Kazakhstan national football team

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Kazakhstan

Association	Football Federation of Kazakhstan
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Bernd Storck
Captain	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev
Most caps	Ruslan Baltiev (64)
Top scorer	Viktor Zubarev (12)
Home stadium	Almaty Central Stadium
FIFA code	KAZ
FIFA ranking	125
Highest FIFA ranking	98 (December 2001)
Lowest FIFA ranking	166 (May 1996)
Elo ranking	123
Home colours Away colours
First international
Kazakhstan 1 - 0 Turkmenistan (Almaty, Kazakhstan; June 1, 1992)
Biggest win
Pakistan 0 - 7 Kazakhstan (Lahore, Pakistan; June 11, 1997)
Biggest defeat
Kazakhstan 0 - 6 Turkey (Almaty, Kazakhstan; June 8, 2005) Russia 6 - 0 Kazakhstan (Moscow, Russia; May 23, 2008)

The Kazakhstan national football team is the national football team of Kazakhstan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. After gaining independence, they played their first match against Turkmenistan on June 1, 1992. The team was originally a member of AFC but switched to UEFA in 2002.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1994 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1998 to 2010 - Did not qualify (AFC Member from 1998 to 2002)

European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1996 to 2004 - Did not enter, was not member of UEFA until 2002
• 2008 - Did not qualify

Asian Nations Cup record

• 1956 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
• 1996 to 2000 - Did not qualify

• 2004 onwards - Did not enter, no longer member of AFC

Coaches

Manager	Period	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win %
Bakhtiar Baiseitov	1992	7	4	3	0	57.14%
Baurzhan Baimukhammedov	1994	4	1	2	1	25%
Serik Berdalin	1995-1997	20	6	4	10	30%
Sergei Gorokhovadatskiy	1998	5	2	1	2	40%
Voit Talgaev	2000	9	5	0	4	55.56%
Vladimir Fomichev (caretaker)	2000	1	0	0	1	0%
Vakhid Masudov	2001-2002	9	4	4	1	44.44%
Leonid Pakhomov	2003-2004	9	0	2	7	0%
Sergey Timofeev	2004-2005	13	0	1	12	0%
Arno Pijpers	2006-2008	36	7	11	18	19.44%
Bernd Storck	2008-	2	1	0	1	50%

Current squad

The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against England and Ukraine in June 2009.

Caps and goals are correct as of June 3, 2009.

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Marat Mukashev September 18, 1982 (1982-09-18) (age 27) 0 0 FC Taraz GK Aleksandr Grigorenko February 6, 1985 (1985-02-06) (age 24) 0 0 Shakhter Karagandy DF Farkhadbek Irismetov August 10, 1981 (1981-08-10) (age 28) 30 0 FC Tobol DF Rinat Abdulin April 14, 1982 (1982-04-14) (age 27) 5 1 FC Lokomotiv Astana DF Yuri Logvinenko July 22, 1988 (1988-07-22) (age 21) 3 0 FC Aktobe DF Aleksandr Kislitsyn March 8, 1986 (1986-03-08) (age 23) 3 0 Shakhter Karagandy DF Aleksandr Kirov June 4, 1984 (1984-06-04) (age 25) 2 0 FC Aktobe DF Vyacheslav Erbes January 14, 1988 (1988-01-14) (age 21) 1 0 FC Vostok DF Ilya Fomitchev August 14, 1982 (1982-08-14) (age 27) 0 0 FC Taraz MF Ruslan Baltiev September 16, 1978 (1978-09-16) (age 31) 70 12 FC Tobol MF Andrei Karpovich January 18, 1981 (1981-01-18) (age 28) 40 2 FC Lokomotiv Astana MF Sergei Skorykh May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) (age 25) 20 0 FC Tobol MF Andrei Travin April 27, 1979 (1979-04-27) (age 30) 18 0 Zhetysu MF Zhambyl Kukeyev September 26, 1988 (1988-09-26) (age 21) 14 1 FC Lokomotiv Astana MF Azat Nurgaliev July 1, 1987 (1987-07-01) (age 22) 1 0 FC Tobol FW Sergei Ostapenko February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 23) 19 4 FC Aktobe FW Tanat Nusserbayev January 1, 1988 (1988-01-01) (age 21) 3 0 FC Ordabasy FW Erzat Kenbaev April 22, 1989 (1989-04-22) (age 20) 0 0 FC Zhetysu FW Sergei Khizhnichenko July 17, 1991 (1991-07-17) (age 18) 0 0 FC Vostok FW Yevgeni Averchenko April 6, 1982 (1982-04-06) (age 27) 0 0 FC Kyzylzhar FW Denis Malinin June 11, 1983 (1983-06-11) (age 26) 0 0 FC Irtysh Pavlodar

