2014 Kazakhstan Premier League

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Kazakhstan Premier League
Season2014
Champions Astana (1st title)
Relegated Spartak Semey
Champions League Astana
Europa League Kairat
Aktobe
Ordabasy
Matches played192
Goals scored465 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer Foxi Kéthévoama (15)
Biggest home win Kairat 7–1 Aktobe (R19)
Biggest away win Taraz 1–5 Shakhter (R3)
Highest scoring Astana 5–3 Irtysh (R17)
Kairat 7–1 Aktobe (R19)
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The 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 23rd season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 15 March 2014 and was finished in November. Aktobe were the defending champions having won their fifth league championship the previous year.

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Teams

FC Vostok and FC Akzhayik were relegated at the end of the 2013 season, and were replaced by FC Kaisar and Spartak Semey.

Team overview

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Locations of teams in the 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League
TeamLocationVenueCapacity
Aktobe Aktobe Aktobe Central Stadium 15,000
Astana Astana Astana Arena 30,000
Atyrau Atyrau Munaishy Stadium 9,500
Irtysh Pavlodar Pavlodar Central Stadium 15,000
Kairat Almaty Almaty Central Stadium 25,057
Kaisar Kyzylorda Gany Muratbayev Stadium 7,500
Ordabasy Shymkent Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium 35,000
Shakhter Karagandy Shakhter Stadium 20,000
Spartak Semey Semey Spartak Stadium8,000
Taraz Taraz Taraz Central Stadium 11,525
Tobol Kostanay Kostanay Central Stadium 10,500
Zhetysu Taldykorgan Zhetysu Stadium 4,000

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.

TeamManagerCaptainKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
Aktobe Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vladimir Nikitenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Petr Badlo Adidas
Astana Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stanimir Stoilov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kairat Nurdauletov Adidas Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau Flag of Belarus.svg Anatoliy Yurevich Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Valentin ChureevAdidas,
Irtysh Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Talgat Baisufinov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Sergei Ivanov Adidas ENRC
Kairat Flag of Slovakia.svg Vladimír Weiss Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kyril Shestakov Nike KazRosGaz
Kaisar Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Dmitriy Ogai Nike
Ordabasy Flag of Ukraine.svg Viktor Pasulko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kairat Ashirbekov AdidasTAU
Shakhter Flag of Russia.svg Viktor Kumykov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Andrey Finonchenko Lotto
Spartak Semey Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Almas KulshinbayevAdidas
Taraz Flag of Ukraine.svg Evgeny Yarovenko Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Vitali Yevstigneyev Adidas
Tobol Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Timur Urazov Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev Adidas
Zhetysu Flag of Russia.svg Omari Tetradze Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Zahar KorobovAdidas

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tableReplaced byDate of appointment
Atyrau Flag of Montenegro.svg Miodrag Radulović 8 November 2013Pre Season Flag of Belarus.svg Anatoliy Yurevich4 December 2013 [1]
Kaisar Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Sergei Volgin 17 November 2013 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Dmitriy Ogai 30 November 2013
Astana Flag of Romania.svg Ioan Andone End of contract27 November 2013 Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Vadim Abramov 28 November 2013 [2]
Astana Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Vadim Abramov Contract canceled13 December 2013 [3] Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Grigori Babayan 1 January 2014
Taraz Flag of the Netherlands.svg Arno Pijpers 10 June 2014 Flag of Ukraine.svg Evgeny Yarovenko 10 June 2014 [4]
Astana Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Grigori Babayan End of caretaker spell21 June 2014 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Stanimir Stoilov 21 June 2014 [5]

