2014 Kazakhstan Premier League

Summary

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.

Kazakhstan Premier League
Season2014
ChampionsAstana (1st title)
RelegatedSpartak Semey
Champions LeagueAstana
Europa LeagueKairat
Aktobe
Ordabasy
Matches played192
Goals scored465 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorerFoxi Kéthévoama (15)
Biggest home winKairat 7–1 Aktobe (R19)
Biggest away winTaraz 1–5 Shakhter (R3)
Highest scoringAstana 5–3 Irtysh (R17)
Kairat 7–1 Aktobe (R19)
2013
2015

Teams edit

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 edit

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Locations of teams in the 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League
Team Location Venue Capacity
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 Stadium 08,000
Taraz Taraz Taraz Central Stadium 11,525
Tobol Kostanay Kostanay Central Stadium 010,500
Zhetysu Taldykorgan Zhetysu Stadium 04,000

Personnel and kits edit

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
Astana   Stanimir Stoilov   Kairat Nurdauletov Adidas Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau   Anatoliy Yurevich   Valentin Chureev Adidas,
Irtysh   Talgat Baisufinov   Sergei Ivanov Adidas ENRC
Kairat   Vladimír Weiss   Kyril Shestakov Nike KazRosGaz
Kaisar   Dmitriy Ogai Nike
Ordabasy   Viktor Pasulko   Kairat Ashirbekov Adidas TAU
Shakhter   Viktor Kumykov   Andrey Finonchenko Lotto
Spartak Semey   Almas Kulshinbayev Adidas
Taraz   Evgeny Yarovenko   Vitali Yevstigneyev Adidas
Tobol   Timur Urazov   Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev Adidas
Zhetysu   Omari Tetradze   Zahar Korobov Adidas

Managerial changes edit

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment
Atyrau   Miodrag Radulović 8 November 2013 Pre Season   Anatoliy Yurevich 4 December 2013[1]
Kaisar   Sergei Volgin 17 November 2013   Dmitriy Ogai 30 November 2013
Astana   Ioan Andone End of contract 27 November 2013   Vadim Abramov 28 November 2013[2]
Astana   Vadim Abramov Contract canceled 13 December 2013 [3]   Grigori Babayan 1 January 2014
Taraz   Arno Pijpers 10 June 2014   Evgeny Yarovenko 10 June 2014[4]
Astana   Grigori Babayan End of caretaker spell 21 June 2014   Stanimir Stoilov 21 June 2014[5]

Foreign players edit

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.

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7
Aktobe   Robert Primus   Robert Arzumanyan   Marcos Pizzelli   Timur Kapadze   Danilo Neco   Anderson Mineiro   Oleksiy Antonov
Astana   Marin Aničić   Damir Kojašević   Roger Cañas   Guy Essame   Patrick Twumasi   Atanas Kurdov   Foxi Kéthévoama
Atyrau   Michael Odibe   Marko Blažić   Giorgi Peikrishvili   Miloš Trifunović   Dominic Adiyiah
Irtysh   Miodrag Dzudovic   Igor Burzanovic   Kostyantyn Dudchenko   Orlin Starokin   Simeon Bulgaru   Rinar Valeyev
Kairat   Ľubomír Michalík   Žarko Marković   Josip Knežević   Artur Yedigaryan   Sito Riera   Isael da Silva Barbosa   Gerard Gohou
Kaisar   Martin Klein   Miljan Jablan   Mamoutou Coulibaly   Matic Maruško   Rimo Hunt   Dušan Savić   Valentin Furdui
Ordabasy   Andrew Mwesigwa   Freire   Artem Kasyanov   Abdoulaye Diakate   Ondřej Kúdela
Shakhter   Aleksandar Simčević   Gediminas Vičius   Shavkat Salomov   Kamoliddin Murzoev   Mihret Topcagić   Nikola Pokrivač   Ján Maslo
Spartak Semey   Viktor Genev   Nemanja Čović   Nikolay Dyulgerov   Daniel Peev   Nemanja Jovanović   Artur Avagyan   Goran Obradović
Taraz   Sigourney Bandjar   Rok Roj   Jovan Golić   Desley Ubbink   Denys Vasilyev   Oleksandr Yarovenko   Dmytro Bashlay
Tobol   Štěpán Kučera   Ondřej Kušnír   Ognjen Krasić   Tomáš Šimkovič   Nenad Šljivić   Jiří Jeslínek   Ivan Sadownichy
Zhetysu   Didier Kadio   Arūnas Klimavičius   Marko Putinčanin   Marko Đalović   Boti Demel   Mersudin Ahmetović   Davron Ergashev

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

First round edit

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Aktobe 22 12 7 3 34 17 +17 43 Qualification for the championship round
2 Kairat 22 13 3 6 41 20 +21 42
3 Astana 22 10 9 3 34 17 +17 39
4 Shakhter Karagandy 22 11 3 8 33 27 +6 36
5 Ordabasy 22 10 5 7 24 22 +2 35
6 Kaisar 22 8 8 6 23 23 0 32
7 Zhetysu 22 7 6 9 15 18 −3 27 Qualification for the relegation round
8 Tobol 22 6 8 8 22 29 −7 26
9 Irtysh Pavlodar 22 6 6 10 28 35 −7 24[a]
10 Atyrau 22 6 6 10 19 27 −8 24[a]
11 Taraz 22 5 4 13 21 34 −13 19
12 Spartak Semey 22 3 5 14 16 41 −25 14
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. ^ a b ATY 0–1 IRT ; IRT 0-1 ATY

