2008 FC Spartak Moscow season

Spartak Moscow
2008 season
Manager	Stanislav Cherchesov ; (until September) ; Michael Laudrup ; (from 12 September)
Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium
Premier League	8th
Russian Cup	Progressed to 2009 season
UEFA Champions League	Third Qualifying Round vs Dynamo Kyiv
UEFA Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Four Players (6); All: Nikita Bazhenov (8)
	← 2007 2009 →

The 2008 FC Spartak Moscow season was the club's 17th season in the Russian Premier League season. Spartak finished the season in 8th while progressing to the Quarterfinals of the 2008–09 Russian Cup which took place during the 2009 season. In Europe, Spartak were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League by Dynamo Kyiv at the Third Qualifying round before dropping into the 2008–09 UEFA Cup where they finished 4th in their group.

Season events

On 12 September, Spartak announced the appointment of Michael Laudrup as their new manager.^[1]

Squad

As of match played 18 December 2008^[2]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
12	Ivan Komissarov		GK	(1988-05-28)28 May 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2005		0	0
16	Yevgeniy Gubin		GK	(1989-01-25)25 January 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2005		0	0
22	Stipe Pletikosa		GK	(1979-01-08)8 January 1979 (aged 29)	Shakhtar Donetsk	2007		73	0
35	Soslan Dzhanayev		GK	(1987-03-13)13 March 1987 (aged 21)	KAMAZ	2008		2	0
46	Azamat Jioyev		GK	(1991-01-06)6 January 1991 (aged 17)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
Defenders
3	Martin Stranzl		DF	(1980-06-16)16 June 1980 (aged 28)	VfB Stuttgart	2006^[3]		46	2
4	Malik Fathi		DF	(1983-10-29)29 October 1983 (aged 25)	Hertha BSC	2008^[4]	2011^[4]	27	4
7	Martin Jiránek		DF	(1979-05-25)25 May 1979 (aged 29)	Reggina	2004		123	2
14	Clemente Rodríguez		DF	(1981-07-31)31 July 1981 (aged 27)	Boca Juniors	2004^[5]		83	5
15	Radoslav Kováč		DF	(1979-11-27)27 November 1979 (aged 29)	Sparta Prague	2005^[6]		133	13
33	Ilya Gultyayev		DF	(1988-09-05)5 September 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2006		0	0
48	Yevgeni Makeyev		DF	(1989-07-24)24 July 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
49	Roman Shishkin		DF	(1987-01-27)27 January 1987 (aged 21)	Youth Team	2004		86	1
53	Mikhail Badyautdinov		DF	(1989-10-11)11 October 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
54	Aleksandr Karakin		DF	(1991-03-06)6 March 1991 (aged 17)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
56	Konstantin Kadeyev		DF	(1989-01-17)17 January 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
59	Andrei Ivanov		DF	(1988-10-08)8 October 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2006		24	0
65	Irakli Chezhiya		DF	(1992-05-22)22 May 1992 (aged 16)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
70	Ignas Dedura		DF	(1978-01-06)6 January 1978 (aged 30)	Skonto	2004^[7]		45	4
88	Egor Filipenko		DF	(1988-04-10)10 April 1988 (aged 20)	BATE Borisov	2008		17	0
Midfielders
5	Mozart		MF	(1980-11-08)8 November 1980 (aged 28)	Reggina	2005^[8]		100	11
8	Aleksandr Pavlenko	^[9]	MF	(1985-01-20)20 January 1985 (aged 23)	Lausanne-Sport	2001		138	16
19	Cristian Maidana		MF	(1987-01-24)24 January 1987 (aged 21)	Banfield	2008		31	3
21	Igor Gorbatenko		MF	(1989-02-13)13 February 1989 (aged 19)	Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad	2008		0	0
23	Vladimir Bystrov		MF	(1984-01-31)31 January 1984 (aged 24)	Zenit St.Petersburg	2005^[10]	2008^[10]	113	14
27	Serghei Covalciuc		MF	(1982-01-20)20 January 1982 (aged 26)	Karpaty Lviv	2004		79	3
30	Ivan Saenko		MF	(1983-10-17)17 October 1983 (aged 25)	1. FC Nürnberg	2008		15	1