Foreign players

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

ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6Player 7
Aktobe Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Robert Primus Flag of Armenia.svg Robert Arzumanyan Flag of Armenia.svg Marcos Pizzelli Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Timur Kapadze Flag of Brazil.svg Danilo Neco Flag of Brazil.svg Anderson Mineiro Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksiy Antonov
Astana Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Marin Aničić Flag of Montenegro.svg Damir Kojašević Flag of Colombia.svg Roger Cañas Flag of Cameroon.svg Guy Essame Flag of Ghana.svg Patrick Twumasi Flag of Bulgaria.svg Atanas Kurdov Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Foxi Kéthévoama
Atyrau Flag of Nigeria.svg Michael Odibe Flag of Serbia.svg Marko Blažić Flag of Georgia.svg Giorgi Peikrishvili Flag of Serbia.svg Miloš Trifunović Flag of Ghana.svg Dominic Adiyiah
Irtysh Flag of Montenegro.svg Miodrag Dzudovic Flag of Montenegro.svg Igor Burzanovic Flag of Ukraine.svg Kostyantyn Dudchenko Flag of Bulgaria.svg Orlin Starokin Flag of Moldova.svg Simeon Bulgaru Flag of Ukraine.svg Rinar Valeyev
Kairat Flag of Slovakia.svg Ľubomír Michalík Flag of Serbia.svg Žarko Marković Flag of Croatia.svg Josip Knežević Flag of Armenia.svg Artur Yedigaryan Flag of Spain.svg Sito Riera Flag of Brazil.svg Isael da Silva Barbosa Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Gerard Gohou
Kaisar Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Martin Klein Flag of Serbia.svg Miljan Jablan Flag of Mali.svg Mamoutou Coulibaly Flag of Slovenia.svg Matic Maruško Flag of Estonia.svg Rimo Hunt Flag of North Macedonia.svg Dušan Savić Flag of Moldova.svg Valentin Furdui
Ordabasy Flag of Uganda.svg Andrew Mwesigwa Flag of Brazil.svg Freire Flag of Ukraine.svg Artem Kasyanov Flag of Senegal.svg Abdoulaye Diakate Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Ondřej Kúdela
Shakhter Flag of Serbia.svg Aleksandar Simčević Flag of Lithuania.svg Gediminas Vičius Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Shavkat Salomov Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Kamoliddin Murzoev Flag of Austria.svg Mihret Topcagić Flag of Croatia.svg Nikola Pokrivač Flag of Slovakia.svg Ján Maslo
Spartak Semey Flag of Bulgaria.svg Viktor Genev Flag of Serbia.svg Nemanja Čović Flag of Bulgaria.svg Nikolay Dyulgerov Flag of Bulgaria.svg Daniel Peev Flag of Serbia.svg Nemanja Jovanović Flag of Armenia.svg Artur Avagyan Flag of Serbia.svg Goran Obradović
Taraz Flag of the Netherlands.svg Sigourney Bandjar Flag of Slovenia.svg Rok Roj Flag of Serbia.svg Jovan Golić Flag of the Netherlands.svg Desley Ubbink Flag of Ukraine.svg Denys Vasilyev Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksandr Yarovenko Flag of Ukraine.svg Dmytro Bashlay
Tobol Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Štěpán Kučera Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Ondřej Kušnír Flag of Serbia.svg Ognjen Krasić Flag of Austria.svg Tomáš Šimkovič Flag of Serbia.svg Nenad Šljivić Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Jiří Jeslínek Flag of Belarus.svg Ivan Sadownichy
Zhetysu Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Didier Kadio Flag of Lithuania.svg Arūnas Klimavičius Flag of Serbia.svg Marko Putinčanin Flag of Serbia.svg Marko Đalović Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Boti Demel Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Mersudin Ahmetović Flag of Tajikistan.svg Davron Ergashev

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

First round

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Aktobe 2212733417+1743Qualification for the championship round
2 Kairat 2213364120+2142
3 Astana 2210933417+1739
4 Shakhter Karagandy 2211383327+636
5 Ordabasy 2210572422+235
6 Kaisar 228862323032
7 Zhetysu 227691518327Qualification for the relegation round
8 Tobol 226882229726
9 Irtysh Pavlodar 2266102835724 [lower-alpha 1]
10 Atyrau 2266101927824 [lower-alpha 1]
11 Taraz 22541321341319
12 Spartak Semey 22351416412514
Source: Soccerway (in 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
Notes:
  1. 1 2 ATY 0–1 IRT ; IRT 0-1 ATY

