2013 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Premier League

Season	2013
Champions	Aktobe
Relegated	Vostok Akzhayik
Champions League	Aktobe
Europa League	Astana Kairat Shakhter Karagandy
Matches played	134
Goals scored	298 (2.22 per match)
Top goalscorer	Igor Zenkovich (Shakhter Karagandy, 15 goals)
Biggest home win	Tobol 5–1 Astana (R1) Akzhayik 4–0 Atyrau (R11) Zhetysu 5–1 Akzhayik (R17) Shakhter 4–0 Akzhayik (R22)
Biggest away win	Zhetysu 1–4 Tobol (R11)
Highest scoring	Kairat 3–3 Zhetysu (R1) Tobol 5–1 Astana (R1) Kairat 4–2 Tobol (R5) Ordabasy 4–2 Akzhayik (R8) Zhetysu 5–1 Akzhayik (R17)
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The 2013 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 22nd season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 9 March 2013 and ended on 2 November. Shakhter Karagandy are the defending champions having won their second league championship last year.

Changes from 2012 season

The league was reduced from fourteen to twelve teams for this season.

Teams

For the 2013 season, the league changed from 14 teams to 12, meaning the bottom two teams from the previous season, Sunkar and Okzhetpes, along with Kaisar were relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division with only Vostok, the second place team, gaining promotion.

Team overview

Aktobe

Akzhayik

Atyrau

Irtysh

Kairat

Astana

Ordabasy

Shakhter

Taraz

Tobol

Vostok

Zhetysu

Locations of teams in the 2013 Kazakhstan Premier League

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktobe	Aktobe	Aktobe Central Stadium	13,500
Akzhayik	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Astana	Astana	Astana Arena	30,000
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	9,000
Irtysh	Pavlodar	Pavlodar Central Stadium	15,000
Kairat	Almaty	Almaty Central Stadium	25,057
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium	37,000
Shakhter	Karagandy	Shakhter Stadium	19,000
Taraz	Taraz	Taraz Central Stadium	12,525
Tobol	Kostanay	Kostanay Central Stadium	08,323
Vostok	Oskemen	Vostok Stadium	08,500
Zhetysu	Taldykorgan	Zhetysu Stadium	04,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aktobe	Vladimir Nikitenko	Petr Badlo	adidas	—
Akzhayik	Ljupko Petrović	Ruslan Khairov	Puma	—
Astana	Ioan Andone	Kairat Nurdauletov	adidas	Qazaqstan Temir Zholy
Atyrau	Miodrag Radulović	Valentin Chureev	adidas	—
Irtysh	Talgat Baisufinov	Sergei Ivanov	adidas	ENRC
Kairat	Vladimír Weiss	Kyril Shestakov	Nike	KazRosGaz
Ordabasy	Vakhid Masudov	Kairat Ashirbekov	adidas	TAU
Shakhter	Viktor Kumykov	Andrey Finonchenko	Nike	—
Taraz	Arno Pijpers	Vitali Yevstigneyev	adidas	—
Tobol	Sergei Maslenov	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	adidas	—
Vostok	Vladimir Fomichyov	Roman Nesterenko	Umbro	—
Zhetysu	Omari Tetradze	Zahar Korobov	adidas	—

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Kairat	José Pérez Serer	End of contract	November 2012	Pre-Season	Vladimír Weiss	November 2012
Ordabasy	Viktor Pasulko	End of contract	November 2012	Pre-Season	Vakhid Masudov	December 2012
Aktobe	Vladimir Mukhanov	Resign	November 2012	Pre-Season	Vladimir Nikitenko	December 2012
Atyrau	Yuri Skates	End of contract	November 2012	Pre-Season	Miodrag Radulović	December 2012
Akzhayik	Jozef Škrlík	End of contract	November 2012	Pre-Season	Poghos Galstyan	February 2013
Vostok	Paul Evteev		December 2012	Pre-Season	Vladimir Fomichyov	December 2012
Tobol	Vyacheslav Hrozny	End of contract	December 2012	Pre-Season	Sergei Maslenov	December 2012
Zhetysu	Slobodan Krčmarević	Sacked	December 2012	Pre-Season	Omari Tetradze	February 2013