31	Sergei Parshivlyuk		MF	(1989-03-18)18 March 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2007		29	0
37	Yehor Luhachov		MF	(1988-12-24)24 December 1988 (aged 19)	Lokomotyv Kyiv	2006		2	0
38	Artur Maloyan		MF	(1989-02-04)4 February 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2007		5	0
41	Artak Aleksanyan		MF	(1991-03-10)10 March 1991 (aged 17)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
43	Aleksandr Zotov		MF	(1990-08-27)27 August 1990 (aged 18)	Youth Team	2008		4	0
45	Aleksandr Kozhevnikov		MF	(1990-04-18)18 April 1990 (aged 18)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
47	Dmitri Malyaka		MF	(1990-01-15)15 January 1990 (aged 18)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
57	Maksim Grigoryev		MF	(1990-07-06)6 July 1990 (aged 18)	Youth Team	2008		2	0
58	Dmitri Tumenko		MF	(1989-05-04)4 May 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
61	Igor Kireyev		MF	(1992-02-17)17 February 1992 (aged 16)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
90	Vladislav Ryzhkov		MF	(1990-02-28)28 February 1990 (aged 18)	Youth Team	2008		8	2
96	Konstantin Sovetkin		MF	(1989-02-19)19 February 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2008		6	0
Forwards
11	Welliton		FW	(1986-10-22)22 October 1986 (aged 22)	Goiás	2007^[11]		24	10
17	Artyom Fomin		FW	(1988-07-08)8 July 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2006		0	0
18	Aleksandr Prudnikov		FW	(1989-02-26)26 February 1989 (aged 19)	Youth Team	2007		42	6
32	Nikita Bazhenov		FW	(1985-02-01)1 February 1985 (aged 23)	Saturn Ramenskoye	2004^[12]		94	19
40	Artem Dzyuba		FW	(1988-08-22)22 August 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2006		49	8
44	Pavel Yakovlev		FW	(1991-04-07)7 April 1991 (aged 17)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
62	Vladimir Obukhov	^[13]	FW	(1992-02-08)8 February 1992 (aged 16)	Youth Team	2008		0	0
Away on loan
29	Amir Bazhev		MF	(1988-10-15)15 October 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2006		1	0
34	Renat Sabitov		DF	(1985-06-13)13 June 1985 (aged 23)	Saturn Ramenskoye	2007^[14]		21	0
36	Fyodor Kudryashov		DF	(1987-04-05)5 April 1987 (aged 21)	Sibiryak Bratsk	2005		12	0
55	Oleg Dineyev		MF	(1987-10-30)30 October 1987 (aged 21)	Youth Team	2007		4	0
	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie		FW	(1986-04-15)15 April 1986 (aged 22)	Arsenal	2006		32	1
Players that left Spartak Moscow during the season
6	Florin Șoavă		MF	(1978-07-24)24 July 1978 (aged 30)	Rapid București	2004^[15]	2008^[15]	64	1
9	Yegor Titov		MF	(1976-05-29)29 May 1976 (aged 32)	Youth Team	1995		445	106
10	Roman Pavlyuchenko		FW	(1981-12-15)15 December 1981 (aged 27)	Rotor Volgograd	2003		180	82
25	Maksym Kalynychenko		MF	(1979-01-26)26 January 1979 (aged 29)	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2000		196	32
42	Sergei Harlamov		DF	(1991-01-24)24 January 1991 (aged 17)	Youth Team	2008	2008	0	0
52	Yevgeni Andreyev		MF	(1988-03-11)11 March 1988 (aged 20)	Youth Team	2005		0	0

On loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
29	MF	RUS	Amir Bazhev (at SKA Rostov)
34	DF	RUS	Renat Sabitov (at Khimki)
36	DF	RUS	Fyodor Kudryashov (at Khimki)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
55	MF	RUS	Oleg Dineyev (at Khimki)
—	FW	NED	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie (at Birmingham City)

Left club during season

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
6	MF	ROU	Florin Șoavă (to Khimki)
9	MF	RUS	Yegor Titov (to Khimki)
10	FW	RUS	Roman Pavlyuchenko (to Tottenham Hotspur)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
25	MF	UKR	Maksym Kalynychenko (to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk)
52	MF	RUS	Yevgeni Andreyev (to Irtysh Omsk)

