# 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League

The 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 23rd season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 15 March 2014 and was finished in November. Aktobe were the defending champions having won their fifth league championship the previous year.

## Teams

FC Vostok and FC Akzhayik were relegated at the end of the 2013 season, and were replaced by FC Kaisar and Spartak Semey.

### Team overview

| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity |
| Aktobe | Aktobe | Aktobe Central Stadium | 15,000 |
| Astana | Astana | Astana Arena | 30,000 |
| Atyrau | Atyrau | Munaishy Stadium | 9,500 |
| Irtysh | Pavlodar | Pavlodar Central Stadium | 15,000 |
| Kairat | Almaty | Almaty Central Stadium | 25,057 |
| Kaisar | Kyzylorda | Gany Muratbayev Stadium | 7,500 |
| Ordabasy | Shymkent | Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium | 35,000 |
| Shakhter | Karagandy | Shakhter Stadium | 20,000 |
| Spartak Semey | Semey | Spartak Stadium | 08,000 |
| Taraz | Taraz | Taraz Central Stadium | 11,525 |
| Tobol | Kostanay | Kostanay Central Stadium | 010,500 |
| 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 Nikitenko | Petr Badlo | Adidas | — |
| Astana | Stanimir Stoilov | Kairat Nurdauletov | Adidas | Samruk-Kazyna |
| Atyrau | Anatoliy Yurevich | Valentin Chureev | Adidas, | — |
| Irtysh | Talgat Baisufinov | Sergei Ivanov | Adidas | ENRC |
| Kairat | Vladimír Weiss | Kyril Shestakov | Nike | KazRosGaz |
| Kaisar | Dmitriy Ogai | | Nike | — |
| Ordabasy | Viktor Pasulko | Kairat Ashirbekov | Adidas | TAU |
| Shakhter | Viktor Kumykov | Andrey Finonchenko | Lotto | — |
| Spartak Semey | Almas Kulshinbayev | | Adidas | — |
| Taraz | Evgeny Yarovenko | Vitali Yevstigneyev | Adidas | — |
| Tobol | Timur Urazov | Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev | Adidas | — |
| Zhetysu | Omari Tetradze | Zahar Korobov | Adidas | — |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
| Atyrau | Miodrag Radulović | | 8 November 2013 | Pre Season | Anatoliy Yurevich | 4 December 2013 |
| Kaisar | Sergei Volgin | | 17 November 2013 | Pre Season | Dmitriy Ogai | 30 November 2013 |
| Astana | Ioan Andone | End of contract | 27 November 2013 | Pre Season | Vadim Abramov | 28 November 2013 |
| Astana | Vadim Abramov | Contract canceled | 13 December 2013 | Pre Season | Grigori Babayan | 1 January 2014 |
| Taraz | Arno Pijpers | | 10 June 2014 | | Evgeny Yarovenko | 10 June 2014 |
| Astana | Grigori Babayan | End of caretaker spell | 21 June 2014 | | Stanimir Stoilov | 21 June 2014 |

### Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to seven 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 |
| Aktobe | Robert Primus | Robert Arzumanyan | Marcos Pizzelli | Timur Kapadze | Danilo Neco | Anderson Mineiro | Oleksiy Antonov |
| Astana | Marin Aničić | Damir Kojašević | Roger Cañas | Guy Essame | Patrick Twumasi | Atanas Kurdov | Foxi Kéthévoama |
| Atyrau | Michael Odibe | Marko Blažić | Giorgi Peikrishvili | Miloš Trifunović | Dominic Adiyiah | | |
| Irtysh | Miodrag Dzudovic | Igor Burzanovic | Kostyantyn Dudchenko | Orlin Starokin | Simeon Bulgaru | Rinar Valeyev | |
| Kairat | Ľubomír Michalík | Žarko Marković | Josip Knežević | Artur Yedigaryan | Sito Riera | Isael da Silva Barbosa | Gerard Gohou |
| Kaisar | Martin Klein | Miljan Jablan | Mamoutou Coulibaly | Matic Maruško | Rimo Hunt | Dušan Savić | Valentin Furdui |
| Ordabasy | Andrew Mwesigwa | Freire | Artem Kasyanov | Abdoulaye Diakate | Ondřej Kúdela | | |
| Shakhter | Aleksandar Simčević | Gediminas Vičius | Shavkat Salomov | Kamoliddin Murzoev | Mihret Topcagić | Nikola Pokrivač | Ján Maslo |
| Spartak Semey | Viktor Genev | Nemanja Čović | Nikolay Dyulgerov | Daniel Peev | Nemanja Jovanović | Artur Avagyan | Goran Obradović |
| Taraz | Sigourney Bandjar | Rok Roj | Jovan Golić | Desley Ubbink | Denys Vasilyev | Oleksandr Yarovenko | Dmytro Bashlay |
| Tobol | Štěpán Kučera | Ondřej Kušnír | Ognjen Krasić | Tomáš Šimkovič | Nenad Šljivić | Jiří Jeslínek | Ivan Sadownichy |
| Zhetysu | Didier Kadio | Arūnas Klimavičius | Marko Putinčanin | Marko Đalović | Boti Demel | Mersudin Ahmetović | Davron Ergashev |
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