Results edit

Home \ Away AKT AST ATY IRT KRT KSR ORD SHA SEM TAR TOB ZHE
Aktobe 1–1 0–0 3–0 1–0 3–0 1–1 4–0 3–0 2–0 3–1 1–0
Astana 1–2 3–0 5–3 2–2 1–0 1–1 4–0 5–0 1–0 1–0 0–0
Atyrau 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–3 1–3 1–1 3–2 2–1 3–0 0–0 1–2
Irtysh Pavlodar 1–1 3–4 0–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 1–0 5–0 2–0 0–3 1–0
Kairat 7–1 0–0 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 4–1 3–1 3–1 2–1
Kaisar 2–2 1–0 2–1 4–2 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Ordabasy 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 3–0 1–1
Shakhter Karagandy 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–2 1–0 4–1 3–1 1–0 1–0 4–1 3–0
Spartak Semey 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–0 2–5 1–1 2–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 1–1
Taraz 0–2 1–1 3–3 5–1 2–3 0–1 2–1 1–5 2–0 1–1 1–0
Tobol 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 2–2 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–0 0–2
Zhetysu 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 1–2
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round edit

Championship round edit

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Astana (C) 32 18 10 4 63 26 +37 45 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Aktobe 32 17 10 5 52 31 +21 40 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round
3 Kairat 32 18 5 9 58 31 +27 38
4 Ordabasy 32 13 5 14 34 44 −10 27
5 Kaisar 32 10 13 9 30 34 −4 27
6 Shakhter Karagandy 32 11 6 15 41 49 −8 21
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) Champions

Results edit

Home \ Away AKT AST KRT KSR ORD SHA
Aktobe 3–0 1–0 0–0 4–1 3–1
Astana 6–1 5–1 3–0 5–0 2–0
Kairat 2–0 2–3 1–1 2–0 6–1
Kaisar 2–2 1–1 0–2 0–1 2–1
Ordabasy 1–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–2
Shakhter Karagandy 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–0 2–3
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation round edit

League table edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Relegation
7 Tobol[a] 32 10 12 10 35 35 0 26
8 Zhetysu 32 10 8 14 21 31 −10 25
9 Atyrau 32 10 7 15 30 43 −13 25
10 Irtysh Pavlodar 32 9 10 13 39 44 −5 25
11 Taraz (O) 32 9 7 16 32 45 −13 25 Qualification for the relegation play-off
12 Spartak Semey (R) 32 7 7 18 30 52 −22 21 Relegation 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 winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Tobol have had 3 point(s) deducted.

Results edit

Home \ Away ATY IRT SEM TAR TOB ZHE
Atyrau 2–1 1–1 3–2 0–3 1–0
Irtysh Pavlodar 2–0 3–2 0–0 1–1 1–1
Spartak Semey 3–1 2–0 0–0 2–1 3–1
Taraz 2–1 0–3 1–0 1–1 2–0
Tobol 1–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 2–0
Zhetysu 1–0 1–0 2–1 0–3 0–0
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs edit

Taraz1–1 (a.e.t.)Kyran
Yarovenko   59' Summary Zhumakhanov   24'
Penalties
Dosmagambetov  
Evstigneev  
Kuchma  
Bashlay  
Kozhamberdy  
3–1 Kozyulin  
Önal  
Pishchulin  
Amirseitov  
Attendance: 500
Referee: Aidyn Rahinbaev

Season statistics edit

Top scorers edit

As of Match played 9 November 2014[6]
Rank Player Club Goals
1   Foxi Kéthévoama Astana 15
2   Miloš Trifunović Atyrau 13
3   Gerard Gohou Kairat 12
4   Kostyantyn Dudchenko Irtysh 11
  Patrick Twumasi Astana
6   Mihret Topcagić Shakhter 10
7   Marat Khairullin Aktobe 9
8   Rimo Hunt Kaisar 8
  Aslan Darabayev Kairat
  Oleksiy Antonov Aktobe
  Marcos Pizzelli Aktobe

Hat-tricks edit

Player For Against Result Date
  Atanas Kurdov Astana Irtysh 4–3 19 April 2014[7]
  Gerard Gohou Kairat Aktobe 7–1 6 July 2014[8]
  Foxi Kéthévoama Astana Atyrau 3–0 27 July 2014[9]
  Patrick Twumasi Astana Aktobe 6–1 4 October 2014[10]

Scoring edit

References edit

  1. ^ Анатолий Юревич представлен футболистам "Атырау" (in Russian). sports.kz. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  2. ^ Вадим Абрамов назначен главным тренером "Астаны" (in Russian). FC Astana. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. ^ Есмухамет Спанов и Вадим Абрамов покидают «Астану» (in Russian). FC Astana. 2014-12-13. Archived from the original on 2016-12-05. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  4. ^ Евгений Яровенко стал главным тренером Тараза. sport.nur.kz/ (in Russian). sport.nur.kz. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  5. ^ Станимир Стойлов — новый главный тренер «Астаны» (in Russian). sports.kz. 2014-06-21.
  6. ^ UEFA.com
  7. ^ "Irtysh 3-4 Astana". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Kairat 7-1 Aktobe". Soccerway. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Astana 3-0 Atyrau". Soccerway. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  10. ^ "Astana 6-1 Aktobe". Soccerway. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Ordabasy 1 - 0 Aktobe". Soccerway. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  12. ^ "Astana 1 - 0 Kaisar". Soccerway. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Aktobe 1 - 0 Kaisar". Soccerway. Retrieved 6 May 2014.