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
Winter 2008	GK	Soslan Dzhanayev	KAMAZ	Undisclosed
Winter 2008	DF	Egor Filipenko	BATE Borisov	Undisclosed
Winter 2008	MF	Cristian Maidana	Banfield	Undisclosed
Winter 2008	MF	Igor Gorbatenko	Krylia Sovetov-SOK Dimitrovgrad	Undisclosed
12 March 2008	DF	Malik Fathi	Hertha BSC	Undisclosed	^[4]
August 2008	MF	Ivan Saenko	1. FC Nürnberg	Undisclosed

Out

Date	Position	Name	To	Fee
September 2008	FW	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Tottenham Hotspur	Undisclosed
Summer 2008	MF	Florin Șoavă	Khimki	Undisclosed
Summer 2008	MF	Yevgeni Andreyev	Irtysh Omsk	Undisclosed

Loans out

Date from	Position	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
22 June 2007	DF	Clemente Rodríguez	Espanyol	Summer 2008	^[16]
2 September 2007	FW	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	Celta Vigo	Summer 2008	^[17]
19 June 2008	DF	Renat Sabitov	Khimki	End of Season
July 2008	DF	Fyodor Kudryashov	Khimki	End of Season
6 August 2008	FW	Quincy Owusu-Abeyie	Birmingham City	January 2009	^[18]
27 August 2008	DF	Amir Bazhev	SKA Rostov	End of Season
Summer 2008	DF	Oleg Dineyev	Khimki	End of Season

Released

Date	Position	Name	Joined	Date
Summer 2008	MF	Yegor Titov	Khimki	11 August 2008^[19]
Summer 2008	MF	Maksym Kalynychenko	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	8 August 2008^[20]
31 December 2008	DF	Aleksandr Karakin	Dynamo Moscow
31 December 2008	MF	Artak Aleksanyan	Pyunik

Competitions

Premier League

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	W	D	D	L	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	L	D	W	W	D	D	D	W	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	L	D	L

Updated to match(es) played on 22 November 2008. Source: See Results
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

16 March 2008 1	Zenit St.Petersburg	0 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Saint Petersburg
16:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Pogrebnyak 22' Šírl 27' Fayzulin 62'	Report	Mozart 7' Stranzl 24' Covalciuc 38'	Stadium: Petrovsky Stadium Attendance: 22,500 Referee: Aleksandr Gvardis

22 March 2008 2	Spartak Moscow	1 – 0	Tom Tomsk	Moscow
18:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Welliton 31' Fathi 69' Prudnikov 82'	Report	Bugayev 16' Klimov 45+' Tarasov 72' Arkhipov 86'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Vitali Doroshenko

29 March 2008 3	Khimki	3 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Khimki
16:45 MSK (UTC+3)	Nizamutdinov 7', 52' Drozdov 15' Čeh 30' 51' Trivunović 68' Mijailović 76' Nikiforov 90'	Report	Fathi 2' Welliton 5' 90' Dedura 26' 90+' Mozart 30' 90+' Pavlenko 33' Parshivlyuk 39' Jiránek 55' Pavlyuchenko 70' (pen.)	Stadium: Rodina Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Igor Egorov

6 April 2008 4	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	Amkar Perm	Moscow
19:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Pavlyuchenko 61'	Report	Sirakov 73' Belorukov 82' Injac 90'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 31,000 Referee: Vladimir Pettay

13 April 2008 5	Dynamo Moscow	4 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kolodin 3' Genkov 15', 68' 17' Danny 32', 70'	Report	Bystrov 16' Welliton 30' 78' Stranzl 34' Pavlyuchenko 41' 45' Pavlenko 49' 64'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

19 April 2008 6	Spartak Nalchik	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Nalchik
19:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Geteriev 39' Džudović 57' Gogua 68' Mashukov 90'	Report	Pletikosa 40' Maidana 42' 76' Sabitov 50' Welliton 57' Bazhenov 70'	Stadium: Spartak Stadium Attendance: 13,200 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

27 April 2008 7	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	FC Moscow	Moscow
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Fathi 13' 90+' Pavlenko 55'	Report	Adamov 67' Bracamonte 69'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 23,000 Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev

3 May 2008 8	Rubin Kazan	0 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Kazan
MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Semak 30' Kvirkvelia 62' Balyaikin 78'	Report	Welliton 20' 30' Mozart 24' Bazhenov 65' Pavlenko 69'	Stadium: Central Stadium Attendance: 28,500 Referee: Nikolai Ivanov

7 May 2008 9	Spartak Moscow	4 – 2	Shinnik Yaroslavl	Moscow
MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Mozart 14' (pen.) Silva 34' (o.g.) Welliton 64' Pavlyuchenko 79'	Report	Monaryov 11' Đorđević 15' 45+' Laizāns 19' Silva 61' Khazov 75' Stepanov 76' Kudryashov 78'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Vitali Doroshenko

11 May 2008 10	Krylia Sovetov	1 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Samara
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Escobar 40' 71'	Report	Maidana 45' Covalciuc 60' Welliton 64' Stranzl 71' Bazhenov 75'	Stadium: Metallurg Stadium Attendance: 33,000 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

15 May 2008 11	Spartak Moscow	1 – 0	Saturn Ramenskoye	Moscow
19:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kováč 35' Bazhenov 41' Pavlyuchenko 90' (pen.)	Report	Karyaka 66' Nakhushev 72' Husin 89'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev

6 July 2008 12	Terek Grozny	3 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Grozny
14:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Iliev 21' Dzhabrailov 53' Bouli 57' Kuzmichyov 66' Kulik 82'	Report	Kalynychenko 36' Pavlyuchenko 90'	Stadium: Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium Attendance: 9,650 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

12 July 2008 13	Spartak Moscow	1 – 5	CSKA Moscow	Moscow
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Mozart 50' Kováč 63' Bazhenov 68'	Report	Vágner Love 15', 34', 44' Krasić 51' Erkin 77'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Yuri Baskakov

19 July 2008 14	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Bilyaletdinov 23' 52' Sychev 42' Rodolfo 60' Traoré 77'	Report	Bazhenov 65' 90+' Pavlyuchenko 70' 72' Kováč 73' Prudnikov 87'	Stadium: Lokomotiv Stadium Attendance: 23,783 Referee: Igor Zakharov

27 July 2008 15	Spartak Moscow	3 – 0	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	Moscow
18:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kováč 39' Pavlyuchenko 55' Prudnikov 66' Mozart 89' (pen.)	Report	Lukačević 33' Streltsov 65' Vujović 74' Čech 87'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

2 August 2008 16	Tom Tomsk	0 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Tomsk
15:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kharitonov 10' Vejić 56' Stoica 59' Kontsedalov 78' Arkhipov 82'	Report	Fathi 10' Prudnikov 65' Pletikosa 71'	Stadium: Trud Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Vladimir Pettay

9 August 2008 17	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	Khimki	Moscow
19:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Pavlyuchenko 20' Filipenko 50'	Report	Șoavă 45' Blatnjak 71'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Aleksandr Gvardis

17 August 2008 18	Amkar Perm	1 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Perm
17:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Volkov 15' 15' Belorukov 44'	Report	Bazhenov 9' Maidana 60' Filipenko 84' Mozart 90+'	Stadium: Zvezda Stadium Attendance: 18,500 Referee: Alexei Kovalev

23 August 2008 19	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	Dynamo Moscow	Moscow
18:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Jiránek 21' Sovetkin 73' Dzyuba 79' Saenko 86' Kováč 90'	Report	Kerzhakov 23' Granat 77' Danny 85' Tanasijević 90+'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Maksim Layushkin

31 August 2008 20	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Spartak Nalchik	Moscow
20:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Fathi 26' 61' Jiránek 32' Saenko 55' Shishkin 87' Dzhanayev 90+' Prudnikov 90+'	Report	Yatchenko 44' Frunză 50' Filatov 59' Džudović 68' Kisenkov 74' Gogua 90+'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

