The 2011 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 20th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 6 March 2011 and ended on 29 October 2011. Tobol were the defending champions having won their first league championship last year.
As in the 2010 season, the competition was completed in two stages, with all twelve clubs playing twice against each other before splitting up into two groups of six teams each, according to their position after 22 matches. However, all earned points after the first stage will be halved this time, with any odd numbers of points being rounded up. Shakhter won the championship, the teams' first title.
Teams Akzhayik and FC Okzhetpes were relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division at the end of last season after finishing in the bottom two places of the table. Akzhayik returned to the Kazakhstan First Division after just one season, while Okzhetpes eventually had to leave the Kazakh top league after 15 seasons.
The relegated teams will be replaced by First Division champions Vostok and Kaisar. Both clubs returned to the league after one-year absences.
In further changes, Lokomotiv Astana renamed themselves FC Astana on 20 May 2011.
Team Location VenueCapacity Aktobe Aktobe Aktobe Central Stadium 13,500 Astana Astana Astana Arena 30,000 Atyrau Atyrau Munayshy Stadium 8,660 Irtysh Pavlodar Pavlodar Central Stadium 15,000 Kairat Almaty Almaty Central Stadium 25,057 Kaisar Kyzylorda Gany Muratbayev Stadium 7,300 Ordabasy Shymkent K. Munaitpasov Stadium, Shymkent 37,000 Shakhter Karagandy Shakhtyor Stadium 19,000 Taraz Taraz Taraz Central Stadium 12,525 Tobol Kostanay Kostanay Central Stadium 8,323 Vostok Oskemen Vostok Stadium 8,500 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 Mukhanov Samat SmakovAdidasAstana Holger Fach Nurbol ZhumaskaliyevAdidasQazaqstan Temir ZholyAtyrau Ramiz Mammadov Andrei TravinAdidasIrtysh Talgat Baisufinov David LoriaNikeENRCKairat John Gregory Ruslan BaltievAdidasKazRosGazKaisar Algimantas Liubinskas Borut SemlerAdidasOrdabasy Viktor Pasulko Kairat AshirbekovAdidasShakhter Viktor Kumykov Andrey FinonchenkoUmbroArcelorMittalTaraz Vait Talgayev Nurtas KurgulinNikeTobol Sergei Petrenko Aleksandr PetukhovErreàVostok Oleksandr Holokolosov Renat AbdulinAdidasZhetysu Serik Abdualiyev Aidar KumisbekovNike
Foreign players The number of foreign players is restricted to six per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.
ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6 Aktobe Darko Maletić Emil Kenzhesariyev Malick Mané Vladimir Đilas Zoran Kostić Robert Primus Astana Bobi Božinovski Anatolie Doroș Igor Bugaiov Dragan Bogavac Nenad Erić Aleksei Belkin Atyrau Javier Leon Nivaldo Kiran Bechan Sylvano Comvalius Bojan Trkulja Irtysh Georgi Daskalov Sergei Ivanov Mamoutou Coulibaly Predrag Govedarica Milan Nikolić Marko Balažič Kairat Pavel Kirylchyk Deyan Hristov Stéphane Kingue Mpondo Yossi Shekel Artyom Fomin Marko Đorđević Kaisar Ivan Perić Borut Semler Philip Edeipo Gradimir Crnogorac Ordabasy Vagner Baba Collins Aleksandar Trajković Andrew Mwesigwa Artem Kasyanov Shakhter Karagandy Aldin Đidić Nikola Vasiljević Gediminas Vičius Viorel Frunză Dušan Petronijević Taraz Damir Memišević Abdoulaye Diakate Miloš Adamović Danilo Belić Nemanja Jovanović Tobol Robert Zebelyan Nenad Šljivić Samir Bekrić Vitali Volkov Vostok Otar Khizaneishvili Ruslan Bidnenko Ihor Buryak Oleksandr Zgura Zhetysu Arūnas Klimavičius Marko Đalović Ivan Cvetković Miloš Mihajlov
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
First stage Standings
Results During these matches, each team played each other team twice (once at home and once away).
Second stage Standings
Results During these matches, each team played every other team in their half of the table twice (once at home and once away).
Top goalscorers Last updated: 2 November 2011
RankPlayerClubGoals (Pen.)1 Ulugbek BakaevZhetysu182 Sergei KhizhnichenkoShakhter163 Malick ManeAktobe12 Dragan BogavacAstana12 Sergey GridinTobol126 Daurenbek TazhimbetovOrdabasy117 Marat KhairullinAktobe10 Gleb MaltsevIrtysh10 Nurbol ZhumaskaliyevAstana10 Konstantin GolovskoyKairat1011 Georgi DaskalovIrtysh9 Zhambyl KukeyevShakhter9
References
External links Official website