# 2015 Kazakhstan Cup

The 2015 Kazakhstan Cup is the 24th season of the Kazakhstan Cup, the annual nationwide football cup competition of Kazakhstan since the independence of the country. The competition began on 29 March 2015 and will end with the final in November 2015. Kairat are the defending champions, having won their first cup in the 2014 competition.
The winner of the competition will qualify for the first qualifying round of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League.

## Participating clubs

The following 25 teams qualified for the competition:
| Premier League all clubs of season 2015 | First Division all clubs of season 2015 |
| FC Aktobe FC Astana FC Atyrau FC Taraz Irtysh Pavlodar Kairat Almaty Kaisar Kyzylorda Okzhetpes Kokshetau Ordabasy Shymkent Shakhter Karagandy Tobol Kostanay Zhetysu Taldykorgan | Аkzhayik Oral Baikonur Kyzylorda Bayterek Astana Bolat-AMT Temirtau Caspiy Aktau CSKA Almaty FC Ekibastuz Kyzyl-Zhar SK Petropavl Kyran Shymkent Lashyn Taraz Maktaaral Atakent Spartak Semey Vostok Oskemen |

## Schedule

The rounds of the 2015 competition are scheduled as follows:
* Preliminary Round: 29 March 2015
* Round 1: 12 April 2015
* Round 2: 29 April 2015
* Quarterfinal: 20 May 2015
* Semifinal: 2 June–23 September 2015
* Final: 21 November 2015 at Astana Arena, Astana

## Preliminary round

Matches of the preliminary round took place on March 29, 2015 and featured the 10 lowest placed clubs from the Kazakhstan First Division.

## First round

Matches of the first round took place on 11/12 April 2015 and featured the 5 winners from the preliminary round and the three remaining Kazakhstan First Division teams.

## Second round

Matches of the second round took place on 28/29 April 2015 and featured the 4 winners from the first round and the 12 Kazakhstan Premier League teams.

## Quarter finals

On 30 April 2015, the eight winners from the Second Round were drawn in to four Quarter Final ties, to be played on 20 May 2015.

## Semi-finals

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Aktobe | 1 – 3 | Astana | 0 – 2 | 1 – 1 |
| Tobol | 1 – 5 | Kairat | 0 – 3 | 1 – 2 |

## Scorers

6 goals:
* Patrick Twumasi, Astana
4 goals:
* Đorđe Despotović, Kairat
3 goals:
* Azamat Aubakirov, Ekibastuz
* Gerard Gohou, Kairat
2 goals:
* Didar Zhalmukan, Aktobe
* Vladimir Vyatkin, Caspiy
* Amangeldy Duisembaev, Ekibastuz
* Bauyrzhan Islamkhan, Kairat
* Luka Rotkovic, Okzhetpes
1 goal:
* Marcos Pizzelli, Aktobe
* Danilo Neco, Aktobe
* Viktor Dmitrenko, Aktobe
* Valeri Korobkin, Aktobe
* Sergei Khizhnichenko, Aktobe
* Artūras Žulpa, Aktobe
* Oleksiy Antonov, Aktobe
* Ivan Antipov, Akzhayik
* Igor Khromtsov, Akzhayik
* Anton Shurygin, Akzhayik
* Bauyrzhan Dzholchiev, Astana
* Birjan Kulbekov, Astana
* Aleksey Shchetkin, Astana
* Roman Pavinic, Bolat-AMT
* Dmitri Zverev, Bolat-AMT
* Vyasheslav Serdyukov, Caspiy
* Aslan Orazaev, CSKA Almaty
* Samit Shulagov, CSKA Almaty
* Marat Iskulov, Ekibastuz
* Viktor Pavlenok, Ekibastuz
* Igor Voynov, Ekibastuz
* Isael, Kairat
* Zhambyl Kukeyev, Kairat
* Mark Gorman, Kairat
* Sito Riera, Kairat
* Edin Junuzović, Kaisar
* Maxim Filshakov, Kyran
* Elmar Nabiyev, Kyzylzhar
* Egor Azovskiy, Okzhetpes
* Ruslan Sakhalbayev, Okzhetpes
* Taras Danilyuk, Spartak Semey
* Marat Togyzbay, Taraz
* Almir Mukhutdinov, Taraz
* Tomáš Šimkovič, Tobol
* Artem Deli, Tobol
* Temirlan Elmurzayev, Tobol
* Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev, Tobol
* Igor Bugaev, Tobol
* Vyasheslav Erbes, Vostok
* Vitali Kuyanov, Vostok
* Bauyrzhan Turysbek, Zhetysu

### Own goal

* Sergey Kutsov (28 April 2015 vs Kaisar)
* Michal Smejkal (29 April 2015 vs Shakhter Karagandy)