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2020 Kazakhstan Premier League

The 2020 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 29th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. FC Astana were the defending champions after winning their sixth title the previous season.

Kazakhstan Premier League
Season2020
ChampionsKairat
RelegatedOkzhetpes
Champions LeagueKairat
Europa Conference LeagueTobol
Astana
Shakhter Karagandy
Matches played78
Goals scored195 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorerJoão Paulo
(11 goals)
Biggest home winKairat 5–0 Okzhetpes
(11 March 2020)
Biggest away winTobol 0–4 Ordabasy
(16 September 2020)
Tobol 0–4 Kairat
(26 October 2020)
Okzhetpes 1–5 Astana
(26 October 2020)
Caspiy 0–4 Shakhter Karagandy
(27 November 2020)
Highest scoringOkzhetpes 3–3 Kairat
(27 September 2020)
Zhetysu 2–4 Kairat
(18 October 2020)
Okzhetpes 1–5 Astana
(26 October 2020)
Taraz 2–4 Shakhter Karagandy
(8 November 2020)
Longest winning run6 matches
Kairat
Longest unbeaten run15 matches
Kairat
Longest winless run7 matches
Okzhetpes
Longest losing run5 matches
Okzhetpes
Caspiy
← 2019
2021 →
All statistics correct as of 23 December 2020.

Season events

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COVID-19

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On 13 March, the Football Federation of Kazakhstan announced all league fixtures would be played behind closed doors for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] On 16 March the Football Federation of Kazakhstan suspended all football until 15 April.[2]

On 26 June, it was announced that the league would resume on 1 July, with no fans being permitted to watch the games.[3] The league was suspended for a second time on 3 July, for an initial two weeks, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the country.[4]

Irtysh Pavlodar

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On 30 May, the Professional Football League of Kazakhstan announced that Irtysh Pavlodar had withdrawn from the league due to financial issues, with all their matches being excluded from the league results.[5]

Teams

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FC Aktobe and FC Atyrau were relegated at the end of the 2019 season, and were replaced by FC Kyzylzhar and FC Caspiy.

Team overview

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Locations of teams in the 2020 Kazakhstan Premier League
Team Location Venue Capacity
Astana Nur-Sultan Nur-Sultan Arena 30,000
Caspiy Aktau Zhastar Stadium 5,000
Irtysh Pavlodar Pavlodar Central Stadium 15,000
Kairat Almaty Almaty Central Stadium 25,057
Kaisar Kyzylorda Gany Muratbayev Stadium 7,500
Kyzylzhar Petropavl Karasai Stadium 11,000
Okzhetpes Kokshetau Alisher Sagynbayev Stadium 4,158
Ordabasy Shymkent Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium 20,000
Shakhter Karaganda Shakhter Stadium 20,000
Taraz Taraz Yerkebulan Babayev Stadium 11,525
Tobol Kostanay Bauyrzhan Sagintayev Stadium 10,500
Zhetysu Taldykorgan Samat Suyumbayev Stadium 4,000

Personnel and kits

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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
Astana   Andrey Tikhonov   Dmitri Shomko   Adidas Samruk-Kazyna
Caspiy   Srđan Blagojević   Ruslan Sakhalbaev   Nike  —
Irtysh   Samvel Babayan   Nikita Kalmykov   Puma ENRC
Kairat   Talgat Baysufinov   Bauyrzhan Islamkhan   Nike 1xBet
Kaisar   Stoycho Mladenov   Maksat Baizhanov   Nike  —
Kyzylzhar   Veaceslav Rusnac   Shota Grigalashvili   Nike  —
Okzhetpes   Andrei Karpovich   Yaroslav Baginsky   Adidas  —
Ordabasy   Kakhaber Tskhadadze   Pablo Fontanello   Nike Aysu Mineral Water
Shakhter   Konstantin Gorovenka   Evgeniy Tarasov   Nike BTL Kazakhstan
Taraz   Vladimir Nikitenko   Ilya Vorotnikov   Nike  —
Tobol   Grigori Babayan   Azat Nurgaliev   Adidas Polymetal
Zhetysu   Dmitriy Ogai   Almat Bekbaev   Adidas  —

Foreign players

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The number of foreign players was restricted to eight per KPL team. A team could use only five foreign players on the field in each game. For the 2020 season, the KFF announced that players from countries of the Eurasian Economic Union would not be counted towards a club's foreign player limit.[6]

