2017 Kazakhstan Premier League

The 2017 Kazakhstan Premier League is the 26th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. Astana are the defending champions having won their third league championship the previous year.

Teams

FC Zhetysu and FC Taraz were relegated at the end of the 2016 season, and was replaced by FC Kaisar and FC Altai Semey. However, on 3 February 2017, the Football Federation of Kazakhstan ruled that Altai Semey did not meet the required entry requirements for the Premier League, and ruled that FC Taraz will replace them for the 2017 season.

Team overview

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
Kaisar	Kyzylorda	Gany Muratbayev Stadium	7,500
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

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 Ihor Rakhayev		Adidas	—
Akzhayik	Template:Flagicon Artur Avakyants	Template:FlagiconTemplate:Flagicon Predrag Govedarica	Adidas	Expo 2017
Astana	Template:Flagicon Stanimir Stoilov	Template:Flagicon Nenad Eric	Adidas	Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau	Template:Flagicon Zoran Vulić	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
Kaisar	Template:Flagicon Stoycho Mladenov	Nike		—
Okzhetpes	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Mukhanov	Template:Flagicon Alibek Buleshev	Kappa	Chempionat
Ordabasy	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Petrushin	Template:Flagicon Azat Nurgaliev	Adidas	Aysu Mineral Water
Shakhter	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Yeryomenko		Nike	—
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Vait Talgayev	Template:Flagicon Dmitri Yevstigneyev	Nike	—
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Omari Tetradze		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	Player 9	Player 10
Aktobe	Template:Flagicon Chaco Torres	Template:Flagicon Cassiano	Template:Flagicon Juninho	Template:Flagicon Vitor Júnior	Template:Flagicon Yuri Mamute	Template:Flagicon Papa Gueye	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Volovyk	Template:Flagicon Oleksandr Yermachenko
Akzhayik	Template:Flagicon Matías Rubio	Template:Flagicon Jhoan Arenas	Template:Flagicon Jovan Nikolić	Template:Flagicon Izu Azuka	Template:Flagicon Michael Odibe	Template:Flagicon Freddy Coronel	Template:Flagicon Predrag Govedarica	Template:Flagicon Kostyantyn Dudchenko
Astana	Template:Flagicon Azdren Llullaku	Template:Flagicon Ivan Mayewski	Template:Flagicon Igor Shitov	Template:Flagicon Marin Aničić	Template:Flagicon Srđan Grahovac	Template:Flagicon Junior Kabananga	Template:Flagicon Patrick Twumasi	Template:Flagicon Nemanja Maksimović
Atyrau	Template:Flagicon Jure Obšivač	Template:Flagicon Ivan Rodić	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Dvalishvili	Template:Flagicon Ucha Lobjanidze	Template:Flagicon Jovan Đokić	Template:Flagicon Novica Maksimović	Template:Flagicon Vukašin Tomić	Template:Flagicon Shavkat Salomov
Irtysh	Template:Flagicon Rodrigo António	Template:Flagicon Serge Bando N'Ganbe	Template:Flagicon Lasha Dvali	Template:Flagicon Franck Dja Djédjé	Template:Flagicon Béko Fofana	Template:Flagicon Carlos Fonseca	Template:Flagicon Stefan Živković	Template:Flagicon Yevhen Tkachuk
Kairat	Template:Flagicon Isael	Template:Flagicon Ivo Iličević	Template:Flagicon Ákos Elek	Template:Flagicon Gerard Gohou	Template:Flagicon Chuma Anene	Template:Flagicon Andrey Arshavin	Template:Flagicon Žarko Marković	Template:Flagicon César Arzo
Kaisar	Template:Flagicon Saidi Ntibazonkiza	Template:Flagicon Abdel Lamanje	Template:Flagicon Ivan Graf	Template:Flagicon Mathias Coureur	Template:Flagicon Stefan Nikolic	Template:Flagicon John Kamara	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Arzhanov
Okzhetpes	Template:Flagicon Tsvetan Genkov	Template:Flagicon Joseph Nane	Template:Flagicon Daniil Chertov	Template:Flagicon Aleksandr Kozlov	Template:Flagicon Vitali Volkov	Template:Flagicon Saša Stamenković	Template:Flagicon Lucas Horvat	Template:Flagicon Serhiy Politylo
Ordabasy	Template:Flagicon Preslav Yordanov	Template:Flagicon Gogita Gogua	Template:Flagicon Otar Martsvaladze	Template:Flagicon Abdoulaye Diakate	Template:Flagicon Zoran Rendulić	Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Simčević	Template:Flagicon Kyrylo Kovalchuk	Template:Flagicon Alexander Geynrikh	Template:Flagicon Pablo Fontanello	Template:Flagicon Nikita Bocharov
Shakhter	Template:Flagicon Alessio Allegria	Template:Flagicon Korede Aiyegbusi	Template:Flagicon Didier Kadio	Template:Flagicon Marko Stanojević	Template:Flagicon Milan Stojanović	Template:Flagicon Július Szöke
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Mohammed Diarra	Template:Flagicon Jean-Eudes Maurice	Template:Flagicon Nemanja Mijušković	Template:Flagicon Andrei Gorbanets	Template:Flagicon Ruslan Mukhametshin	Template:Flagicon Yevgeni Shipitsin	Template:Flagicon Davron Ergashev	Template:Flagicon Maksym Feshchuk
Tobol	Template:Flagicon Tomáš Šimkovič	Template:Flagicon Fernander Kassaï	Template:Flagicon Denis Glavina	Template:Flagicon Artūras Žulpa	Template:Flagicon Dušan Savić	Template:Flagicon Đorđe Despotović	Template:Flagicon Dmytro Nepohodov

