FK Spartaks Jūrmala

Spartaks Jūrmala

Full name	Jūrmalas Futbola un Peldēšanas skola/Spartaks (Jūrmala Swimming and Football School/Spartaks)
Nickname(s)	Sarkanbaltie (Red-whites)
Founded	2007
Ground	Sloka Stadium
Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Spartaks Melkumjans
Manager	Tomas Ražanauskas[1]
League	Virslīga
2017	1st
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

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.^[2]

History

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.^[3] 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

• Latvian Higher League champions (2)
  • 2016, 2017
• Latvian Second League champions (1)
  • 2007
• Latvian First League play-off winners (1)
  • 2011
• Sports Club of the Year in Jūrmala (1)
  • 2011

Managers

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–

League and Cup history

European record

Matches

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

Players and staff

As of 12 September 2018

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Andrejs Pavlovs 2 DF Ioan-Calin Revenco 4 DF Gints Freimanis 5 DF Aleksandar Kosorić 6 MF Andrejs Kovaļovs 7 MF Edgars Vardanjans 8 MF Vitor Faíska 9 MF Aleksejs Višņakovs 10 FW Edgars Gauračs 13 MF Ingars Stuglis 15 MF Artemi Maleyev 17 FW Kaspars Svārups

No. Position Player 18 FW Diego Ezequiel Aguirre 19 FW Ričards Korzāns 20 FW Ariagner Smith 22 DF Gabriel Mello Reichert 23 DF Ingus Šlampe 27 DF Pāvels Mihadjuks 69 MF Denis Davydov (on loan from Spartak Moscow) 81 GK Jevgēņijs Ņerugals 85 GK Mārcis Melecis 99 FW Yevgeni Kobzar DF Tomas Mikuckis FW Aleksandr Prudnikov

Staff

Name, surname	Position
Seržiks Melkumjans	President
Spartaks Melkumjans	Chairman
Jozef Vukušič	Manager
Ivan Lapšanský	Assistant manager
Viktors Terentjevs	Assistant manager
Oļegs Blagonadeždins	Assistant manager
Igors Zjuzins	Administrator
Sergejs Pečņikovs	Physiotherapist
Jeļena Golubeva	Masseuse

References

External links

• Official website (in Latvian) (in Russian)
• Official Latvian Football Federation website (in Latvian) (in English)