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 Player 8 Player 9
Astana   Luka Šimunović   Marin Tomasov   Pieros Sotiriou   Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson   Žarko Tomašević   Dorin Rotariu   Uroš Radaković   Antonio Rukavina
Caspiy   Branko Čubrilo   Billal Sebaihi   Stefan Bukorac   Marko Milošević   Maksym Marusych
Irtysh
Kairat   Vágner Love   Dino Mikanović   Nebojša Kosović   Jacek Góralski   Konrad Wrzesiński   Rade Dugalić   Aderinsola Eseola
Kaisar   Aleksandar Kolev   Clarence Bitang   Alvin Fortes   Ivan Graf   Elguja Lobjanidze   Reginaldo   Aleksandar Stanisavljević
Kyzylzhar   Pablo Podio   Momodou Ceesay   Shota Grigalashvili   Moussa Koné   Vytautas Andriuškevičius   Mihai Plătică   Uroš Delić   Artem Baranovskyi   Maksym Drachenko
Okzhetpes   Gian   Artjom Dmitrijev   Vsevolod Nihaev   Marko Obradović   Darko Zorić   Aliyu Abubakar   Milan Stojanović   Taras Bondarenko
Ordabasy   Pablo Fontanello   Ziguy Badibanga   Mirzad Mehanović   João Paulo   Rúben Brígido   May Mahlangu   Abdoulaye Diakate   Aleksandar Simčević
Shakhter   Abdel Lamanje   Sergei Zenjov   Gideon Baah   Cédric Kouadio   Muhammed Usman   Ruslan Mingazow   Yevhen Tkachuk
Taraz   Toni Silva   Ovidijus Verbickas   Dejan Boljević   Jovan Čađenović   Goran Brkić   Bratislav Punoševac   Serge Nyuiadzi
Tobol   Nika Kvekveskiri   Jaba Kankava   Senin Sebai   Aleksa Amanović   Jérémy Manzorro   Carlos Fonseca
Zhetysu   Martin Toshev   David Mawutor   Donjet Shkodra   Artūras Žulpa   Pedro Eugénio   Nenad Adamović   Stefan Živković

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

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment
Tobol   Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev (Caretaker) End of Caretaker Role 14 December 2019 Pre-Season   Grigori Babayan 14 December 2019[7]
Shakhter Karagandy   Nikolay Kostov End of Contract 30 December 2019   Vyacheslav Hroznyi 30 December 2019[8]
Taraz   Nurken Mazbayev End of Contract 31 December 2019   Vladimir Nikitenko 16 January 2020[9]
Astana   Roman Hryhorchuk Mutual Termination 13 January 2020[10]   Michal Bílek 14 January 2020[11]
Shakhter Karagandy   Vyacheslav Hroznyi Mutual Termination 17 June 2020[12] 8th   Konstantin Gorovenka 18 June 2020[13]
Astana   Michal Bílek Sacked 26 August 2020[14] 2nd   Paul Ashworth (Caretaker) 26 August 2020[14]
Astana   Paul Ashworth (Caretaker) Mutual Termination 7 October 2020[15] 2nd   Andrey Tikhonov 16 October 2020[16]

Regular season

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League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Kairat (C) 20 14 3 3 48 19 +29 45 Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2 Tobol 20 12 2 6 26 16 +10 38 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3 Astana 20 11 3 6 32 21 +11 36
4 Shakhter Karagandy 20 9 5 6 29 22 +7 32
5 Ordabasy 20 9 4 7 27 26 +1 31
6 Zhetysu 20 9 1 10 27 28 −1 28
7 Kaisar 20 6 6 8 20 23 −3 24
8 Taraz 20 5 8 7 19 23 −4 23
9 Kyzylzhar 20 6 5 9 15 24 −9 23
10 Caspiy 20 5 2 13 15 34 −19 17
11 Okzhetpes (R) 20 2 5 13 16 38 −22 11 Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
12 Irtysh Pavlodar (R, D, R, D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrawn, relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division
Source: UEFA, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Matches won; 4) Goals scored; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Head-to-head points; 7) Head-to-head matches won; 8) Head-to-head goal difference; 9) Head-to-head goals scored; 10) Head-to-head away goals scored; 11) Draw.[17]
(C) Champions; (D) Disqualified; (R) Relegated


