- FC Kairat
Football club infobox
clubname = FC Kairat Almaty
fullname = Football Club Kairat Almaty
Қайрат Алматы Футбол Клубы
nickname =
founded = 1952
ground = Central Stadium
Almaty ,Kazakhstan
capacity = 25,057
chairman = flagicon|Kazakhstan Erlan Adambekov
manager = flagicon|KazakhstanVakhid Masudov
league =Kazakhstan Premier League
season = 2007
position = 13th
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leftarm1=FFFFFF|body1=FFFFFF|rightarm1=FFFFFF|shorts1=FFFFFF|socks1=FFFFFFFC Kairat Almaty ( _kk. Қайрат Алматы Футбол Клубы) is a Kazakh football club, playing in
Almaty Central Stadium ,Almaty .Like many clubs in the
Soviet Union they went through a number of name changes in their history. They were known Dinamo Almaty when founded in 1952, before changing in 1954 to Lokomotiv Almaty, and later Urozhai Almaty, before settling on Kairat. They were the leading Kazakh team during the Soviet era, the only ever club to compete at theSoviet Top League , and to win theSoviet First League (second tier of competition) in both 1976 and 1983. The team achieved an all time high Soviet Super League finish of 7th in 1986 and altogether spent 24 seasons in the Soviet top division, a record for a Central Asian team. During the existence of the USSR Kairat Almaty was a part of the Voluntary Sports Society Kairat.The club also has a highly successful
Futsal teamAFC Kairat , who has been Kazakh champions in 2003-2008 seasons and reached semi-finals ofUEFA Futsal Cup in 2005-06 and 2007-08 seasons.European stage
FC Kairat Almaty was the first Soviet Team to win a European Cup. It happened in 1971 in Almaty, when Kairat beat
FC Rapid Bucharest with 2-1 and clinched European Railworks Cup, a defunct club tournament now. After theFootball Union of Kazakhstan joinedUEFA , Kairat played in qualifying rounds of European cups three times, but never progressed a single round.External links
* [http://www.fc-kairat.kz Official site]
* [http://www.kairatfans.ucoz.ru Unofficial fans site] South Cross, founded in 1987
* [http://www.klisf.info/numeric/index.app?cmd=comm&lang=ru&id=39704612343876611527013609864 All time statistics]References
ee also
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Kazakhstan football clubs in European cups
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