13 September 2008 21	FC Moscow	2 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
14:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Nababkin 21' Bystrov 32' Bracamonte 53' (pen.) Ivanov 63' Goore 90+'	Report	Mozart 4' 58' Ryzhkov 15' Filipenko 26' Kováč 26' Saenko 66'	Stadium: Eduard Streltsov Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Igor Zakharov

21 September 2008 22	Spartak Moscow	0 – 1	Rubin Kazan	Moscow
18:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Saenko 24' Bystrov 90+'	Report	Rebrov 15' Bukharov 27' Ryazantsev 70' Kvirkvelia 76'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Nikolai Ivanov

27 September 2008 23	Shinnik Yaroslavl	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Yaroslavl
15:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Monaryov 61' Boyarintsev 65' Polovinchuk 74'	Report	Rodríguez 21' Fathi 39'	Stadium: Shinnik Stadium Attendance: 17,900 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

4 October 2008 24	Spartak Moscow	0 – 1	Krylia Sovetov	Moscow
MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Bystrov 30' 80' Parshivlyuk 38' Kováč 48' Mozart 65' 88' Fathi 76'	Report	Booth 70' Ivanov 74'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 15,500 Referee: Aleksandr Gvardis

18 October 2008 25	Saturn Ramenskoye	0 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Ramenskoye
19:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Zelão 27' Kovel 90+'	Report	Saenko 32' Dedura 50' Kováč 90+'	Stadium: Saturn Stadium Attendance: 13,200 Referee: Vladimir Pettay

25 October 2008 26	Spartak Moscow	3 – 1	Terek Grozny	Moscow
16:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Pavlenko 45+1' (pen.) Bazhenov 58' Kováč 61'	Report	Kuzmichyov 14' 74' Amelyanchuk 45+1' Mărgăritescu 68'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 11,000 Referee: Vitali Doroshenko

1 November 2008 27	CSKA Moscow	0 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
16:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Zhirkov 84' 84' Šemberas 90'	Report	Rodríguez 41' Bazhenov 56' Parshivlyuk 67'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Aleksei Nikolaev

8 November 2008 28	Spartak Moscow	0 – 1	Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow
MSK (UTC+3)	Prudnikov 26' Kováč 75'	Report	Mujiri 6' Baša 9'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 21,000 Referee: Stanislav Sukhina

16 November 2008 29	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Vladivostok
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kulyomin 56' Gvazava 67' Bulyga 83'	Report	Pavlenko 4' Maidana 89'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Vitali Doroshenko

22 November 2008 30	Spartak Moscow	1 – 3	Zenit St.Petersburg	Moscow
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Fathi 29' Covalciuc 32' Pavlenko 47'	Report	Pogrebnyak 5' Danny 19', 45+1' Anyukov 23'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Igor Egorov

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Krylia Sovetov Samara	30	12	12	6	46	28	+18	48^[a]	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round^[b]
7	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	13	8	9	37	32	+5	47
8	Spartak Moscow	30	11	11	8	43	39	+4	44
9	FC Moscow	30	9	11	10	34	36	−2	38
10	Terek Grozny	30	9	8	13	28	42	−14	35

Source: RFPL (in Russian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored; 7th position in previous season or decision game
Notes:

^ Zenit St. Petersburg ahead of Krylia Sovetov on head-to-head points; Zenit St. Petersburg–Krylia Sovetov 1–1, Krylia Sovetov–Zenit St. Petersburg 0–3.
^ Since both finalists of the 2008–09 Russian Cup qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, Krylia Sovetov earned a spot in the third qualifying round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

Russian Cup

6 August 2008 Last 32	Dynamo Bryansk	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Bryansk
18:30 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kulumbegov 14' (pen.) Tolstykh 39' 68' Spirin 46' Sannikov 79' Larin 83'	Report	Dzyuba 4' (pen.), 31' Luhachov 5' Shishkin 34' 80' Dzhanayev 74' Prudnikov 89'	Stadium: Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Nikolai Ivanov

24 September 2008 Last 16	Shinnik Yaroslavl	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Yaroslavl
18:30 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Kudryashov 57' Yashin 81'	Report	Maidana 42' Ryzhkov 45' Prudnikov 49'	Stadium: Shinnik Attendance: 11,200 Referee: Yuri Klyuchnikov (Rostov-on-Don)

The Quartfinal took place during the 2009 season.

