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; 17 years ago (2007)
Ground	Sloka Stadium
Capacity	2,500
Chairman	Spartaks Melkumjans
Manager	Oskars Kļava
League	Virslīga
2022	8th
Website	https://www.fkspartaks.lv/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

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]

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.

• 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

Name	Period
Sergejs Golubevs	2007–09
Pjotrs Trebuhovs	2010
Artūrs Šketovs	2011
Oļegs Blagonadeždins	2012
Arminas Narbekovas	23 July 2012 – 31 December 2012
Oleg Kubarev	8 February 2013 – 28 July 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–

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

As of 1 November 2022

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

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)

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

• Official website (in Latvian and Russian)
• Official website of the Latvian Football Federation (in Latvian and English)