The 2012 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 21st season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season was scheduled to start on 9 March 2012 and to conclude on 27 October 2012 Shakhter Karagandy as the defending champions having won their first league championship last year succeeded in preservation of its league title.
The league was expanded from twelve to fourteen teams for this season.
Changes from 2011 season The league was expanded from twelve to fourteen teams for this season. This also led to a change in the competition modus. The second phase with it separate play-off groups for championship and relegation has been abolished; all teams will play a single home-and-away round-robin schedule.
Teams
Promoted Sunkar Okzhetpes Akzhayik
Relegated Vostok
Team Location Venue Capacity Aktobe Aktobe Aktobe Central Stadium 13,500 Akzhayik Oral Petr Atoyan Stadium 8,320 Astana Astana Astana Arena 30,000 Atyrau Atyrau Munayshy Stadium 9,000 Irtysh Pavlodar Pavlodar Central Stadium 15,000 Kairat Almaty Almaty Central Stadium 25,057 Kaisar Kyzylorda Gany Muratbayev Stadium 7,300 Okzhetpes Kokshetau Okzhetpes Stadium 10,000 Ordabasy Shymkent K. Munaitpasov Stadium, Shymkent 37,000 Shakhter Karagandy Shakhtyor Stadium 19,000 Sunkar Kaskelen Tauelsizdik 10 zhyldygy 2,500 Taraz Taraz Taraz Central Stadium 12,525 Tobol Kostanay Kostanay Central Stadium 8,323 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 sponsorAktobe Vladimir Mukhanov Samat Smakov adidas —Akzhayik Jozef ŠkrlíkAstana Miroslav Beránek Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev adidas Qazaqstan Temir ZholyAtyrau Yuriy Konkov Andrei Travin adidasIrtysh Talgat Baisufinov David Loria Nike ENRCKairat José Pérez Serer Ruslan Baltiev adidas KazRosGazKaisar Vladimir Nikitenko Borut Semler adidas —Okzhetpes Vladimir Cheburin Umbro —Ordabasy Viktor Pasulko Kairat Ashirbekov adidas —Shakhter Viktor Kumykov Andrey Finonchenko Umbro ArcelorMittalSunkar Vladimir GulyaimkhadarovTaraz Ljupko Petrović Nurtas Kurgulin Nike —Tobol Vyacheslav Grozny Aleksandr Petukhov Erreà —Zhetysu Slobodan Krčmarević Nike —
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Kairat Sacked December 2011 Pre-Season Dmitry Ogay December 2011 Okzhetpes Viktor Dohadailo 14th Vladimir Cheburin March 2012 Astana Resign 10th Miroslav Beránek April 2012 Kaisar Sergei Kogai 13th Vladimir Nikitenko April 2012 Zhetysu Serik Abdualiyev 13th Slobodan Krčmarević May 9, 2012Слободан Крчмаревич - главный тренер "Жетысу" (Slobodan Krčmarević - head coach of "Zhetysu") . Football Federation of Kazakhstan website. May 9, 2012 Kairat Dmitry Ogai 10th Jose Perez Serer
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.
ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6Player 7Player 8 Aktobe Robert Primus Lukáš Bajer Emil Kenzhesariev Arūnas Klimavičius Serghei Covalciuc Alexander Geynrikh Marat Bikmaev Timur Kapadze Akzhayik Borut Semler Jakub Chleboun Anatoliy Vlasichev Pavel Černý Miloš Stojčev Ihar Zyankovich Haman Sadjo Miloš Brezinský Astana Nenad Erić Christian Ebala Foxi Kéthévoama Filip Ivanovski Dimitrija Lazarevski Aleksei Belkin Damir Kojašević Atyrau Đorđe Tutorić Artyom Fomin Fausto Sandro Vladimir Buač Nivaldo Hannes Sigurðsson Nikola Milanković Irtysh Mamoutou Coulibaly Nemanja Džodžo Ulugbek Bakayev Štěpán Kučera Darko Maletić Titi Essomba Predrag Govedarica Kairat Alberto Heredia Stuart Duff Marko Đorđević Josip Knežević Souto Óscar Alyaksandr Bychanok Kaisar Nemanja Džodžo Gradimir Crnogorac Marjan Marković Oleg Khromtsov Philip Edeipo Bojan Mamić Dmitri Parkhachev Karim Fachtali Okzhetpes Marko Milovanović Adrian Grigoruță Ovidiu Mendizov Davit Chagelishvili Arslanmyrat Amanow Ordabasy Andrew Mwesigwa Aleksandar Trajković Gueye Mansour Artem Kasyanov Baba Collins Vladimir Đilas Mohamed Arouri Shakhter Karagandy Gediminas Vičius Nikola Vasiljević Eduards Višņakovs Andrey Paryvayew Filip Arsenijević Aldin Đidić Roger Cañas Sunkar Stanislav Nohýnek Rade Đokić Goran Cvetković Gheorghe Ovseanicov Mantas Savėnas Dragomir Vukobratović Taraz Ersin Mehmedović Abdoulaye Diakate Neven Vukman Miroslav Lečić Ognjen Krasić Obiora Odita Ivan Perić Tobol Syarhey Kantsavy Jhonnes Igor Bugaiov Nenad Šljivić Mensur Kurtiši Vitali Volkov Nemanja Jovanović Sergei Strukov Zhetysu Tanko Dyakov Siniša Dobrašinović Danilo Belić Miloš Mihajlov Edin Junuzović Zoran Kostić Marko Đalović
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
League table
Results
Top goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoals (Pen.) 1 Ulugbek BakaevIrtysh 14 (4) 2 Tanat NuserbaevAstana 10 Ihar ZyankovichAkzhayik 10 (3) 4 Baurzhan DzholchiyevTobol 8 Edin JunuzovićZhetysu 8 6 Mansour GueyeOrdabasy 7 Miroslav LečićTaraz 7 Sergei StrukovIrtysh/Tobol 7 Daurenbek TazhimbetovOrdabasy 7 Gediminas VičiusShakhter Karagandy 7
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Aktobe 6,877 2 Kairat 6,577 3 Taraz 5,092 4 Shakhter 5,077 5 Irtysh 5,008 6 Akzhaiyk 4,769 7 Tobol 4,592 8 Astana 4,515 9 Kaysar 3,769 10 Ordabasy 3,538 11 Atyrau 2,342 12 Zhetysu 2,292 13 Okzhetpes 1,762 14 Sunkar 1,654Source:
References