FC Okzhetpes

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Okzhetpes
Full name Football Club Okzhetpes Kokshetau
Оқжетпес Көкшетау Футбол Клубы
Founded 1968 (1968)
Ground Torpedo Stadium
Kokshetau, Kazakhstan
Ground Capacity 10,000
Chairman Kazakhstan Saparbek Kakishev
Manager Kazakhstan Vladimir Cheburin
League Kazakhstan Premier League
2011 Kazakhstan First Division, 2nd (promoted)
Home colours

Football Club Okzhetpes Kokshetau (Kazakh: Оқжетпес Футбол Клубы) are a Kazakhstani football based in the Torpedo Stadium in Kokshetau. The club currently play in the Kazakhstan Premier League.

Although having finished only 9th in the 2008 Kazakhstan Premier League the club gained entry to the first qualifying round of the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa League for the reason of some denied licenses and withdraw of higher placed teams.

Name History

  • 1968 : Founded as Torpedo
  • 1990 : Renamed Spartak
  • 1991 : Renamed Kokshetau
  • 1994 : Renamed Kokshe
  • 1997 : Renamed Avtomobilist and moved to Shortandy (Astana suburb)
  • 1998 : Renamed Khimik and moved to Stepnogorsk
  • 1999 : Renamed Akmola
  • 2000 : Moved back to Kokshetau
  • 2001 : Renamed Esil
  • 2004 : Renamed Okzhetpes

Should not be mistaken with the defunct club FC Azhar also based in Kokshetau

Name Origin

The club takes its name from a cliff, Okzhetpes, which means 'an arrow won't reach'. According to fan club president Viktor Kruk:

"Eighteenth century Kazakh ruler Ablai Khan could not decide which of his warriors to give a captive girl to and so allowed her to choose a husband for herself. She climbed to the top of the highest cliff and said she would marry whoever hit her shawl with an arrow. Nobody managed it."[1]

League results

Kazakhstan First Division Kazakhstan Premier League Kazakhstan First Division Kazakhstan Premier League

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 Kazakhstan GK Yaroslav Baginskiy
2 Kazakhstan DF Anuar Tokenov
4 Kazakhstan DF Maksim Chudinov
5 Kazakhstan MF Yuri Dyak
7 Kazakhstan FW Anton Stender
8 Kazakhstan MF Viktor Kozhushko
9 Kazakhstan MF Ruslan Kenetayev
11 Kazakhstan FW Yevgeni Samokhin
19 Kazakhstan FW Emil Aliyev
21 Kazakhstan GK Ruslan Abzhanov
22 Kazakhstan GK Igor Osipchuk
23 Kazakhstan MF Timur Dosmagambetov
25 Georgia (country) FW David Chagelishvili
No. Position Player
26 Romania MF Adrian Grigoruta
27 Kazakhstan DF Aleksei Mikhailyuk
33 Serbia DF Marko Milovanović
48 Kazakhstan MF Alexandr Kalachikov
55 Kazakhstan DF Dmitri Karpov
66 Kazakhstan FW Vitali Goloveshkin
70 Kazakhstan MF Erzat Kenbayev
71 Kazakhstan MF Ermek Nurgaliyev
75 Turkmenistan MF Arslanmyrat Amanow
76 Bosnia and Herzegovina MF Dejan Martinović
77 Romania DF Ovidiu Mendizov
88 Kazakhstan FW Vasiliy Prosekov

Managers

  • Belarus Syarhyey Hyerasimets (2006), (2009–10)
  • Kazakhstan Vladimir Cheburin (Jan 2011–Dec 11)
  • Ukraine Viktor Dogadaylo (Dec 2011–March 12)
  • Kazakhstan Vladimir Cheburin (May 2012–)

External links

References

  1. ↑ More than a name in Kazakhstan uefa.com, 12 February 2009
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