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying rounds

13 August 2008 Third Qualifying Round 1st leg (Spartak Moscow–Dynamo Kyiv rivalry)	Spartak Moscow	1 – 4	Dynamo Kyiv	Moscow, Russia
20:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Bazhenov 5' Kováč 69'	Report	Nesmachniy 22' Bangoura 28', 47' 72' Ninković 31' Milevskyi 45', 86'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 32,600 Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)

27 August 2008 Third Qualifying Round 2nd leg	Dynamo Kyiv	4 – 1 (8 – 2 agg.)	Spartak Moscow	Kyiv, Ukraine
21:45 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Aliyev 4' El Kaddouri 7' Bangoura 24' Yussuf 37' Milevskyi 49', 78'	Report	Pavlenko 45' Dzyuba 47'	Stadium: Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)

UEFA Cup

First round

18 September 2008 1st leg	Baník Ostrava	0 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Ostrava, Spain
20:45 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Řezník 67'	Report	Kováč 42' Fathi 56' Bystrov 68' Pletikosa 90'	Stadium: Bazaly Attendance: 4,120 Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (Macedonia)

2 October 2008 2nd leg	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1 (2 – 1 agg.)	Baník Ostrava	Moscow, Russia
18:00 MSK (DST) (UTC+4)	Bazhenov 3' Kováč 59'	Report	Otepka 32' Neuwirth 74' Bolf 85'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Tony Asumaa (Finland)

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Udinese	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	9
Tottenham Hotspur	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	7
NEC	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6
Spartak Moscow	4	1	1	2	5	6	−1	4
Dinamo Zagreb	4	1	0	3	4	9	−5	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

6 November 2008 1	Spartak Moscow	1 – 2	Udinese	Moscow, Russia
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Rodríguez 17'	Report	Quagliarella 12', 60' (pen.) Pasquale 40' 87' Flores 90'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Kristinn Jakobsson (Iceland)

27 November 2008 2	Dinamo Zagreb	0 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Zagreb, Croatia
22:45 MSK (UTC+3)	Vrdoljak 44' Bišćan 58' Mandžukić 90'	Report	Parshivlyuk 48' Kováč 68' Saenko 75' 90'	Stadium: Maksimir Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Thorsten Kinhöfer (Germany)

3 December 2008 3	Spartak Moscow	1 – 2	NEC	Moscow, Russia
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Covalciuc 2' Zotov 16' Jiránek 27' Ivanov 52'	Report	Sibum 35' Van Beukering 84' Schöne 87'	Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Nicolai Vollquartz (Denmark)

18 December 2008 4	Tottenham Hotspur	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	London, England
22:45 MSK (UTC+3)	Modrić 67' Huddlestone 74'	Report	Dzyuba 23', 33'	Stadium: White Hart Lane Attendance: 28,906 Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

