FC Shakhter Karagandy

After reaching third place in 1995 and 2007, their first championship was won in 2011.[1] Before this they were one of the leading Kazakh teams in the football of the Soviet Union.

On 18 September 2006, Brazilian forward Nilton Pereira Mendes died after collapsing during a training session with the club.[2]

On 19 September 2008, Shakhter and Vostok were disqualified from the Kazakhstan Premier League for playing a fixed match, club coaches and management involved were banned from football for 60 months.[3] On 2 October 2008, the FFK revisited their decisions. Shakhter were deducted nine points, Vostok were immediately expelled from the competition. The result of the game in question has been cancelled and all remaining Vostok games will be counted as won by 3–0 for their opponents.[4]

On 20 August 2013, Shakhter defeated Scottish champions Celtic by 2–0 at home in 2013–14 UEFA Champions League play-off round first leg.[5] However, Celtic won the return leg by 3–0 and Shakhter dropped into the Europa League - the first time a Kazakh club has progressed to the group stage of a European competition.[6] Shakhter were eliminated from the Europa League by finishing fourth in a group containing PAOK, Maccabi Haifa and AZ.

On 9 January 2018, Uladzimir Zhuravel was appointed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager.[7] Zhuravel resigned as manager on 3 July 2018, with Andrei Finonchenko taking charge in a temporary manner.[8] On 18 July 2018, Nikolay Kostov was confirmed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager.[9] On 30 December 2019, Vyacheslav Hroznyi was announced as the new manager of Shakhter Karagandy,[10] leaving on 17 June 2020 by mutual consent.[11] The following day, 18 June 2020, Konstantin Gorovenka was announced as the clubs new manager.[12]

Domestic history

Andrei Finonchenko scored 104 league goals in 346 league appearances for Shakhter Karagandy.

Season	Level	Pos	Pld	W	D	L	For	Against	Points	Domestic Cup	Top goalscorer
1992	1st	7	26	8	12	6	24	22	36	First round
1993		6	22	8	6	8	25	29	22	Quarter-final
1994		6	30	11	12	7	45	38	34	Semi-final
1995		3	30	18	6	6	43	24	60	Quarter-final
1996		8	34	14	10	10	42	40	52	Quarter-final	Askar Abildaev – 14
1997		4	26	16	4	6	40	22	52	Quarter-final	Ruslan Imankulov – 8
1998		9	26	8	4	14	29	32	28	Quarter-final
1999		10	30	11	4	15	28	35	37	Last 16
2000		5	28	14	6	8	38	26	48	Semi-final	Ruslan Imankulov – 12
2001		12	32	10	10	12	31	37	40	Last 16	Ruslan Imankulov – 11
2002		5	32	13	7	12	37	40	46	Semi-final	Evgeniy Lunev – 16
2003		10	32	10	12	10	37	29	42	Last 16	Andrei Finonchenko – 16
2004		9	36	16	9	11	44	28	57	Last 16
2005		4	30	19	2	9	37	22	59	Last 16	Andrei Finonchenko – 11
2006		4	30	15	5	10	35	24	50	Semi-final	Andrei Finonchenko – 16
2007		3	30	17	7	6	45	23	58	Quarter-final	Mihails Miholaps – 8
2008		7	29	11	13	5	41	26	37	Last 16
2009		3	26	18	3	5	50	18	57	Runners-up	Serhiy Kostyuk – 11
2010		6	32	11	8	13	32	30	41	Runners-up
2011		1	32	19	6	7	52	29	42	Quarter-final	Sergei Khizhnichenko – 16
2012		1	26	17	2	7	48	15	53	Semi-final	Gediminas Vičius – 7
2013		5	32	12	7	13	43	45	26	Winners	Ihar Zyankovich – 6 Andrei Finonchenko – 7
2014		6	32	11	6	15	41	49	21	Semi-final	Mihret Topčagić – 10
2015		10	32	9	5	18	27	47	23	Second round	Mihret Topčagić – 6
2016		9	32	10	6	16	25	40	36	Last 16	Desley Ubbink – 6
2017		7	33	12	4	17	36	50	40	Semi-final	Milan Stojanović – 10
2018		8	33	8	12	13	29	36	36	Semi-final	Damir Kojašević – 8
2019		9	33	9	8	16	40	47	35	Last 16	Sergei Zenjov – 8 Ivan Pešić – 8
2020		4	20	9	5	6	29	22	32	-	Aydos Tattybaev – 5 Arsen Khubulov – 5

