2021 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Premier League

Season	2021
Champions	Tobol
Relegated	Kaisar Zhetysu
Champions League	Tobol
Europa Conference League	Astana Kairat
Matches played	182
Goals scored	448 (2.46 per match)
Top goalscorer	Marin Tomasov (17 goals)
Biggest home win	Tobol 5–0 Turan (23 April 2021) Kairat 5–0 Atyrau (2 July 2021)
Biggest away win	Ordabasy 0–5 Kyzylzhar (26 August 2021)
Highest scoring	Aktobe 4–4 Ordabasy (9 April 2021) Astana 6–2 Atyrau (10 April 2021)
Longest winning run	9 matches Astana
Longest unbeaten run	16 matches Astana
Longest winless run	11 matches Kaisar
Longest losing run	6 matches Zhetysu
← 2020 2022 → All statistics correct as of 30 October 2021.

The 2021 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 30th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. FC Kairat were the defending champions after winning their third title the previous season. FC Tobol won their second title.

Teams

FC Okzhetpes (relegated after two years in the top flight) was relegated at the end of the 2020 season, whilst FC Irtysh Pavlodar withdrew from the league in May 2020, and as a result also dropped down into the Kazakhstan First Division. They were replaced by FC Aktobe and FC Atyrau after they had spent one season in the Kazakhstan First Division.

Team overview

Aktobe

Akzhayik

Astana

Atyrau

Caspiy

Kairat

Kaisar

Kyzylzhar

Ordabasy

Shakhter

Taraz

Tobol

Turan

Zhetysu

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Locations of teams in the 2021 Kazakhstan Premier League

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktobe	Aktobe	Central Stadium	13,200
Akzhayik	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Astana	Nur-Sultan	Astana Arena	30,000
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	8,690
Caspiy	Aktau	Zhastar Stadium	5,000
Kairat	Almaty	Central Stadium	25,057
Kaisar	Kyzylorda	Gani Muratbayev Stadium	7,500
Kyzylzhar	Petropavl	Karasai Stadium	11,000
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium	20,000
Shakhter	Karaganda	Shakhter Stadium	20,000
Taraz	Taraz	Central Stadium	11,525
Tobol	Kostanay	Central Stadium	10,500
Turan	Turkistan	Turkistan Arena	7,000
Zhetysu	Taldykorgan	Samat Suyumbayev 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.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aktobe	Vladimir Mukhanov	Yury Logvinenko	Adidas	Parimatch
Akzhayik	Volodymyr Mazyar		Adidas
Astana	Andrey Tikhonov	Abzal Beisebekov [1]	Adidas	Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau	Aram Voskanyan		Adidas	GAZ Stroy Montazh KZ
Caspiy	Srdjan Blagojevic		Macron	XCOM (Back of shirt)
Kairat	Kurban Berdyev	Gafurzhan Suyumbayev	Nike	Halyk Bank
Kaisar	Sultan Abildayev		Adidas	-
Kyzylzhar	Andrei Karpovich		Nike
Ordabasy	Aleksandr Sednyov	Yerkebulan Tungyshbayev	Adidas	-
Shakhter	Magomed Adiyev	Arsen Khubulov	Adidas	Kazakhmys
Taraz	Vardan Minasyan		Puma	-
Tobol	Alexander Moskalenko (Caretaker)	Azat Nurgaliyev	Adidas	Polymetal
Turan	Abdukhalik Buribayev		Adidas	-
Zhetysu	Rinat Alyuetov		Adidas

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. For the 2020 season, the KFF announced that players from countries of the Eurasian Economic Union would not be counted towards a club's foreign player limit. ^[2]