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8
Aktobe	Petr Badlo	Robert Primus	Robert Arzumanyan	Serghei Covalciuc	Timur Kapadze	Sergei Davydov
Akzhayik	Jakub Chleboun	Pavel Černý	Haman Sadjo
Astana	Nenad Erić	Foxi Kéthévoama	Patrick Twumasi	Blažo Igumanović	Damir Kojašević	Zelão	Cícero
Atyrau	Jovan Golić	George Peikrishvili	Artyom Fomin	Miloš Stojčev	Đorđe Tutorić	Nenad Injac	Robert Alviž	Nikola Milanković
Irtysh	Nemanja Džodžo	Alyaksandr Kulchy	Predrag Govedarica	Mamoutou Coulibaly	Sergei Strukov	Ulugbek Bakayev	Štěpán Kučera	Kamoliddin Murzoev
Kairat	Daniel Addo	Stuart Duff	Josip Knežević	Alexei Eremenko	Ľubomír Michalík	Momodou Ceesay	Artur Yedigaryan
Ordabasy	Andrew Mwesigwa	Gueye Mansour	Artem Kasyanov	Davit Chagelishvili	Andrezinho	Edin Junuzović	Baba Collins	Mohamed Arouri
Shakhter Karagandy	Gediminas Vičius	Nikola Vasiljević	Andrey Paryvayew	Aldin Đidić	Gevorg Ghazaryan	Ihar Zyankovich	Aleksandar Simčević	Roger Cañas
Taraz	Ersin Mehmedović	Abdoulaye Diakate	Nikolai Nesterenko	Miroslav Lečić	Vukašin Tomić	Titi Essomba	Marko Ranđelović	Obiora Odita
Tobol	Jhonnes	Mensur Kurtiši	Nenad Šljivić	Igor Bugaiov	Vitali Volkov	Aleksandr Alumona	Nikola Tonev	Ognjen Krasić
Vostok	Martin Komárek	Radanfah Abu Bakr	Ramón Sánchez	Ebrima Sohna	Walter Moore	Papa Niang
Zhetysu	Mehmedalija Čović	Davron Ergashev	Shavkat Salomov	Ruslan Melziddinov	Arūnas Klimavičius	Marko Đalović	Ivan Perić

In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Aktobe (A)	22	14	5	3	30	12	+18	47	Championship round
2	Astana (A)	22	12	5	5	35	24	+11	41
3	Shakhter (A)	22	10	5	7	31	23	+8	35
4	Irtysh (A)	22	9	7	6	24	20	+4	34
5	Kairat (A)	22	7	10	5	28	24	+4	31
6	Ordabasy (A)	22	8	6	8	20	20	0	30
7	Atyrau (A)	22	7	6	9	18	28	−10	27	Relegation round
8	Tobol (A)	22	7	5	10	30	27	+3	26
9	Vostok (A)	22	5	8	9	12	24	−12	23
10	Zhetysu (A)	22	4	12	6	20	25	−5	021^#
11	Taraz (A)	22	4	6	12	19	29	−10	18
12	Akzhayik (A)	22	4	7	11	24	35	−11	013^#

Updated to games played on 4 August 2013.
Source: FFK (Russian)
Rules for classification: 1st points;
Two team tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd head-to-head record; 3rd goals difference; 4th goals scored; 5th away goals scored;
Multiple teams tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd goals difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals scored
^# Zhetysu were deducted 3 points and Akzhayik were deducted 6 points.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

