2016 Kazakhstan Premier League

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The 2016 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 25th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. Astana were the defending champions having won their second league championship the previous year, and they successfully defended their title this season. The season began on 12 March 2016 and concluded on 29 October 2016; the relegation play-off took place on 5 November 2016.

Teams

FC Kaisar was relegated at the end of the 2015 season, and was replaced by Akzhayik.

Team overview

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Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktobe	Aktobe	Aktobe Central Stadium	15,000
Akzhayik	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Astana	Astana	Astana Arena	30,000
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	8,690
Irtysh	Pavlodar	Pavlodar Central Stadium	15,000
Kairat	Almaty	Almaty Central Stadium	25,057
Okzhetpes	Kokshetau	Okzhetpes Stadium	4,158
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium	35,000
Shakhter	Karaganda	Shakhter Stadium	20,000
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.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aktobe	Template:Flagicon Yuri Utkulbayev		Lotto	—
Akzhayik	Template:Flagicon Artur Avakyants	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Predrag Govedarica	Adidas	Expo 2017
Astana	Template:Flagicon Stanimir Stoilov	Template:Flagicon Tanat Nusserbayev	Adidas	Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau	Template:Flagicon Stoycho Mladenov	Template:Flagicon Zhasur Narzikulov	Adidas	—
Irtysh	Template:Flagicon Dimitar Dimitrov	Template:Flagicon David Loria	Nike	ENRC
Kairat	Template:Flagicon Kakhaber Tskhadadze	Template:Flagicon Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	Nike	Expo 2017
Okzhetpes	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Mukhanov	Template:Flagicon Alibek Buleshev	Adidas	Chempionat
Ordabasy	Template:Flagicon Bakhtiyar Bayseitov	Template:Flagicon Azat Nurgaliev	Adidas	TAU
Shakhter	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Yeryomenko	Template:Flagicon Maksat Baizhanov	Adidas	—
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Maksymov	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Yevstigneyev	Adidas	—
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Omari Tetradze	Template:Flagicon Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	Adidas	—
Zhetysu	Template:Flagicon Almas Kulshinbaev	Template:Flagicon Andrey Pasechenko	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.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8
Aktobe	Template:Flagicon Lassina Dao	Template:Flagicon Kouassi Kouadja	Template:Flagicon Nikita Bocharov	Template:Flagicon Dmitry Golubov	Template:Flagicon Marat Sitdikov	Template:Flagicon Sandro Tsveiba	Template:Flagicon Vuk Mitošević	Template:Flagicon Ilya Mikhalyov
Akzhayik	Template:Flagicon Saša Kolunija	Template:Flagicon Matías Rubio	Template:Flagicon Michael Odibe	Template:Flagicon Freddy Coronel	Template:Flagicon Miroslav Lečić	Template:Flagicon Danilo Nikolić	Template:Flagicon Srđan Ostojić	Template:Flagicon Predrag Govedarica
Astana	Template:Flagicon Igor Shitov	Template:Flagicon Marin Aničić	Template:Flagicon Roger Cañas	Template:Flagicon Junior Kabananga	Template:Flagicon Patrick Twumasi	Template:Flagicon Agim Ibraimi	Template:Flagicon Đorđe Despotović	Template:Flagicon Nemanja Maksimović
Atyrau	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Makas	Template:Flagicon Guy Essame	Template:Flagicon Abdel Lamanje	Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Damčevski	Template:Flagicon Przemysław Trytko	Template:Flagicon Alexandru Curtean	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Arzhanov	Template:Flagicon Vyacheslav Sharpar
Irtysh	Template:Flagicon Semir Kerla	Template:Flagicon Ignacio Herrera	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Jirsák	Template:Flagicon Ousman Jallow	Template:Flagicon Georgas Freidgeimas	Template:Flagicon Carlos Fonseca	Template:Flagicon Djiby Fall
Kairat	Template:Flagicon Isael	Template:Flagicon Léandre Tawamba	Template:Flagicon Gerson Acevedo	Template:Flagicon Gerard Gohou	Template:Flagicon Andrey Arshavin	Template:Flagicon Žarko Marković	Template:Flagicon César Arzo	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Okzhetpes	Template:Flagicon Joseph Nane	Template:Flagicon Serge Bando N'Ganbe	Template:Flagicon Nicolás Canales	Template:Flagicon Daniil Chertov	Template:Flagicon Vitali Volkov	Template:Flagicon Risto Ristović	Template:Flagicon Saša Stamenković	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Chyzhov
Ordabasy	Template:Flagicon Edin Junuzović	Template:Flagicon Gogita Gogua	Template:Flagicon Filip Kasalica	Template:Flagicon Dominic Chatto	Template:Flagicon Abdoulaye Diakate	Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Simčević	Template:Flagicon Branislav Trajković	Template:Flagicon Alexander Geynrikh
Shakhter	Template:Flagicon Robert Arzumanyan	Template:Flagicon Ivan Sadownichy	Template:Flagicon Nikola Vasiljević	Template:Flagicon Marko Simonovski	Template:Flagicon Desley Ubbink	Template:Flagicon Filip Serečin	Template:Flagicon Július Szöke	Template:Flagicon Štefan Zošák
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Ioan Mera	Template:Flagicon Anton Grigoryev	Template:Flagicon Malick Mané	Template:Flagicon Davron Ergashev	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Aliyev	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Pyschur	Template:Flagicon Andriy Yakovlyev
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Šimkovič	Template:Flagicon Fernander Kassaï	Template:Flagicon Denis Glavina	Template:Flagicon Artūras Žulpa	Template:Flagicon Dušan Savić	Template:Flagicon Ciprian Deac	Template:Flagicon Shamil Asildarov	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Yavorskyi
Zhetysu	Template:Flagicon Narek Beglaryan	Template:Flagicon Martin Klein	Template:Flagicon Mamadou Wague	Template:Flagicon Marko Đalović	Template:Flagicon Dejan Djermanović	Template:Flagicon Artem Kasyanov