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9
Aktobe	Hervaine Moukam	Michal Jeřábek	Artūras Žulpa	Tongo Doumbia	Dmytro Korkishko	Vitaliy Balashov	Zaza Tsitskishvili	Joachim Adukor
Akzhayik	Artem Baranovskyi	Oleksiy Chychykov	Mykola Kovtalyuk	Serhiy Litovchenko	Vitaliy Pryndeta	Ștefan Sicaci	Reginaldo	Luka Imnadze
Astana	Eneo Bitri	Luka Šimunović	Marin Tomasov	Valeriu Ciupercă	Žarko Tomašević	Antonio Rukavina	Cadete	Pedro Eugénio	Fatos Bećiraj
Atyrau	Lazar Sajčić	Alex Bruno	Allef	Bryan	Gian	Alex Junior Christian	Piotr Grzelczak	Danijel Stojković
Caspiy	Chafik Tigroudja	Miloš Stanojević	Nikola Cuckić	Marko Milošević	Nenad Gavrić	Ruslan Mingazow	Taras Bondarenko
Kairat	Vágner Love	João Paulo	Macky Bagnack	Dino Mikanović	José Kanté	Nebojša Kosović	Jacek Góralski	Ricardo Alves	Rade Dugalić
Kaisar	Clarence Bitang	Karolis Laukžemis	Jovan Čađenović	Stefan Denković	Ousmane N'Diaye	Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana
Kyzylzhar	Pablo Podio	Semir Smajlagić	Carlos Fonseca	Moussa Koné	Darko Zorić	Maksym Drachenko	Yuriy Bushman
Ordabasy	Dmytro Khlyobas	Chidi Osuchukwu	Abdoulaye Diakate	Aleksandar Simčević	Muhammadjon Rakhimov
Shakhter	Stefan Bukorac	Edin Rustemović	Martin Toshev	Ivan Graf	David Mawutor	David Atanaskoski	Vuk Mitošević	Abdel Lamanje	Aramis Kouzine
Taraz	Kódjo	Faith Obilor	Nenad Adamović	Uroš Nenadović	Erivaldo	Bruno Ibeh
Tobol	Jérémy Manzorro	Elguja Lobjanidze	Toni Silva	Aleksa Amanović	Rúben Brígido	Dušan Jovančić	Zoran Tošić	Igor Sergeev
Turan	Branislav Janković	Yevhen Chumak	Milan Stojanović	Stefan Živković	Yevhen Smirnov	Samir Fazli	Stanley
Zhetysu	Artjom Dmitrijev	Tengiz Tsikaridze	Gabriel Enache	Rizvan Ablitarov	Temur Partsvania	Vladyslav Okhronchuk	Ugochukwu Oduenyi

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

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Aktobe				Pre-Season	Alyaksey Baha	21 January 2021 [3]
Kyzylzhar	Veaceslav Rusnac				Andrei Karpovich	8 January 2021 [4]
Ordabasy	Kakhaber Tskhadadze				Aleksandr Sednyov	21 January 2021 [5]
Taraz	Vladimir Nikitenko				Vardan Minasyan	3 February 2021 [6]
Shakhter Karagandy	Konstantin Gorovenka				Ali Aliyev	20 January 2021 [7]
Zhetysu	Dmitry Ogai				Rinat Alyuetov	15 January 2021 [8]
Shakhter Karagandy	Ali Aliyev	Resigned	10 April 2021 [9]	14th	Andrei Finonchenko (Caretaker)	10 April 2021 [9]
Shakhter Karagandy	Andrei Finonchenko (Caretaker)	End of role	16 April 2021	14th	Magomed Adiyev	16 April 2021 [10]
Aktobe	Alyaksey Baha	Resigned	5 May 2021 [11]	10th	Vladimir Zelenovskiy (Caretaker)	5 May 2021 [11]
Aktobe	Vladimir Zelenovskiy (Caretaker)	End of role	7 June 2021 [12]	10th	Vakhid Masudov	7 June 2021 [12]
Kairat	Aleksey Shpilevsky	Signed by Erzgebirge Aue	7 June 2021 [13]	3rd	Kirill Keker (Caretaker)	7 June 2021 [13]
Tobol	Grigori Babayan	Signed by CSKA Moscow	17 June 2021 [14] [15]	2nd	Alexander Moskalenko (Caretaker)	18 June 2021 [16]
Aktobe	Vakhid Masudov	Resigned	26 July 2021 [17]	10th	Mukhtar Erimbetov (Caretaker)	26 July 2021 [17]
Aktobe	Mukhtar Erimbetov (Caretaker)	End of role	4 August 2021 [18]	10th	Vladimir Mukhanov	4 August 2021 [18]
Astana	Andrey Tikhonov	End of role	5 November 2021 [19]	End of season	Vladimir Yezhurov (Caretaker) [19]	5 November 2021
Astana	Vladimir Yezhurov (Caretaker)	End of role	21 November 2021	End of season	Srdjan Blagojevic	21 November 2021 [20]
Caspiy	Srdjan Blagojevic	Signed by Astana	21 November 2021 [20]	End of season	Nikolay Kostov	31 December 2021 [21]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tobol (C)	26	18	7	1	54	18	+36	61	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Astana	26	17	6	3	53	25	+28	57	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Kairat	26	14	9	3	52	21	+31	51
4	Kyzylzhar	26	11	6	9	32	24	+8	39
5	Ordabasy	26	10	8	8	36	35	+1	38
6	Shakhter Karagandy	26	9	6	11	25	34	−9	33
7	Aktobe	26	9	6	11	35	40	−5	33
8	Caspiy	26	8	8	10	35	35	0	32
9	Akzhayik	26	9	5	12	25	31	−6	32
10	Taraz	26	7	8	11	27	34	−7	29
11	Atyrau	26	7	7	12	25	40	−15	28
12	Turan	26	5	11	10	22	40	−18	26
13	Kaisar (R)	26	4	7	15	24	44	−20	19	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
14	Zhetysu [lower-alpha 1] (R)	26	5	4	17	23	47	−24	16

Source: UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Head-to-head points; 7) Head-to-head matches won; 8) Head-to-head goal difference; 9) Head-to-head goals scored; 10) Head-to-head away goals scored; 11) Draw. ^[23]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Zhetysu had three points deducted on 10 March 2021 as a punishment for the unavailability of their nominated reserve stadium for their second match-day fixture. ^[22]