AKT

AKZ

AST

ATY

IRT

KRT

ORD

SHA

TAR

TOB

VOS

ZHE

Aktobe

2–0

2–1

3–0

3–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

3–2

1–0

0–1

1–1

Akzhayik

1–1

2–2

4–0

1–2

0–0

1–2

3–0

1–0

1–1

0–0

2–0

Astana

1–2

3–1

1–2

1–1

0–0

0–1

1–0

3–1

2–1

1–0

4–1

Atyrau

0–2

1–0

1–2

0–0

1–1

0–0

1–0

3–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

Irtysh

0–0

3–1

0–1

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–2

1–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

Kairat

1–0

2–1

1–2

0–0

3–2

0–0

1–1

2–1

4–2

2–0

3–3

Ordabasy

0–1

4–2

0–2

3–0

1–3

1–0

0–0

0–0

1–0

4–1

1–2

Shakhter

1–2

4–0

1–3

3–2

2–1

2–1

1–3

3–0

2–0

2–0

1–0

Taraz

0–1

1–1

0–0

4–1

0–1

2–1

0–1

2–1

1–2

1–0

0–0

Tobol

1–0

1–1

5–1

2–1

0–0

2–3

0–0

1–2

2–2

3–0

3–1

Vostok

0–1

1–0

1–3

0–0

1–1

1–1

2–1

0–0

1–0

1–0

1–1

Zhetysu

0–0

5–1

1–1

0–1

1–0

0–0

0–0

0–0

1–1

1–4

0–0

Updated to games played on 4 August 2013.
Source: (Russian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship round

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation	Head-to-head
1	Aktobe (C) (Q)	32	20	6	6	46	22	+24	43	2014–15 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Astana (Q)	32	19	5	8	54	35	+19	42	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
3	Kairat (Q)	32	12	12	8	44	38	+6	33
4	Irtysh	32	12	8	12	41	39	+2	27
5	Shakhter (Q)	32	12	7	13	43	45	−2	26	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round ^1
6	Ordabasy	32	11	8	13	33	34	−1	23

Updated to games played on 2 November 2013.
Source: Soccerway
¹Shakter qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2013 Kazakhstan Cup.
Rules for classification: 1st points;
Two team tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd head-to-head record; 3rd goals difference; 4th goals scored; 5th away goals scored;
Multiple teams tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd goals difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	AKT	AST	IRT	KRT	ORD	SHA
Aktobe		2–0	3–1	2–0	2–2	4–0
Astana	1–0		4–2	1–2	3–1	1–2
Irtysh	4–0	0–1		2–3	3–0	2–1
Kairat	0–1	1–2	3–2		0–0	3–3
Ordabasy	2–1	0–2	3–1	1–2		4–0
Shakhter	0–1	1–4	1–1	1–2	3–0

Updated to games played on 2 November 2013.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
7	Tobol	32	14	6	12	48	33	+15	35
8	Atyrau	32	10	11	11	26	38	−12	28
9	Zhetysu	32	6	17	9	22	32	−10	22
10	Taraz	32	7	9	16	30	38	−8	21
11	Vostok (Q)	32	6	13	13	20	37	−17	20	Relegation to Relegation play-off
12	Akzhayik (R)	32	7	10	15	37	50	−13	19	Relegation to 2014 Kazakhstan First Division

Updated to games played on 2 November 2013.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1st points;
Two team tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd head-to-head record; 3rd goals difference; 4th goals scored; 5th away goals scored;
Multiple teams tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd goals difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	AKZ	ATY	TAR	TOB	VOS	ZHE
Akzhayik		3–0	2–1	1–3	2–2	0–0
Atyrau	2–2		1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0
Taraz	3–0	1–1		2–0	1–1	0–1
Tobol	2–0	3–1	2–0		2–1	2–0
Vostok	2–0	1–2	1–1	0–4		0–0
Zhetysu	0–3	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–0

Updated to games played on 2 November 2013.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-off

Spartak Semey v FC Vostok

6 November 2013 19:00

Spartak Semey	1–0 (a.e.t.)	FC Vostok
Puryshkin  118'

Spartak Stadium, Semey

Top goalscorers

As of 11 November 2013^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Igor Zenkovich	Shakhter Karagandy[lower-alpha 1]	15 (3)
2	Igor Bugaiov	Tobol	13 (2)
3	Momodou Ceesay	Kairat	12
4	Edin Junuzović	Ordabasy	12 (0)
5	Josip Knežević	Kairat	10 (4)

1. Zenkovich scored 9 for Akzhayik.

References

1. UEFA.com