The 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 23rd season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 15 March 2014 and was finished in November. Aktobe were the defending champions having won their fifth league championship the previous year.
Teams FC Vostok and FC Akzhayik were relegated at the end of the 2013 season, and were replaced by FC Kaisar and Spartak Semey.
Team overview
Team Location Venue Capacity Aktobe Aktobe Aktobe Central Stadium 15,000 Astana Astana Astana Arena 30,000 Atyrau Atyrau Munaishy Stadium 9,500 Irtysh Pavlodar Pavlodar Central Stadium 15,000 Kairat Almaty Almaty Central Stadium 25,057 Kaisar Kyzylorda Gany Muratbayev Stadium 7,500 Ordabasy Shymkent Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium 35,000 Shakhter Karagandy Shakhter Stadium 20,000 Spartak Semey Semey Spartak Stadium 8,000 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 sponsorAktobe Vladimir Nikitenko Petr Badlo Adidas —Astana Stanimir Stoilov Kairat Nurdauletov Adidas Samruk-KazynaAtyrau Anatoliy Yurevich Valentin Chureev Adidas, —Irtysh Talgat Baisufinov Sergei Ivanov Adidas ENRCKairat Vladimír Weiss Kyril Shestakov Nike KazRosGazKaisar Dmitriy Ogai Nike —Ordabasy Viktor Pasulko Kairat Ashirbekov Adidas TAUShakhter Viktor Kumykov Andrey Finonchenko Lotto —Spartak Semey Almas Kulshinbayev Adidas —Taraz Evgeny Yarovenko Vitali Yevstigneyev Adidas —Tobol Timur Urazov Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev Adidas —Zhetysu Omari Tetradze Zahar Korobov Adidas —
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Atyrau Miodrag Radulović 8 November 2013Pre Season Anatoliy Yurevich 4 December 2013 Kaisar Sergei Volgin 17 November 2013 Dmitriy Ogai 30 November 2013 Astana Ioan Andone End of contract 27 November 2013 Vadim Abramov 28 November 2013 Astana Vadim Abramov Contract canceled 13 December 2013 Grigori Babayan 1 January 2014 Taraz Arno Pijpers 10 June 2014 Evgeny Yarovenko 10 June 2014 Astana Grigori Babayan End of caretaker spell 21 June 2014 Stanimir Stoilov 21 June 2014
Foreign players The number of foreign players is restricted to seven per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.
ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6Player 7 Aktobe Robert Primus Robert Arzumanyan Marcos Pizzelli Timur Kapadze Danilo Neco Anderson Mineiro Oleksiy Antonov Astana Marin Aničić Damir Kojašević Roger Cañas Guy Essame Patrick Twumasi Atanas Kurdov Foxi Kéthévoama Atyrau Michael Odibe Marko Blažić Giorgi Peikrishvili Miloš Trifunović Dominic Adiyiah Irtysh Miodrag Dzudovic Igor Burzanovic Kostyantyn Dudchenko Orlin Starokin Simeon Bulgaru Rinar Valeyev Kairat Ľubomír Michalík Žarko Marković Josip Knežević Artur Yedigaryan Sito Riera Isael da Silva Barbosa Gerard Gohou Kaisar Martin Klein Miljan Jablan Mamoutou Coulibaly Matic Maruško Rimo Hunt Dušan Savić Valentin Furdui Ordabasy Andrew Mwesigwa Freire Artem Kasyanov Abdoulaye Diakate Ondřej Kúdela Shakhter Aleksandar Simčević Gediminas Vičius Shavkat Salomov Kamoliddin Murzoev Mihret Topcagić Nikola Pokrivač Ján Maslo Spartak Semey Viktor Genev Nemanja Čović Nikolay Dyulgerov Daniel Peev Nemanja Jovanović Artur Avagyan Goran Obradović Taraz Sigourney Bandjar Rok Roj Jovan Golić Desley Ubbink Denys Vasilyev Oleksandr Yarovenko Dmytro Bashlay Tobol Štěpán Kučera Ondřej Kušnír Ognjen Krasić Tomáš Šimkovič Nenad Šljivić Jiří Jeslínek Ivan Sadownichy Zhetysu Didier Kadio Arūnas Klimavičius Marko Putinčanin Marko Đalović Boti Demel Mersudin Ahmetović Davron Ergashev
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
First round League table
Results
Second round Championship round League table
Results
Relegation round League table
Results
Relegation play-offs
Season statistics
Top scorers UEFA.com RankPlayerClubGoals1 Foxi KéthévoamaAstana152 Miloš TrifunovićAtyrau133 Gerard GohouKairat124 Kostyantyn DudchenkoIrtysh 11 Patrick TwumasiAstana6 Mihret TopcagićShakhter107 Marat KhairullinAktobe98 Rimo HuntKaisar8 Aslan DarabayevKairat Oleksiy AntonovAktobe Marcos PizzelliAktobe
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Atanas Kurdov Astana Irtysh 4–3 Gerard Gohou Kairat Aktobe 7–1 Foxi Kéthévoama Astana Atyrau 3–0 Patrick Twumasi Astana Aktobe 6–1
Scoring First goal of the season: Maksim Azovskiy for Spartak Semey against Tobol (15 March 2014) Fastest goal of the season: 2nd minute, Edin Junuzović for Ordabasy against Aktobe (13 April 2014) Latest goal of the season: 94th minute, Damir Kojašević for Astana against Kaisar (29 March 2014) Dmitri Miroshnichenko for Aktobe against Kaisar (19 April 2014)
Attendances
# Club Average 1 Kairat 7,706 2 Aktobe 6,906 3 Kaysar 4,000 4 Shakhter 3,575 5 Astana 3,488 6 Ordabasy 3,406 7 Taraz 3,172 8 Tobol 3,156 9 Altay 3,044 10 Atyrau 2,850 11 Zhetysu 2,719 12 Irtysh 2,700Source:
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