Kazakhstan national football team

Kazakhstan

Association	Football Federation of Kazakhstan
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Miroslav Beranek
Captain	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev
Most caps	Ruslan Baltiev (73)
Top scorer	Ruslan Baltiev (13)
Home stadium	Astana Arena
FIFA code	KAZ
FIFA ranking	129
Highest FIFA ranking	98 (December 2001)
Lowest FIFA ranking	166 (May 1996)
Elo ranking	130
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 represents Kazakhstan in international men's association football and is directed by Football Federation of Kazakhstan. They split from the Soviet Union national football team after independence in 1991 and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and South Asian Football Federation. After failing to qualify for the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup they joined UEFA, but are yet to qualify for a World Cup or UEFA European Championship.

Since 2011 they have been managed by Miroslav Baranek from the Czech Republic.

History

AFC Member (1992-2002)

First Match

The country of Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union on 16 December 1991. Its national team then split from the Soviet Union national football team (a UEFA member) and joined the Asian Football Confederation's Central and South Asian Football Federation.

The team played their first match against another former-Soviet debutant, Turkmenistan, on 1 June, 1992, as part of a Central Asian Tournament. Kazakhstan won 1-0. The tournament also saw the footballing debuts of Uzbekistan, Kyrgystan and Tajikistan.

1998 World Cup Qualification

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kazakhstan	4	4	0	0	15	2	13	12
2	Iraq	4	2	0	2	14	8	6	6
3	Pakistan	4	0	0	4	3	22	-19	0

Kazakhstan entered qualification for the first time, in the attempt to reach the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In the first round they were placed in Group 9 alongside Pakistan and Iraq. Kazakhstan's first qualifying match was won 3-0 at home in Almaty on 11 May 1997, against Pakistan. On 6 June they travelled to Baghdad to face Iraq and won 2-1, then five days later won an away match against Pakistan, 7-0 in Lahore. The result in Lahore remains Kazakhstan's biggest-ever international win. They retained the 100% start to World Cup football by beating Iraq at home 3-1 on 29 June.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	South Korea	8	6	1	1	19	7	12	19
2	Japan	8	3	4	1	17	9	8	13
3	United Arab Emirates	8	2	3	3	9	12	-3	9
4	Uzbekistan	8	1	3	4	13	18	-5	6
5	Kazakhstan	8	1	3	4	7	19	-12	6

In the second and final round of qualification, Kazakhstan came last in the group. Their only victory was on 18 October 1997, when they beat the United Arab Emirates 3-0 at home. Kazakhstan drew three other games - all at home (versus Uzbekistan, Japan and South Korea).

2002 World Cup Qualification

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iraq	6	4	2	0	28	5	+23	14
Kazakhstan	6	4	2	0	20	2	+18	14
Nepal	6	2	0	4	13	25	−12	6
Macau	6	0	0	6	2	31	−29	0

In the first round of Asian qualifying, Kazakhstan were placed in Group 6 alongside Iraq, Nepal and Macau. All games in the group were to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after Nepal failed to organise matches in Kathmandu in March 2001. After an Iraqi protest, the first three games by each team were moved to Baghdad, Iraq.

Kazakhstan started off well in Baghdad by beating Nepal 6-0 with two goals by Oleg Litvinenko on 12 April, and Macau 3-0 two days later. On 16 April they held Iraq to a 1-1 draw in front of 50,000. Ruslan Baltiev put the Kazakhs in front in the 6th minute and Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail equalised with a penalty in the 31st.

In Almaty Central Stadium, Kazakhstan beat Nepal 3-0 with two goals by Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko on 21 April. Two days later they beat Macau 5-0, Dmitriy Byakov and Igor Avdeyev scored two each after a goalless first half. The final game on 25 April saw a 1-1 draw against Iraq in front of 25,000. Litvinenko put Kazakhstan ahead in the 32nd but Iraq equalised ten minutes later. Despite being level on points, Iraq advanced on goal difference mainly due to a 9-1 victory over Nepal.

