2022 Kazakhstan Premier League

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Kazakhstan Premier League 2022
Season information
Dates
Season statistics
Matches played	73
Goals scored	160
Top goalscorer	Andrija Filipović (9)
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The 2022 Kazakhstan Premier League is the 31st season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. FC Tobol are the defending champions after winning their second title the previous season.

Events

On 11 March, Shakhter Karagandy were awarded a 3-0 technical victory over Astana after Astana fielded seven Foreign Players on the pitch at the same time during their match on 5 March 2022.

Teams

FC Kaisar (relegated after five years in the top flight) and Zhetysu (relegated after four years in the top flight) were relegated at the end of the 2021 season. They were replaced by Aksu and Maktaaral from the Kazakhstan First League (both promoted to the top division for the first time in their history).

Team overview

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aksu	Pavlodar	Central Stadium	11,828
Aktobe	Aktobe	Central Stadium	12,729
Akzhayik	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Astana	Nur-Sultan	Astana Arena	30,200
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	8,900
Caspiy	Aktau	Zhastar Stadium	5,000
Kairat	Almaty	Central Stadium	23,804
Kyzylzhar	Petropavl	Karasai Stadium	11,000
Maktaaral	Turkistan	Turkistan Arena	7,000
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium	20,000
Shakhter	Karaganda	Shakhter Stadium	19,500
Taraz	Taraz	Central Stadium	12,527
Tobol	Kostanay	Central Stadium	9,500
Turan	Turkistan	Turkistan Arena	7,000

