FC Atyrau () is a professional football club based in Atyrau, who last played in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. The club's home ground is the 8,900-seat Munaishy Stadium, where they have played since their inception.

History Founded as Prikaspiets in 1980, they played only two seasons in the Soviet Second League. In 2000, the club was refounded as Akzhaiyk to play in the Kazakhstan First Division. Next season, they were promoted to the Kazakhstan Premier League with a new name Atyrau. The club colours, reflected in their badge and kit, are green and white. The club's crest is a green and white striped shield, with an oil drop in a ball form in the centre, incorporates the cities role in oil industry.

On 14 December 2016, Atyrau appointed Zoran Vulić as manager.

On 8 January 2018, Vakhid Masudov was appointed as FC Atyrau's new manager. On 9 April 2018, Masudov left Atyrau by mutual consent, with Adrian Sosnovschi being appointed as Atyrau's new manager on 11 April 2018. Adrian Sosnovschi and his coaching team resigned on 1 July 2018, with Viktor Kumykov being appointed as Atyrau's third manager of the season on 4 July 2018.

Names 1980 : Prikaspiyets 2000 : Ak Zhayk 2001 : Atyrau

Domestic history {|class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" |- style="background:#efefef;" ! rowspan="2" | Season ! colspan="9" | League ! rowspan="2" | Kazakhstan Cup ! colspan="2" | Top goalscorer ! rowspan="2" | Managers |- ! Div. ! Pos. ! Pl. ! W ! D ! L ! GS ! GA ! P ! Name ! League |- ||2001||align=center|1st|| style="background:silver;"|2||32||21||7||4||53||16||70|| || Makayev||align=center|17|| Talgayev |- ||2002||align=center|1st|| style="background:silver;"|2||32||19||6||7||43||22||63|| || Kitsak||align=center|11|| Talgayev |- ||2003||align=center|1st|| 4||32||16||5||11||48||42||53|| || Agabaýew||align=center|14|| Holokolosov |- ||2004||align=center|1st|| 5||36||20||11||5||49||31||71|| || Eremeev||align=center|14|| Holokolosov |- ||2005||align=center|1st|| 10||30||10||7||13||32||36||37|| || ||align=center| || Holokolosov / Timofeev |- ||2006||align=center|1st|| 14||30||8||5||17||25||47||29|| || ||align=center| || Averyanov |- ||2007||align=center|1st|| 14||30||8||6||16||29||39||30|| || ||align=center| || Yeremeyev / Baiseitov |- ||2008||align=center|1st|| 15||30||3||10||17||22||54||19||Second round || ||align=center| || Volgin / Yeremeyev / Andreyev |- ||2009||align=center|1st|| 6||26||11||7||8||37||29||40||style="background:gold;"|Winners || Zubko ||align=center|9 || Shokh / Masudov |- ||2010||align=center|1st|| 5||32||13||5||14||36||44||44||Quarter-finals || Frunză ||align=center|7 || Masudov / Pasulko |- ||2011||align=center|1st|| 10||32||8||10||14||28||43||24||Second round || Danilyuk||align=center|5 || Mammadov / Azovskiy / Filipović |- ||2012||align=center|1st|| 11||26||7||6||13||16||32||27||First round || Sigurðsson||align=center|3 || Filipović / Konkov |- ||2013||align=center|1st|| 8||32||10||11||11||26||38||28||First round || Nurybekov Shchotkin ||align=center|4 || Radulović |- ||2014||align=center|1st|| 9||32||10||7||15||30||43||25||Quarter-finals || Trifunović||align=center|13|| Yurevich & Belyavskiy / Nikitenko |- ||2015||align=center|1st|| 5||32||11||12||9||31||33||27||Second round || Arzhanov Baizhanov||align=center|5|| Nikitenko |- ||2016||align=center|1st|| 8||32||10||9||13||35||39||39||Semi-final|| Arzhanov||align=center|8|| Nikitenko/ Konkov(Caretaker) / Mladenov |- ||2017||align=center|1st|| 8||33||10||8||15||34||54||35||style="background:silver;"|Runners-up || Maksimović||align=center|7|| Vulić/ Pavlov/ Kabdulov (Caretaker) |- ||2018||align=center|1st|| 9||33||9||9||15||34||47||36||style="background:silver;"|Runners-up || Adeniji||align=center|8|| Masudov / Sosnovschi / Kumykov |- ||2019||align=center|1st||style="background:pink"|11||33||6||8||19||25||58||26||style="background:silver;"|Runners-up || Abdulavov||align=center|5|| Kumykov / Kuandulov / Dulub |- ||2020||align=center|2nd||style="background:silver"|2||12||8||3||1||21||11||27||-|| ||align=center| || |- ||2021||align=center|1st||11||26||7||7||12||25||40||28||Group Stage|| Grzelczak Bryan||align=center|5|| Aram Voskanyan |- ||2022||align=center|1st||11||26||7||8||11||30||39||29||Group Stage|| Filipović||align=center|13|| Gorovenko / V.Bogatyrev / Zhukovsky |- ||2023||align=center|1st||7||26||8||10||8||24||27||34||Semifinal|| Kozlov||align=center|8|| Zhukovsky |- ||2024||align=center|1st||7||24||9||8||7||28||20||35||style="background:silver;"|Runners-up|| Signevich||align=center|10|| Zhukovsky

Continental history

Competition GP W D L GF GA +/-UEFA Cup/Europa League6015113-12Total 6015113-12

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate 2002–03 UEFA Cup 1Q Matador Púchov 0–0 0–2 0–2 2003–04 UEFA Cup 1Q Levski Sofia 1–4 0–2 1–6 2010–11 UEFA Europa League 2Q Győr 0–3 0–2 0–5

Honours Kazakhstan Cup Winners (1): 2009

Current squad

Managers

Alibek Amirov (1980–81) Kairat Aimanov (2000) Vait Talgayev (2000–02) Oleksandr Holokolosov (2002–05) Sergey Timofeev (2005) Aleksandr Averyanov (2006) Murat Munbayev (2006) Vyacheslav Yeremeyev (2007) Bakhtiyar Baiseitov (2007) Sergei Volgin (2008) Sergey Andreyev (2008) Anton Shokh (2009) Vakhid Masudov (2009–10) Viktor Pasulko (2010) Kairat Aimanov (2010) Ramiz Mammadov (2010–11) Zoran Filipović (2011–12) Yuri Konkov (2012) Miodrag Radulović (2012–13) Anatoliy Yurevich (2013–14) Vladimir Nikitenko (2014–16) Stoycho Mladenov (2016) Zoran Vulić (2016–17) Sergei Pavlov (2017) Vakhid Masudov (2018) Adrian Sosnovschi (2018) Viktor Kumykov (2018–19) Kuanysh Kabdulov (2019) Oleg Dulub (2019) Kuanysh Kabdulov (2019–20) Aram Voskanyan (2020–2021) Konstantin Gorovenko (2021–2022) Vitaly Zhukovsky (2022-2025) Konstantin Gorovenko (2025) Kuanysh Kabdulov (2025) Denis Mamonov (2025) Vitaly Zhukovsky (2025)

External links

FC Atyrau on UEFA.com

References