2020–21 FC Spartak Moscow season

The 2020–21 Spartak Moscow season was the twenty-ninth successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.

Spartak Moscow

2020–21 season
Chairman	Tomas Zorn
Manager	Domenico Tedesco
Stadium	Otkrytiye Arena
Premier League	2nd
Russian Cup	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Jordan Larsson (15) All: Jordan Larsson (15) Aleksandr Sobolev (15)
Highest home attendance	12,393 vs Lokomotiv Moscow (23 August 2020)
Lowest home attendance	2,363 vs Rostov (31 October 2020)
Average home league attendance	9,333 (2 May 2021)
Home colours Away colours
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

Season events

On 25 July, Aleksandr Rudenko joined Sochi on a season-long loan deal.^[1]

On 2 August, Spartak announced the signing of Aleksandr Kokorin to a three-year contract, with the option of an additional year, after his Zenit St.Petersburg contract had expired.^[2]

On 5 August, Spartak announced the signing of Oston Urunov to a long-term contract from FC Ufa.^[3]

On 6 August, Artyom Timofeyev joined Akhmat Grozny on a season-long loan deal.^[4]

On 12 August, Aleksandr Lomovitsky joined Khimki on a season-long loan deal.^[5]

On 14 August, Georgi Melkadze joined Artyom Timofeyev on loan at Akhmat Grozny for the season.^[6]

On 3 September, Guus Til joined Bundesliga side SC Freiburg on a season-long loan with option to buy.^[7]

On 1 October, Aleksandr Lomovitsky was recalled from his loan at Khimki, and sent on loan for the season to Arsenal Tula, where he was joined by Nikolai Rasskazov in a similar deal.^[8][9] The following day, Reziuan Mirzov joined Khimki on loan for the season.^[10]

On 15 October, Spartak Moscow announced the signing of Victor Moses on loan from Chelsea for the remainder of the season, with an option to make the move permanent.^[11]

On 16 January, Spartak Moscow announced the signing of Jorrit Hendrix from PSV Eindhoven for the remainder of the season, with an option to make the move permanent.^[12]

