FC Alania Vladikavkaz (, ) 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.
History 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".
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. 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. 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.
At the end of the 2024–25 Russian First League season, Alania has been relegated to the third-tier Russian Second League Division A.
Domestic
Soviet Union {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" align=center style="font-size:90%" ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Cup !colspan=2|Europe !Top Scorer (League) |- ||1960||2nd, RSFSR-3||14||26||3||4||19||26||68||10||-||colspan="2"|-|| |- ||1961||2nd, RSFSR-4||10||24||6||6||12||32||57||18||1/64||colspan="2"|-|| |- ||1962||2nd, RSFSR-3|| style="background:pink;"|8||28||10||6||12||38||36||26||1/128||colspan="2"|-|| |- ||1963||3rd, RSFSR-3||7||30||12||8||10||47||39||32||1/512||colspan="2"|-|| |- |rowspan="2"|1964||3rd, RSFSR-4||4||34||16||7||11||53||35||39||rowspan="2"|1/512||rowspan="2" colspan="2"|-|| |- ||3rd, RSFSR-final||4||8||3||2||3||9||10||8|| |- ||1965||rowspan="2"|3rd, RSFSR-4||9||38||16||7||15||54||43||39||-||colspan="2"|-|| |- |rowspan="2"|1966||1||38||22||9||7||80||40||53||rowspan="2"|1/32||rowspan="2" colspan="2"|-|| |- ||3rd, RSFSR-final|| style="background:lightgreen;"|2||7||4||1||2||9||4||9|| |- ||1967||2nd, group 1||16||38||10||11||17||34||45||31||1/32||colspan="2"|-|| |- ||1968||2nd, group 3||2||40||19||12||9||53||29||50||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaishauri: 18 |- |rowspan="2"|1969||2nd, group 1||1||38||22||12||4||60||25||60||rowspan="2"|1/64||rowspan="2" colspan="2"|-|| rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;"| Papelishvili: 16 |- ||2nd, final|| style="background:lightgreen;"|1||3||2||0||1||4||2||4 |- ||1970||Top League|| style="background:pink;"|17||32||7||8||17||31||48||22||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaishauri: 8 |- ||1971||rowspan="11"|2nd||5||42||19||7||16||52||57||45||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Zazroev: 11 |- ||1972||9||38||14||10||14||49||50||38||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaishauri: 18 |- ||1973||17||38||13||7||18||29||44||30||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaishauri: 7 |- ||1974||17||38||15||4||19||45||67||34||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kitaev: 17 |- ||1975||9||38||15||7||16||41||43||37||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| V. Gazzaev: 14 |- ||1976||15||38||11||14||13||40||50||36||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kaishauri: 11 |- ||1977||15||38||11||11||16||38||45||33||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khuadonov: 6 |- ||1978||18||38||10||8||20||30||50||28||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khuadonov: 9 |- ||1979||13||46||19||7||20||49||44||45||group stage||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Suanov, Zazroev: 9 |- ||1980||15||46||17||9||20||43||50||43||group stage||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khuadonov: 9 |- ||1981|| style="background:pink;"|21||46||14||12||20||36||49||40||group stage||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Y. Gazzaev: 10 |- |rowspan="2"|1982||3rd, zone 3||1||32||22||6||4||64||18||50||rowspan="2"|-||rowspan="2" colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Y. Gazzaev: 23 |- ||3rd, final-1||2||4||1||2||1||5||4||4|| |- |rowspan="2"|1983||3rd, zone 3||1||30||23||2||5||69||23||48||rowspan="2"|-||rowspan="2" colspan="2"|-|| |- ||3rd, final-2|| style="background:lightgreen;"|1||4||1||3||0||2||0||5|| |- ||1984||rowspan="7"|2nd||16||42||15||8||19||42||51||38||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Argudyaev: 13 |- ||1985||16||38||17||4||17||49||52||38||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Ambalov: 12 |- ||1986||16||46||15||12||19||58||66||42||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Ploshnik: 16 |- ||1987||18||42||12||12||18||37||46||36||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Gagloev: 8 |- ||1988||13||42||15||9||8||57||60||39||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Y. Gazzaev: 10 |- ||1989||17||42||12||11||19||44||61||35||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Y. Gazzaev: 10, Tskhovrebov: 7 |- ||1990|| style="background:lightgreen;"|1||38||24||9||5||73||30||57||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Tedeev: 23 |- ||1991||Top League||11||30||9||8||13||33||41||26||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Suleymanov: 13 |- ||1992||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||-||1/16||colspan="2"|-||
