Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakh Premier League

Country	Kazakhstan
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Founded	1992
Number of teams	12
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	First Division
Domestic cup(s)	Kazakhstan Cup Kazakhstan Super Cup
International cup(s)	Champions League Europa League
Current champions	Astana (2015)
Most championships	Irtysh, Aktobe (5)
TV partners	KAZsport
Website	www.kpfl.kz
2016 Kazakhstan Premier League

The Kazakhstan Professional Football League (Kazakh: Қазақстан Кәсіпқой Футбол Лигасы), commonly referred to as Kazakh Premier League^[1][2] or simply Premier League,^[3] is the top division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan and was set up in 1992. The League is fed into by the First Division and starts in spring and finishes in late autumn because of the low temperatures in the winter, with each championship corresponding to a calendar year. The majority of matches have been played at weekends in recent seasons.

Name changes

• Top Division (1992–2001)
• Super League (2002–2007)
• Premier League (2008–present)

Current teams (2015)

• FC Aktobe
• FC Astana
• FC Atyrau
• FC Irtysh Pavlodar
• FC Kairat
• FC Kaisar
• FC Okzhetpes
• FC Ordabasy
• FC Shakhter Karagandy
• FC Taraz
• FC Tobol
• FC Zhetysu

Soviet winners of republican level

Note that some teams such as Kairat Almaty participated in the upper leagues of the Soviet annual football competition. There was no solidly established independent Kazakh championship and the republican winner was conditionally picked by the Football Federation of Kazakh SSR.

1936 : Alma-Aty City 1937 : Dinamo Alma-Ata 1938 : Dinamo Alma-Ata 1939–45 : No Championship due to World War II 1946 : Dinamo Alma-Ata 1947 : Lokomotiv Jambul 1948 : Trudovye Rezervy Alma-Ata 1949 : Dinamo Karaganda 1950 : Alma-Aty City 1951 : Meliorator Chimkent 1952 : Meliorator Chimkent 1953 : Meliorator Chimkent 1954 : Dinamo Alma-Ata 1955 : Dinamo Alma-Ata 1956 : Alma-Aty City 1957 : Stroitel Alma-Ata 1958 : Spartak Alma-Ata 1959 : Spartak Alma-Ata 1960 : Yenbek Guryev

1961 : Avangard Petropavlovsk 1962 : ADK Alma-Ata 1963 : Tselinnik Semipalatinsk 1964 : ADK Alma-Ata 1965 : ADK Alma-Ata 1966 : Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk 1967 : Torpedo Kokchetav 1968 : Gornyak Jezkangan 1969 : Shakhtyor Saran' 1970 : Stroitel Temir-Tau 1971 : Yenbek Jezkangan 1972 : Traktor Pavlodar 1973 : Yenbek Jezkangan 1974 : Gornyak Nikol'sky 1975 : Meliorator Chimkent 1976 : Khimik Stepnogorsk 1977 : Khimik Stepnogorsk 1978 : Trud Shevchenko 1979 : Khimik Stepnogorsk

1980 : Meliorator Chimkent 1981 : Burevestnik Kustanay Zone 7 (3rd level, included teams from other republics) 1980 : Traktor Pavlodar 1981 : Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk Zone 8 (3rd level) 1982 : Shakhtyor Karaganda 1983 : Shakhtyor Karaganda 1984 : Tselinnik Tselinograd 1985 : Meliorator Chimkent 1986 : Meliorator Chimkent 1987 : Meliorator Chimkent 1988 : Traktor Pavlodar 1989 : Traktor Pavlodar 1990 : Vostok Ust'-Kamenogorsk 1991 : Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk

Source:^[4]

Kazakhstan League Seasons

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place	Top Scorer(s) - Goals	Best Player
1992	Kairat	Orbadasy (Arsenal SKIF)	Irtysh (Traktor)	Kogai (KSR) - 21	Volgin (KRT)
1993	Irtysh (Ansat)	Ekibastuzets (Batyr)	Gornyak	Shmarikov (TAR) - 28	Kurganskiy (EKI)
1994	Spartak (Yelimay)	Irtysh (Ansat)	Ordabasy (Zhiger)	Litvinenko (TAR) - 20	Musataev (ORD)
1995	Spartak (Yelimay)	Taraz	Shakhter	Miroshnichenko (SPA) - 23	Miroshnichenko (SPA)
1996	Taraz	Irtysh	Spartak (Yelimay)	Antonov (IRT) - 21	Voskoboynikov (TAR)
1997	Irtysh	Taraz	Kairat	Mazbaev (TAR) - 16	Voskoboynikov (TAR)
1998	Spartak (Yelimay)	Ekibastuzets (Batyr)	Irtysh	Litvinenko (SPA) - 14	Voskoboynikov (KSR)
1999	Irtysh	Kyzylzhar (Access Esil)	Kairat	Agabaýew (KRT) - 24	Avdeev (KYZ)
2000	Astana-64 (Zhenis)	Kyzylzhar (Access GG)	Irtysh	Mendes (IRT) - 21	Avdeev (KYZ)
2001	Astana-64 (Zhenis)	Atyrau	Kyzylzhar (Esil B)	Tlekhugov (A64) - 30	Tlekhugov (A64)
2002	Irtysh	Atyrau	Tobol	Lunev (SHA) - 16	Lovchev (A64)
2003	Irtysh	Tobol	Astana-64 (Zhenis)	Finonchenko (SHA) - 18	Zhumaskaliyev (TOB)
2004	Kairat	Irtysh	Tobol	Bakaev (TOB) / Tlekhugov (KRT) - 22	Smakov (KRT)
2005	Aktobe	Tobol	Kairat	Tleshev (IRT) - 20	Zhumaskaliyev (TOB)
2006	Astana-64 (Astana)	Aktobe	Tobol	Irismetov (ALM) - 17	David Loria (A64)
2007	Aktobe	Tobol	Shakhter	Irismetov (ALM) - 17	Smakov (AKT)
2008	Aktobe	Tobol	Irtysh	Tleshev (IRT) - 13	Smakov (AKT)
2009	Aktobe	Astana (Lokomotiv)	Shakhter	Tleshev (AKT) / Baýramow (TOB) - 20	Smakov (AKT)
2010	Tobol	Aktobe	Irtysh	Bakaev (TOB) - 16	Zhumaskaliyev (TOB)
2011	Shakhter	Zhetysu	Aktobe	Bakaev (ZHE) - 18	Konysbayev (SHA)
2012	Shakhter	Irtysh	Aktobe	Bakaev (IRT) - 14	Bakaev (IRT)
2013	Aktobe	Astana	Kairat	Zenkovich (SHA) - 15	Finonchenko (SHA)
2014	Astana	Aktobe	Kairat	Foxi (AST) - 16	Islamkhan (KRT)
2015	Astana	Kairat	Aktobe	Gohou (KRT) - 22	Gohou (KRT)

