FC Caspiy
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Full name | Caspiy Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | Sailors | ||
Founded | 1962 | , as Trud||
Ground | Zhastar Stadium | ||
Capacity | 5,000 | ||
Chairman | Erzhan Dzhambirov | ||
Manager | Vladimir Nikitenko | ||
League | First League (II) | ||
2024 | 3rd | ||
Website | caspiyfc.kz | ||
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Caspiy Football Club (Kazakh: Футбольный клуб «Каспий») is a Kazakhstani football club based at the Zhastar Stadium in Aktau. The club name derived from Caspian Sea (Kazakh: Каспий теңізі). Their best year was 1996, when they finished 4th in the Premier League and reached the semi-finals of the Kazakhstan Cup. Since 2001, they were stuck in the First Division, until gaining direct promotion to the top division in the 2019 season.
History
From 1979 – 1991, the team played in the Soviet second league. From 1992 onwards, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, they played in the championship of Kazakhstan. The best achievement – the 4th place in 1996.
Premier league return
Caspiy returned to the Kazakhstan Premier League for the first time in 19 seasons in 2020, with Head Coach Srdjan Blagojevic guiding them to a 10th-place finish. The following season, 2021, Blagojevic sealed an 8th-place finish before leaving to join Astana, with Nikolay Kostov being appointed as his replacement on 31 December 2021.[1][2] On April 17, 2023, a Macedonian specialist, Igor Angelovski, was announced as the new head coach.[3]
Names
- 1962 : Founded as Trud
- 1990 : The club is renamed Aktau
- 1993 (July) : The club is renamed Munaishy
- 1999 : The club is renamed Aktau
- 2000 : The club is renamed Mangystau
- 2002 : The club is renamed Caspiy
Domestic history
Season | League | Kazakhstan Cup | Top goalscorer | Manager | |||||||||
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Div. | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Name | League | |||
1992 | 1st | 15 | 32 | 17 | 3 | 12 | 62 | 46 | 54 | First round | Kazakhstan Eduard Glazunov | 19 | Kazakhstan Degtyarov Alexander |
1993 | 1st | 20 | 48 | 23 | 5 | 20 | 84 | 77 | 74 | First round | Kazakhstan Erkin Sultanov | 20 | |
1994 | 2nd | 1 | 36 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 62 | 23 | 92 | Semi-final | |||
1995 | 1st | 16 | 30 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 107 | 8 | Last 16 | |||
1996 | 1st | 4 | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 54 | 26 | 63 | Semi-final | Kazakhstan Eduard Glazunov | 10 | |
1997 | Non League | ||||||||||||
1998 | 2nd | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||||
1999 | 2nd | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||||
2000 | 2nd | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 21 | ||||
2001 | 1st | 17 | 32 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 16 | 59 | 15 | Last 16 | Kazakhstan Erlan Urazaev | 5 | Kazakhstan Vladimir Fomichev |
2002 | 2nd | 6 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 30 | Quarter-final | |||
2003 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 21 | 37 | First round | |||
2004 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 50 | 17 | 53 | First round | |||
2005 | 2nd (SW) | 5 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 17 | 36 | First round | Kazakhstan Fedor Siminidi | 15 | |
2006 | 2nd (SW) | 2 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 63 | 20 | 60 | First round | Kazakhstan Talgat Sabalakov | 14 | |
2007 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 23 | 43 | First round | Kazakhstan Sergey Gridin | 13 | |
2008 | 2nd | 9 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 42 | 55 | 34 | First round | |||
2009 | 2nd | 10 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 40 | 23 | First round | Kazakhstan Anvarbek Sanbaev | ||
2010 | 2nd | 16 | 34 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 40 | 79 | 20 | Second round | Kazakhstan Erlan Murlikhanov | 6 | Kazakhstan Mels Kushanov |
2011 | 2nd | 12 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 42 | 37 | First round | Kazakhstan Almas Armenov | 9 | Kazakhstan Baurzhan Baimukhammedov |
2012 | 2nd | 8 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 31 | 40 | First round | Kazakhstan Almas Armenov | 8 | Bulgaria Radostin Dimov |
2013 | 2nd | 5 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 54 | 31 | 65 | Second round | Kazakhstan Igor Abdusheev | 15 | Kazakhstan Igor Prokhnitskiy |
2014 | 2nd | 4 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 26 | 51 | First round | Kazakhstan Almas Armenov | 13 | Kazakhstan Igor Prokhnitskiy |
2015 | 2nd | 5 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 35 | 18 | 43 | First round | Kazakhstan Vladimir Vyatkin | 9 | Kazakhstan Kairat Aimanov |
2016 | 2nd | 4 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 38 | 29 | 43 | Second round | Kazakhstan Almas Armenov | 7 | Kazakhstan Kairat Aimanov / Askar Kushikbaev |
2017 | 2nd | 8 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 36 | 15 | First round | Central African Republic Moussa Limane | 7 | Kazakhstan Askar Kushikbaev |
2018 | 2nd | 11 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 65 | 16 | First round | Croatia Branko Čubrilo | 5 | Kazakhstan Askar Keldjanov / Croatia Ivan Pudar |
2019 | 2nd | 2 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 48 | 21 | 56 | Last 16 | Kazakhstan Aidos Tattybaev | 19 | Montenegro Sava Kovačević |
2020 | 1st | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 34 | 17 | - | France Billal Sebaihi | 4 | Serbia Srdjan Blagojevic |
2021 | 1st | 8 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 32 | Quarterfinal | Russia David Karayev | 6 | Serbia Srdjan Blagojevic |
2022 | 1st | 9 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 42 | 31 | Group Stage | Brazil Ruan Teles | 6 | Bulgaria Nikolay Kostov |
2023 | 1st | 13 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 28 | 44 | 20 | Round of 16 | Georgia (country) Giorgi Pantsulaia | 6 | Georgia (country) Kakhaber Tskhadadze / North Macedonia Igor Angelovski / Kazakhstan Konstantin Gorovenko |
Current squad
- As of July 2024[4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
- Kazakhstan First Division (1): 1994
- Kazakh SSR Top League (1): 1978
- Kazakh SSR Cup (3): 1964, 1977, 1978
References
- ↑ "Официально: Срджан Благоевич – главный тренер Астаны". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Николай Костов – "Каспий" футбол клубының жаңа бас бапкері атанды". vk.com/caspiyfc (in Kazakh). Caspiy FC VK. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Фидан, Коминовски (17 April 2023). "Igor Angelovski is the new coach of Caspian from Kazakhstan". Слободен Печат.
- ↑ "Футбольный клуб "Каспий"". pflk.kz/ (in Russian). dsf sdf. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
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