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'''[[Football (soccer)|Football]] in [[Kazakhstan]]''' is governed by the national body the [[Football Federation of Kazakhstan]]. The FFK organises the [[Kazakhstan national football team|men's]], [[Kazakhstan women's national football team|women's]] and [[Kazakhstan national futsal team|futsal]] national teams.<ref>[http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/923-Europe/4964-capital-gains Capital Gains]</ref>

==History==
[[File:FC Yarysh in 1914.jpg|thumb|Pioneers of the Kazakh football FC Yarysh of Semipalatinsk, 1914.]]
Kazakh football first appeared in [[Semey]] before [[World War I]], when [[United Kingdom|British]] merchants brought the game to the area. Among the early players of the game was writer [[Mukhtar Auezov]] who turned out for the 'Yarysh' club, the biggest of the time [http://www.kff.kz/engl/history/1337.htm]. Teams soon followed in [[Pavlodar]] and [[Dzhambul]], before the first official appearance of a [[Kazakh SSR]] representative team in 1928. By the 1930s Kazakh club sides were regularly participating in the lower ranks of Soviet football.

After [[World War II]] a regular league began in 1946 while a [[Kazakhstan Cup|cup competition]], previously held sporadically was instituted full-time in 1948. A permanent Kazakh SSR Football Federation was established in 1959. Leading club side [[FC Kairat Almaty]] went on to make history in 1960 by becoming the first Kazakh side to compete in the [[Soviet Top League]] and made further history in 1963 by reaching the [[semi-final]]s of the [[Soviet Cup]], the best performance by a Kazakh team in the competition. They would go on to record Kazakhstan's first triumph in the [[Soviet First League]] in 1976.

No Kazakh footballer had represented the [[USSR national football team|USSR]] until 1977 when FC Kairat defender [[Seilda Baishakov]] made his debut in a [[FIFA World Cup]] qualifier against [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]]. Later, in 1986, his club would go on to add further to their honours by finishing seventh in the Top League, an all-time best finish for a Kazakh club. The country's [[Evgeni Jarovenko|Eugeny Yarovenko]] also added to the honours as a member of the victorious Soviet side at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]].

After the fall of the [[Soviet Union]], a Football Association of the Republic of Kazakhstan was set up in 1992 and soon accepted into [[FIFA]] and the [[Asian Football Confederation]]. The national team debuted soon afterwards and individual Kazakh competitions were established. The renamed FFK went on to join [[UEFA]] in 2002, ending their relationship with the AFC.

==Domestic competition==
The main league competition in the country is the [[Kazakhstan Premier League]], formed in 1992 from Zone 8 of the Third Level of Soviet football with other higher placed Kazakh clubs co-opted. A [[Kazakhstan First Division|first division]] was added in 1994 and this competition is now organised on a regional basis and is fed into by a further regionalised second division. The [[Kazakhstan Cup]] is also competed for, while successful clubs gain entry to the early rounds of the [[UEFA Champions League]] and the [[UEFA Europa League]].

==League system==

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="0" style="text-align:center; width:100%;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
| style="width:4%; text-align:center;"|
'''Level'''
| colspan="12" style="width:96%; text-align:center;"|
'''League(s)/division(s)'''
|-
| style="text-align:center; width:4%; background:#efefef;"|
1
| colspan="12" style="width:96%; text-align:center;"|
'''[[Kazakhstan Premier League]]''' 
''12 clubs'' 
|- style="background:#c8c8c8"
| style="width:4%;"|
| colspan="9" style="width:96%;"| ↓↑ 1–2 clubs
|-
| style="text-align:center; width:4%; background:#efefef;"|
2
| colspan="12" style="width:96%; text-align:center;"|
'''[[Kazakhstan First Division]]''' 
''10 clubs'' 
|}

==National team==
{{main|Kazakhstan national football team}}

Although they participated in matches against other [[Republics of the Soviet Union]] the Kazakhstan team did not make their official debut until 1 June 1992, when they defeated [[Turkmenistan national football team|Turkmenistan]] 1–0. Based at the [[Almaty Central Stadium]], they have yet to qualify for a major tournament.