European history

As of match played 7 August 2014

Competition	S	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
UEFA Champions League	2	8	4	1	3	10	8	+2
UEFA Europa League	4	18	6	4	8	24	24	0
UEFA Cup	1	2	0	1	1	1	2	–1
UEFA Intertoto Cup	1	2	1	0	1	4	6	–2
Total	7	30	11	6	13	39	40	-1

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	MTZ-RIPO Minsk	1–5	3–1	4–6
2008–09	UEFA Cup	1Q	Debrecen	1–1	0–1	1–2
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Ruch Chorzów	1–2	0–1	1–3
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Koper	2–1	1–1	3–2
		2Q	St Patrick's Athletic	2–1	0–2	2–3
2012–13	UEFA Champions League	2Q	Slovan Liberec	1–1 (aet)	0–1	1–2
2013–14	UEFA Champions League	2Q	BATE Borisov	1–0	1–0	2–0
		3Q	Skënderbeu	3–0	2–3	5–3
		PO	Celtic	2–0	0–3	2–3
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Group L	AZ	1–1	0–1	4th place
			PAOK	0–2	1–2
			Maccabi Haifa	2–2	1–2
2014–15	UEFA Europa League	1Q	Shirak	4–0	2–1	6–1
		2Q	Atlantas	3–0	0–0	3–0
		3Q	Hajduk Split	4–2	0–3	4–5
2021–22	UEFA Europa Conference League	2Q

Notes

• 1R: First round
• 1Q: First qualifying round
• 2Q: Second qualifying round
• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

• Kazakhstan Premier League: 2

2011, 2012

• Kazakhstan Cup: 1

2013

• Kazakhstan Super Cup: 1

2013

• Soviet First League: 1

1962

As of 5 October 2020[15]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  UKR Yevhen Tkachuk 4 DF  GHA Gideon Baah 5 DF  RUS Soslan Takulov 10 FW  KAZ Aydos Tattybaev 12 MF  CIV Cédric Kouadio 17 MF  KAZ Aslanbek Kakimov 19 FW  KAZ Matvey Gerasimov 20 MF  TKM Ruslan Mingazow 25 DF  RUS Andrey Buyvolov 26 MF  KAZ Erkin Tapalov

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 DF  FRA Abdel Lamanje 40 GK  KAZ Egor Tsuprikov 47 MF  KAZ Pavel Kriventsev 57 DF  KAZ Egor Alishauskas 66 DF  KAZ Bogdan Savkiv 70 MF  KAZ Zhan-Ali Payruz 77 MF  KAZ Gevorg Najaryan 78 GK  KAZ Timurbek Zakirov 87 MF  RUS Mikhail Bakayev 88 MF  RUS Arsen Khubulov

• Sergey Patsay

• Anatoly Krutikov (1977)
• Lev Burchalkin (1990–91)
• Vakhid Masudov (2000)
• Sergei Gorokhovodatskiy (2001–July 3)
• Juha Malinen (2007)
• Revaz Dzodzuashvili (Jan 1, 2007 – June 1, 2008)
• Vladimir Cheburin (2009–10)
• Viktor Kumykov (Jan 1, 2011–Dec 14)

Information correct as of match played 30 November 2020. Only competitive matches are counted.

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W	Honours	Notes
Vladimir Cheburin	Kazakhstan	11 December 2014	6 May 2015[16]	11	1	2	8	8	20	009.09
Evgeny Sveshnikov	Kazakhstan	6 May 2015[16]	5 June 2015[17]	4	0	0	4	0	8	000.00
Ihor Zakhariak	Ukraine	5 June 2015[17]	December 2015	18	8	3	7	19	21	044.44
Jozef Vukušič	Slovakia	8 January 2016[18]	3 August 2016[19]	22	4	6	12	8	31	018.18
Aleksei Yeryomenko	Russia	4 August 2016[20]	29 May 2017[21]	24	8	3	13	30	36	033.33
Saulius Širmelis	Lithuania	2 June 2017[22]	31 December 2017	21	10	1	10	23	27	047.62
Uladzimir Zhuravel	Belarus	9 January 2018[7]	3 July 2018[7]	20	5	6	9	15	20	025.00
Andrei Finonchenko (Caretaker)	Kazakhstan	3 July 2018[7]	18 July 2018	2	0	0	2	1	4	000.00
Nikolay Kostov	Bulgaria	18 July 2018[9]	30 December 2019[10]	49	13	16	20	57	61	026.53
Vyacheslav Hroznyi	Ukraine	30 December 2019[10]	17 June 2020[11]	2	1	0	1	2	3	050.00
Konstantin Gorovenka	Kazakhstan	18 June 2020[12]		18	8	5	5	27	19	044.44

• Notes:

P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against
%W – Percentage of matches won

Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).

• Kazakhstani football clubs in European competitions

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