2020_Kazakhstan_Premier_League
2020 Kazakhstan Premier League
Football league season
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.
Quick Facts Season, Champions ...
| Season | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Kairat |
| Relegated | Okzhetpes |
| Champions League | Kairat |
| Europa Conference League | Tobol Astana Shakhter Karagandy |
| Matches played | 78 |
| Goals scored | 195 (2.5 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | João Paulo (11 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Kairat 5–0 Okzhetpes (11 March 2020) |
| Biggest away win | Tobol 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 scoring | Okzhetpes 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 run | 6 matches Kairat |
| Longest unbeaten run | 15 matches Kairat |
| Longest winless run | 7 matches Okzhetpes |
| Longest losing run | 5 matches Okzhetpes Caspiy |
← 2019 2021 →
All statistics correct as of 23 December 2020. | |
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COVID-19
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
On 30 May, the Professional Football League of Kazakhstan announced that Irtysh Pavlodar had withdrawn from the league due to financial issues, with all their matches being excluded from the league results.[5]
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
More information Team, Location ...
| 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 |
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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.
More information Team, Manager ...
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astana |  Andrey Tikhonov |
 Dmitri Shomko |
 Adidas |
Samruk-Kazyna |
| Caspiy |  Srđan Blagojević |
Ruslan Sakhalbaev |
 Nike |
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| Irtysh |  Samvel Babayan |
Nikita Kalmykov |
Puma |
ENRC |
| Kairat | Talgat Baysufinov |
Bauyrzhan Islamkhan |
Nike |
1xBet |
| Kaisar |  Stoycho Mladenov |
Maksat Baizhanov |
Nike |
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| Kyzylzhar |  Veaceslav Rusnac |
 Shota Grigalashvili |
Nike |
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| Okzhetpes | Andrei Karpovich |
Yaroslav Baginsky |
Adidas |
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| Ordabasy | Kakhaber Tskhadadze |
 Pablo Fontanello |
Nike |
Aysu Mineral Water |
| Shakhter | Konstantin Gorovenka |
Evgeniy Tarasov |
Nike |
BTL Kazakhstan |
| Taraz | Vladimir Nikitenko |
Ilya Vorotnikov |
Nike |
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| Tobol | Grigori Babayan |
Azat Nurgaliev |
Adidas |
Polymetal |
| Zhetysu | Dmitriy Ogai |
Almat Bekbaev |
Adidas |
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Foreign players
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]
More information Club, Player 1 ...
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In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
Managerial changes
More information Team, Outgoing manager ...
| 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] |
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League table
More information Pos, Team ...
| 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 |
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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
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
Games 1–20
More information Home \ Away, AST ...
| Home \ Away | AST | CAS | KRT | KSR | KYZ | OKZ | ORD | SHA | TAR | TOB | ZHE |
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| 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 |
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Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Pieros Sotiriou for Astana against Kyzylzhar (7 March 2020)
Top scorers
More information Rank, Player ...
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Clean sheets
- As of matches played on 4 October 2020.
More information Rank, Player ...
| 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 |
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