Results

Games 1–26

Home \ Away	AKT	AKZ	AST	ATY	CAS	KRT	KSR	KYZ	ORD	SHA	TAR	TOB	TUR	ZHE
Aktobe		2–1	0–2	1–0	1–5	1–2	1–1	1–1	4–4	0–3	0–0	1–1	0–2	2–0
Akzhayik	1–0		0–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	0–2	1–1	3–2
Astana	2–1	1–0		6–2	2–0	1–1	2–0	3–1	0–2	4–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–0
Atyrau	1–3	2–0	0–2		2–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	2–2
Caspiy	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–1		1–1	2–4	1–2	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–0
Kairat	4–2	3–1	1–0	5–0	5–1		1–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	5–1	2–0
Kaisar	0–2	0–1	2–5	1–1	2–1	0–3		1–2	1–0	1–2	2–3	1–3	0–0	0–1
Kyzylzhar	1–2	0–1	3–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	2–0		3–2	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–1	3–0
Ordabasy	0–1	2–1	1–4	2–1	1–1	2–1	4–2	0–5		0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	3–0
Shakhter Karagandy	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–2		1–0	0–3	0–1	3–1
Taraz	3–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–2	4–0		0–0	1–1	2–3
Tobol	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	3–1	4–1	3–0		5–0	2–1
Turan	1–2	0–2	2–2	1–2	2–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–4		0–2
Zhetysu	1–5	2–2	1–3	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–4	0–1	1–2	0–2	3–0

Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Aktobe	D	D	W	D	W	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	D	L	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	L
Akzhayik	L	W	L	L	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	W	D	W	L	L	D	D	L	D	D	L
Astana	D	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	D	W	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D
Atyrau	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	L	D	L
Caspiy	D	L	W	L	D	D	W	W	L	D	L	W	W	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	W	D	L	L	D	W
Kairat	W	W	D	W	D	D	L	W	D	D	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	D
Kaisar	L	L	D	W	L	D	L	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	L	D	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	W
Kyzylzhar	W	D	W	W	L	L	W	W	D	L	W	L	L	D	W	L	D	W	D	W	L	L	W	L	D	W
Ordabasy	L	W	W	D	L	W	W	L	L	D	D	D	D	D	W	L	W	W	L	W	D	D	L	W	W	L
Shakhter Karagandy	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	W	D	D	L	L	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	D	D	W	L	W
Taraz	W	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	D	D	L	L	D	L	W	D	D	L	D	W	L	L
Tobol	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W
Turan	D	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	W	W	W	L	W	L	D	L	D	D	L	D	D	W	D	D	L	D
Zhetysu	L	W	L	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	L	L	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	W	D

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Tobol	2	3	5	4	4	4	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1
Astana	5	2	4	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2
Kairat	1	1	1	1	2	3	5	3	4	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Kyzylzhar	9	10	7	6	6	7	6	5	5	6	5	5	9	9	6	7	8	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4
Ordabasy	10	5	2	5	7	5	4	6	6	7	7	7	8	8	5	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	5
Akzhayik	13	7	10	11	8	9	9	9	8	5	3	3	4	5	8	4	4	4	5	6	6	6	7	6	7	9
Caspiy	8	11	8	8	9	8	7	7	7	8	10	8	5	6	4	5	7	8	8	8	7	7	8	10	9	8
Aktobe	7	9	3	7	5	6	8	8	11	9	9	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	8	6	7	6	7
Shakhter Karagandy	4	8	11	12	12	10	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	13	13	12	12	11	11	11	10	9	9	8	8	6
Atyrau	12	13	14	14	14	14	12	11	9	11	8	9	7	4	7	8	6	7	7	7	8	10	10	11	11	11
Taraz	3	4	6	3	3	2	3	2	3	4	6	6	6	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	11	11	9	10	10
Turan	6	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	13	12	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Kaisar	11	14	13	9	11	11	11	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Zhetysu	14	6	9	10	10	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14

	Leader
	Europa Conference League second qualifying round
	Relegation to 2022 Kazakhstan First Division

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Vitaliy Balashov for Shakhter Karagandy against Atyrau (13 March 2021)

Top scorers

As of matches played on 30 October 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marin Tomasov	Astana	17
2	Artur Shushenachev	Kairat	12
3	Igor Sergeev	Aktobe/Tobol	11
4	José Kanté	Kairat	9
	João Paulo	Ordabasy/Kairat
6	Karolis Laukžemis	Kaisar	8
	Nemanja Nikolić	Tobol
8	Azat Nurgaliyev	Tobol	7
	Tigran Barseghyan	Astana
	Pedro Eugénio	Taraz/Astana
	Alibek Kasym	Kyzylzhar
	Vágner Love	Kairat

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External links

• Official website (in Kazakh and Russian)