FC Kyzylzhar

FC Kyzyl-Zhar SK

Full name	Football Club Kyzyl-Zhar SK Қызыл-Жар СК Футбол Клубы
Founded	1968 (1968)
Ground	Karasai Stadium Petropavl, Kazakhstan
Ground Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Loriya Grigoriy Otarovich
Coach	Vladimir Fomichev
League	Kazakhstan First Division
2014	9th
Home colours Away colours

FC Kyzyl-Zhar SK (Kazakh: Қызыл-Жар СК Футбол Клубы) is a Kazakhstani football club, playing in the north Kazakh city of Petropavl at the Karasai Stadium. They are founding members of Kazakhstan Premier League. Kyzylzhar is the name of a district in the city. They are two time runner-ups of the Premier league (1999 and 2000).

Name History

• 1968 : Founded as Avangard
• 1970 : Renamed Metallist
• 1979 : Renamed Avangard
• 1990 : Renamed Metallist
• 1998 : Renamed Esil
• 1999 : Renamed Access-Esil
• 2000 : Renamed Access-Golden Grain
• 2001 : Renamed Esil Bogatyr
• 2009 : Renamed Kyzylzhar^[1]
• 2013 : Renamed Kyzyl-Zhar SK

League results

Famous players

• Evgeniy Averchenko
• Serik Zheilitbaev
• Igor Avdeyev
• Aleksandr Familtsev
• Sergey Timofeyev
• Ruslan Baltyev
• Kairat Nurdauletov
• Viktor Zubarev
• Muslim Agaev
• Vladimir Bairamov
• Dmitriy Bistrov
• Konstantin Panin
• Aram Voskanyan

External links

• Official site
• Web-page "V Contacte"
• Return of "bogatyrs" or as football became a religion in Petropavlovsk
• Old fan's site
• Old unofficial site

References