Russia {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" align=center style="font-size:90%" ! Season ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P !Cup !colspan=2|Europe !Top Scorer (League) |- ||1992||rowspan="14"|RFPL|| style="background:silver;"|2||26||13||6||7||47||33||32||-||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Suleymanov: 12 |- ||1993||6||34||16||6||12||49||45||38||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Suleymanov, Markhel: 14 |- ||1994||5||30||11||11||8||32||34||33||1/2||UC||R1||align="left"| Suleymanov: 6 |- ||1995|| style="background:gold;"|1||30||22||5||3||63||21||71||1/2||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Kavelashvili: 12 |- ||1996|| style="background:silver;"|2||35||22||6||7||65||37||72||1/16||UC||R1||align="left"| Suleymanov, Tedeev, Kasymov: 11 |- ||1997||10||34||14||4||16||52||42||46||1/8||UC||R1||align="left"| Yanovsky: 13 |- ||1998||8||30||11||7||12||46||39||40||1/2||UC||R1||align="left"| Demetradze: 14 |- ||1999||6||30||12||7||11||54||45||43||1/8||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Demetradze: 21 |- ||2000||10||30||10||8||12||34||36||38||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Tedeev: 10 |- ||2001||11||30||8||8||14||31||47||32||1/16||UC||R1||align="left"| Paolo Emilio: 6 |- ||2002||12||30||8||6||16||31||42||30||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Demetradze, D. Bazaev: 6 |- ||2003||13||30||9||4||17||23||43||31||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Mikholap: 4 |- ||2004||14||30||7||7||16||28||52||28||1/8||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| G. Bazaev, Tudor: 5 |- ||2005|| style="background:pink;"|15||30||5||8||17||27||53||23||1/8||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| D. Bazaev: 9 |- ||2006||3rd, "South"|| style="background:lightgreen;"|1||32||27||3||2||81||20||84||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Dubrovin: 28 |- ||2007||rowspan="3"|2nd||12||42||15||11||16||56||56||56||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Dubrovin: 19 |- ||2008||10||42||17||8||17||50||41||59||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Dadu: 18 |- ||2009|| style="background:lightgreen;"|3||38||21||7||10||57||30||70||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Dadu: 12 |- ||2010||RFPL|| style="background:pink;"|15||30||4||8||18||34||58||20|| style="background:silver;"|F||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Gabulov, Marenich: 4 |- ||2011–12 ||2nd|| style="background:lightgreen;"|2||52||28||13||11||66||39||97||1/32||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Bikmaev: 11 |- ||2012–13 ||RFPL|| style="background:pink;"|16||30||4||7||19||26||53||19||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Neco: 9 |- ||2013–14 ||2nd|| style="background:grey;"|12||36||14||4||18||29||52||46||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khastsayev: 13 |- ||2014–15 ||rowspan="6"|3rd, "South"||17||20||5||6||9|| |21||33||21 ||1/256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Burayev: 12 |- ||2015–16 ||style=";"|11||24||4||7||13||15||37||19||1/256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Sikoyev: 7 |- ||2016–17 ||style=";"|10||30||10||7||13||26||36||37||1/128||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Gatikoev: 8 |- ||2017–18 ||style=";"|13||32||8||8||16||26||41||32||1/256||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Gurtsiev: 5 |- ||2018–19 ||style=";"|10||28||8||6||14||36||48||30||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Zhabkin: 8 |- ||2019–20 ||2||19||15||1||3||54||13||46||1/16||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Khadartsev: 12 |- ||2020–21 ||rowspan="3"|2nd||4||42||22||11||9||74||40||77||1/64||colspan="2"|-||align="left"|Gurtsiyev: 13 |- ||2021–22 ||style=";"|6||38||17||9||12||75||53||60||1/2||colspan="2"|-||align="left"| Mashukov: 14 |- ||2022–23 ||3||34||17||11||6||56||35||62||1/8||colspan="2"|-||align=left"| Nikolay Giorgobiani: 12
European
Competition Pld W D L GF GA UEFA Cup 12 3 3 6 10 19 UEFA Europa League 4 1 2 1 4 5 UEFA Champions League 2 0 0 2 3 10 Total 18 4 5 9 17 34 Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate1993–94UEFA CupFirst round Borussia Dortmund 0–0 0–1 0–11995–96UEFA CupFirst round Liverpool 1–2 0–0 1–21996–97UEFA Champions LeaguePreliminary round Rangers 2–7 1–3 3–101996–97UEFA CupFirst round Anderlecht 2–1 0–4 2–51997–98UEFA CupSecond qualifying round Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 2–1 4–1 6–2First round MTK Hungária 1–1 0–3 1–42000–01UEFA CupFirst round Amica Wronki 0–3 0–2 0–52011–12UEFA Europa LeagueThird qualifying round Aktobe 1–1 1–1 2–2(p)Play-off round Beşiktaş 2–0 0–3 2–3
Honours Russian Premier League Winners (1): 1995 Runners-up (2): 1992, 1996 Russian Cup 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:ru:Второй дивизион ПФЛ 2006#.D0.AE.D0.B3 Runners-up (2): 1966, 1982
Coaching staff 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
Current squad As of 11 September 2026, according to the Second League website.
Out on loan
Reserve team
Notable players
Valeriy Gazzaev Stanislav Cherchesov Zaur Khapov Viktor Bulatov Vasili Baranov Victor Onopko Yuri Kovtun Artur Pagayev Bakhva Tedeev Omari Tetradze Soslan Dzhanayev Igor Yanovsky Spartak Gogniyev Alan Kasaev Maksim Petrov Mikhail Kavelashvili Giorgi Demetradze Murtaz Shelia Mikheil Ashvetia Levan Kobiashvili Giorgi Chanturia Mirjalol Qosimov Tamás Priskin Renan Bressan Dacosta Goore Isaac Okoronkwo Sani Kaita Ognjen Vranješ Deividas Semberas Ibrahim Gnanou George Florescu Cristian Tudor Rodolfo Zelaya Royston Drenthe Nazim Suleymanov Sergiu Dadu Kosta Barbarouses
Former coaches
Grigoriy Gornostaev (1966–1967) Mussa Tsalikov (1967) Andrei Zazroyev (1968–1970) Kazbek Tuaev (1970) Sergei Korshunov (1971) Dmitri Chikhradze (1971) Andrei Zazroyev (1972) Ivan Larin (1973) Kazbek Tuaev (1974–1977) Viktor Belov (1977–1978) Mussa Tsalikov (1978–1980) Andrei Zazroyev (1980–1981) Aleksandr Kochetkov (1982) Valeri Maslov (1983) Ivan Varlamov (1984) Valeri Ovchinnikov (1985–1986) Igor Zazroyev (1986–1987) Oleg Romantsev (1988) Valeriy Gazzaev (1989–1991) Nikolay Khudiyev (1991) Aleksandr Novikov (1992–1993) Valeriy Gazzaev (1994–1999)