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 Yuri Utkulbayev			Pre-season	Template:Flagicon Ihor Rakhayev
Atyrau	Template:Flagicon Stoycho Mladenov				Template:Flagicon Zoran Vulić	14 December 2016
Kaisar					Template:Flagicon Stoycho Mladenov	21 November 2016
Taraz	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Maksymov				Template:Flagicon Vait Talgayev	4 January 2017
Ordabasy	Template:Flagicon Bakhtiyar Bayseitov				Template:Flagicon Aleksei Petrushin	5 February 2017

Regular season

In the regular season twelve teams played each other three times, home-and-away and then a third round decided on position at the end of the first two rounds, in a round-robin format for a total of 33 matches per team.

Atyrau started the season on -9 points as a punishment for unpaid debts to former manager Zoran Filipović.

Results

Games 1–22

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| name_AKT = Aktobe | name_AKZ = Akzhayik | name_AST = Astana | name_ATY = Atyrau | name_IRT = Irtysh Pavlodar | name_KRT = Kairat | name_KSR = Kaisar | name_OKZ = Okzhetpes | name_ORD = Ordabasy | name_SHA = Shakhter Karagandy | name_TAR = Taraz | name_TOB = Tobol

| match_AKT_AKZ = 1-1 | match_AKT_AST = | match_AKT_ATY = | match_AKT_IRT = | match_AKT_KRT = | match_AKT_KSR = | match_AKT_OKZ = | match_AKT_ORD = 0-1 | match_AKT_SHA = | match_AKT_TAR = 0-0 | match_AKT_TOB =

| match_AKZ_AKT = | match_AKZ_AST = | match_AKZ_ATY = 2-2 | match_AKZ_IRT = | match_AKZ_KRT = | match_AKZ_KSR = 1-0 | match_AKZ_OKZ = 1-1 | match_AKZ_ORD = | match_AKZ_SHA = 3-1 | match_AKZ_TAR = | match_AKZ_TOB =

| match_AST_AKT = 3-0 | match_AST_AKZ = 3-1 | match_AST_ATY = | match_AST_IRT = | match_AST_KRT = | match_AST_KSR = | match_AST_OKZ = | match_AST_ORD = | match_AST_SHA = | match_AST_TAR = 4-0 | match_AST_TOB =

| match_ATY_AKT = | match_ATY_AKZ = | match_ATY_AST = 0-1 | match_ATY_IRT = 0-1 | match_ATY_KRT = | match_ATY_KSR = | match_ATY_OKZ = | match_ATY_ORD = | match_ATY_SHA = 3-3 | match_ATY_TAR = | match_ATY_TOB =

| match_IRT_AKT = 1-3 | match_IRT_AKZ = 2-1 | match_IRT_AST = 1-1 | match_IRT_ATY = | match_IRT_KRT = 3-3 | match_IRT_KSR = | match_IRT_OKZ = | match_IRT_ORD = | match_IRT_SHA = | match_IRT_TAR = 5-2 | match_IRT_TOB =

| match_KRT_AKT = 1-0 | match_KRT_AKZ = | match_KRT_TAR = | match_KRT_AST = | match_KRT_ATY = | match_KRT_IRT = 1-1 | match_KRT_KSR = 1-1 | match_KRT_OKZ = 2-2 | match_KRT_ORD = 3-0 | match_KRT_SHA = | match_KRT_TOB =

