Kazakhstan national football team

Kazakhstan
Association	Football Federation of Kazakhstan
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Bernd Storck (caretaker)
Captain	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev
Most caps	Ruslan Baltiev (64)
Top scorer	Viktor Zubarev (12)
Home stadium	Almaty Central Stadium
FIFA code	KAZ
FIFA ranking	137
Highest FIFA ranking	98 (December 2001)
Lowest FIFA ranking	166 (May 1996)
Elo ranking	123
	Home colours
	Away colours
First international
	Kazakhstan 1 - 0 Turkmenistan ; (Almaty, Kazakhstan; June 1, 1992)
Biggest win
	Pakistan 0 - 7 Kazakhstan ; (Lahore, Pakistan; June 11, 1997)
Biggest defeat
	Kazakhstan 0 - 6 Turkey ; (Almaty, Kazakhstan; June 8, 2005); Russia 6 - 0 Kazakhstan ; (Moscow, Russia; May 23, 2008)

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The Kazakhstan national football team is the national football team of Kazakhstan and is controlled by the Football Federation of Kazakhstan. After gaining independence, they played their first match against Turkmenistan on June 1, 1992. The team was originally a member of AFC but switched to UEFA in 2002.

[edit] World Cup record

1930 to 1994 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify (Two as AFC Member)

[edit] European Championship record

1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1996 to 2004 - Did not enter, was not member of UEFA until 2002
2008 - Did not qualify

[edit] Asian Nations Cup record

1956 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1996 to 2000 - Did not qualify

2004 onwards - Did not enter, no longer member of AFC

[edit] Coaches

Manager	Period	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win %
Bakhtiar Baiseitov	1992	7	4	3	0	57.14%
Baurzhan Baimukhammedov	1994	4	1	2	1	25%
Serik Berdalin	1995-1997	20	6	4	10	30%
Sergei Gorokhovadatskiy	1998	5	2	1	2	40%
Voit Talgaev	2000	9	5	0	4	55.56%
Vladimir Fomichev (caretaker)	2000	1	0	0	1	0%
Vakhid Masudov	2001-2002	9	4	4	1	44.44%
Leonid Pakhomov	2003-2004	9	0	2	7	0%
Sergey Timofeev	2004-2005	13	0	1	12	0%
Arno Pijpers	2006-2008	33	6	11	16	18%
Bernd Storck (caretaker)	2008-

[edit] Current squad

The following members were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification against Ukraine on September 10, 2008. Caps and goals as of September 10, 2008.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	David Loria	October 31, 1981 (1981-10-31) (age 27)	34	0	Shakhter
18	GK	Aleksandr Mokin	June 19, 1981 (1981-06-19) (age 27)	4	0	Astana

2	DF	Egor Azovskiy	January 10, 1985 (1985-01-10) (age 23)	22	0	Astana
3	DF	Aleksandr Kuchma	December 9, 1980 (1980-12-09) (age 28)	36	2	Astana
4	DF	Maksim Zhalmagambetov	July 11, 1983 (1983-07-11) (age 25)	29	0	Astana
5	DF	Farkhadbek Irismetov	August 10, 1981 (1981-08-10) (age 27)	29	0	Tobol
12	DF	Kairat Nurdauletov	November 6, 1982 (1982-11-06) (age 26)	13	1	Tobol
13	DF	Samat Smakov	December 8, 1978 (1978-12-08) (age 30)	55	1	Aktobe

6	MF	Andrei Karpovich	January 18, 1981 (1981-01-18) (age 27)	38	2	Dynamo Moscow
7	MF	Ulugbek Asanbaev	September 13, 1979 (1979-09-13) (age 29)	6	0	Aktobe
8	MF	Sergei Skorykh	May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) (age 24)	18	0	Tobol
10	MF	Ruslan Baltiev	September 16, 1978 (1978-09-16) (age 30)	67	10	Tobol
11	MF	Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev (C)	May 11, 1981 (1981-05-11) (age 27)	47	5	Tobol
16	MF	Maksat Baizhanov	August 6, 1984 (1984-08-06) (age 24)	10	0	Kaisar
17	MF	Nikita Khokhlov	October 27, 1983 (1983-10-27) (age 25)	17	0	Aktobe

9	FW	Tanat Nusserbayev	January 1, 1988 (1988-01-01) (age 21)	1	0	Ordabasy
7	FW	Sergei Ostapenko	February 23, 1986 (1986-02-23) (age 22)	16	4	Almaty
14	FW	Roman Uzdenov	March 10, 1979 (1979-03-10) (age 29)	5	2	Atyrau
15	FW	Murat Tleshev	April 11, 1980 (1980-04-11) (age 28)	8	1	Irtysh