Squad

As of match played 16 May 2021

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Signed in	Contract ends	Apps.	Goals
27	Timur Akmurzin		GK	(1997-12-07)7 December 1997 (aged 23)	Rubin Kazan	2019		0	0
30	Andrea Romagnoli		GK	(1998-07-29)29 July 1998 (aged 22)	Roma	2019		0	0
31	Anton Shitov		GK	(2000-01-29)29 January 2000 (aged 21)	Ararat Moscow	2018		0	0
32	Artyom Rebrov		GK	(1984-03-04)4 March 1984 (aged 37)	Shinnik Yaroslavl	2011		132	0
57	Aleksandr Selikhov		GK	(1994-04-07)7 April 1994 (aged 27)	Amkar Perm	2016[13]		38	0
91	Daniil Markov		GK	(2001-01-01)1 January 2001 (aged 20)	Youth team	2018		0	0
98	Aleksandr Maksimenko		GK	(1998-02-23)23 February 1998 (aged 23)	Youth Team	2014		99	0
Defenders
2	Samuel Gigot		DF	(1993-10-12)12 October 1993 (aged 27)	Gent	2018	2022	72	8
6	Ayrton Lucas		DF	(1997-06-19)19 June 1997 (aged 23)	Fluminense	2018		78	3
14	Georgi Dzhikiya		DF	(1993-11-21)21 November 1993 (aged 27)	Amkar Perm	2016[14]		133	3
17	Georgi Tigiyev		DF	(1995-06-20)20 June 1995 (aged 25)	Anzhi Makhachkala	2017		7	0
29	Ilya Kutepov		DF	(1993-07-29)29 July 1993 (aged 27)	Akademiya Tolyatti	2012		109	2
35	Leonid Mironov		DF	(1998-09-14)14 September 1998 (aged 22)	Youth team	2015		1	0
36	Artyom Voropayev		DF	(1999-10-30)30 October 1999 (aged 21)	Lada-Tolyatti	2018	2019	0	0
38	Andrey Yeshchenko		DF	(1984-02-09)9 February 1984 (aged 37)	Anzhi Makhachkala	2016[15]		109	1
39	Pavel Maslov		DF	(2000-04-14)14 April 2000 (aged 21)	Tyumen	2018	2024[16]	39	0
56	Ilya Gaponov		DF	(1997-10-25)25 October 1997 (aged 23)	Strogino Moscow	2018		23	0
61	Ilya Golosov		DF	(2001-08-09)9 August 2001 (aged 19)	Lokomotiv Moscow	2019	2024[17]	3	0
63	Daniil Petrunin		DF	(1999-06-10)10 June 1999 (aged 21)	Youth team	2015		1	0
93	Nikita Morgunov		DF	(2001-01-31)31 January 2001 (aged 20)	Youth team	2018		0	0
Midfielders
4	Jorrit Hendrix		MF	(1995-02-06)6 February 1995 (aged 26)	PSV Eindhoven	2021[12]		11	0
8	Victor Moses		MF	(1990-12-12)12 December 1990 (aged 30)	loan from Chelsea	2020[11]	2021[11]	19	4
10	Zelimkhan Bakayev		MF	(1996-07-01)1 July 1996 (aged 24)	Youth team	2013		68	11
22	Mikhail Ignatov		MF	(2000-05-04)4 May 2000 (aged 21)	Youth team	2016		16	1
24	Quincy Promes		MF	(1992-01-04)4 January 1992 (aged 29)	Ajax	2021[18]	2024[18]	145	69
33	Alex Král		MF	(1998-05-19)19 May 1998 (aged 22)	Slavia Prague	2019		53	0
47	Roman Zobnin		MF	(1994-02-11)11 February 1994 (aged 27)	Dynamo Moscow	2016		147	7
54	Nail Umyarov		MF	(2000-06-27)27 June 2000 (aged 20)	Chertanovo Moscow	2019		55	0
68	Ruslan Litvinov		MF	(2001-08-18)18 August 2001 (aged 19)	Youth team	2018		7	0
74	Dmitri Markitesov		MF	(2001-03-22)22 March 2001 (aged 20)	Youth team	2018		10	0
80	Nikita Bakalyuk		MF	(2001-04-03)3 April 2001 (aged 20)	Youth team	2018		1	0
84	Stepan Oganesyan		MF	(2001-09-28)28 September 2001 (aged 19)	Youth team	2019		2	0
87	Ayaz Guliyev		MF	(1996-11-27)27 November 1996 (aged 24)	Youth team	2012		26	1
90	Konstantin Shiltsov		MF	(2002-05-07)7 May 2002 (aged 19)	Youth team	2019		1	0
Forwards
7	Aleksandr Sobolev		FW	(1997-03-07)7 March 1997 (aged 24)	Krylia Sovetov	2020[19]		37	18
11	Jordan Larsson		FW	(1997-06-20)20 June 1997 (aged 23)	IFK Norrköping	2019		60	25
13	Nikoloz Kutateladze		FW	(2001-03-19)19 March 2001 (aged 20)	Anzhi Makhachkala	2019		0	0
19	Ezequiel Ponce		FW	(1997-03-29)29 March 1997 (aged 24)	Roma	2019		62	21
89	Ilya Golyatov		FW	(2002-04-06)6 April 2002 (aged 19)	Youth team	2019		0	0
99	Pedro Rocha		FW	(1994-10-01)1 October 1994 (aged 26)	Grêmio	2017		19	1
Unregistered
88	Aleksandr Tashayev		MF	(1994-06-23)23 June 1994 (aged 26)	Dynamo Moscow	2018		28	0
Away on loan
8	Guus Til		MF	(1997-12-22)22 December 1997 (aged 23)	AZ Alkmaar	2019		24	2
15	Maksim Glushenkov		MF	(1999-07-28)28 July 1999 (aged 21)	Chertanovo Moscow	2019		11	0
20	Oston Urunov		MF	(2000-12-19)19 December 2000 (aged 20)	Ufa	2020[3]		9	1
23	Aleksandr Lomovitsky		MF	(1998-01-27)27 January 1998 (aged 23)	Youth team	2015		25	0
37	Georgi Melkadze		MF	(1997-04-04)4 April 1997 (aged 24)	Youth team	2014		22	0
40	Artyom Timofeyev		MF	(1994-01-12)12 January 1994 (aged 27)	Your team	2012		32	0
77	Reziuan Mirzov		FW	(1993-06-22)22 June 1993 (aged 27)	Rostov	2019		27	1
79	Aleksandr Rudenko		FW	(1999-03-15)15 March 1999 (aged 22)	Youth team	2015		0	0
92	Nikolai Rasskazov		DF	(1998-01-04)4 January 1998 (aged 23)	Youth team	2015		50	2
Players that left Spartak Moscow during the season
9	Aleksandr Kokorin		FW	(1991-03-19)19 March 1991 (aged 30)	Zenit St.Petersburg	2020[2]	2023 (+1)[2]	10	2
21	Malcolm Badu		DF	(1997-06-23)23 June 1997 (aged 23)	VfL Wolfsburg II	2019		0	0
42	Vladislav Vasilyev		MF	(1999-07-27)27 July 1999 (aged 21)	Dnepr Smolensk	2019		19	0
66	Sylvanus Nimely		FW	(1998-04-04)4 April 1998 (aged 23)	MFK Karviná	2016		1	0
67	Maksim Sazonov		DF	(2000-04-02)2 April 2000 (aged 21)	Youth team	2017		0	0
70	Ivan Repyakh		MF	(2001-10-18)18 October 2001 (aged 19)	Youth team	2018		0	0
78	Maksim Danilin		MF	(2001-09-13)13 September 2001 (aged 19)	Youth team	2018		0	0
87	Svyatoslav Kozhedub		MF	(2002-05-22)22 May 2002 (aged 18)	Youth team	2019		1	0