Recent call-up

The following players have also been called up to the Kazakhstan squad in 2008.

Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up GK David Loria October 31, 1981 (1981-10-31) (age 28) 36 0 FC Lokomotiv Astana 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 DF Samat Smakov February 28, 1978 (1978-02-28) (age 31) 56 1 FC Aktobe 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 DF Ilia Vorotnikov February 1, 1986 (1986-02-01) (age 23) 0 0 FC Atyrau 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 MF Sabyrkhan Ibraev March 22, 1988 (1988-03-22) (age 21) 4 0 FC Tobol 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 MF Ulan Konysbaev May 28, 1989 (1989-05-28) (age 20) 0 0 FC Taraz 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 FW Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev May 11, 1981 (1981-05-11) (age 28) 47 5 FC Tobol 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009 FW Murat Tleshev April 18, 1980 (1980-04-18) (age 29) 8 1 FC Aktobe 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match vs Belarus, on April 1, 2009

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6

Team v • d • e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  England 10 9 0 1 34 6 +28 27  Ukraine 10 6 3 1 21 6 +15 21  Croatia 10 6 2 2 19 13 +6 20  Belarus 10 4 1 5 19 14 +5 13  Kazakhstan 10 2 0 8 11 29 −18 6  Andorra 10 0 0 10 3 39 −36 0

Andorra  – 1 – 3 0 – 2 0 – 2 1 –3 0 – 6 Belarus  5 – 1 – 1 – 3 1 – 3 4 – 0 0 – 0 Croatia  4 – 0 1 – 0 – 1 – 4 3 – 0 2 – 2 England  6 – 0 3 – 0 5 – 1 – 5 – 1 2 – 1 Kazakhstan  3 – 0 1 – 5 1 – 2 0 – 4 – 1 – 3 Ukraine  5 – 0 1 – 0 0 – 0 1 – 0 2 – 1 –

Forthcoming fixtures

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
14 October, 2009	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Croatia
10 October, 2009	World Cup 2010	Minsk	Belarus
9 September, 2009	World Cup 2010	Andorra la Vella	Andorra	Won 3:1	Sergei Khizhnichenko (2), Ruslan Baltiyev
10 June, 2009	World Cup 2010	Kiev	Ukraine	Lost 1:2	Nusserbayev

Recent results

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
6 June, 2009	World Cup 2010	Almaty	England	Lost 0:4
1 April, 2009	WCQ 2010	Almaty	Belarus	Lost 1:5	Abdulin
11 February, 2009	Friendly	Belek	Estonia	Won 2:0	Baltiev (2)
11 October 2008	World Cup 2010	London	England	Lost 1:5	Kukeyev
10 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Ukraine	Lost 1:3	Ostapenko
6 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Zagreb	Croatia	Lost 0:3
20 August 2008	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Andorra	Won 3:0	Ostapenko (2), Uzdenov

External links

• Fan Website (Russian)
• Kazakh's Football (Russian)
• RSSSF (English)
• Transfermarkt.de (German)

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