Squad statistics

As of match played 18 December 2008

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		2008-09 Russian Cup		UEFA Champions League		UEFA Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
3	DF	AUT	Martin Stranzl	19	0	16+1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
4	DF	GER	Malik Fathi	27	4	21	3	0	0	1	0	5	1
5	MF	BRA	Mozart	26	2	19+2	2	1	0	2	0	2	0
7	DF	CZE	Martin Jiránek	33	0	26	0	0	0	2	0	5	0
8	MF	RUS	Aleksandr Pavlenko	26	6	16+4	6	0+1	0	0+1	0	3+1	0
11	FW	BRA	Welliton	10	6	9+1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	DF	ARG	Clemente Rodríguez	16	2	8+2	1	1	0	0	0	5	1
15	DF	CZE	Radoslav Kováč	28	2	18+3	2	1	0	2	0	4	0
18	FW	RUS	Aleksandr Prudnikov	28	3	10+11	2	2	1	0	0	4+1	0
19	MF	ARG	Cristian Maidana	31	3	17+7	3	2	0	1+1	0	1+2	0
22	GK	CRO	Stipe Pletikosa	38	0	30	0	0	0	2	0	6	0
23	MF	RUS	Vladimir Bystrov	29	1	18+6	1	0	0	2	0	2+1	0
27	MF	MDA	Serghei Covalciuc	21	1	14+3	0	1	0	0	0	3	1
30	MF	RUS	Ivan Saenko	15	1	5+3	0	1	0	0+1	0	5	1
31	MF	RUS	Sergei Parshivlyuk	27	0	17+1	0	1+1	0	1	0	5+1	0
32	FW	RUS	Nikita Bazhenov	31	8	18+4	6	1+1	0	2	1	4+1	1
35	GK	RUS	Soslan Dzhanayev	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	UKR	Yehor Luhachov	2	0	0+1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
38	MF	RUS	Artur Maloyan	5	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0	2+1	0
40	FW	RUS	Artem Dzyuba	21	6	6+10	1	1	2	1+1	1	1+1	2
43	MF	RUS	Aleksandr Zotov	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1+2	0
49	DF	RUS	Roman Shishkin	20	0	11+2	0	1	0	2	0	4	0
57	MF	RUS	Maksim Grigoryev	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0+2	0
59	DF	RUS	Andrei Ivanov	15	0	6+6	0	1	0	1	0	0+1	0
70	DF	LTU	Ignas Dedura	9	1	6	1	1	0	0+1	0	1	0
88	DF	BLR	Egor Filipenko	17	0	10+1	0	2	0	1+1	0	2	0
90	MF	RUS	Vladislav Ryzhkov	8	2	3+2	1	1	1	0	0	1+1	0
96	MF	RUS	Konstantin Sovetkin	6	0	3+1	0	0+2	0	0	0	0	0
Players away from the club on loan:
29	MF	RUS	Amir Bazhev	1	0	0	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0
34	DF	RUS	Renat Sabitov	3	0	2+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF	RUS	Fyodor Kudryashov	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	MF	RUS	Oleg Dineyev	1	0	0+1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Players who appeared for Spartak Moscow but left during the season:
9	MF	RUS	Yegor Titov	9	0	6+3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	RUS	Roman Pavlyuchenko	15	6	12+2	6	0	0	1	0	0	0
25	MF	UKR	Maksym Kalynychenko	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	Premier League	2008-09 Russian Cup	UEFA Champions League	UEFA Cup	Total
1	FW	32	Nikita Bazhenov	6	0	1	1	8
2	FW	11	Welliton	6	0	0	0	6
	FW	10	Roman Pavlyuchenko	6	0	0	0	6
	MF	8	Aleksandr Pavlenko	6	0	0	0	6
	FW	40	Artem Dzyuba	1	2	1	2	6
6	DF	4	Malik Fathi	3	0	0	1	4
7	MF	19	Cristian Maidana	3	0	0	0	3
7	FW	18	Aleksandr Prudnikov	2	1	0	0	3
9	MF	5	Mozart	2	0	0	0	2
	DF	15	Radoslav Kováč	2	0	0	0	2
	MF	90	Vladislav Ryzhkov	1	1	0	0	2
	DF	14	Clemente Rodríguez	1	0	0	1	2
13	DF	70	Ignas Dedura	1	0	0	0	1
	MF	23	Vladimir Bystrov	1	0	0	0	1
	MF	25	Maksym Kalynychenko	1	0	0	0	1
	MF	30	Ivan Saenko	0	0	0	1	1
	MF	27	Serghei Covalciuc	0	0	0	1	1
			Own goal	1	0	0	0	1
TOTALS				43	4	2	7	56

Clean sheets

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Premier League	2008-09 Russian Cup	UEFA Champions League	UEFA Cup	Total
1	GK		22	Stipe Pletikosa	8	0	0	2	10
TOTALS					8	0	0	2	10