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 8 MF  NED Guus Til (at SC Freiburg until end of 2020–21 season) 15 MF  RUS Maksim Glushenkov (at Khimki until end of 2020–21 season) 20 MF  UZB Oston Urunov (at Ufa until end of 2020–21 season) 23 MF  RUS Aleksandr Lomovitsky (at Arsenal Tula until end of 2020–21 season) 37 MF  RUS Georgi Melkadze (at Akhmat Grozny until end of 2020–21 season)

No. Pos. Nation Player 40 MF  RUS Artyom Timofeyev (at Akhmat Grozny until end of 2020–21 season) 77 FW  RUS Reziuan Mirzov (at Khimki until end of 2020–21 season) 79 FW  RUS Aleksandr Rudenko (at Sochi until end of 2020–21 season) 92 DF  RUS Nikolai Rasskazov (at Arsenal Tula until end of 2020–21 season)

Transfers

Main articles: List of Russian football transfers summer 2020 and List of Russian football transfers winter 2020–21

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
2 August 2020	FW		Aleksandr Kokorin	Zenit St.Petersburg	Free	[2]
5 August 2020	MF		Oston Urunov	Ufa	Undisclosed	[3]
16 January 2021	MF		Jorrit Hendrix	PSV Eindhoven	Undisclosed	[12]
24 February 2021	MF		Quincy Promes	Ajax	Undisclosed	[18]

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date to	Ref.
15 October 2020	MF		Victor Moses	Chelsea	End of season	[11]

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
21 January 2021	FW		Aleksandr Kokorin	Fiorentina	Undisclosed	[20]
26 January 2021	FW		Sylvanus Nimely	Gorica	Undisclosed	[21]
4 February 2021	MF		Vladislav Vasilyev	Van	Undisclosed	[22]

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
24 December 2019	FW		Pedro Rocha	Flamengo	31 December 2020	[23][24]
25 July 2020	FW		Aleksandr Rudenko	Sochi	End of season	[1]
6 August 2020	MF		Artyom Timofeyev	Akhmat Grozny	End of season	[4]
12 August 2020	MF		Aleksandr Lomovitsky	Khimki	1 October 2020	[5][9]
14 August 2020	MF		Georgi Melkadze	Akhmat Grozny	End of season	[6]
3 September 2020	MF		Guus Til	SC Freiburg	End of season	[7]
1 October 2020	DF		Nikolai Rasskazov	Arsenal Tula	End of season	[8]
1 October 2020	MF		Aleksandr Lomovitsky	Arsenal Tula	End of season	[9]
2 October 2020	FW		Reziuan Mirzov	Khimki	End of season	[9]
2 February 2021	MF		Maksim Glushenkov	Khimki	End of season	[25]
20 February 2021	MF		Oston Urunov	Ufa	End of season	[26]

