FC Elimai () is a Kazakh professional

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club based in

Semey Semey (; , formerly known as Semipalatinsk ( ) until 2007 and as Alash-Qala ( ) from 1917 to 1920, is a city in eastern Kazakhstan, in the Kazakh part of Siberia. When Abai Region was created in 2022, Semey became its administrative centre. I ...

. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, then named ''Elimai Semey'' (or simply "Elimai"), they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998. They are currently in Premier League.

History

The club's predecessor is the Soviet team of masters of the local brick factory in

, hence the name Tsementnik (cement producer). The team of masters spent some 28 seasons in the

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(Class B). Following the

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, in the mid 1990s the club became one of the leaders of the Kazakhstani championship as Elimai . Yelim-Ai (or Elim-ay) is the name of a historic poem of Kazakh people. FC Elimai most recently won the Kazakh league while the

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were AFC affiliates. After Kazakhstan switched to

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affiliation, Elimai were relegated to the second-tier

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. After the merger of former Semey Province into East Kazakhstan Province in 1997, the city of

was no longer a province capital. Thus, all financial support from the former province went to

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, the current province capital.

Names

*1964 : Founded as ''Tsementnik'' *1971 : Renamed ''Spartak'' *1994 : Renamed ''Elimai'' *1999 : Renamed ''AES-Elimai'' *2001 : Renamed ''Elimai'' *2004 : Renamed ''Semey'' *2008 : Renamed ''Spartak'' *2016 : ''merger (along with

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) into FC Altai'' *2022 : Reestablished anew ''Elimai''

Domestic history

Continental history

¹ Elimai Semey withdrew after the 1st leg.

Current squad

Out on loan

Honours

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 ...

(3):

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Kazakhstan Cup The Kazakhstan Cup is the main Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in Kazakhstan Football (soccer), football, run by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. The tournament was initially founded in 1936 as a competition for club ...

(1): 1995

Notes

External links

* {{Kazakhstan Premier League teamlist Elimai, FC 1964 establishments in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic Association football clubs established in 1964 Semey