The Era of Spartak (Season 1)

The Era of Spartak (2023) is a football documentary series you can watch online on iFILM. It traces how Moscow's Spartak racked up title after title and knocked out Europe's biggest clubs in the Champions League, all while the country around them was falling apart and rebuilding itself.

The focus stays on the people, not the stat sheet. The men who carried it sit down to talk: head coach Oleg Romantsev, striker Vladimir Beschastnykh, Dmitry Alenichev, Yegor Titov, goalkeeper Stanislav Cherchesov, Andrey Tikhonov. They recall what the decisive matches actually cost and the 1990s backdrop they unfolded against — empty stands, no money, the steady drain of star players heading abroad.

Football here is shown as part of an era, not lifted out of it. The strength of the project is that the club's story comes straight from the players, with no middleman and no polished spin. It'll land with longtime supporters and anyone curious about what Spartak meant in that decade. Stream The Era of Spartak (2023) online on iFILM.