FC Turkestan () was a Kazakh

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 that was based in

Shymkent Shymkent (, ; ) is a city in southern Kazakhstan, located near the border with Uzbekistan. It holds the status of a city of republican significance, one of only three cities in Kazakhstan with this distinction, alongside Almaty and Astana. As of ...

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 ...

. They were members of the

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 (, ''Q ...

in 2005, but were not able to finish that season due to financial reasons.Lyakhov.kz: Season 2005

History

Names

*1990 : Founded as ''Montazhnik'' *1993 : Renamed ''Yassy'' *2003 : Renamed ''Yassy-Rakhat'' *2004 : Renamed ''Yassy-Sayram'' *2005 : Renamed ''Yassy'' *2023 : Renamed ''Turkestan''

Honours

(1):

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

References

External links

Lyakhov.kz: Club info, 2004
Yassi, FC 1992 establishments in Kazakhstan {{Kazakhstan-footyclub-stub