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	Template:Flagicon Ioan Andone	Mutual consent	10 November 2015^[1]	Pre-season	Template:Flagicon Yuri Utkulbayev	22 December 2015^[2]
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Evgeny Yarovenko	Mutual consent	11 November 2015^[3]		Template:Flagicon Nurmat Mirzabayev
Kairat	Template:Flagicon Vladimír Weiss	Mutual consent	30 November 2015^[4]		Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Borodyuk	28 December 2015^[5]
Shakhter	Template:Flagicon Ihor Zakhariak				Template:Flagicon Jozef Vukušič	8 January 2016^[6]
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Sergey Maslenov				Template:Flagicon Dmitriy Ogai	23 December 2015
Zhetysu	Template:Flagicon Ivan Azovskiy				Template:Flagicon Almas Kulshinbaev	5 January 2016^[7]
Kairat	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Borodyuk	Resigned	5 April 2016^[8]	9th	Template:Flagicon Kakhaber Tskhadadze	7 April 2016^[9]
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Dmitriy Ogai	Mutual consent	28 April 2016^[10]	5th
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Nurmat Mirzabayev		15 May 2016	12th	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Maksymov	15 May 2016^[11]
Shakhter Karagandy	Template:Flagicon Jozef Vukušič	Resigned	3 August 2016^[12]	11th	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Yeryomenko	4 August 2016^[13]

Regular season

In the regular season twelve teams played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of 22 matches per team. The top six teams advanced to the Championship round and the bottom six teams qualified for the Relegation round.^[14]

Regular season table

Template:2016 Kazakhstan Premier League Regular Season table

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Gerard Gohou	Kairat	22
2	Template:Flagicon Roman Murtazayev	Irtysh Pavlodar	18
3	Template:Flagicon Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	Kairat	17
4	Template:Flagicon Malick Mané	Taraz	13
5	Template:Flagicon Dušan Savić	Zhetysu	12
5	Template:Flagicon Azat Nurgaliev	Ordabasy/Astana	12
7	Template:Flagicon Sergei Khizhnichenko	Tobol	10
7	Template:Flagicon Alexander Geynrikh	Ordabasy	10
9	Template:Flagicon Serge Bando N'Ganbe	Okzhetpes	9
10	Template:Flagicon Marat Khairullin	Okzhetpes	8
	Template:Flagicon Đorđe Despotović	Astana
	Template:Flagicon Andrey Arshavin	Kairat
	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Arzhanov	Atyrau
	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Šimkovič	Tobol
	Template:Flagicon Freddy Coronel	Akzhayik

2016 Kazakhstan Premier League

Contents

Teams

Team overview

Personnel and kits

Foreign players

Managerial changes

Regular season

Regular season table

Regular season results

Championship round

Championship round table

Championship round results

Relegation round

Relegation round table

Relegation round results

Relegation play-offs

Statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Scoring

References

External links

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