FC Spartak Kostroma

FC Spartak Kostroma
Full nameFootball Club Spartak Kostroma
Founded1959
GroundUrozhay Stadium
Capacity3,000
Owner9 Kostroma companies + Kostroma Oblast
General directorAleksey Koryakov
ManagerSergei Bondar
LeagueRussian Second League,
Division A,
Gold Group
2023–24Silver Group, 1st

FC Spartak Kostroma (Russian: ФК «Спартак» Кострома) is a Russian association football club from Kostroma, founded in 1959. The highest level it achieved in its history was second-highest Soviet First League, where it played in 1981 and 1982. In the past, the club was called Tekstilshchik Kostroma (1961–1963), Tekmash Kostroma (1964–1966) and Zvolma-Spartak Kostroma (1992). It was dissolved in the summer of 2018 due to lack of financing.[1] For the 2022–23 season, the club was resurrected once again and entered the third-tier Russian Second League.[2]

  1. ^ "Кострома остается без профессионального футбола" (in Russian). GTK Kostroma. 16 May 2018. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ "79 футбольных клубов получили лицензию для выступления в ФНЛ-2" (in Russian). Russian Football Union. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.