Alania Vladikavkaz

Full name	Football Club Alania Vladikavkaz
Nickname(s)	Alanian Barses
Founded	1921
Ground	Republican Spartak Stadium, Vladikavkaz (Capacity: 32,464)
Chairman	Khasan Dzhioyev
Manager	Mircea Rednic
League	Russian First Division
2009	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Historical logo (2006)

Historical logo (2007-2008)

FC Alania Vladikavkaz (Russian: Футбольный клуб Алания Владикавказ) is a Russian football club based in Vladikavkaz (formerly Ordzhonikidze), North Ossetia-Alania.

[edit] History

By the collapse of the Soviet Union, Spartak Vladikavkaz were the only non-Muscovite Russian club competing in the old Soviet Top League.

Their most successful season was 1995 when they managed to grab the Russian Premier League champions title, after several years of Spartak Moscow domination having previously won a silver medal for the second place in 1992 and 1996. However in the qualification stages of the UEFA Champions League Alania lost 10-3 on aggregate to Rangers F.C..

However, after departure of manager Valery Gazzaev and several players from the club, Alania weren't able to get anywhere near the trophy again, finishing at the bottom half of the table.

Previously, the club was known as Spartak Ordzhonikidze (1937-1990), Spartak Vladikavkaz (1990–1994 and 2006), Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (1995-1996 and 2003-2006), Alania Vladikavkaz (1997-2003 and 2007).

In season 2005 Alania was relegated from Russian Premier League.

[edit] 2006 exclusion

On 14 February 2006 Alania and another First Division club, Lokomotiv Chita, were denied professional licences by Professional Football League and excluded from professional football for juridicial irregularities.[1] On 22 February PFL decided to replace Alania and Lokomotiv with Lada Togliatti and Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk, the runners-up in the Second Division.[2] The Russian Football Union did not endorse the exclusion and on 28 February decided to keep Alania and Lokomotiv in the First Division, giving them another chance to fulfill the league requirements.[3] Consequently, on 6 March PFL decided to extend the First Division from 22 to 24 clubs, including Alania, Lokomotiv, Lada, and Mashuk-KMV.[4]

However, on 20 March the Russian Football Union finally decided to exclude Alania and Lokomotiv from the league. This decision was announced by the Professional Football League on 21 March, five days before the start of the First Division.[5]

Alania underwent reorganization, were renamed Spartak Vladikavkaz and on 4 April were admitted into the Russian Second Division, South zone.

After finishing first in the South Zone of 2nd division in the 2006 the team was promoted to Russian First Division and again renamed to Alania.

[edit] League history

[edit] Soviet Union

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1960	2nd, RSFSR-3	14	26	3	4	19	26	68	10	-	-
1961	2nd, RSFSR-4	10	24	6	6	12	32	57	18	1/64	-
1962	2nd, RSFSR-3	8	28	10	6	12	38	36	26	1/128	-
1963	3rd, RSFSR-3	7	30	12	8	10	47	39	32	1/512	-
1964	3rd, RSFSR-4	4	34	16	7	11	53	35	39	1/512	-
	3rd, RSFSR-final	4	8	3	2	3	9	10	8
1965	3rd, RSFSR-4	9	38	16	7	15	54	43	39	-	-
1966		1	38	22	9	7	80	40	53	1/32	-
	3rd, RSFSR-final	2	7	4	1	2	9	4	9
1967	2nd, group 1	16	38	10	11	17	34	45	31	1/32	-
1968	2nd, group 3	2	40	19	12	9	53	29	50	1/64	-		Kaishauri - 18
1969	2nd, group 1	1	38	22	12	4	60	25	60	1/64	-		Papelishvili - 16
	2nd, final	1	3	2	0	1	4	2	4
1970	Top League	17	32	7	8	17	31	48	22	1/16	-		Kaishauri - 8
1971	2nd	5	42	19	7	16	52	57	45	1/16	-		Zazroev - 11
1972		9	38	14	10	14	49	50	38	1/16	-		Kaishauri - 18
1973		17	38	13	7	18	29	44	30	1/16	-		Kaishauri - 7
1974		17	38	15	4	19	45	67	34	1/32	-		Kitaev - 17
1975		9	38	15	7	16	41	43	37	1/32	-		V. Gazzaev - 14
1976		15	38	11	14	13	40	50	36	1/32	-		Kaishauri - 11
1977		15	38	11	11	16	38	45	33	1/32	-		Khuadonov - 6
1978		18	38	10	8	20	30	50	28	1/16	-		Khuadonov - 9
1979		13	46	19	7	20	49	44	45	group stage	-		Suanov, Zazroev - 9
1980		15	46	17	9	20	43	50	43	group stage	-		Khuadonov - 9
1981		21	46	14	12	20	36	49	40	group stage	-		Y. Gazzaev - 10
1982	3rd, zone 3	1	32	22	6	4	64	18	50	-	-		Y. Gazzaev - 23
	3rd, final-1	2	4	1	2	1	5	4	4
1983	3rd, zone 3	1	30	23	2	5	69	23	48	-	-
	3rd, final-2	1	4	1	3	0	2	0	5
1984	2nd	16	42	15	8	19	42	51	38	1/32	-		Argudyaev - 13
1985		16	38	17	4	17	49	52	38	1/16	-		Ambalov - 12
1986		16	46	15	12	19	58	66	42	1/64	-		Ploshnik - 16
1987		18	42	12	12	18	37	46	36	1/64	-		Gagloev - 8
1988		13	42	15	9	8	57	60	39	1/32	-		Y. Gazzaev - 10
1989		17	42	12	11	19	44	61	35	1/64	-		Y. Gazzaev - 10, Tskhovrebov - 7
1990		1	38	24	9	5	73	30	57	1/64	-		Tedeev - 23
1991	Top League	11	30	9	8	13	33	41	26	1/64	-		Suleymanov - 13
1992	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1/16	-

