FC Kyzylzhar () is a
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...
i
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club, playing in the Kazakh city of
Petropavl
Petropavl ( ; ) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia. It is the capital of the North Kazakhstan Region. Population: 218,956.
Petropavl is about from Kökşetau, northwest of the national cap ...
at the
Karasai Stadium
Karasai Stadium (, ''Karasaı stadıony''), previously known as Avangard Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Petropavl, Kazakhstan. It is currently used mostly for football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degr ...
. They are founding members of the
Kazakhstan Premier League
The Kazakhstan Professional Football League (, ''Qazaqstan Premier Ligasy''), commonly referred to as the Kazakh Premier League or simply the Premier League, is a professional association football league in Kazakhstan and the highest level of the ...
. Kyzylzhar is the name of a district in the city. They are two time runners-up of the Premier league (1999 and 2000).
History
Names
*1968 : Founded as ''Avangard''
*1970 : Renamed ''Metallist''
*1979 : Renamed ''Avangard''
*1990 : Renamed ''Metallist''
*1998 : Renamed ''Yesil''
*1999 : Renamed ''Aksess-Yesil''
*2000 : Renamed ''Aksess-Golden Greyn''
*2001 : Renamed ''Yesil-Bogatyr''
*2009 : Renamed ''Kyzylzhar''
Domestic history
European history
;Notes
* QR: Qualifying round
Current squad
External links
*
Web-page "V Contacte"(archived 26 June 2016)
Return of "bogatyrs" or as football became a religion in PetropavlovskOld fan's siteOld unofficial site
References
{{Kazakhstan Premier League
Kyzylzhar, FC
Kyzylzhar
1968 establishments in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic