Football Club Caspiy ( kk, Каспий Ақтау Футбол Клубы, ''Kaspıı Aqtaý Fýtbol Klýby'') is a
Kazakhstan
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football club based at the
Zhastar Stadium in
Aktau
Aktau ( kk, Aqtau, Ақтау , russian: Актау) is a city in Kazakhstan, located on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Its current name means "white mountain" in Kazakh, which may be due to its cliffs that overlook the Caspian. From 1964 to ...
. The club name derived from
Caspian Sea
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( kk, Каспий теңізі). Their best year was 1996, when they finished 4th in the
Premier League
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and reached the semi-finals of the
Kazakhstan Cup
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; kk, Қазақ Сов ...
. Since 2001, they were stuck in the First Division, until gaining direct promotion to the top division in the 2019 season.
History
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
Caspiy returned to the
Kazakhstan Premier League
The Kazakhstan Professional Football League ( kk, Қазақстан Премьер Лигасы, ''Qazaqstan Premer Ligasy''), commonly referred to as Kazakh Premier League or simply Premier League, is the top division of football in Kazakhstan ...
for the first time in 19 seasons in
2020
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, 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
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The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...
, with
Nikolay Kostov being appointed as his replacement on 31 December 2021.
Names
*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
Current squad
Honours
*
Kazakhstan First Division
The Kazakhstan First Division is the second division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Union of Kazakhstan and feeds into the Kazakhstan Premier League
The Kazakhstan Professional Football League ( kk, Қа ...
(1):
1994
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Kazakh SSR Top League (1):
1978
*
Kazakh SSR Cup (3):
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
,
1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrati ...
,
1978
References
External links
fccaspy.kz{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326115441/http://www.fccaspy.kz/ , date=26 March 2012 Official site
Caspiy
Aktau
1962 establishments in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic