1993 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Top Division

Season	1993
Champions	Ansat
Relegated	Dinamo Almaty Azhar Kokshetau Munaishy Kaisar Metallist Namys Almaty Karachaganak Taldykorgan
Top goalscorer	Aleksandr Shmarikov (28)
← 1992 1994 →

The 1993 Kazakhstan Premier League was the second season of the Top Division, now called the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest highest football league competition in Kazakhstan.

Teams

Metallist, Arman and CSKA Almaty were all relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division at the end of last season. Karachaganak, Namys Almaty, Dinamo Almaty, Dostyk and Metallist were all promoted to the Kazakhstan Premier League for the first time.

Before the start of the season, Arsenal-SKIF became SKIF-Ordabasy, Aktau became Munaishy, Uralets became Uralets-Arma, Montazhnik became Yassi, Zhetysu became Taldykorgan, Traktor became Ansat, Ekibastuzets became Batyr and Zenit Kokshetau became Azhar Kokshetau.

League Format

Originally planned 26 teams in total. But like the season earlier, one team withdrew during the season. This time it was FC Kokshetau. All its games were annulled. The competition was split into two stages. In first stage two groups of 12 and 13 teams were formed. In second stage the best six teams of each group joined together to play in a final group for positions 1 to 12. The rest of the teams played in a group for positions 13 to 25. Teams played against each other on home-away basis in their groups. Final standings of teams did not count the results of the first stage.

First Round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dostyk	24	14	5	5	58	25	+33	47	Championship round
2	Kairat	24	13	5	6	45	21	+24	44
3	Gornyak	24	13	4	7	31	29	+2	43
4	SKIF-Ordabasy	24	11	7	6	41	20	+21	40
5	Zhiger	24	11	6	7	47	31	+16	39
6	Aktyubinets	24	11	6	7	33	24	+9	39
7	Munaishy	24	12	2	10	43	41	+2	38	Relegation round
8	Uralets-Arma	24	11	4	9	26	21	+5	37
9	Fosfor	24	10	4	10	41	36	+5	34
10	Yassi	24	7	3	14	33	54	−21	24
11	Karachaganak	24	6	4	14	28	62	−34	22
12	Kaisar	24	5	4	15	22	43	−21	19
13	Taldykorgan	24	3	4	17	26	67	−41	13

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ansat	22	13	4	5	51	26	+25	43	Championship round
2	Batyr	22	13	3	6	48	24	+24	42
3	Shakhter Karagandy	22	11	6	5	24	12	+12	39
4	Khimik	22	11	6	5	35	20	+15	39
5	Vostok	22	12	3	7	31	21	+10	39
6	Tselinnik Tselinograd	22	11	5	6	32	21	+11	38
7	Azhar Kokshetau	22	12	2	8	35	31	+4	38	Relegation round
8	Bolat	22	11	3	8	43	23	+20	36
9	Dinamo Almaty	22	9	3	10	34	35	−1	30
10	Namys Almaty	22	5	2	15	18	62	−44	17
11	Yelimay	22	2	4	16	19	50	−31	10
12	Metallist	22	1	1	20	18	63	−45	4

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Second round

Championship round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ansat (C)	22	14	6	2	43	15	+28	48	1994–95 Asian Club Championship
2	Batyr	22	13	4	5	41	20	+21	43
3	Gornyak	22	12	6	4	36	28	+8	42
4	Zhiger	22	11	7	4	43	28	+15	40
5	SKIF-Ordabasy	22	9	6	7	27	25	+2	33
6	Shakhter Karagandy	22	8	6	8	25	29	−4	30
7	Dostyk	22	9	1	12	26	34	−8	28
8	Khimik	22	7	5	10	26	31	−5	26
9	Aktyubinets	22	5	7	10	27	31	−4	22
10	Vostok	22	7	2	13	26	40	−14	23
11	Kairat	22	5	3	14	23	41	−18	18
12	Tselinnik Tselinograd	22	4	3	15	21	42	−21	15

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
13	Bolat	24	16	5	3	43	15	+28	53
14	Fosfor	24	16	4	4	51	29	+22	52
15	Uralets-Arma	24	14	5	5	41	12	+29	47
16	Yassi	24	15	3	6	44	30	+14	48
17	Yelimay	24	13	4	7	32	35	−3	43
18	Dinamo Almaty	24	10	9	5	43	29	+14	39	Relegation to 1993 Kazakhstan First Division
19	Azhar Kokshetau	24	11	6	7	49	30	+19	39
20	Munaishy	24	11	3	10	41	36	+5	36
21	Kaisar	24	10	2	12	30	42	−12	32
22	Metallist	24	4	6	14	14	34	−20	18
23	Namys Almaty	24	3	3	18	21	55	−34	12
24	Karachaganak	24	3	3	18	26	49	−23	12
25	Taldykorgan	23	2	3	18	16	55	−39	9

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Aleksandr Shmarikov	Taraz	28
2	Nikolay Kurganskiy	Batyr	26
3	Pavel Demyan	Bulat	25
4	Sergei Kalabukhin	Azhar	23
5	Konstantin Kucheryavykh	Tselinnik	22
6	Askar Abildaev	Kairat	21
7	Viktor Antonov	Ansat	20
	Andrei Miroshnichenko	Aktyubinets
	Vladislav Kazankov	Yassi
	Sergei Krasnobaev	Azhar
	Erkin Sultanov	Munaishy
	Vyacheslav Suslitsyn	Karachaganak

External links

• Lyakhov.kz 1993 Season