| match_KSR_AKT = | match_KSR_AKZ = | match_KSR_AST = | match_KSR_ATY = | match_KSR_IRT = 1-1 | match_KSR_KRT = | match_KSR_OKZ = 1-0 | match_KSR_ORD = | match_KSR_SHA = | match_KSR_TAR = 2-1 | match_KSR_TOB = 0-0

| match_OKZ_AKT = | match_OKZ_AKZ = | match_OKZ_AST = 0-3 | match_OKZ_ATY = | match_OKZ_IRT = 0-2 | match_OKZ_KRT = | match_OKZ_KSR = | match_OKZ_ORD = | match_OKZ_SHA = | match_OKZ_TAR = | match_OKZ_TOB = 1-0

| match_ORD_AKT = | match_ORD_AKZ = | match_ORD_AST = 3-0 | match_ORD_ATY = 1-1 | match_ORD_IRT = | match_ORD_KRT = | match_ORD_KSR = 1-0 | match_ORD_OKZ = 2-1 | match_ORD_SHA = | match_ORD_TAR = | match_ORD_TOB = 1-2

| match_SHA_AKT = | match_SHA_AKZ = | match_SHA_AST = 1-2 | match_SHA_ATY = | match_SHA_IRT = | match_SHA_KRT = 1-4 | match_SHA_KSR = 0-1 | match_SHA_OKZ = | match_SHA_ORD = | match_SHA_TAR = | match_SHA_TOB = 1-1

| match_TAR_AKT = | match_TAR_AKZ = | match_TAR_AST = | match_TAR_ATY = | match_TAR_IRT = | match_TAR_KRT = 0-0 | match_TAR_KSR = | match_TAR_OKZ = | match_TAR_ORD = 2-1 | match_TAR_SHA = 0-0 | match_TAR_TOB =

| match_TOB_AKT = 0-0 | match_TOB_AKZ = | match_TOB_AST = | match_TOB_ATY = 3-0 | match_TOB_IRT = | match_TOB_KRT = 2-2 | match_TOB_KSR = | match_TOB_OKZ = | match_TOB_ORD = 1-0 | match_TOB_SHA = | match_TOB_TAR = 1-0 }}

Games 23–33

{{#invoke:sports results|main | source = Soccerway | update = | start_date = | matches_style = FBR | showteam = | team1 = AKT | team2 = AKZ | team3 = AST | team4 = ATY | team5 = IRT | team6 = KRT | team7 = KSR | team8 = OKZ | team9 = ORD | team10 = SHA | team11 = TAR | team12 = TOB

| name_AKT = Aktobe | name_AKZ = Akzhayik | name_AST = Astana | name_ATY = Atyrau | name_IRT = Irtysh Pavlodar | name_KRT = Kairat | name_KSR = Kaisar | name_OKZ = Okzhetpes | name_ORD = Ordabasy | name_SHA = Shakhter Karagandy | name_TAR = Taraz | name_TOB = Tobol

| match_AKT_AKZ = | match_AKT_AST = | match_AKT_ATY = | match_AKT_IRT = | match_AKT_KRT = | match_AKT_KSR = | match_AKT_OKZ = | match_AKT_ORD = | match_AKT_SHA = | match_AKT_TAR = | match_AKT_TOB =

| match_AKZ_AKT = | match_AKZ_AST = | match_AKZ_ATY = | match_AKZ_IRT = | match_AKZ_KRT = | match_AKZ_KSR = | match_AKZ_OKZ = | match_AKZ_ORD = | match_AKZ_SHA = | match_AKZ_TAR = | match_AKZ_TOB =

| match_AST_AKT = | match_AST_AKZ = | match_AST_ATY = | match_AST_IRT = | match_AST_KRT = | match_AST_KSR = | match_AST_OKZ = | match_AST_ORD = | match_AST_SHA = | match_AST_TAR = | match_AST_TOB =

| match_ATY_AKT = | match_ATY_AKZ = | match_ATY_AST = | match_ATY_IRT = | match_ATY_KRT = | match_ATY_KSR = | match_ATY_OKZ = | match_ATY_ORD = | match_ATY_SHA = | match_ATY_TAR = | match_ATY_TOB =

| match_IRT_AKT = | match_IRT_AKZ = | match_IRT_AST = | match_IRT_ATY = | match_IRT_KRT = | match_IRT_KSR = | match_IRT_OKZ = | match_IRT_ORD = | match_IRT_SHA = | match_IRT_TAR = | match_IRT_TOB =

