Coaching Career
In 1984, after taking Nikolai Starostin's offer, Romantsev started his work as a coach of a Moscow club Krasnaya Presnya. In 1988 he moved to Vladikavkaz (then Ordzhonikidze) to coach Spartak.
After that Romantsev began his work at Spartak Moscow. He was elected the coach in 1989 and won the Soviet title in the first season with the club. His spell with Spartak was highly successful, resulting in 8 Russian championships (1992–1994, 1997–2001), 4 national cup victories (1992, 1994, 1998, 2003), and the semifinals of all European cups (Champions Cup 1990/91, Cup Winners' Cup 1992/93 and UEFA Cup 1997/98). Romantsev holds a record for the most matches with Spartak as a coach (401; Beskov has 396).
Romantsev became the chairman of Spartak in 1993, while retaining the post of head coach. In 1994-1996 he was also the head coach of Russia national team, qualifying for the final tournaments of Euro 96 and 2002 FIFA World Cup.
In 2003 Romanstev left Spartak, first resigning as president, then as coach. He had two quick spells with Saturn Ramenskoe (September 2003 - February 2004) and Dynamo Moscow (October 2004 - May 2005) and has not worked as a coach since then. It was announced on 23 April 2009 that Romantsev had agreed to help current manager of Spartak Moscow Valery Karpin as a consultant coach.
He is living in Moscow now.
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