FC Atyrau

Football club infobox
clubname = FC Atyrau


fullname = Football Club Atyrau
Атырау Футбол Клубы
nickname = Oilers
founded = 1980
ground = Munayshy Stadium
Atyrau, Kazakhstan
capacity = 9,000
chairman = flagicon|KAZ Zheksenbai Kusainov
manager = flagicon|RUS Sergey Andreyev
league = Kazakhstan Premier League
season = 2007
position = 14th
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FC Atyrau ( _kk. Атырау Футбол Клубы) are a Kazakhstani football club based at the Munayshy Stadium in Atyrau. They are current members of the Kazakhstan Premier League, having been promoted in 2001, and have played in the top division for the last six seasons. In that time they have twice been league runners-up (2001 and 2002). Recently as a result of financial problems the club almost suffered relegation in 2006.

Name History

*1980 : Founded as "Prikaspiets"
*2000 : Renamed "Akzhayik"
*2001 : Renamed "Atyrau"

League results

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from:01/07/1991 till:01/07/1992 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1992 till:01/07/1993 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1993 till:01/07/1994 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1994 till:01/07/1995 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1995 till:01/07/1996 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1996 till:01/07/1997 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1997 till:01/07/1998 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1998 till:01/07/1999 shift:(0,-4) text: from:01/07/1999 till:01/07/2000 shift:(0,-4) text:4 from:01/07/2000 till:01/07/2001 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/2001 till:01/07/2002 shift:(0,-4) text:2 from:01/07/2002 till:01/07/2003 shift:(0,-4) text:4 from:01/07/2003 till:01/07/2004 shift:(0,-4) text:5 from:01/07/2004 till:01/07/2005 shift:(0,-4) text:10 from:01/07/2005 till:01/07/2006 shift:(0,-4) text:14 from:01/07/2006 till:01/07/2007 shift:(0,-4) text:14

from:01/07/1991 till:01/07/1999 color:rs shift:(0,13) text: "Non League" from:01/07/1999 till:01/07/2000 color:bl2 shift:(0,13) text: "D1" from:01/07/2000 till:01/07/2008 color:bl1 shift:(0,13) text: "Premier League"

European Stage

Atyrau has twice entered the qualifying stages of UEFA Cup, but were elminiated by FK Matador Púchov of Slovakia in 2002 and Levski Sofia Bulgaria in 2003.

Notes: Home matches in bold

Current squad

July, 2008 [ [http://fcatyrau.kz/news/2008-03-21-15 Club website] Squad 2008] Fs player|no=31|nat=Serbia|name=Goran Bošković|pos=DF "(captain)"

_{(1) Players having also Kazakhstan citizenship
(2) Players having also Russian citizenship}

Reserve team

Players under 21

Transfers

In

Out

External links

* [http://fcatyrau.kz/ Official site]
* [http://www.fcatyrau.ucoz.kz/ Not Official site]

ee also

* Kazakhstan football clubs in European cups

References