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date	Ref.
31 December 2020	MF		Maksim Danilin
31 December 2020	MF		Svyatoslav Kozhedub
31 December 2020	DF		Maksim Sazonov	Metallurg Lipetsk
14 January 2021	DF		Malcolm Badu			[27]

Friendlies

Pakhtakor Tashkent v Spartak Moscow

30 January 2021	Pakhtakor Tashkent	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
15:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Ćeran 7' (pen.)	Report	Král 30' Zobnin 87'	Stadium: Jebel Ali Stadium

Competitions

Premier League

Main article: 2020–21 Russian Premier League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Zenit Saint Petersburg (C)	30	19	8	3	76	26	+50	65	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Spartak Moscow	30	17	6	7	56	37	+19	57	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	17	5	8	45	35	+10	56	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a]
4	Rubin Kazan	30	16	5	9	42	33	+9	53[b]	Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round
5	Sochi	30	15	8	7	49	33	+16	53[b]	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round

Source: Premier Liga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head matches won; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored; 6) Matches won; 7) Goal difference; 8) Goals scored; 9) Play-off.
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. FC Lokomotiv Moscow qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2020–21 Russian Cup. The Europa Conference League spot awarded to the third-placed team is passed to fourth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team is passed to fifth-placed team.
2. Head-to-head points: Rubin 3, Sochi 3. Overall matches won: Rubin 16, Sochi 15.

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	17	6	7	57	37	+20	57	9	3	3	32	16	+16	8	3	4	25	21	+4

Last updated: 16 May 2021.
Source: See Results

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	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A
Result	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	L	D	D	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	W	D
Position	7	4	6	2	2	1	3	2	2	2	2	1	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	4	3	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 16 May 2021. Source: Premier Liga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

Spartak Moscow v Sochi

9 August 2020 1	Spartak Moscow	2 – 2	Sochi	Moscow
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Sobolev 8'  8' Larsson 10'  74' Král  84' Maksimenko  90'	Report	Poloz 15' (pen.) Terkhov  40' Margasov  82' Noboa 90' (pen.)	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 9,738 Referee: Vasili Kazartsev

Spartak Moscow v Akhmat Grozny

14 August 2020 2	Spartak Moscow	2 – 0	Akhmat Grozny	Moscow
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Král  40' Larsson 52' (pen.) Ponce 69' Zobnin  86'	Report	Berisha  2' Shvets  26' Kharin  38' Ismael  40' Semyonov  50' Nenakhov  68'  77' Bogosavac  72' Roshi  90+'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 8,946 Referee: Evgeny Turbin

Ufa v Spartak Moscow

19 August 2020 3	Ufa	1 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Ufa
16:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Alikin 2'  27' Zhamaletdinov  78' Folmer  80'	Report	Larsson 12' Ponce 18'	Stadium: Neftyanik Stadium Attendance: 3,407 Referee: Stanislav Vasiliev

Spartak Moscow v Lokomotiv Moscow

23 August 2020 4	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Lokomotiv Moscow	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Larsson 53' Sobolev 81' Umyarov  86'	Report	Barinov  7' Cerqueira 10' Rybus  42' Krychowiak  44' Ćorluka  69' Rybchinsky  80' Guilherme  90+4'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 12,393 Referee: Sergei Karasev

Rotor Volgograd v Spartak Moscow

26 August 2020 5	Rotor Volgograd	0 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Volgograd
18:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Makarov  28' Kvirkvelia  53' Bairyyev  66' Gogoua  71' Kozhemyakin  90+'	Report	Bakayev  5' 55' (pen.) Zobnin  65' Yeshchenko  90+' Sobolev  90+' Maksimenko  90+' Maslov  90+'	Stadium: Volgograd Arena Attendance: 18,139 Referee: Alexey Sukhoi

Spartak Moscow v Arsenal Tula

29 August 2020 6	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Arsenal Tula	Moscow
18:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Sobolev 41' Gigot 45+'  71'	Report	Lesovoy  13'  45' Sokol  30' Khlusevich 36' Panteleyev  42' Čaušić  90'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 9,186 Referee: Aleksei Matyunin

CSKA Moscow v Spartak Moscow

13 September 2020 7	CSKA Moscow	3 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Karpov  1' Magnússon 30'  90+' Vlašić 45+' Ejuke 90+' Shchennikov  FT'	Report	Ponce 11' Maslov  29' Ayrton  34' Sobolev  58' Urunov  90'	Stadium: VEB Arena Attendance: 13,330 Referee: Sergei Karasev

Rubin Kazan v Spartak Moscow

20 September 2020 8	Rubin Kazan	0 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Kazan
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Kvaratskhelia  24' Abildgaard  29' Merkulov  47' Uremović  90' Makarov  90+' Jevtić  90+'	Report	Larsson 5' Merkulov 21' (o.g.) Maslov  39'  61' Maksimenko  61' Urunov  81'	Stadium: Ak Bars Arena Attendance: 18,465 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

Tambov v Spartak Moscow

26 September 2020 9	Tambov	0 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Saransk
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Balashov  40' Ciupercă  57' Chagrov  82' Kapliyenko  90'	Report	Kutepov  10' Ponce  55' Ayrton 75', 84' Zobnin  87'	Stadium: Mordovia Arena Attendance: 14,977 Referee: Igor Panin
Note: Match played at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk instead of Tambov's regular Spartak Stadium.

Spartak Moscow v Zenit St.Petersburg

3 October 2020 10	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	Zenit St.Petersburg	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Sobolev  59' Ponce 86' Yeshchenko  90'	Report	Douglas  37' Yerokhin 65' Barrios  88' Lovren  89'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 17,150 Referee: Pavel Kukuyan

Khimki v Spartak Moscow

17 October 2020 11	Khimki	2 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Khimki
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Troshechkin  5' Mirzov  40' 48' Kukharchuk  52' Logashov  57' Idowu 85' Glushakov  88' Danilkin  90+'	Report	Ponce  29' 63' Maslov  31' Kokorin 57' (pen.)  70' Larsson 77'	Stadium: Arena Khimki Attendance: 3,881 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

Krasnodar v Spartak Moscow

24 October 2020 12	Krasnodar	1 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Krasnodar
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Vilhena  52' Sabua 59' Martynovich  63'  90+' Smolnikov  74'	Report	Ponce 13' Moses 33' Dzhikiya  48' Maslov  64' Larsson 82' Umyarov  83'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 10,554 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

Spartak Moscow v Rostov

31 October 2020 13	Spartak Moscow	0 – 1	Rostov	Moscow
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Larsson  41' Kutepov  55' Sobolev  58' Ayrton  90'	Report	Mamayev 26' Hadžikadunić  42'  75' Kozlov  60' Poyarkov  61' Gigović  72' Terentyev  88' Glebov  89'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 2,363 Referee: Vitaly Meshkov

Ural Yekaterinburg v Spartak Moscow

7 November 2020 14	Ural Yekaterinburg	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Yekaterinburg
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Pogrebnyak 11' El Kabir  44' Rykov  45' Zolotov  53' Augustyniak 60'	Report	Sobolev 6', 45+' (pen.) Moses  34' Ayrton  86' Gigot  89'	Stadium: Central Stadium Attendance: 9,669 Referee: Pavel Kukuyan

Spartak Moscow v Dynamo Moscow

21 November 2020 15	Spartak Moscow	1 – 1	Dynamo Moscow	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Ayrton  81' Maslov  83' Zobnin 85'	Report	Grulyov  76' Neustädter  78' Skopintsev 79'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 4,953 Referee: Sergey Ivanov

Spartak Moscow v Rotor Volgograd

29 November 2020 16	Spartak Moscow	2 – 0	Rotor Volgograd	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kokorin 15' (pen.) Larsson  60' Yeshchenko  86' Gigot  90+' Zobnin  90+2'	Report	Davitashvili  13'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 6,429 Referee: Nikolay Voloshin

Spartak Moscow v Tambov

5 December 2020 17	Spartak Moscow	5 – 1	Tambov	Moscow
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Larsson 27', 83' Ponce 63', 90+' Gigot 87'	Report	Onugkha 65' Chicherin  83'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: Stanislav Vasiliev Referee: 5,964

Sochi v Spartak Moscow

12 December 2020 18	Sochi	1 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Sochi
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Mammana  9' Terekhov  26' Dugandžić  50' Noboa 57' A.Zabolotny  65' Zaika  83'	Report	Král  32' Umyarov  81' Ayrton  90+'	Stadium: Fisht Olympic Stadium Attendance: 10,747 Referee: Igor Panin

Zenit St.Petersburg v Spartak Moscow

16 December 2020 19	Zenit St.Petersburg	3 – 1	Spartak Moscow	Saint Petersburg
20:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Azmoun 8' Malcom  39' Rakitskiy 74' Sutormin  78' Barrios  83' Dzyuba 90+'	Report	Zobnin  25' Larsson  36' Dzhikiya  54' Lovren 67' (o.g.)	Stadium: Krestovsky Stadium Attendance: 1,993 Referee: Sergei Karasev

Spartak Moscow v Rubin Kazan

28 February 2021 20	Spartak Moscow	0 – 2	Rubin Kazan	Moscow
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Gigot  12' Moses  20' Zobnin  37'  45+3' Sobolev  75' Dzhikiya  87'	Report	Shatov  7' Begić  26' Despotović 53', 89' Abildgaard  62'  71'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 9,834 Referee: Sergey Lapochkin

Spartak Moscow v Krasnodar

7 March 2021 21	Spartak Moscow	6 – 1	Krasnodar	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Sobolev 1', 61' Promes 8' Larsson 63', 83' Gigot  67' Ponce 75' Umyarov  88'	Report	Gazinsky 56' Sorokin  87'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 10,261 Referee: Vitali Meshkov

Dynamo Moscow v Spartak Moscow

13 March 2021 22	Dynamo Moscow	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Maslov 18' (pen.) Parshivlyuk  41' Skopintsev  89'	Report	Moses 30' Ayrton  53' Promes  61' Sobolev 63' (pen.)  90+' Kutepov  80'	Stadium: VTB Arena Attendance: 12,567 Referee: Sergey Ivanov

Spartak Moscow v Ural Yekaterinburg

18 March 2021 23	Spartak Moscow	5 – 1	Ural Yekaterinburg	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Larsson 12', 47'  84' Promes 26' Sobolev 45+' (pen.), 90+' (pen.) Gigot  74' Kutepov  76' Ayrton  86'	Report	Bicfalvi 55' (pen.) Gerasimov  56' Konovalov  84' Strandberg  90+'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 10,170 Referee: Vladimir Moskalyov

Rostov v Spartak Moscow

4 April 2021 24	Rostov	2 – 3	Spartak Moscow	Rostov-on-Don
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Maslov 27' (o.g.) Makhatadze 32' Sowe  52'	Report	Promes  15' Moses 23' Sobolev 44', 58' Zobnin  62' Hendrix  90'	Stadium: Rostov Arena Attendance: 32,888 Referee: Pavel Kukuyan

Lokomotiv Moscow v Spartak Moscow

11 April 2021 25	Lokomotiv Moscow	2 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kamano 22'  76' Smolov 45+' Barinov  55' Mukhin  58' Guilherme  74' Zhemaletdinov  84' Zhivoglyadov  85'	Report	Sobolev  23' Ayrton  45' Dzhikiya  76' Maslov  85'	Stadium: RZD Arena Attendance: 11,902 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

Spartak Moscow v Ufa

18 April 2021 26	Spartak Moscow	0 – 3	Ufa	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Promes  7' Ponce  11' Gigot  28'  79' Kutepov  86'	Report	Tabidze  27' Kamilov 45', 87' 87' Mrzljak 48' Bizoza  88'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 10,980 Referee: Vitali Meshkov

Spartak Moscow v CSKA Moscow

25 April 2021 27	Spartak Moscow	1 – 0	CSKA Moscow	Moscow
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Larsson 52' Ayrton  62' Maksimenko  88' Moses  90+' Umyarov  90+'	Report	Akhmetov  37' Dzagoev  53' Maradishvili  64'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 11,974 Referee: Pavel Kukuyan

Arsenal Tula v Spartak Moscow

3 May 2021 28	Arsenal Tula	1 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Tula
16:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Đorđević  38' Čaušić  40' Kutepov 45' (o.g.) Kavalyow  60' Tkachyov  90'	Report	Sobolev 21'  29' Larsson 76'	Stadium: Arsenal Stadium Attendance: 9,432 Referee: Sergey Ivanov

Spartak Moscow v Khimki

10 May 2021 29	Spartak Moscow	2 – 1	Khimki	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Kutepov  2' Ponce  39' Dzhikiya  45+2' Sobolev 54' Larsson 89'  90+2'	Report	Glushenkov  6'  37' 27' Sebai  14' Danilkin  23' Bozhenov  41' Lantratov  74'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Attendance: 9,649 Referee: Vladislav Bezborodov

Akhmat Grozny v Spartak Moscow

16 May 2021 30	Akhmat Grozny	2 – 2	Spartak Moscow	Grozny
14:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Nenakhov  8' Ilyin 20', 31' Bystrov  43' Berisha  74'	Report	Promes 54' Dzhikiya  67' Moses 83' Zobnin  87' Sobolev  90+'	Stadium: Akhmat-Arena Attendance: 11,086 Referee: Pavel Kukuyan

Russian Cup

Main article: 2020–21 Russian Cup

Round of 32

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spartak Moscow	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3	3	Advance to Play-off
2	Rodina Moscow	2	1	0	1	4	5	−1	3
3	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	2	1	0	1	1	3	−2	3

Source: ^[28]

Rodina Moscow v Spartak Moscow

16 September 2020 1	Rodina Moscow	1 – 5	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
19:00 MSK (UTC+3)	G.Yudintsev  50' M.Abdusalamov 61'	Report	Sobolev 35' Urunov 53' Ayrton 56' Zobnin 59' Ponce 80'	Stadium: Otkritie Arena Referee: Anton Frolov
Note: Match played at the Otkritie Arena in Moscow, instead of Rodina Moscow's regular Yantar Stadium in Moscow.

Yenisey Krasnoyarsk v Spartak Moscow

21 October 2020 2	Yenisey Krasnoyarsk	1 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Krasnoyarsk
15:00 MSK (UTC+3)	Sanaya  46' Lescano 47' Komkov  56' Tskhovrebov  67'	Report	Kutepov  7' Markitesov  69'	Stadium: Central Stadium Referee: Roman Galimov

Round of 16

Dynamo Moscow v Spartak Moscow

20 February 2021 Round of 16	Dynamo Moscow	2 – 0	Spartak Moscow	Moscow
19:30 MSK (UTC+3)	Fomin 16' (pen.)  74' Szymański  56' Tyukavin 70' Kaboré  90+3'	Report	Moses  15'  81' Larsson  26' Ponce  69'	Stadium: VTB Arena Attendance: 11,322 Referee: Kirill Levnikov

Squad statistics

As of match played 16 May 2021

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		Russian Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	FRA	Samuel Gigot	27	3	26	3	1	0
4	MF	NED	Jorrit Hendrix	11	0	1+9	0	1	0
6	DF	BRA	Ayrton Lucas	29	3	27	2	2	1
7	FW	RUS	Aleksandr Sobolev	24	15	16+6	14	1+1	1
8	MF	NGA	Victor Moses	20	4	18+1	4	1	0
10	MF	RUS	Zelimkhan Bakayev	26	1	13+10	1	2+1	0
11	FW	SWE	Jordan Larsson	30	15	29	15	1	0
14	DF	RUS	Georgi Dzhikiya	30	0	27+1	0	2	0
19	FW	ARG	Ezequiel Ponce	28	10	18+7	9	2+1	1
22	MF	RUS	Mikhail Ignatov	3	0	0+2	0	0+1	0
24	MF	NED	Quincy Promes	11	3	10+1	3	0	0
29	DF	RUS	Ilya Kutepov	18	0	10+6	0	2	0
32	GK	RUS	Artyom Rebrov	1	0	0	0	1	0
33	MF	CZE	Alex Král	30	0	28+1	0	1	0
35	DF	RUS	Leonid Mironov	1	0	0	0	1	0
38	DF	RUS	Andrey Yeshchenko	15	0	0+15	0	0	0
39	DF	RUS	Pavel Maslov	28	0	24+1	0	3	0
47	MF	RUS	Roman Zobnin	30	2	28	1	2	1
54	MF	RUS	Nail Umyarov	29	0	16+10	0	2+1	0
56	DF	RUS	Ilya Gaponov	13	0	3+8	0	1+1	0
57	GK	RUS	Aleksandr Selikhov	1	0	1	0	0	0
61	DF	RUS	Ilya Golosov	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
63	DF	RUS	Daniil Petrunin	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
68	MF	RUS	Ruslan Litvinov	7	0	0+6	0	0+1	0
74	MF	RUS	Dmitri Markitesov	8	0	0+6	0	1+1	0
84	MF	RUS	Stepan Oganesyan	2	0	0+1	0	1	0
90	MF	RUS	Konstantin Shiltsov	1	0	0	0	0+1	0
98	GK	RUS	Aleksandr Maksimenko	31	0	29	0	2	0
Players away from the club on loan:
8	MF	NED	Guus Til	3	0	0+3	0	0	0
15	MF	RUS	Maksim Glushenkov	5	0	1+4	0	0	0
20	MF	UZB	Oston Urunov	9	1	1+7	0	1	1
77	FW	RUS	Reziuan Mirzov	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
Players who left Spartak Moscow during the season:
9	FW	RUS	Aleksandr Kokorin	10	2	4+4	2	2	0
87	MF	RUS	Svyatoslav Kozhedub	1	0	0	0	0+1	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Premier League	Russian Cup	Total
1	FW		11	Jordan Larsson	15	0	15
	FW		7	Aleksandr Sobolev	14	1	15
3	FW		19	Ezequiel Ponce	9	1	10
4	MF		8	Victor Moses	4	0	4
5	DF		2	Samuel Gigot	3	0	3
	MF		24	Quincy Promes	3	0	3
	DF		6	Ayrton Lucas	2	1	3
8	FW		9	Aleksandr Kokorin	2	0	2
	MF		47	Roman Zobnin	1	1	2
				Own goal	1	1	2
11	MF		10	Zelimkhan Bakayev	1	0	1
	MF		20	Oston Urunov	0	1	1
				TOTALS	56	5	61

Clean sheets

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Premier League	Russian Cup	Total
1	GK		98	Aleksandr Maksimenko	6	0	6
				TOTALS	6	0	6

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		Russian Cup		Total
2		DF	Samuel Gigot	7	1	0	0	7	1
4		MF	Jorrit Hendrix	1	0	0	0	1	0
6		DF	Ayrton Lucas	8	1	0	0	8	1
7		FW	Aleksandr Sobolev	10	0	0	0	10	0
8		MF	Victor Moses	3	0	2	1	5	1
10		MF	Zelimkhan Bakayev	1	0	0	0	1	0
11		FW	Jordan Larsson	6	0	1	0	7	0
14		DF	Georgi Dzhikiya	6	0	0	0	6	0
19		FW	Ezequiel Ponce	4	0	1	0	5	0
24		MF	Quincy Promes	3	0	0	0	3	0
29		DF	Ilya Kutepov	6	0	1	0	7	0
33		MF	Alex Král	3	0	0	0	3	0
38		DF	Andrey Yeshchenko	3	0	0	0	3	0
39		DF	Pavel Maslov	8	1	0	0	8	1
47		MF	Roman Zobnin	9	1	0	0	9	1
54		MF	Nail Umyarov	5	0	0	0	5	0
74		MF	Dmitri Markitesov	0	0	1	0	1	0
98		GK	Aleksandr Maksimenko	4	0	0	0	4	0
Players out on loan:
20		MF	Oston Urunov	2	0	0	0	2	0
Players who left Spartak Moscow during the season:
9		FW	Aleksandr Kokorin	1	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	90	4	6	1	96	5