Alania Vladikavkaz

Full name	Football Club Alania Vladikavkaz
Nickname(s)	Red-Yellows
Founded	1921; 103 years ago (1921)
Ground	Sultan Bilimkhanov Stadium, Grozny (while Republican Spartak Stadium is under reconstruction)
Capacity	10,250
Owner	Daniil Guriyev
General director	Ruslan Siukayev
Manager	Spartak Gogniyev
League	Russian First League
2023–24	8th of 18
Website	https://www.fcalania.com/main-eng.php
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

FC Alania Vladikavkaz (Russian: Футбольный клуб «Алания» (Владикавказ), Ossetian: Футболон клуб «Алани» (Дзæуджыхъæу)) is a Russian football team from Vladikavkaz. Founded in 1921, the club played in the Soviet Top League during the communist era, and won its first and only league title in the 1995 Russian Top League.

Since the Russian football league system was established in 1992, the main team representing Vladikavkaz changed ownership structure several times, also changing the team name from FC Spartak Vladikavkaz to FC Spartak-Alania and FC Alania and back to Spartak. In the 2018–19 Russian Professional Football League season, the team was financed by the provincial government and played as Spartak. Before the 2019–20 season, a new team, privately owned and called FC Alania was organized and licensed for PFL. However, FC Spartak also remained in the league for 2019–20, even though many players and coaches moved to the "new Alania".^[1]

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, 2019–20 Russian Football National League season was abandoned and none of the teams were relegated. After the licensing, the league had 23 teams eligible for the 2020–21 season. Having an odd number of teams would mean one team would get a bye on each matchday and the league preferred to have an even number of teams, therefore it invited PFL teams to apply for the license. Out of the teams that applied, on 24 July 2020 Alania was selected by the Russian Football Union for promotion to FNL.^[2] On 15 May 2021, they secured a 4th place in the FNL which would normally qualify the club for Russian Premier League promotion playoffs. Alania failed to receive a Premier League license due to unacceptable condition of their stadium and therefore the playoffs were cancelled.^[3][4] In the 2022–23 Russian First League season, Alania secured 3rd position, again qualifying for the promotion play-offs, only to fail RPL licensing once again due to still-not-reconstructed stadium.^[5]

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	-

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, 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	RFPL	15	30	4	8	18	34	58	20	F	-		Gabulov, Marenich: 4
2011–12	2nd	2	52	28	13	11	66	39	97	1/32	-		Bikmaev: 11
2012–13	RFPL	16	30	4	7	19	26	53	19	1/16	-		Neco: 9
2013–14	2nd	12[A]	36	14	4	18	29	52	46	1/16	-		Khastsayev: 13
2014–15	3rd, "South"	17	20	5	6	9	21	33	21	1/256	-		Burayev: 12
2015–16		11	24	4	7	13	15	37	19	1/256	-		Sikoyev: 7
2016–17		10	30	10	7	13	26	36	37	1/128	-		Gatikoev: 8
2017–18		13	32	8	8	16	26	41	32	1/256	-		Gurtsiev: 5
2018–19		10	28	8	6	14	36	48	30	1/64	-		Zhabkin: 8
2019–20		2	19	15	1	3	54	13	46	1/16	-		Khadartsev: 12
2020–21	2nd	4	42	22	11	9	74	40	77	1/64	-		Gurtsiyev: 13
2021–22		6	38	17	9	12	75	53	60	1/2	-		Mashukov: 14
2022–23		3	34	17	11	6	56	35	62	1/8	-		Nikolay Giorgobiani: 12

As of match played 25 August 2011

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1993–94	UEFA Cup	First round	Borussia Dortmund	0–0	0–1	0–1
1995–96	UEFA Cup	First round	Liverpool	1–2	0–0	1–2
1996–97	UEFA Champions League	Preliminary round	Rangers	2–7	1–3	3–10
1996–97	UEFA Cup	First round	Anderlecht	2–1	0–4	2–5
1997–98	UEFA Cup	Second qualifying round	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–1	4–1	6–2
		First round	MTK Hungária	1–1	0–3	1–4
2000–01	UEFA Cup	First round	Amica Wronki	0–3	0–2	0–5
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Third qualifying round	Aktobe	1–1	1–1	2–2(p)
		Play-off round	Beşiktaş	2–0	0–3	2–3

• Russian Premier League^[7]
  • Winners (1): 1995
  • Runners-up (2): 1992, 1996
• Russian Cup^[8][9]
  • Runners-up (1): 2010–11
• Soviet First League
  • Winners (2): 1969, 1990
• Russian Football National League
  • Runners-up (1): 2011–12
• Soviet Second League/Russian Professional Football League
  • Winners (2): 1983, 2006^[10]
  • Runners-up (2): 1966, 1982

Position	Name
Manager	Oleg Vasilenko
Assistant manager	Denis Popov
Goalkeeping coach
Fitness coach
Analyst	Alan Tsgoev Khasan Misikov
Club doctor	Nikolay Gutsalov Alan Kaloev
Masseur	Yuriy Zuzin Toguzov Ruslan Alikovich
Administrator	Paata Razmadze Kaloev Batraz
Team Leader	David Ruslanovich

As of 4 September 2024, according to the FNL website.

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 1 GK  RUS Rostislav Soldatenko 2 DF  RUS Aleksei Tatayev 3 DF  RUS Konstantin Pliyev 4 DF  RUS Soslan Kachmazov 5 DF  RUS Alan Bagayev 6 MF  RUS Zaur Tarba 7 FW  RUS Batraz Gurtsiyev (on loan from Orenburg) 8 MF  RUS Alan Khugayev 9 FW  RUS Nuri Abdokov 10 FW  RUS Batraz Khadartsev 11 MF  RUS Alan Chochiyev 12 DF  RUS Erik Gubiyev 13 DF  RUS Azamat Zaseyev 14 MF  NGA Williams Chimezie 15 MF  RUS Ibragim Tsallagov 16 GK  RUS Ruslan Bagayev 18 FW  RUS Taymuraz Toboyev

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  RUS Allon Butayev 22 DF  BLR Ilya Moskalenchik 23 GK  RUS Georgi Natabashvili 26 FW  RUS Arsen Tadtayev 27 MF  RUS Sergei Makarov 28 MF  RUS Inal Dudayev 32 DF  RUS Artyom Karasyov 37 MF  RUS Taras Gagloyev 50 MF  RUS Daniil Pavlenko 58 DF  RUS Murat Yshyk 65 DF  RUS Zaur Datiyev 70 DF  RUS Ruslan Daurov 76 FW  RUS Viktor Nafikov 77 MF  RUS David Kokoyev (on loan from Krasnodar) 89 GK  RUS Danil Shashlov 91 FW  RUS Pavel Dolgov 92 MF  RUS Timur Tagayev

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 — GK  RUS Batraz Bogiyev (at Torpedo Miass until 30 June 2025) — DF  RUS Aleksandr Korotkov (at Arsenal Tula until 30 June 2025)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  RUS Arsen Dryayev (at Spartak Kostroma until 30 June 2025) — FW  UZB Khusayin Norchaev (at Neftchi Fergana until 31 December 2024)

• Official website (in Russian)