FC Okzhetpes

Okzhetpes

Full name	Football Club Okzhetpes Kokshetau Оқжетпес Көкшетау Футбол Клубы
Founded	1968
Ground	Torpedo Stadium Kokshetau, Kazakhstan (Capacity: 10,000)
Chairman	Saparbek Kakishev
Manager	Syarhyey Hyerasimets
League	Kazakhstan Premier League
2011	Kazakhstan First Division, 2nd (promoted)
Home colours

Football Club Okzhetpes Kokshetau (Kazakh: Оқжетпес Футбол Клубы) are a Kazakhstani football based in the Torpedo Stadium in Kokshetau. The club currently play in the Kazakhstan Premier League.

Although having finished only 9th in the 2008 Kazakhstan Premier League the club gained entry to the first qualifying round of the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa League for the reason of some denied licenses and withdraw of higher placed teams.

Name History

• 1968 : Founded as Torpedo
• 1990 : Renamed Spartak
• 1991 : Renamed Kokshetau
• 1994 : Renamed Kokshe
• 1997 : Renamed Avtomobilist and moved to Shortandy (Astana suburb)
• 1998 : Renamed Khimik and moved to Stepnogorsk
• 1999 : Renamed Akmola
• 2000 : Moved back to Kokshetau
• 2001 : Renamed Esil
• 2004 : Renamed Okzhetpes

Should not be mistaken with the defunct club FC Azhar also based in Kokshetau

Name Origin

The club takes its name from a cliff, Okzhetpes, which means 'an arrow won't reach'. According to fan club president Viktor Kruk:

"[Eighteenth century] Kazakh ruler Ablai Khan could not decide which of his warriors to give a captive girl to and so allowed her to choose a husband for herself. She climbed to the top of the highest cliff and said she would marry whoever hit her shawl with an arrow. Nobody managed it."

League results

Current squad

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

No. Position Player 5 MF Yuri Dyak 35 GK Artyom Kirbyatiev GK Igor Osipchuk GK Ruslan Abzhanov DF Denis Schotkin DF Sergey Grigoryev DF Maksim Zabelin DF Sulei Salybekov (limit) DF Daniil Stasyunas (limit) DF Maksim Chudinov MF Timur Dosmagambetov MF Altynbek Dauletkhanov (limit) MF Aleksandr Ulshin MF Viktor Kozhushko MF Marat Iskulov MF Kuanysh Abdualiyev MF Islam Zhunisbekov

No. Position Player MF Danil Gorda (limit) MF Anton Kuchma (limit) FW Khasan Abdukarimov DF Ihor Chuchman DF Marko Milovanović MF Armand Dubois Yankep DF Yevhen Atayev DF Aleksei Mikhailyuk MF Maksim Chebotar MF Yevhen Shmakov MF Arsen Ablyametov MF Aleksandr Krokhmalyuk FW Oleksandr Sytnik FW Dmitri Gunchenko FW Ruslan Ivashko FW Emil Aliyev

External links

• Official website
• Klisf.info Club statistics