2012 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Premier League

Season	2012
Champions	Shakhter
Relegated	Sunkar Okzhetpes
Champions League	Shakhter
Europa League	Astana Irtysh Aktobe
Matches played	144
Goals scored	348 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ulugbek Bakaev and Ihar Zyankovich (9)
Biggest home win	Astana 5-0 Atyrau
Biggest away win	Zhetysu 1–5 Shakhter
Highest scoring	Zhetysu 5–2 Kaisar
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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

Aktobe

Akzhayik

Atyrau

Irtysh

Kairat

Kaisar

Astana

Okzhetpes

Ordabasy

Shakhter

Sunkar

Taraz

Tobol

Zhetysu

Locations of teams in the 2012 Kazakhstan Premier League

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	07,300
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	02,500
Taraz	Taraz	Taraz Central Stadium	12,525
Tobol	Kostanay	Kostanay Central Stadium	08,323
Zhetysu	Taldykorgan	Zhetysu Stadium	04,000

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 sponsor
Aktobe	Vladimir Mukhanov	Samat Smakov	adidas	—
Akzhayik	Jozef Škrlík
Astana	Miroslav Beránek	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	adidas	Qazaqstan Temir Zholy
Atyrau	Yuriy Konkov	Andrei Travin	adidas
Irtysh	Talgat Baisufinov	David Loria	Nike	ENRC
Kairat	José Pérez Serer	Ruslan Baltiev	adidas	KazRosGaz
Kaisar	Vladimir Nikitenko	Borut Semler	adidas	—
Okzhetpes	Vladimir Cheburin		Umbro	—
Ordabasy	Viktor Pasulko	Kairat Ashirbekov	adidas	—
Shakhter	Viktor Kumykov	Andrey Finonchenko	Umbro	ArcelorMittal
Sunkar	Vladimir Gulyaimkhadarov
Taraz	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	John Gregory	Sacked	December 2011	Pre-Season	Dmitry Ogay	December 2011
Okzhetpes	Viktor Dohadailo			14th	Vladimir Cheburin	March 2012
Astana	Oleh Protasov	Resign		10th	Miroslav Beránek	April 2012
Kaisar	Sergei Kogai			13th	Vladimir Nikitenko	April 2012
Zhetysu	Serik Abdualiyev			13th	Slobodan Krčmarević	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.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 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 Grigoruta	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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shakhter (C)	26	17	2	7	48	15	+33	53	2013–14 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Irtysh	26	15	6	5	46	20	+26	51	2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
3	Aktobe	26	15	5	6	44	22	+22	50
4	Taraz	26	14	4	8	32	30	+2	46
5	Astana	26	13	7	6	34	24	+10	46	2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round 1
6	Tobol	26	13	6	7	42	27	+15	45
7	Ordabasy	26	10	9	7	29	24	+5	39
8	Akzhayik	26	10	4	12	34	39	−5	34
9	Kaisar	26	8	6	12	21	33	−12	30
10	Kairat	26	7	8	11	23	34	−11	29
11	Atyrau	26	7	6	13	16	32	−16	27
12	Zhetysu	26	6	5	15	27	45	−18	23
13	Sunkar (R)	26	5	8	13	16	31	−15	23	Relegation to 2013 Kazakhstan First Division
14	Okzhetpes (R)	26	3	2	21	20	56	−36	11

Updated to games played on 25 Oct 2012.
Source: FFK (Russian)
Rules for classification: 1st points;
Two team tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd head-to-head record; 3rd goals difference; 4th goals scored; 5th away goals scored;
Multiple teams tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd goals difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals scored
¹Astana qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League as winner of 2012 Kazakhstan Cup.
(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.

Results

Home ╲ Away

AKT

AKZ

AST

ATY

IRT

KRT

KSR

OKZ

ORD

SHA

SUN

TAR

TOB

ZHE

Aktobe

3–4

2–1

1–0

1–0

1–1

2–0

5–2

0–0

1–0

2–1

4–1

0–1

4–0

Akzhayik

1–0

0–1

3–1

0–1

1–2

0–0

2–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

3–0

2–1

2–2

Astana

1–0

2–1

5–0

2–2

2–1

3–0

1–4

1–0

1–0

0–0

0–2

1–1

1–0

Atyrau

0–2

0–1

1–0

0–2

2–0

0–1

1–0

2–3

0–2

1–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

Irtysh

1–2

3–1

3–0

0–0

1–0

1–1

3–0

3–0

1–0

4–0

1–1

4–1

3–0

Kairat

0–3

2–1

0–2

1–1

0–0

1–1

3–0

1–1

0–1

1–3

2–1

1–0

1–0

Kaisar

0–2

1–2

0–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

1–0

2–1

1–0

2–1

1–2

1–2

1–0

Okzhetpes

1–4

0–3

1–3

1–2

1–4

1–1

2–2

1–2

0–2

0–2

3–1

0–1

1–0

Ordabasy

1–1

2–0

0–0

1–1

2–1

0–0

1–0

1–1

0–1

3–1

1–3

2–0

4–1

Shakhter

2–0

3–1

0–1

4–0

0–1

4–1

3–0

4–0

1–1

2–0

1–0

3–0

5–1

Sunkar

0–1

1–0

1–1

0–0

0–1

0–2

0–0

3–1

0–0

0–2

0–1

0–0

1–0

Taraz

1–0

3–2

1–1

0–1

3–2

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–1

1–1

1–0

1–0

1–3

Tobol

2–2

6–0

3–2

1–0

2–2

4–0

2–0

3–1

1–0

3–1

4–0

0–1

2–1

Zhetysu

1–1

1–2

1–1

1–0

1–2

2–1

5–2

1–0

0–1

1–5

1–1

2–0

1–1

Updated to games played on 28 Oct 2012.
Source: (Russian)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Ulugbek Bakaev	Irtysh	14 (4)
2	Tanat Nuserbaev	Astana	10
	Ihar Zyankovich	Akzhayik	10 (3)
4	Baurzhan Dzholchiyev	Tobol	8
	Edin Junuzović	Zhetysu	8
6	Mansour Gueye	Ordabasy	7
	Miroslav Lečić	Taraz	7
	Sergei Strukov	Irtysh/Tobol	7
	Daurenbek Tazhimbetov	Ordabasy	7
	Gediminas Vičius	Shakhter Karagandy	7