| match_KRT_AKT = | match_KRT_AKZ = | match_KRT_AST = | match_KRT_ATY = | match_KRT_IRT = | match_KRT_KSR = | match_KRT_OKZ = | match_KRT_ORD = | match_KRT_SHA = | match_KRT_TAR = | match_KRT_TOB =

| match_KSR_AKT = | match_KSR_AKZ = | match_KSR_AST = | match_KSR_ATY = | match_KSR_IRT = | match_KSR_KRT = | match_KSR_OKZ = | match_KSR_ORD = | match_KSR_SHA = | match_KSR_TAR = | match_KSR_TOB =

| match_OKZ_AKT = | match_OKZ_AKZ = | match_OKZ_AST = | match_OKZ_ATY = | match_OKZ_IRT = | match_OKZ_KRT = | match_OKZ_KSR = | match_OKZ_ORD = | match_OKZ_SHA = | match_OKZ_TAR = | match_OKZ_TOB =

| match_ORD_AKT = | match_ORD_AKZ = | match_ORD_AST = | match_ORD_ATY = | match_ORD_IRT = | match_ORD_KRT = | match_ORD_KSR = | match_ORD_OKZ = | match_ORD_SHA = | match_ORD_TAR = | match_ORD_TOB =

| match_SHA_AKT = | match_SHA_AKZ = | match_SHA_AST = | match_SHA_ATY = | match_SHA_IRT = | match_SHA_KRT = | match_SHA_KSR = | match_SHA_OKZ = | match_SHA_ORD = | match_SHA_TAR = | match_SHA_TOB =

| match_TAR_AKT = | match_TAR_AKZ = | match_TAR_AST = | match_TAR_ATY = | match_TAR_IRT = | match_TAR_KRT = | match_TAR_KSR = | match_TAR_OKZ = | match_TAR_ORD = | match_TAR_SHA = | match_TAR_TOB =

| match_TOB_AKT = | match_TOB_AKZ = | match_TOB_AST = | match_TOB_ATY = | match_TOB_IRT = | match_TOB_KRT = | match_TOB_KSR = | match_TOB_OKZ = | match_TOB_ORD = | match_TOB_SHA = | match_TOB_TAR =

}}

Statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Aleksey Shchotkin for Tobol against Atyrau (8 March 2017)

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Template:Flagicon Gerard Gohou	Kairat	8
2	Template:Flagicon Junior Kabananga	Astana	5
3	Template:Flagicon Aleksey Shchotkin	Tobol	4
	Template:Flagicon Aslan Darabayev	Irtysh Pavlodar
5	Template:Flagicon Mardan Tolebek	Ordabasy	3
	Template:Flagicon Ruslan Mukhametshin	Taraz
	Template:Flagicon Jure Obšivač	Atyrau
	Template:Flagicon Daurenbek Tazhimbetov	Shakhter Karagandy
	Template:Flagicon Ivo Iličević	Kairat
10	Template:Flagicon Izu Azuka	Akzhayik	2
	Template:Flagicon Matías Rubio	Akzhayik
	Template:Flagicon Volodymyr Arzhanov	Kaisar
	Template:Flagicon Tanat Nusserbayev	Ordabasy
	Template:Flagicon Žarko Marković	Kairat
	Template:Flagicon Miram Sapanov	Akzhayik
	Template:Flagicon Béko Fofana	Irtysh Pavlodar
	Template:Flagicon Yuriy Logvinenko	Astana
	Template:Flagicon Rodrigo António	Irtysh Pavlodar
	Template:Flagicon Saidi Ntibazonkiza	Kaisar
	Template:Flagicon Serikzhan Muzhikov	Astana
	Template:Flagicon Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	Kairat
	Template:Flagicon Stefan Živković	Irtysh Pavlodar
	Template:Flagicon Franck Dja Djédjé	Irtysh Pavlodar
	Template:Flagicon Srđan Grahovac	Astana
	Template:Flagicon Didar Zhalmukan	Astana
	Template:Flagicon Đorđe Despotović	Irtysh Pavlodar

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Template:Flagicon Aleksey Shchotkin	Tobol	Atyrau	3–0	Template:Dts
Template:Flagicon Gerard Gohou	Kairat	Shakhter Karagandy	4–1	Template:Dts

External links

• Official website Template:Kz icon Template:Ru icon

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