## First round
### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Aktobe | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 34 | 17 | +17 | 43 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 2 | Kairat | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 41 | 20 | +21 | 42 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 3 | Astana | 22 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 34 | 17 | +17 | 39 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 4 | Shakhter Karagandy | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 33 | 27 | +6 | 36 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 5 | Ordabasy | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 35 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 6 | Kaisar | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 32 | Qualification for the championship round |
| 7 | Zhetysu | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 27 | Qualification for the relegation round |
| 8 | Tobol | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 26 | Qualification for the relegation round |
| 9 | Irtysh Pavlodar | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 35 | −7 | 24 | Qualification for the relegation round |
| 10 | Atyrau | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 27 | −8 | 24 | Qualification for the relegation round |
| 11 | Taraz | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 21 | 34 | −13 | 19 | Qualification for the relegation round |
| 12 | Spartak Semey | 22 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 41 | −25 | 14 | Qualification for the relegation round |
* 1 2 ATY 0–1 IRT ; IRT 0-1 ATY

### Results

| Home \ Away | AKT | AST | ATY | IRT | KRT | KSR | ORD | SHA | SEM | TAR | TOB | ZHE |
| Aktobe | | 1–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| Astana | 1–2 | | 3–0 | 5–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| Atyrau | 0–0 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Irtysh Pavlodar | 1–1 | 3–4 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Kairat | 7–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 |
| Kaisar | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 0–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Ordabasy | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–1 |
| Shakhter Karagandy | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 3–0 |
| Spartak Semey | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–5 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 |
| Taraz | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 5–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–5 | 2–0 | | 1–1 | 1–0 |
| Tobol | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | | 0–2 |
| Zhetysu | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | |

## Second round
### Championship round
#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Astana (C) | 32 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 63 | 26 | +37 | 45 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Aktobe | 32 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 52 | 31 | +21 | 40 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 3 | Kairat | 32 | 18 | 5 | 9 | 58 | 31 | +27 | 38 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 4 | Ordabasy | 32 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 34 | 44 | −10 | 27 | Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round |
| 5 | Kaisar | 32 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 30 | 34 | −4 | 27 | |
| 6 | Shakhter Karagandy | 32 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 41 | 49 | −8 | 21 | |

#### Results

| Home \ Away | AKT | AST | KRT | KSR | ORD | SHA |
| Aktobe | | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 3–1 |
| Astana | 6–1 | | 5–1 | 3–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 |
| Kairat | 2–0 | 2–3 | | 1–1 | 2–0 | 6–1 |
| Kaisar | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Ordabasy | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | | 3–2 |
| Shakhter Karagandy | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | |

### Relegation round
#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Relegation |
| 7 | Tobol | 32 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 26 | |
| 8 | Zhetysu | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 31 | −10 | 25 | |
| 9 | Atyrau | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 43 | −13 | 25 | |
| 10 | Irtysh Pavlodar | 32 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 39 | 44 | −5 | 25 | |
| 11 | Taraz (O) | 32 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 32 | 45 | −13 | 25 | Qualification for the relegation play-off |
| 12 | Spartak Semey (R) | 32 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 52 | −22 | 21 | Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division |
* ↑ Tobol have had 3 point(s) deducted.

#### Results

| Home \ Away | ATY | IRT | SEM | TAR | TOB | ZHE |
| Atyrau | | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–3 | 1–0 |
| Irtysh Pavlodar | 2–0 | | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Spartak Semey | 3–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| Taraz | 2–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | | 1–1 | 2–0 |
| Tobol | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | | 2–0 |
| Zhetysu | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–3 | 0–0 | |

## Season statistics
### Top scorers

    As of Match played 9 November 2014
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Foxi Kéthévoama | Astana | 15 |
| 2 | Miloš Trifunović | Atyrau | 13 |
| 3 | Gerard Gohou | Kairat | 12 |
| 4 | Kostyantyn Dudchenko | Irtysh | 11 |
| 4 | Patrick Twumasi | Astana | 11 |
| 6 | Mihret Topcagić | Shakhter | 10 |
| 7 | Marat Khairullin | Aktobe | 9 |
| 8 | Rimo Hunt | Kaisar | 8 |
| 8 | Aslan Darabayev | Kairat | 8 |
| 8 | Oleksiy Antonov | Aktobe | 8 |
| 8 | Marcos Pizzelli | Aktobe | 8 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Atanas Kurdov | Astana | Irtysh | 4–3 | 19 April 2014 |
| Gerard Gohou | Kairat | Aktobe | 7–1 | 6 July 2014 |
| Foxi Kéthévoama | Astana | Atyrau | 3–0 | 27 July 2014 |
| Patrick Twumasi | Astana | Aktobe | 6–1 | 4 October 2014 |

### Scoring

* First goal of the season: Maksim Azovskiy for Spartak Semey against Tobol (15 March 2014)
* Fastest goal of the season: 2nd minute,
** Edin Junuzović for Ordabasy against Aktobe (13 April 2014)
* Latest goal of the season: 94th minute,
** Damir Kojašević for Astana against Kaisar (29 March 2014)
** Dmitri Miroshnichenko for Aktobe against Kaisar (19 April 2014)