Spartak Moscow F.C.Spartak have won 12 Soviet championships (second only to Dynamo Kyiv) and 9 of 18 Russian championships. They have also won the Soviet Cup 10 times and the Russian Cup 3 times. Spartak have also reached the semi-finals of all three European club competitions.
They are nicknamed "Meat" (Russian: "мясо", "myaso") because in Soviet era the club was owned by the Collective Production Farms (the kolkhoz and the sovkhoz) .
The football club is a part of the Spartak Moscow sports society. Other teams in the society include ice hockey club Spartak Moscow.
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