UEFA Member (2002-)

Kazakhstan joined UEFA in 2002. They had to wait until the 2002 FIFA World Cup finished on 30 June before making the switch, as they had entered the tournament as an AFC member. Kazakhstan therefore could not enter qualification for UEFA Euro 2004, as the draw had been made on 25 January. The team played UEFA opposition for the first time on 14 November 2001, and drew 0-0 away to Estonia. ^[1]

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)

UEFA European Championship record

• To 2004 – Not a member of UEFA
• 2008 to 2012 – Did not qualify

AFC Asian Cup record

• 1956 to 1992 – Did not enter, was part of USSR (UEFA member)
• 1996 to 2000 – Did not qualify
• 2004 onwards – Did not enter, no longer member of AFC

Coaches

after October 11, 2011

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	2008–2010	9	2	0	7	22.22%
Miroslav Beranek	2011–	8	1	3	4	12.50%

Current squad

Players called up for the matches against Belgium on 7 October 2011 and Austria on 11 October 2011. Caps and goals are correct as of October 11, 2011.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Andrei Gennadyevich Sidelnikov August 30, 1980 (1980-08-30) (age 31) 8 0 Aktobe 12 GK Anton Tsirin August 10, 1987 (1987-08-10) (age 24) 1 0 Irtysh 22 GK Vladimir Loginovskiy October 8, 1985 (1985-10-08) (age 26) 1 0 Zhetysu 2 DF Aleksandr Kirov June 4, 1984 (1984-06-04) (age 27) 18 0 Shakhter Karagandy 4 DF Mukhtar Mukhtarov January 6, 1986 (1986-01-06) (age 25) 8 0 Ordabasy 5 DF Mark Gurman February 9, 1989 (1989-02-09) (age 22) 4 0 Astana 6 DF Kairat Nurdauletov November 6, 1982 (1982-11-06) (age 29) 21 2 Astana 18 DF Nurtas Kurgulin September 20, 1986 (1986-09-20) (age 25) 1 0 Taraz 21 DF Mikhail Rozhkov December 27, 1983 (1983-12-27) (age 27) 10 0 Astana DF Yuri Logvinenko July 22, 1988 (1988-07-22) (age 23) 13 0 Aktobe DF Dmitri Yevstigneyev November 27, 1986 (1986-11-27) (age 24) 0 0 Taraz 7 MF Zhambyl Kukeev September 20, 1988 (1988-09-20) (age 23) 24 2 Shakhter Karagandy 8 MF Andrei Karpovich January 18, 1981 (1981-01-18) (age 30) 51 3 Astana 9 MF Heinrich Schmidtgal November 20, 1985 (1985-11-20) (age 26) 6 0 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 10 MF Marat Khairullin April 26, 1984 (1984-04-26) (age 27) 5 0 Aktobe 13 MF Serikzhan Muzhikov June 17, 1989 (1989-06-17) (age 22) 4 0 Zhetysu 14 MF Marat Shakhmetov February 6, 1989 (1989-02-06) (age 22) 4 0 Astana 16 MF Azat Nurgaliev July 1, 1987 (1987-07-01) (age 24) 12 0 Ordabasy 23 MF Vitali Yevstigneyev August 8, 1985 (1985-08-08) (age 26) 3 1 Ordabasy MF Ulan Konysbayev May 28, 1989 (1989-05-28) (age 22) 6 1 Shakhter Karagandy MF Kazbek Geteriev June 30, 1985 (1985-06-30) (age 26) 5 0 Alania 15 FW Daurenbek Tazhimbetov July 2, 1985 (1985-07-02) (age 26) 1 0 Ordabasy 17 FW Sergey Gridin May 20, 1987 (1987-05-20) (age 24) 6 2 Tobol 19 FW Sergei Khizhnichenko July 17, 1991 (1991-07-17) (age 20) 14 3 Shakhter Karagandy 20 FW Sergei Ostapenko February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 25) 30 6 Zhetysu FW Tanat Nuserbayev January 1, 1987 (1987-01-01) (age 24) 9 1 Astana