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		2008-09 Russian Cup		UEFA Champions League		UEFA Cup		Total
Number	Nation	Position	Name
3		DF	Martin Stranzl	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
4		DF	Malik Fathi	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1
5		MF	Mozart	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2
7		DF	Martin Jiránek	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
8		MF	Aleksandr Pavlenko	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
11		FW	Welliton	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
14		DF	Clemente Rodríguez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
15		DF	Radoslav Kováč	8	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	12	0
18		FW	Aleksandr Prudnikov	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
19		MF	Cristian Maidana	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
22		GK	Stipe Pletikosa	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
23		MF	Vladimir Bystrov	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1
27		MF	Serghei Covalciuc	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
30		MF	Ivan Saenko	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
31		MF	Sergei Parshivlyuk	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
32		FW	Nikita Bazhenov	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
35		GK	Soslan Dzhanayev	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
37		MF	Yehor Luhachov	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
43		MF	Aleksandr Zotov	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
49		DF	Roman Shishkin	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3	1
59		DF	Andrei Ivanov	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
70		DF	Ignas Dedura	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
88		DF	Egor Filipenko	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
96		MF	Konstantin Sovetkin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players away on loan:
34		DF	Renat Sabitov	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players who left Spartak Moscow season during the season:
10		FW	Roman Pavlyuchenko	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Total				76	5	6	1	2	0	10	0	94	6

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[table_hth_ZEN0.84381043531178-21] Zenit St. Petersburg ahead of Krylia Sovetov on head-to-head points; Zenit St. Petersburg–Krylia Sovetov 1–1, Krylia Sovetov–Zenit St. Petersburg 0–3.

[table_note_res_EL30.84381043531178-22] Since both finalists of the 2008–09 Russian Cup qualified for the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League, Krylia Sovetov earned a spot in the third qualifying round of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League.

[1] "Divided Spartak turn to Laudrup to halt their downward spiral". The Guardian. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

[2] "Russian Premier League Final Stats 2008".

[Stranzl-3] "Spartak sign Austria defender Stranzl". eurosport.co.uk/. Eurosport. 14 March 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2020.

[Malik_Fathi-4] "FC Spartak signed a contract with Fathi" (in Russian). Spartak Moscow official website. 12 March 2008. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2008.

[Cavenaghi_&_Rodríguez-5] "Spartak spend big on Argentinians". uefa.com. UEFA. 27 July 2004. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[Kováč-6] "Spartak secure Kovác signature". uefa.com/. UEFA. 7 March 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

[Dedura-7] "Spartak decide on Dedura". uefa.com. UEFA. 31 August 2004. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[Mozart-8] "Mozart hits right note with Spartak". uefa.com/. UEFA. 19 August 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

[9] Pavlenko was born in Ordzhonikidze, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), but also qualified to represent Russia internationally, making his debut for Russia U21 in 2003.

[Bystrov-10] "Bystrov seals Spartak switch". uefa.com/. UEFA. 30 June 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2020.

[Welliton-11] "Welliton de mudança para o futebol russo". globoesporte.globo.com (in Portuguese). Globoe Sporte. 26 July 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

[Bazhenov-12] "Bazhenov switches to Spartak". uefa.com. UEFA. 29 July 2004. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[13] Obukhov was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, but qualified to represent Russia internationally, making his debut for Russia U18 in 2010.

[Renat_Sabitov-14] ""Спартак" заключил контракт с Сабитовым". km.ru/ (in Russian). km.ru. 21 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

[Șoavă-15] "Soava switches to Spartak". uefa.com. UEFA. 11 March 2004. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[Rodríguez_Loan-16] "El Espanyol ficha a Clemente Rodríguez por dos millones" (in Spanish). Marca. 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2007-06-22.

[Owusu-Abeyie_Loan-17] "Owusu-Abeyie joins Celta Vigo". bbc.co.uk/. BBC Sport. 2 September 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

[18] "Quincy wings in". Birmingham City F.C. 6 August 2008. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2008.

[19] "Официально: Титов перешел в Химки". football.ua/ (in Russian). Football UA. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

[20] "КАЛИНИЧЕНКО ГРАТИМЕ ЗА "ДНІПРО" (ВІДЕО)". tsn.ua/ (in Ukrainian). tsn ua. 8 August 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

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2008 season
Manager	Stanislav Cherchesov (until September) Michael Laudrup (from 12 September)
Stadium	Luzhniki Stadium
Premier League	8th
Russian Cup	Progressed to 2009 season
UEFA Champions League	Third Qualifying Round vs Dynamo Kyiv
UEFA Cup	Group Stage
Top goalscorer	League: Four Players (6) All: Nikita Bazhenov (8)
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