[edit] Russia

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (League)
1992	RFPL	2	26	13	6	7	47	33	32	-	-		Suleymanov - 12
1993		6	34	16	6	12	49	45	38	1/16	-		Suleymanov, Markhel - 14
1994		5	30	11	11	8	32	34	33	1/2	UC	R1	Suleymanov - 6
1995		1	30	22	5	3	63	21	71	1/2	-		Kavelashvili - 12
1996		2	35	22	6	7	65	37	72	1/16	UC	R1	Suleymanov, Tedeev, Kasymov - 11
1997		10	34	14	4	16	52	42	46	1/8	UC	R1	Yanovsky - 13
1998		8	30	11	7	12	46	39	40	1/2	UC	R1	Demetradze - 14
1999		6	30	12	7	11	54	45	43	1/8	-		Demetradze - 21
2000		10	30	10	8	12	34	36	38	1/16	-		Tedeev - 10
2001		11	30	8	8	14	31	47	32	1/16	UC	R1	Paolo Emilio - 6
2002		12	30	8	6	16	31	42	30	1/16	-		Demetradze, D. Bazaev - 6
2003		13	30	9	4	17	23	43	31	1/16	-		Mikholap - 4
2004		14	30	7	7	16	28	52	28	1/8	-		G. Bazaev, C. Tudor - 5
2005		15	30	5	8	17	27	53	23	1/8	-		D. Bazaev - 9
2006	3rd, "South"	1	32	27	3	2	81	20	84	1/16	-		Dubrovin - 28
2007	2nd	12	42	15	11	16	56	56	56	1/64	-		Dubrovin - 19
2008		10	42	17	8	17	50	41	59	1/32	-		Dadu - 18
2009		3	38	21	7	10	57	30	70	1/16	-		Dadu - 12
2010		-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-

[edit] Current Squad

As of December 13, 2009, according to the official PFL website.

No. Position Player GK David Gigolayev GK Mykola Tsygan DF Ibrahim Gnanou DF Valeri Tskhovrebov DF Nikola Valentić DF Tamerlan Varziyev DF Vitali Chochiyev MF Amzor Ailarov MF Aleksandr Arsoyev MF Georgi Bazayev MF Jambulad Bazayev

No. Position Player MF Shota Bibilov MF Soslan Dzhioyev MF Alan Dzutsev MF Aleksandr Gagloyev MF Paolo Adriano MF Andriy Proshyn FW Serghei Dadu FW Elbrus Tandelov FW Taras Tsarikayev MF Mirza Alborov

[edit] Reserve squad

Alania's reserve squad played professionally as FC Spartak-d Vladikavkaz (Russian Third League in 1995), FC Alania-d Vladikavkaz (Russian Third League in 1997) and FC Alania-2 Vladikavkaz (Russian Second Division in 1998).

[edit] Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Alania/Spartak.

[edit] Former Coaches

Oleg Romantsev
Valeriy Gazzaev
Valery Petrakov

[edit] External links

• Official website (Russian)