Full Name: Football Club Alania Vladikavkaz
Russian Name: Алания
City: Vladikavkaz
Country: Russia
League: Russian First Division
Founded: 1937
Stadium: Respublikanskii Stadion Spartak (32,464)
Colors: Red, White, Yellow
Previous: Spartak Ordzhonikidze (1937-90), Spartak Vladikavkaz (1990-94), Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (1995-96), Alania Vladikavkaz (1997-2003), Spartak-Alania Vladikavkaz (2003-06), Alania Vladikavkaz (2006), Spartak Vladikavkaz (2006)
Rival: Spartak Nalchik

Official Website: fc-alania.ru

The club were known as Spartak Ordzhonikidze throughout the Soviet period. After 1990 the city reverted to its original name (Vladikavkaz) and the club followed suit. A variety of combinations of Spartak and Alania have been used for the club name in the years since, often due to finance-driven club reorganizations. The most recent came in 2006 when they were excluded from the Russian First Division for financial irregularities after a lengthy saga. They reorganized as a new club in the Russian Second Division and gained immediate promotion. Vladikavkaz is the principal city in the republic of North Ossetia-Alania, a region of southern Russia. Alania was a medieval kingdom in the Caucasus, the center of the Alani people who modern-day Ossetians are descended from. Spartak references Spartacus, the legendary leader of a slave revolt in the Roman Empire. The club's emblem references the coat of arms of North Ossetia-Alania - red, white and yellow with a snow leopard at the front.

Trophy Room:
* Russian Premier League (1995)

2004 Home

2005 Away