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
Aksu	Ruslan Kostyshyn	Gafurzhan Suyumbayev	Adidas	Parimatch
Aktobe	Petr Badlo (Acting)	Artūras Žulpa	Adidas	Parimatch
Akzhayik	Volodymyr Mazyar	Sergey Shustikov	Adidas	-
Astana	Srdjan Blagojevic	Abzal Beisebekov	Adidas
Atyrau	Konstantin Gorovenka	Aram Ayrapetyan	Puma	GAZ Stroy Montazh KZ
Caspiy	Nikolay Kostov	Nurlybek Ayazbaev	Adidas
Kairat	Kurban Berdyev	Jacek Góralski	Nike
Kyzylzhar	Andrei Karpovich	Miroslav Lobantsev	Nike
Maktaaral	Andrey Ferapontov	Ruslan Yudenkov	Nike
Ordabasy	Aleksandr Sednyov	Bekkhan Shayzada	Adidas
Shakhter	Magomed Adiyev	Igor Shatsky	Adidas	Triangle Tyres
Taraz	Nurken Mazbaev	Maksat Amirkhanov	Nike
Tobol	Milan Milanović	Askhat Tagybergen	Adidas	Polymetal
Turan	Kuanysh Kabdulov (Acting)	Azat Nurgaliyev	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. From 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. For transfers during the season, see Winter 2021–22 transfers and Summer 2022 transfers.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	EAEU Players	Former Players
Aksu	Sam Johnson	Faith Obilor	Yevhen Kucherenko							Kayrat Zhyrgalbek uulu Mikhail Bakayev Ali Gadzhibekov Islam Zhilov
Aktobe	China	Hugo Vidémont	Joachim Adukor	Gerard Gohou	Artūras Žulpa	Vladimir Ghinaitis	Saša Stamenković	Vitaliy Balashov		Ruslan Kambolov Nikita Malyarov Serder Serderov
Akzhayik	Rafael Sabino	Mate Crnčević	Luka Imnadze	Template:Country data MLD Ștefan Sicaci	Miloš Stamenković	Ihor Karpenko	Kostyantyn Makhnovskyi	Vitaliy Pryndeta	Maksym Kalenchuk	Zaven Badoyan Artur Gazdanov Sergey Shustikov	Šaleta Kordić
Astana	Bryan	Marin Tomasov	Jérémy Manzorro	Mohammed Kamara	Rai Vloet	Pedro Eugénio	Marko Milošević	Danylo Beskorovaynyi		Kamo Hovhannisyan Max Ebong Dzyanis Palyakow Artsyom Rakhmanaw
Atyrau	Todor Petrović	Allef	Matheus Bissi	Andrija Filipović	Domantas Antanavičius	Paweł Baranowski	Piotr Grzelczak			Aram Ayrapetyan Anatoli Katrich Dmitri Pletnev Soslan Takulov Nikolai Tarasov
Caspiy	Ruan Teles	Chafik Tigroudja	Rati Ardazishvili	Risto Jankov	Nikola Cuckić	Artem Baranovskyi	Taras Bondarenko			Pavel Kireyenko
Kairat	João Paulo	Macky Bagnack	David Ekwe	José Kanté	Jacek Góralski	Ricardo Alves	Jasurbek Jaloliddinov			Gulzhigit Alykulov Anton Krachkovsky Vadim Ulyanov Viktor Vasin
Kyzylzhar	Pablo Podio	Gian	Jordan Nkololo	Moussa Koné	Darko Zorić	Stefan Živković	Yuriy Bushman	Artur Murza		Valery Karshakevich Sergey Tikhonovsky Aleksandr Dovbnya Yevgeni Kozlov Miroslav Lobantsev Oleg Murachyov Andrei Panyukov Pavel Yakovlev	Kiryl Sidarenka Lucas Cardoso
Maktaaral	Alex Bruno	Billal Sebaihi	Dramane Koné	Artiom Rozgoniuc	Sheriddin Boboyev	Serhiy Litovchenko	Artur Zapadnya			Pavel Chikida Ruslan Yudenkov Rasambek Akhmatov Yegor Potapov
Ordabasy	Victor Braga	Luiz Guedes	Sékou Doumbia	Serge Nyuiadzi	Oleksandr Batyshchev	Odil Abdumazhidov	Yevhen Chahovets			Vsevolod Sadovsky Nikita Shershnyov
Shakhter	Đorđe Ćosić	Edin Rustemović	Abdel Lamanje	Roger Cañas	Ivan Graf	Stefan Bukorac	Mykola Kovtalyuk			Petros Avetisyan Pavel Nazarenko Amir Aduyev Vladimir Khozin Kirill Malyarov
Taraz	Jorge Elias	Milen Gamakov	Luka Gadrani	Alex Junior						Denis Kavlinov
Tobol	Aleksa Amanović	Žarko Tomašević	Rúben Brígido	Dušan Jovančić	Zoran Tošić	Rudi Požeg Vancaš	Igor Sergeev
Turan	Emil Balayev	Toni Silva	Samir Fazli	Chidi Osuchukwu	Raphael Koroma	Abdoulaye Diakate				Andrey Zaleski Farkhat Musabekov Erzhan Tokotayev Aleksandr Kleshchenko	Cédric Gogoua

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
Aksu				Pre-Season	Ruslan Kostyshyn	19 January 2022
Astana	Vladimir Yezhurov (Caretaker)	End of role	21 November 2021		Srdjan Blagojevic	21 November 2021
Atyrau	Aram Voskanyan				Konstantin Gorovenka	14 December 2021
Caspiy	Srdjan Blagojevic	Signed by Astana	21 November 2021		Nikolay Kostov	31 December 2021
Maktaaral	Konstantin Gorovenko	Resigned			Andrey Ferapontov	14 January 2022
Taraz	Vardan Minasyan				Nurken Mazbaev	13 January 2022
Turan	Abdukhalik Buribayev				Vladimir Gazzayev	14 January 2022
Turan	Vladimir Gazzayev	Resigned	6 April 2022	11th	Kuanysh Kabdulov (Interim)	6 April 2022
Aktobe	Vladimir Mukhanov	Resigned	28 April 2022	8th	Petr Badlo (Acting)	28 April 2022
Tobol	Alexander Moskalenko (Caretaker)	Mutual consent	16 May 2022	7th	Milan Milanović	20 May 2022

