FC Caspiy
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| Full name | Caspiy Football Club | ||
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| Nickname | Sailors | ||
| Founded | 1962, as Trud | ||
| Ground | Zhastar Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 5,000 | ||
| Chairman | Nurtas Kurgulin | ||
| Manager | Piraliy Aliev | ||
| League | Kazakhstan Premier League | ||
| 2025 |  1st in First League (II), promotion | ||
| Website | caspiyfc | ||
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Caspiy Football Club (Kazakh: Футбольный клуб «Каспий») is a Kazakhstani football club based at the Zhastar Stadium in Aktau. The club name derived from Caspian Sea (Kazakh: Каспий теңізі), on whose eastern shore Aktau is located. Their best year was 1996, when they finished 4th in the Premier League and reached the semi-finals of the Kazakhstan Cup. Since 2001, they were stuck in the First Division, until gaining direct promotion to the top division in the 2019 season.
History
[edit]From 1979 – 1991, the team played in the Soviet second league. From 1992 onwards, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, they played in the championship of Kazakhstan. The best achievement – the 4th place in 1996.
Premier league return
[edit]Caspiy returned to the Kazakhstan Premier League for the first time in 19 seasons in 2020, with head coach Srdjan Blagojevic guiding them to a 10th-place finish. The following season, 2021, Blagojevic sealed an 8th-place finish before leaving to join Astana, with Nikolay Kostov being appointed as his replacement on 31 December 2021.[1][2] On April 17, 2023, a Macedonian specialist, Igor Angelovski, was announced as the new head coach.[3]
In 2021, the club rebranded itself, changing the logo, primary club colors, and sports kit.[4]
The top scorer in the club's history, with more than 60 goals (as of April 19, 2022), is the forward, and club alumnus Almas Nurbergenovich Armenov.
Names
[edit]- 1962 : Founded as Trud
- 1990 : The club is renamed Aktau
- 1993 (July) : The club is renamed Munaishy
- 1999 : The club is renamed Aktau
- 2000 : The club is renamed Mangystau
- 2002 : The club is renamed Caspiy
Domestic history
[edit]| Season | League | Kazakhstan Cup | Top goalscorer | Manager | |||||||||
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| Div. | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Name | League | |||
| 1992 | 1st | 15 | 32 | 17 | 3 | 12 | 62 | 46 | 54 | First round |  Eduard Glazunov |
19 | Degtyarov Alexander |
| 1993 | 1st | 20 | 48 | 23 | 5 | 20 | 84 | 77 | 74 | First round | Erkin Sultanov |
20 | |
| 1994 | 2nd | 1 | 36 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 62 | 23 | 92 | Semi-final | |||
| 1995 | 1st | 16 | 30 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 15 | 107 | 8 | Last 16 | |||
| 1996 | 1st | 4 | 34 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 54 | 26 | 63 | Semi-final | Eduard Glazunov |
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| 1997 | Non League | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | 2nd | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | ||||
| 1999 | 2nd | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | ||||
| 2000 | 2nd | 2 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 21 | ||||
| 2001 | 1st | 17 | 32 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 16 | 59 | 15 | Last 16 | Erlan Urazaev |
5 | Vladimir Fomichev |
| 2002 | 2nd | 6 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 30 | Quarter-final | |||
| 2003 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 33 | 21 | 37 | First round | |||
| 2004 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 50 | 17 | 53 | First round | |||
| 2005 | 2nd (SW) | 5 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 17 | 36 | First round | Fedor Siminidi |
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| 2006 | 2nd (SW) | 2 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 63 | 20 | 60 | First round | Talgat Sabalakov |
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| 2007 | 2nd (SW) | 3 | 26 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 23 | 43 | First round | Sergey Gridin |
13 | |
| 2008 | 2nd | 9 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 42 | 55 | 34 | First round | |||
| 2009 | 2nd | 10 | 26 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 40 | 23 | First round | Anvarbek Sanbaev | ||
| 2010 | 2nd | 16 | 34 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 40 | 79 | 20 | Second round | Erlan Murlikhanov |
6 | Mels Kushanov |
| 2011 | 2nd | 12 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 42 | 37 | First round | Almas Armenov |
9 | Baurzhan Baimukhammedov |
| 2012 | 2nd | 8 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 31 | 40 | First round | Almas Armenov |
8 |  Radostin Dimov |
| 2013 | 2nd | 5 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 54 | 31 | 65 | Second round | Igor Abdusheev |
15 | Igor Prokhnitskiy |
| 2014 | 2nd | 4 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 26 | 51 | First round | Almas Armenov |
13 | Igor Prokhnitskiy |
| 2015 | 2nd | 5 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 35 | 18 | 43 | First round | Vladimir Vyatkin |
9 | Kairat Aimanov |
| 2016 | 2nd | 4 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 38 | 29 | 43 | Second round | Almas Armenov |
7 | Kairat Aimanov / Askar Kushikbaev |
| 2017 | 2nd | 8 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 36 | 15 | First round |  Moussa Limane |
7 | Askar Kushikbaev |
| 2018 | 2nd | 11 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 65 | 16 | First round |  Branko Čubrilo |
5 | Askar Keldjanov / Ivan Pudar |
| 2019 | 2nd | 2 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 48 | 21 | 56 | Last 16 | Aidos Tattybaev |
19 |  Sava Kovačević |
| 2020 | 1st | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 34 | 17 | - |  Billal Sebaihi |
4 |  Srdjan Blagojevic |
| 2021 | 1st | 8 | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 32 | Quarterfinal |  David Karayev |
6 | Srdjan Blagojevic |
| 2022 | 1st | 9 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 26 | 42 | 31 | Group Stage |  Ruan Teles |
6 | Nikolay Kostov |
| 2023 | 1st | 13 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 28 | 44 | 20 | Round of 16 |  Giorgi Pantsulaia |
6 | Kakhaber Tskhadadze /  Igor Angelovski / Konstantin Gorovenko |
| 2024 | 2nd | 3 | 28 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 63 | 29 | 58 | Group Stage | Bagdaulet Konlimkos |
8 | Konstantin Gorovenko/ Kuanysh Kabdulov |
| 2025 | 2nd | 1 | 26 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 74 | 27 | 68 | Round of 16 | Miras Turlybek |
23 | Esatov Ruslan |
Current squad
[edit]- As of 2 July, 2026[5]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
[edit]- Kazakhstan First Division (2): 1994, 2025
- Kazakh SSR Top League (1): 1978
- Kazakh SSR Cup (3): 1964, 1977, 1978
References
[edit]- ↑ "Официально: Срджан Благоевич – главный тренер Астаны". fcastana.kz/ (in Russian). FC Astana. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ↑ "Николай Костов – "Каспий" футбол клубының жаңа бас бапкері атанды". vk.com/caspiyfc (in Kazakh). Caspiy FC VK. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ↑ Фидан, Коминовски (17 April 2023). "Igor Angelovski is the new coach of Caspian from Kazakhstan". Слободен Печат.
- ↑ "МФК «Каспий» представил новый логотип и заявил об амбициозных планах". Prosports (in Russian). 6 September 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ↑ "Футбольный клуб "Каспий"". pflk.kz/ (in Russian). dsf sdf. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
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