==Champions during Soviet era (1936–91)==
A [[Kazakh SSR]] championship was founded in 1936 with no Kazakh clubs competing in the [[Soviet Top League]]. The winners of this competition were:

'''1936–81'''
{|
|valign="top"|
* 1936 – Sbornaya Almaty
* 1937 – Dinamo Almaty
* 1938 – Dinamo Almaty
* 1939–47 – ''no competition''
* 1948 – Dinamo Almaty
* 1949 – Lokomotiv Zhambyl
* 1950 – Sbornaya Almaty
* 1951 – Metallurg Shymkent
* 1952 – Metallurg Shymkent
* 1953 – Metallurg Shymkent
* 1954 – Dinamo Almaty
* 1956 – Sbornaya Almaty
* 1957 – Stroitel Almaty
|width="25"| 
|valign="top"|
* 1958 – Spartak Almaty
* 1959 – Spartak Almaty
* 1960 – Yenbek Guryev
* 1961 – [[FC Avangard|Avangard Petropavlovsk]]
* 1962 – ADK Almaty
* 1963 – [[FC Semey|Tselinnik Semipalatinsk]]
* 1964 – ADK Almaty
* 1965 – ADK Almaty
* 1955 – Dinamo Almaty
* 1966 – [[FC Aktobe|Aktyubinets Aktyubinsk]]
* 1967 – [[FC Okzhetpes|Torpedo Kokshetau]]
* 1968 – [[FC Ulytau|Yenbek Zhezkazgan]]
* 1969 – Shakhtyor Saran'
|width="25"| 
|valign="top"|
* 1970 – [[FC Bulat|Stroitel Temirtau]]
* 1971 – [[FC Ulytau|Yenbek Zhezkazgan]]
* 1972 – [[FC Irtysh|Traktor Pavlodar]]
* 1973 – [[FC Ulytau|Yenbek Zhezkazgan]]
* 1974 – Gornyak Nikol'sky
* 1975 – [[FC Ordabasy|Metallurg Shymkent]]
* 1976 – Khimik Stepnogorsk
* 1977 – Khimik Stepnogorsk
* 1978 – [[FC Caspiy|Trud Shevchenko]]
* 1979 – Khimik Stepnogorsk
* 1980 – [[FC Ordabasy|Meliorator Shymkent]]
* 1981 – Burevestnik Kostanay
|}
 
'''1980–81'''. Zone 7, 3rd level of Soviet football, including Kazakhstan and other [[Central Asia]]n teams
* 1980 – [[FC Irtysh|Traktor Pavlodar]]
* 1981 – [[FC Aktobe|Aktyubinets Aktobe]]
 
'''1982–91'''. Zone 8, 3rd level of Soviet football, including only Kazakhstan teams
* 1982 – [[FC Shakhter|Shakhter Karagandy]]
* 1983 – [[FC Shakhter|Shakhter Karagandy]]
* 1984 – [[FC Astana|Tselinnik Tselinograd]]
* 1985 – [[FC Ordabasy|Meliorator Shymkent]]
* 1986 – [[FC Ordabasy|Meliorator Shymkent]]
* 1987 – [[FC Ordabasy|Meliorator Shymkent]]
* 1988 – [[FC Irtysh|Traktor Pavlodar]]
* 1989 – [[FC Irtysh|Traktor Pavlodar]]
* 1990 – [[FC Vostok|Vostok Oskemen]]
* 1991 – [[FC Aktobe|Aktyubinets Aktobe]]<ref>[http://www.rsssf.com/tablesk/kazchamp.html 'Kazakhstan list of champions']</ref>

==See also==
*[[Sport in Kazakhstan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.kff.kz/ Official Kazakhstan Football Federation website]

{{Football in Kazakhstan}}
{{Football in Europe}}
{{football in Asia}}
{{League systems}}

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