Notes:

• Historical names shown in brackets according to the season.
• Best Player Award by FFK (1992–2005, 2008, 2010–) and GOAL Journal (2006–2007, 2009).

Performance by club

Last update at the end of 2015 season.

#	Club	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	1st	2nd	3rd	Cup	SC	FD	Total
1	Irtysh	3	1	2	7	2	1	3	1	3	4	1	1	2	5	6	4	3	9	3	5	2	6	10	6	5	4	5	1			15
2	Aktobe	12	9	4	14	10	11				8	5	5	4	1	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	1	2	3	5	3	3	1	3	1	16
3	Astana-64	9	12	14	10	13	9	6	4	1	1	4	3	10	8	1	8	11								3		1	3			7
4	Spartak	14	17	1	1	3	7	1	9	8	7	8	9	19										12		3		1	1			5
5	Astana																		2	4	4	5	2	1	1	2	2		2	2		8
6	Kairat	1	11	11	9	6	3		3	4	5	7	7	1	3	7	13	10		10	11	10	3	3	2	2	1	5	5		1	14
7	Shakhter	7	6	6	3	8	4	9	10	5	12	6	10	9	4	4	3	7	3	6	1	1	4	6	10	2		3	1	1		7
8	Tobol	13	8	10	12	11			8	7	6	3	2	3	2	3	2	2	4	1	7	6	7	7	7	1	4	3	1			9
9	Taraz	5	14	8	2	1	2	10	14	11	15		12	7	11	10	16		8	9	9	4	10	11	9	1	2		1			4
10	Kyzylzhar	19							2	2	3	9	11	6	7	12	11	13	14								2	1				3
11	Atyrau										2	2	4	5	10	14	14	15	6	5	10	11	8	9	5		2		1			3
12	Ekibastuzets	4	2	9	11	5	6	2	11	16	13		15	8	12	8	12										2				1	3
13	Ordabasy	2	4	3	4	14	10	11	6	13	16		6	14	6	13	9	12	7	8	6	7	5	4	4		1	1	1	1	2	6
14	Zhetysu	21	25		6	9			15	13	14		8	13	15		5	6	5	7	2	12	9	8	11		1				1	2
15	Gornyak	8	3	13	5																							1				1
16	Kaisar	10	21			7	8	4	5	6	11	10	13	16		15	10	4	13		8	9		5	12				1		3	4
17	Vostok	11	10	12	8	12	5	5	7	11	9	11	14	12	14	9	7	16	10		12		11						1		1	2
18	Akzhayik	16	16	16				14					16	17						11		8	12								1	1
19	Caspiy	15	20		16	4					17																				1	1

All time top scorers

As of 1 January 2015

Rank	Player	Games	Goals
1	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	405	157
2	Oleg Litvinenko	311	147
3	Nurken Mazbaev	400	142
4	Murat Tleshev	303	138
5	Andrei Miroshnichenko	242	115
6	Ulugbek Bakayev	183	109
7	Andrei Finonchenko	274	98
8	Aleksandr Shatskikh	275	96
9	Ruslan Imankulov	366	96
10	Kairat Aubakirov	302	94
11	Vladimir Loginov	339	87
12	Viktor Antonov	207	86
13	Ruslan Duzmambetov	230	86
As the end of 2014 season. (Bold denotes players still in Premier League)

See also

• Football in Kazakhstan
• Sports league attendances

References

1. "Kazakhstan – League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
2. Galiaskar Seitzhan (13 July 2015). "Kairat Eliminates Former Euro Champions, Other Kazakh Clubs Less Lucky as Europa League Starts". The Astana Times. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
3. "Premier League". Kazakhstan Professional Football League. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
4. Kazakhstan - List of Champions

External links

• Official website (Kazakh) (Russian) (English)