The 2021 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 30th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. FC Kairat were the defending champions after winning their third title the previous season. FC Tobol won their second title.
Teams FC Okzhetpes (relegated after two years in the top flight) was relegated at the end of the 2020 season, whilst FC Irtysh Pavlodar withdrew from the league in May 2020, and as a result also dropped down into the Kazakhstan First Division. They were replaced by FC Aktobe and FC Atyrau after they had spent one season in the Kazakhstan First Division.
Team overview
Team Location Venue Capacity Aktobe Aktobe Central Stadium13,200 Akzhayik Oral Petr Atoyan Stadium8,320 Astana Nur-Sultan Astana Arena 30,000 Atyrau Atyrau Munaishy Stadium8,690 Caspiy Aktau Zhastar Stadium 5,000 Kairat Almaty Central Stadium 25,057 Kaisar Kyzylorda Gani Muratbayev Stadium 7,500 Kyzylzhar Petropavl Karasai Stadium 11,000 Ordabasy Shymkent Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium 20,000 Shakhter Karaganda Shakhter Stadium 20,000 Taraz Taraz Central Stadium 11,525 Tobol Kostanay Central Stadium 10,500 Turan Turkistan Turkistan Arena 7,000 Zhetysu Taldykorgan Samat Suyumbayev 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 sponsor Aktobe Vladimir Mukhanov Yury Logvinenko Adidas Parimatch Akzhayik Volodymyr Mazyar Adidas Astana Andrey Tikhonov Abzal Beisebekov Adidas Samruk-Kazyna Atyrau Aram Voskanyan Adidas GAZ Stroy Montazh KZ Caspiy Srdjan Blagojevic Macron XCOM Kairat Kurban Berdyev Gafurzhan Suyumbayev Nike Halyk Bank Kaisar Sultan Abildayev Adidas - Kyzylzhar Andrei Karpovich Nike Ordabasy Aleksandr Sednyov Yerkebulan Tungyshbayev Adidas - Shakhter Magomed Adiyev Arsen Khubulov Adidas Kazakhmys Taraz Vardan Minasyan Puma - Tobol Alexander Moskalenko Azat Nurgaliyev Adidas Polymetal Turan Abdukhalik Buribayev Adidas - Zhetysu Rinat Alyuetov Adidas
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. 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. ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5Player 6Player 7Player 8Player 9 Aktobe Hervaine Moukam Michal Jeřábek Artūras Žulpa Tongo Doumbia Dmytro Korkishko Vitaliy Balashov Zaza Tsitskishvili Joachim Adukor Akzhayik Artem Baranovskyi Oleksiy Chychykov Mykola Kovtalyuk Serhiy Litovchenko Vitaliy Pryndeta Ștefan Sicaci Reginaldo Luka Imnadze Astana Eneo Bitri Luka Šimunović Marin Tomasov Valeriu Ciupercă Žarko Tomašević Antonio Rukavina Cadete Pedro Eugénio Fatos Bećiraj Atyrau Lazar Sajčić Alex Bruno Allef Bryan Gian Alex Junior Christian Piotr Grzelczak Danijel Stojković Caspiy Chafik Tigroudja Miloš Stanojević Nikola Cuckić Marko Milošević Nenad Gavrić Ruslan Mingazow Taras Bondarenko Kairat Vágner Love João Paulo Macky Bagnack Dino Mikanović José Kanté Nebojša Kosović Jacek Góralski Ricardo Alves Rade Dugalić Kaisar Clarence Bitang Karolis Laukžemis Jovan Čađenović Stefan Denković Ousmane N'Diaye Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana Kyzylzhar Pablo Podio Semir Smajlagić Carlos Fonseca Moussa Koné Darko Zorić Maksym Drachenko Yuriy Bushman Ordabasy Dmytro Khlyobas Chidi Osuchukwu Abdoulaye Diakate Aleksandar Simčević Muhammadjon Rakhimov Shakhter Stefan Bukorac Edin Rustemović Martin Toshev Ivan Graf David Mawutor David Atanaskoski Vuk Mitošević Abdel Lamanje Aramis Kouzine Taraz Kódjo Faith Obilor Nenad Adamović Uroš Nenadović Erivaldo Bruno Ibeh Tobol Jérémy Manzorro Elguja Lobjanidze Toni Silva Aleksa Amanović Rúben Brígido Dušan Jovančić Zoran Tošić Igor Sergeev Turan Branislav Janković Yevhen Chumak Milan Stojanović Stefan Živković Yevhen Smirnov Samir Fazli Stanley Zhetysu Artjom Dmitrijev Tengiz Tsikaridze Gabriel Enache Rizvan Ablitarov Temur Partsvania Vladyslav Okhronchuk Ugochukwu Oduenyi In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment Aktobe Pre-Season Alyaksey Baha 21 January 2021 Kyzylzhar Veaceslav Rusnac Andrei Karpovich 8 January 2021 Ordabasy Kakhaber Tskhadadze Aleksandr Sednyov 21 January 2021 Taraz Vladimir Nikitenko Vardan Minasyan 3 February 2021 Shakhter Karagandy Konstantin Gorovenka Ali Aliyev 20 January 2021 Zhetysu Dmitry Ogai Rinat Alyuetov 15 January 2021 Shakhter Karagandy Ali Aliyev Resigned 10 April 2021 14th Andrei Finonchenko 10 April 2021 Shakhter Karagandy Andrei Finonchenko End of role 16 April 2021 14th Magomed Adiyev 16 April 2021 Aktobe Alyaksey Baha Resigned 5 May 2021 10th Vladimir Zelenovskiy 5 May 2021 Aktobe Vladimir Zelenovskiy End of role 7 June 2021 10th Vakhid Masudov 7 June 2021 Kairat Aleksey Shpilevsky Signed by Erzgebirge Aue 7 June 2021 3rd Kirill Keker 7 June 2021 Tobol Grigori Babayan Signed by CSKA Moscow 17 June 2021 2nd Alexander Moskalenko 18 June 2021 Aktobe Vakhid Masudov Resigned 26 July 2021 10th Mukhtar Erimbetov 26 July 2021 Aktobe Mukhtar Erimbetov End of role 4 August 2021 10th Vladimir Mukhanov 4 August 2021 Astana Andrey Tikhonov End of role 5 November 2021 End of season Vladimir Yezhurov 5 November 2021 Astana Vladimir Yezhurov End of role 21 November 2021 End of season Srdjan Blagojevic 21 November 2021 Caspiy Srdjan Blagojevic Signed by Astana 21 November 2021 End of season Nikolay Kostov 31 December 2021
Regular season
League table
Results Games 1–26
Results by match played
Positions by round
Statistics Scoring First goal of the season: Vitaliy Balashov for Shakhter Karagandy against Atyrau ()
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Marin TomasovAstana172 Artur ShushenachevKairat123 Igor SergeevAktobe/Tobol114 José KantéKairat9 João PauloOrdabasy/Kairat6 Karolis LaukžemisKaisar8 Nemanja NikolićTobol8 Azat NurgaliyevTobol7 Tigran BarseghyanAstana Pedro EugénioTaraz/Astana Alibek KasymKyzylzhar Vágner LoveKairat Attendance
Attendants who entered with free ticket are not counted.
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References
External links Official website