Web site: Bazhenov switches to Spartak . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 29 July 2004.
14. Web site: Tamas bound for Spartak . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 13 February 2004.
15. Web site: Soava switches to Spartak . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 11 March 2004.
16. Web site: Moscow move for Urbanek . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 5 March 2004.
17. Web site: Spartak make double signing . uefa.com . UEFA . 20 April 2020 . 24 February 2004.
18. Web site: Тармо КИНК: ЗА ПОЛГОДА УСПЕЛ ЗАБИТЬ 20 МЯЧЕЙ ЗА РЕАЛ . spartakmoskva.ru/ . FC Spartak Moscow . 19 April 2020 . Russian . 5 July 2003.
19. Web site: Moscow move for Arsenal youngster . news.bbc.co.uk/ . BBC Sport . 24 April 2020 . 31 January 2006.
20. Web site: Spartak sign Austria defender Stranzl . eurosport.co.uk/ . Eurosport . 24 April 2020 . 14 March 2006.
21. Web site: Géder to join forces with Spartak . uefa.com . UEFA . 24 April 2020 . 25 August 2006.
22. Web site: Дёшево купить, дорого продать. Часть 1 . championat.com/ . Championat . 25 April 2020 . Russian . 6 February 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720222832/https://www.championat.com/football/article-77428.html . 2011-07-20 .
23. Web site: Vidic completes Man Utd transfer . news.bbc.co.uk/ . BBC Sport . 24 April 2020 . 5 January 2006.
24. Web site: Официальный сайт ФК "Спартак" Москва - Текст новости . 28 April 2020 . dead . https://archive.today/20070614051058/http://rus.spartak.com/usr/news/item.asp?id=53424 . 14 June 2007 .