2003 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Premier League

Season	2003
Champions	Irtysh Pavlodar
Top goalscorer	Andrei Finonchenko (18)
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The 2003 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 12th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan, and took place between 12 April and 3 November.^[1]

Teams

There were 5 promoted teams to the Premier League for this season, Ekibastuzets, Batys, Dostyk, Taraz and Zhetysu. The Premier League was expanded to 17 teams before the season started and to 19 teams for the 2004 season, this mean no teams were relegated before or after the season. Before the start of the season Vostok Altyn were renamed Vostok and Dostyk became Ordabasy.

Due to failure to comply with UEFA regulations, no teams qualified for any UEFA competition.

Team overview

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktobe-Lento	Aktobe	Central Stadium	13,200
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	9,500
Batys	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Ekibastuzets	Ekibastuz	Shakhtyor Stadium	6,300
Esil	Kokshetau	Okzhetpes Stadium	4,158
Esil Bogatyr	Petropavl	Karasai Stadium	11,000
Irtysh	Pavlodar	Central Stadium	15,000
Kairat	Almaty	Central Stadium	23,804
Kaisar	Kyzylorda	Gany Muratbayev Stadium	7,500
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium	20,000
Shakhter Karagandy	Karagandy	Shakhter Stadium	20,000
Taraz	Taraz	Central Stadium	12,525
Tobol	Kostanay	Central Stadium	8,323
Vostok	Oskemen	Vostok Stadium	8,500
Zhenis Astana	Astana	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium	12,350
Yelimay	Semey	Spartak Stadium
Zhetysu	Taldykorgan	Zhetysu Stadium	4,000

League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Irtysh (C)	32	25	3	4	59	20	+39	078^3
2	Tobol	32	24	4	4	55	19	+36	76
3	Zhenis Astana	32	20	4	8	65	33	+32	64
4	Atyrau	32	16	5	11	48	42	+6	053^2
5	Aktobe-Lento	32	13	12	7	40	29	+11	51
6	Ordabasy	32	15	4	13	33	29	+4	49
7	Kairat	32	14	7	11	51	42	+9	49
8	Zhetysu	42	14	6	22	46	38	+8	48
9	Yelimay	32	12	7	13	35	35	0	43
10	Shakhter Karagandy	32	10	12	10	37	29	+8	42
11	Esil Bogatyr	32	10	6	16	42	53	−11	36
12	Taraz	32	10	4	18	35	45	−10	34
13	Kaisar	32	9	7	16	26	42	−16	34
14	Vostok	32	8	8	16	34	46	−12	32
15	Ekibastuzets	32	8	4	20	30	56	−26	28
16	Batys	32	8	2	22	25	74	−49	26
17	Esil	32	4	9	19	13	42	−29	015^1

Updated to games played on 3 November 2003.
Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_2003
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Esil were deducted 6 points due to a violation of transfer rules, whilst there last four games were awarded as technical losses due to being suspended on 23 October.² Atyrau were penalized with a technical lose due to fielding an in-eligible player.³ Irtysh were penalized with two technical losses due to fielding an in-eligible player.
(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.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 3 November 2003^[1]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andrei Finonchenko	Shakhter	16
2	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	Tobol	16
3	Aleksandr Shatskikh	Zhenis	14
	Rejepmyrat Agabaýew	Atyrau
5	Alibek Buleshev	Kairat	13
	Oleg Litvinenko	Elimay
7	Muslim Agaýew	Irtysh	11
8	Murat Tleshev	Irtysh	10
	Pavel Udalov	Vostok
	Dilmurat Nazarov	Taraz
	Oleg Tarasov	Kairat
	Valeriy Garkusha	Tobol

References

1. "2003 PREMIER LEAGUE". www.kpfl.kz/ (in Russian). Football Federation of Kazakhstan. Retrieved 9 December 2015.