Results

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Games 1–20

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Home \ Away AST CAS KRT KSR KYZ OKZ ORD SHA TAR TOB ZHE
Astana 1–2 0–1 3–1 4–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0
Caspiy 2–3 0–3 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–2 0–4 0–2 0–1 0–2
Kairat 3–0 3–1 2–1 2–3 5–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 3–1 3–0
Kaisar 0–1 0–1 2–2 1–2 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–1 1–0
Kyzylzhar 0–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 3–1 0–0 1–3 1–0 0–1 2–1
Okzhetpes 1–5 2–2 3–3 0–1 2–1 1–3 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–1
Ordabasy 1–2 1–0 1–3 0–3 1–0 1–0 0–1 1–1 0–3 3–1
Shakhter Karagandy 3–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–2
Taraz 1–0 0–1 1–0 2–2 0–0 2–3 3–2 2–4 0–0 0–2
Tobol 2–0 2–0 0–4 3–0 2–0 1–0 0–4 3–1 2–0 2–0
Zhetysu 1–2 3–0 2–4 3–1 3–0 1–0 2–3 3–2 0–1 0–0
Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

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Scoring

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Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   João Paulo Ordabasy 12
2   Abat Aimbetov Kairat 10
3   Elguja Lobjanidze Kaisar 8
4   Vágner Love Kairat 7
5   Rúnar Már Sigurjónsson Astana 6
  Pieros Sotiriou Astana
  Aybar Zhaksylykov Zhetysu
8   Artjom Dmitrijev Okzhetpes 5
  Pedro Eugénio Zhetysu
  Arsen Khubulov Shakhter Karagandy
  Jérémy Manzorro Tobol
  Azat Nurgaliev Tobol
  Aydos Tattybaev Shakhter Karagandy

Clean sheets

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As of matches played on 4 October 2020.
Rank Player Club Clean sheets
1   Aleksandr Zarutskiy Kaisar 3
  Miroslav Lobantsev Kyzylzhar
  Vladimir Plotnikov Ordabasy
  Igor Shatskiy Tobol
  Aleksandr Mokin Tobol
  Almat Bekbaev Zhetysu
  Stas Pokatilov Kairat
8   Nenad Erić Astana 2
  Dmytro Nepohodov Astana
  Danil Ustimenko Kairat
  Marsel Islamkulov Kaisar
  Mukhammejan Seisen Taraz
  Andrey Shabanov Zhetysu

References

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  1. ^ "KAZAKHSTAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION SUSPENDS SPORTING EVENTS". kff.kz/. Football Federation of Kazakhstan. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ "ПФЛК о приостановке футбольных матчей". pflk.kz (in Russian). Kazakhstan Premier League. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  3. ^ "OLIMPBET-Чемпионат Казахстана возобновляется 1 июля". pflk.kz/ (in Russian). Kazakhstan Premier League. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  4. ^ "OLIMPBET-Чемпионат Казахстана приостановлен". pflk.kz/ (in Russian). Kazakhstan Premier League. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  5. ^ "«ERTIS» уведомил ПФЛК о прекращении участия в OLIMPBET-Чемпионате Казахстана". pflk.kz/ (in Russian). Kazakhstan Premier League. 30 May 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Кто из иностранцев больше не считается легионерами в Казахстане?". sports.kz/ (in Russian). Sports KZ. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Григорий Бабаян – главный тренер Тобола". fctobol.kz/ (in Russian). FC Tobol. 14 December 2019. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  8. ^ "ВЯЧЕСЛАВ ГРОЗНЫЙ — ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР ФК ШАХТЕР". shakhter.kz/ (in Russian). FC Shakhter Karagandy. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "Владимир Никитенко - главный тренер Тараза". fctaraz.kz/ (in Russian). FC Taraz. 16 January 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  10. ^ "Роман Григорчук покинул Астану". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 13 January 2020. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  11. ^ "Михал Билек – новый главный тренер Астаны". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 14 January 2020. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  12. ^ "ОФИЦИАЛЬНО: ВЯЧЕСЛАВ ГРОЗНЫЙ ПОКИДАЕТ ШАХТЕР". shakhter.kz/ (in Russian). FC Shakhter Karagandy. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  13. ^ "КОНСТАНТИН ГОРОВЕНКО — ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР ФК ШАХТЕР". shakhter.kz/ (in Russian). FC Shakhter Karagandy. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  14. ^ a b "Михал Билек покинул свой пост". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Пол Эшуорт покинул Астану". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  16. ^ "Возвращение капитана". fcastana.kz/. FC Astana. 16 October 2020. p. Russian. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  17. ^ "РЕГЛАМЕНТ ЧЕМПИОНАТА РЕСПУБЛИКИ КАЗАХСТАН ПО ФУТБОЛУ СРЕДИ КЛУБОВ ПРЕМЬЕР-ЛИГИ НА 2018 год" [Regulations of the Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan on football among clubs of the prime league for 2018] (PDF). Kazakhstan Premier League (in Russian). Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  18. ^ UEFA.com
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