Results

Home \ Away AKT AST ATY IRT KRT KSR ORD SHA SEM TAR TOB ZHE
Aktobe 1–10–03–01–03–01–14–03–02–03–11–0
Astana 1–23–05–32–21–01–14–05–01–01–00–0
Atyrau 0–01–00–10–31–31–13–22–13–00–01–2
Irtysh Pavlodar 1–13–40–10–11–12–01–05–02–00–31–0
Kairat 7–10–00–12–11–00–12–04–13–13–12–1
Kaisar 2–21–02–14–20–11–01–01–10–00–00–0
Ordabasy 1–00–11–02–11–02–12–12–11–13–01–1
Shakhter Karagandy 1–10–02–02–21–04–13–11–01–04–13–0
Spartak Semey 0–11–12–10–02–51–12–00–10–12–11–1
Taraz 0–21–13–35–12–30–12–11–52–01–11–0
Tobol 0–21–10–01–12–21–12–12–02–11–00–2
Zhetysu 1–00–01–00–01–01–20–11–21–01–01–2
Updated to match(es) played on 3 August 2014. Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round

Championship round

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 Astana (C)32181046326+3745Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Aktobe 32171055231+2140Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3 Kairat 3218595831+2738
4 Ordabasy 321351434441027
5 Kaisar 32101393034427
6 Shakhter Karagandy 32116154149821
Source: Soccerway (in 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.
Team start with half number of points from first round.
(C) Champion.

Results

Home \ Away AKT AST KRT KSR ORD SHA
Aktobe 3–01–00–04–13–1
Astana 6–15–13–05–02–0
Kairat 2–02–31–12–06–1
Kaisar 2–21–10–20–12–1
Ordabasy 1–31–20–10–13–2
Shakhter Karagandy 1–10–20–00–02–3
Updated to match(es) played on 9 November 2014. Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsRelegation
7 Tobol [lower-alpha 1] 321012103535026
8 Zhetysu 321081421311025
9 Atyrau 321071530431325
10 Irtysh Pavlodar 32910133944525
11 Taraz (O)32971632451325Qualification for the relegation play-off
12 Spartak Semey (R)32771830522221Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
Source: Soccerway (in 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.
Team start with half number of points from first round.
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Tobol have had 3 point(s) deducted.

Results

Home \ Away ATY IRT SEM TAR TOB ZHE
Atyrau 2–11–13–20–31–0
Irtysh Pavlodar 2–03–20–01–11–1
Spartak Semey 3–12–00–02–13–1
Taraz 2–10–31–01–12–0
Tobol 1–20–01–03–02–0
Zhetysu 1–01–02–10–30–0
Updated to match(es) played on 9 November 2014. Source: [ citation needed ]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

Taraz 1–1 (a.e.t.) Kyran
Yarovenko Soccerball shade.svg 59' Summary Zhumakhanov Soccerball shade.svg 24'
Penalties
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Kuchma Soccerball shade cross.svg
Bashlay Soccerball shad check.svg
Kozhamberdy Soccerball shad check.svg
3–1 Kozyulin Soccerball shade cross.svg
Önal Soccerball shade cross.svg
Pishchulin Soccerball shade cross.svg
Amirseitov Soccerball shad check.svg
Astana Arena
Attendance: 500
Referee: Aidyn Rahinbaev

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of Match played 9 November 2014 [6]
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Foxi Kéthévoama Astana15
2 Flag of Serbia.svg Miloš Trifunović Atyrau13
3 Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Gerard Gohou Kairat12
4 Flag of Ukraine.svg Kostyantyn Dudchenko Irtysh11
Flag of Ghana.svg Patrick Twumasi Astana
6 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Mihret Topcagić Shakhter10
7 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Marat Khairullin Aktobe9
8 Flag of Estonia.svg Rimo Hunt Kaisar8
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Aslan DarabayevKairat
Flag of Ukraine.svg Oleksiy Antonov Aktobe
Flag of Armenia.svg Marcos Pizzelli Aktobe

    Hat-tricks

    PlayerForAgainstResultDate
    Flag of Bulgaria.svg Atanas Kurdov AstanaIrtysh4–319 April 2014 [7]
    Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Gerard Gohou KairatAktobe7–16 July 2014 [8]
    Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Foxi Kéthévoama AstanaAtyrau3–027 July 2014 [9]
    Flag of Ghana.svg Patrick Twumasi AstanaAktobe6–14 October 2014 [10]

    Scoring

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