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the Kazakhstan squad in 2011.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club GK David Loria October 31, 1981 (1981-10-31) (age 30) 38 0 Irtysh GK Aleksandr Mokin June 19, 1981 (1981-06-19) (age 30) 13 0 Shakhter Karagandy GK Roman Nesterenko March 22, 1977 (1977-03-22) (age 34) 2 0 Ordabasy DF Samat Smakov February 28, 1978 (1978-02-28) (age 33) 59 1 Aktobe DF Farkhadbek Irismetov August 10, 1981 (1981-08-10) (age 30) 35 0 Ordabasy DF Rinat Abdulin April 14, 1982 (1982-04-14) (age 29) 18 1 Vostok DF Aleksandr Kislitsyn March 8, 1986 (1986-03-08) (age 25) 14 0 Tobol DF Aleksei Popov July 7, 1978 (1978-07-07) (age 33) 4 0 Amkar Perm DF Vladislav Chernyshov March 16, 1981 (1981-03-16) (age 30) 2 0 Irtysh Pavlodar DF Sergei Karimov December 21, 1986 (1986-12-21) (age 24) 1 0 MSV Duisburg MF Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev May 11, 1981 (1981-05-11) (age 30) 54 6 Astana MF Sergei Skorykh May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) (age 27) 28 0 Zhetysu MF Anton Chichulin November 27, 1984 (1984-11-27) (age 26) 24 1 Aktobe MF Maksim Azovskiy June 4, 1986 (1986-06-04) (age 25) 16 0 Astana MF Maksat Baizhanov August 6, 1984 (1984-08-06) (age 27) 13 0 Shakhter Karagandy MF Evgeniy Averchenko April 6, 1982 (1982-04-06) (age 29) 9 0 Aktobe MF Dmitriy Shomko March 19, 1990 (1990-03-19) (age 21) 1 0 Astana MF Aslan Darabayev January 21, 1989 (1989-01-21) (age 22) 0 0 Aktobe FW Andrei Finonchenko June 21, 1982 (1982-06-21) (age 29) 15 2 Shakhter Karagandy FW Sergei Lisenkov June 17, 1991 (1991-06-17) (age 20) 0 0 Aktobe

2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6

Teamv · 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 –

Euro 2012 qualifications

Kazakhstan competed in the Group A in qualification for UEFA Euro 2012, along with Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, and Azerbaijan. They finished last in the group with one win and one draw.

Teamv · d · e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Germany 10 10 0 0 34 7 +27 30  Turkey 10 5 2 3 13 11 +2 17  Belgium 10 4 3 3 21 15 +6 15  Austria 10 3 3 4 16 17 −1 12  Azerbaijan 10 2 1 7 10 26 −16 7  Kazakhstan 10 1 1 8 6 24 −18 4

Austria  — 3–0 0–2 1–2 2–0 0–0 Azerbaijan  1–4 — 1–1 1–3 3–2 1–0 Belgium  4–4 4–1 — 0–1 4–1 1–1 Germany  6–2 6–1 3–1 — 4–0 3–0 Kazakhstan  0–0 2–1 0–2 0–3 — 0–3 Turkey  2–0 1–0 3–2 1–3 2–1 —

Fixtures

Upcoming

Recently played

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
11 October, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Astana	Austria	0–0
7 October, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Brussels	Belgium	1–4	Kairat Nurdauletov (86') (pen.), Vitali Yevstigneyev (o.g.)
6 September, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Baku	Azerbaijan	2–3	Sergei Ostapenko (20'), Vitali Yevstigneyev (77')
2 September, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Istanbul	Turkey	1–2	Ulan Konysbayev (55')
10 August, 2011	International Friendly	Astana	Syria	1–1
3 June, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Astana	Azerbaijan	2–1	Sergey Gridin (2 goals)
26 March, 2011	UEFA Euro 2012	Kaiserslautern	Germany	0–4
9 February, 2011	International Friendly	Antalya	Belarus	1–1	Sergey Ostapenko (90')
12 October, 2010	UEFA Euro 2012	Astana	Germany	0–3
8 October, 2010	UEFA Euro 2012	Astana	Belgium	0–2
7 September, 2010	UEFA Euro 2012	Salzburg	Austria	0–2
3 September, 2010	UEFA Euro 2012	Astana	Turkey	0–3
11 August, 2010	International Friendly	Astana	Oman	3–1	Andrei Karpovich, Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev, Ismail Al-Ajmi (o.g.)

References

1. ^ http://rsssf.com/tablesk/kaz-intres.html

External links

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