2014 Kazakhstan First Division

The 2014 Kazakhstan First Division was the 20th edition of Kazakhstan First Division, the second level football competition in Kazakhstan. 15 teams to play against each other on home-away system. The top team gains promotion to the Premier League next season, while the second-placed team enters playoff series with the eleventh team of the Premier League.

Kazakhstan First Division

Season	2014
Champions	Okzhetpes
Promoted	Okzhetpes
Relegated	Maktaaral
Matches played	230
Goals scored	598 (2.6 per match)
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Teams

Stadia and locations

Akzhayik

Okzhetpes

Ekibastuz

Kyzylzhar

Lashyn

Gefest

Bolat

Astana

Astana teams:
Astana-64
Bayterek

Caspiy

Almaty Province

Almaty Province teams:
Zhetysu-Sunkar
CSKA

Vostok

Kyran

Maktaaral

Location of teams in 2014 Kazakhstan First Division

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to three per team. A team can use all of them on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
Akzhayik	Borut Semler	Ivan Mihov	-
Astana-64	Dramane Kone	Pavel Purishkin	Ernes Sed'ko
Bayterek	-	-	-
Bolat	-	-	-
Caspiy	Pavel Stanev	Aleksandr Petrov	Yuri Skornyakov
CSKA Almaty	-	-	-
Ekibastuz	-	-	-
Gefest	Ruslan Amirov	Yegor Levin	Akbarzhon Khodzhaev
Kyran	Murat Önal	-	-
Kyzylzhar	Oleksandr Zgura	David Chagelishvili	Levani Chagelishvili
Lashyn	-	-	-
FC Maktaaral	Vadym Barba	Timur Vasiliev	Abdurazzok Dzhurayev
Okzhetpes	Anatoliy Vlasichev	-	-
Vostok	Vitali Kuyanov	-	-
Zhetysu-Sunkar	-	-	-

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

Last updated 28 June 2014.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Okzhetpes (C, P)	28	21	1	6	59	33	+26	64	Promotion to the Kazakhstan Premier League
2	Kyran	28	19	3	6	60	30	+30	60	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
3	Astana-1964	28	17	4	7	54	29	+25	55
4	Caspiy	28	17	4	7	44	26	+18	55
5	Akzhayik	28	16	7	5	46	24	+22	55
6	Vostok	28	14	5	9	48	31	+17	47
7	Ekibastuz	28	11	8	9	40	35	+5	41
8	Sunkar	28	11	7	10	42	39	+3	40
9	Kyzylzhar	28	12	1	15	41	45	−4	37
10	Bayterek	28	10	2	16	34	52	−18	32
11	Lashyn	28	7	6	15	23	42	−19	27
12	CSKA Almaty	28	6	6	16	32	54	−22	24
13	Bolat	28	7	2	19	26	40	−14	23
14	Gefest	28	6	3	19	16	56	−40	21
15	Maktaaral	28	4	5	19	33	62	−29	17

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
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Promotion play-offs

16 November 2014 (2014-11-16)

11:00 (UTC+6)

Taraz	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Kyran
Yarovenko 59'	Summary	Zhumakhanov 24'  120'
Penalties
	3–1

Astana Arena

Referee: Aidyn Rahinbaev