2014 Kazakhstan Premier League

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

Season	2014
Champions	Astana (1st title)
Relegated	Spartak Semey
Champions League	Astana
Europa League	Kairat Aktobe Ordabasy
Matches played	192
Goals scored	465 (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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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

Aktobe

Atyrau

Irtysh

Kairat

Kaisar

Astana

Ordabasy

Shakhter

Spartak Semey

Taraz

Tobol

Zhetysu

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

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

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

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

League table

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. ATY 0–1 IRT ; IRT 0-1 ATY

Results

Home \ Away	AKT	AST	ATY	IRT	KRT	KSR	ORD	SHA	SEM	TAR	TOB	ZHE
Aktobe		1–1	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

Championship round

League table

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

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

League table

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

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

16 November 2014 (2014-11-16)

11:00 (UTC+6)

Taraz	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Kyran
Yarovenko 59'	Summary	Zhumakhanov 24'
Penalties
Dosmagambetov Evstigneev Kuchma Bashlay Kozhamberdy	3–1	Kozyulin Önal Pishchulin Amirseitov

Astana Arena

Attendance: 500

Referee: Aidyn Rahinbaev

Season statistics

Top scorers

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

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

• First goal of the season: Maksim Azovskiy for Spartak Semey against Tobol (15 March 2014)
• Fastest goal of the season: 2nd minute,
  • Edin Junuzović for Ordabasy against Aktobe (13 April 2014)^[11]
• Latest goal of the season: 94th minute,
  • Damir Kojašević for Astana against Kaisar (29 March 2014)^[12]
  • Dmitri Miroshnichenko for Aktobe against Kaisar (19 April 2014)^[13]