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Winless Spartak Moscow host surging Traktor Chelyabinsk at Megasport Arena

Spartak's three-game slide meets Traktor's W-L-W momentum in a series history says stays close.

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Spartak Moscow
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Traktor Chelyabinsk
Traktor Chelyabinsk

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Spartak MoscowLLLSpartak Moscow: L-L-L in the last 3 — winless.
Traktor ChelyabinskWLWTraktor Chelyabinsk: W-L-W in the last 3 games.
Spartak Moscow 2-4 Avtomobilist YekaterinburgSpartak Moscow 1-2 Avangard OmskSalavat Yulaev Ufa 3-1 Spartak MoscowDynamo Moscow 1-2 Traktor ChelyabinskTraktor Chelyabinsk 3-4 SKA St. PetersburgTraktor Chelyabinsk 2-1 Avangard Omsk

Spartak Moscow return to Megasport Arena with the pressure squarely on: three straight defeats — 2-4 to Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, 1-2 to Avangard Omsk and 3-1 at Salavat Yulaev Ufa — have left the hosts winless in their last three. Traktor Chelyabinsk arrive with the opposite rhythm, W-L-W, having edged Dynamo Moscow 2-1 most recently, either side of a 4-3 loss to SKA St. Petersburg and a 2-1 win over Avangard Omsk.

Head to head

  • 2026-09-18Traktor Chelyabinsk 1-3 Spartak MoscowW
  • 2025-09-30Spartak Moscow 6-3 Traktor ChelyabinskW
  • 2025-09-21Traktor Chelyabinsk 3-5 Spartak MoscowW
  • 2024-10-01Spartak Moscow 2-3 Traktor ChelyabinskL
  • 2024-09-23Traktor Chelyabinsk 2-3 Spartak MoscowW
  • 2023-09-30Traktor Chelyabinsk 2-1 Spartak MoscowL
  • 2023-09-23Spartak Moscow 3-2 Traktor ChelyabinskW
  • 2023-01-13Spartak Moscow 2-4 Traktor ChelyabinskL
Last 8 meetings: Spartak Moscow 5W, 0D, Traktor Chelyabinsk 3W.

History leans Moscow's way.

Watchlist
  • Can Spartak snap the L-L-L slide after a 2-4 home defeat to Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg?
  • Does Traktor's W-L-W surge, capped by a 2-1 win over Dynamo Moscow, travel to Moscow?
  • The margin — 7 of the last 8 meetings were decided by two goals or fewer.

Spartak won the most recent meeting 3-1 in Chelyabinsk on September 18 and own emphatic 6-3 and 5-3 scorelines from 2025, though Traktor claimed three of the eight — including a 3-2 win on this ice in October 2024. The recurring theme is tension: this matchup rarely breaks open.

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