[edit] Recent Call-ups

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Caps	Goals	Club
11	MF	Dmitriy Byakov	April 9, 1978 (1978-04-09) (age 30)	33	8	Shakhter (WCQ v Croatia, September 6)
15	MF	Anton Chichulin	October 27, 1984 (1984-10-27) (age 24)	22	1	Astana (WCQ v Croatia, September 6)
	FW	Murat Suyumagambetov	October 14, 1983 (1983-10-14) (age 25)	18	3	Shakhter (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	GK	Aleksandr Petukhov	January 11, 1985 (1985-01-11) (age 23)	0	0	Tobol (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	DF	Egor Azovskiy	January 10, 1985 (1985-01-10) (age 23)	21	0	Astana (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	DF	Aleksandr Kislitsyn	March 8, 1986 (1986-03-08) (age 22)	0	0	Shakhter (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	MF	Zhambyl Kukeev	September 20, 1988 (1988-09-20) (age 20)	11	0	Almaty (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	MF	Kairat Ashirbekov	October 21, 1982 (1982-10-21) (age 26)	16	2	Shakhter (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	MF	Sergei Skorykh	May 25, 1984 (1984-05-25) (age 24)	16	0	Tobol (v. Montenegro on May 27)
	MF	Ali Aliyev	October 27, 1980 (1980-10-27) (age 28)	2	0	Kayseri Erciyesspor (v. Russia on May 23)
	MF	Yuri Logvinenko	July 22, 1988 (1988-07-22) (age 20)	1	0	Aktobe (v. Russia on May 23)
	MF	Sabyrkhan Ibraev	August 22, 1988 (1988-08-22) (age 20)	1	0	Tobol (v. Russia on May 23)
	MF	Andrei Travin	April 27, 1979 (1979-04-27) (age 29)	19	0	Vostok (v. Azerbaijan on February 3)
	FW	Denis Rodionov	July 26, 1985 (1985-07-26) (age 23)	12	1	Almaty (v. Moldova on February 6)
	GK	Denis Tolebaev	July 2, 1987 (1987-07-02) (age 21)	0	0	Kairat
	DF	Dmitriy Lyapkin	September 16, 1976 (1976-09-16) (age 32)	15	0	Baltika
	DF	Kairat Utabayev	July 16, 1980 (1980-07-16) (age 28)	10	0	Megasport
	MF	Anton Chichulin	October 27, 1984 (1984-10-27) (age 24)	21	1	Astana
	MF	Eduard Sergienko	February 18, 1983 (1983-02-18) (age 25)	19	0	Shakhter
	FW	Andrei Finonchenko	June 21, 1982 (1982-06-21) (age 26)	11	3	Shakhter

[edit] Famous past players

Oleg Voskoboynikov (1992-2000)
Viktor Zubarev (1997-2002)
Peter Neustädter (1996)
Oleg Litvinenko (1996-2006)
Vladimir Niederhaus (1992-2000)

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	4	4	0	0	14	3	+11	12
Croatia	4	2	1	1	8	4	+4	7
Ukraine	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Belarus	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
Kazakhstan	4	1	0	3	5	11	−6	3
Andorra	4	0	0	4	1	12	−11	0


Andorra	–	1 – 3	1 Apr	0 – 2	9 Sep	14 Oct
Belarus	6 Jun	–	12 Aug	1 – 3	10 Oct	9 Sep
Croatia	4 – 0	5 Sep	–	1 – 4	3 – 0	6 Jun
England	10 Jun	14 Oct	9 Sep	–	5 – 1	1 Apr
Kazakhstan	3 – 0	1 Apr	14 Oct	6 Jun	–	1 – 3
Ukraine	5 Sep	1 – 0	0 – 0	10 Oct	10 Jun	–

[edit] Forthcoming fixtures

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers
	1 April 2009	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Belarus

[edit] Recent results

Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Result	Scorers

11 October 2008	World Cup 2010	London	England	Lost 1:5	Kukeyev
10 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Ukraine	Lost 1:3	Ostapenko
6 September 2008	World Cup 2010	Zagreb	Croatia	Lost 0:3
20 August 2008	World Cup 2010	Almaty	Andorra	Won 3:0	Ostapenko (x2), Uzdenov
27 May 2008	Friendly	Podgorica	Montenegro	Lost 0:3
23 May 2008	Friendly	Moscow	Russia	Lost 0:6
26 March 2008	Friendly	Rotterdam	Armenia	Lost 0:1
6 February 2008	Friendly	Antalya	Moldova	Lost 0:1
3 February 2008	Friendly	Antalya	Azerbaijan	Drew 0:0
24 November 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Belgrade	Serbia	Lost 0:1
21 November 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Yerevan	Armenia	Won 1:0	Ostapenko
17 October 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Almaty	Portugal	Lost 1:2	Byakov
13 October 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Warsaw	Poland	Lost 1:3	Byakov
12 September 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Almaty	Belgium	Drew 2:2	Byakov, Smakov
8 September 2007	Friendly	Almaty	Tajikistan	Drew 1:1	Nurdauletov
22 August 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Tampere	Finland	Lost 1:2	Byakov
6 June 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Almaty	Azerbaijan	Drew 1:1	Baltiev
2 June 2007	Euro 2008 Qualifying	Almaty	Armenia	Lost 1:2	Baltiev