T-shirt with autographs of the members of the main squad of FC Spartak of the 2023/2024 season

FC Spartak is a Russian professional football club from Moscow, founded on April 18, 1922. One of the most popular football clubs in the country. It is also the most decorated football club in Russia. 12-time champion of the USSR, 10-time champion of Russia, 10-time winner of the USSR Cup, 3-time winner of the Russian Cup, winner of the Russian Super Cup, semi-finalist of three major European club tournaments (European Champions Cup, Cup Winners Cup and UEFA Cup). The best Russian club in the history of the Champions League.

The official birthday of Spartak is considered to be April 19, 1935, it was on this day that the flag, coat of arms and charter of the Spartak sports society were adopted. It is worth saying that this society was originally created for the development of physical education and sports among the employees of the artels of the fishing cooperation. And the initiator of the development of such a society was the legendary Soviet and Russian football player, as well as hockey player Nikolai Petrovich Starostin. Since this sports society was founded as an association of artisans, that is, people from the people, unlike the departmental societies of Dynamo and CSKA, Spartak very quickly received the nickname of the "people's team".