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Caspiy	12	7	1	4	15	12	+3	22	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Astana	12	6	3	3	23	12	+11	21	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Taraz	12	6	3	3	15	9	+6	21	Qualification for the Europa Conference League first qualifying round
4	Atyrau	12	5	4	3	16	12	+4	19
5	Tobol	12	5	3	4	19	16	+3	18
6	Aktobe	11	5	2	4	11	14	−3	17
7	Shakhter Karagandy	11	5	1	5	16	14	+2	16
8	Kairat	12	4	4	4	11	16	−5	16
9	Ordabasy	11	4	2	5	14	12	+2	14
10	Aksu	10	4	1	5	10	10	0	13
11	Kyzylzhar	12	2	6	4	12	15	−3	12
12	Turan	10	2	5	3	6	9	−3	11
13	Akzhayik	11	3	2	6	4	10	−6	11	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
14	Maktaaral	12	2	3	7	10	21	−11	9

Updated to match(es) played on 22 May 2022. 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.

Results

Games 1–26

Home \ Away	AKS	AKT	AKZ	AST	ATY	CAS	KRT	KYZ	MAK	ORD	SHA	TAR	TOB	TUR
Aksu		1–2		1–0		2–0						1–2		2–0
Aktobe			2–1		2–1				1–0		1–1		2–1
Akzhayik	0–1			1–0			0–0		0–0					TBC
Astana		1–0				4–0	6–0				0–3	2–1		3–3
Atyrau	0–0		0–1	1–1				3–3	2–1	2–1			2–1
Caspiy		2–0			2–1			1–0		2–1	4–0	2–1	0–0
Kairat		2–0			0–3	1–0		1–1			2–0	1–1		0–1
Kyzylzhar	2–1	1–1	2–0						1–1		0–1	1–1
Maktaaral	2–1			0–3		2–1	0–1					0–1
Ordabasy			2–0	1–2			2–1	3–1	1–1				3–1
Shakhter Karagandy	TBC		0–1						5–1	1–0			4–1
Taraz		3–0	2–0		0–1					1–0	2–1
Tobol	2–0		1–0	1–1			2–2	2–0	4–2					3–0
Turan					0–0	0–1		0–0		0–0	2–0	0–0

Updated to match(es) played on 22 May 2022. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Billal Sebaihi for Maktaaral against Ordabasy (5 March 2022)

Top scorers

As of matches played on 22 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Andrija Filipović	Atyrau	9
2	Pedro Eugénio	Astana	8
3	Serge Nyuiadzi	Ordabasy	7
4	José Kanté	Kairat	5
	Yuriy Bushman	Kyzylzhar
	Marin Tomasov	Astana
	Igor Sergeyev	Tobol
8	Hugo Vidémont	Aktobe	4
	Timur Dosmagambetov	Shakhter Karagandy
	Abylayhan Zhumabek	Taraz
	Zoran Tošić	Tobol
	Askhat Tagybergen	Tobol
	Rai Vloet	Astana

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Bushman, YuriyYuriy Bushman	Kyzylzhar	Atyrau	3–3 (A)	02022-05-14-14 May 2022
Tomasov, MarinMarin Tomasov	Astana	Kairat	6–0 (H)	02022-05-14-14 May 2022

Clean sheets

As of matches played 22 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Erzhan Tokotayev	Turan	6
2	Ștefan Sicaci	Akzhayik	5
	Nurlybek Ayazbaev	Caspiy
	Mukhammedzhan Seysen	Taraz
	Danil Ustimenko	Kairat
5	Aleksandr Mokin	Tobol	4
	Aram Ayrapetyan	Atyrau
	Marko Milošević	Astana
9	Igor Shatsky	Shakhter Karagandy	3
	Yevhen Kucherenko	Aksu

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Goal of the Month		References
	Manager	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club
March	Nikolay Kostov	Caspiy	José Kanté	Kairat	Hugo Vidémont	Aktobe
April	Aleksandr Sednyov	Ordabasy	Bauyrzhan Baytana	Taraz	Gerard Gohou	Aktobe

External links

• Official website

Kazakhstan Premier League seasons

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