FC Ekibastuzets

Kazakh football club
Football club
FC Ekibastuzets
Full nameFC Ekibastuzets Ekibastuz
Founded1979; 45 years ago (1979)
GroundShakhtyor Stadium
Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan
Capacity8,500
ChairmanRais Gainullin
ManagerVitaliy Sparyshev
LeagueKazakhstan Premier League
200712th (relegated)
Home colours
Away colours

FK Ekibastuzets Ekibastuz (Kazakh: Fýtbol Klýby Ekibastuz)[1] are a Kazakhstani football club based at the Shakhtyor Stadium in Ekibastuz.

History

Ekibastuzets were founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League.

At the end of the 2007 Premier League, they were relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division as a punishment for Match fixing.[2]

Ekibastuzets

  • 1979 : Founded as Ugolshik
  • 1980 : Renamed Ekibastuzets
  • 1993 : Renamed Batyr
  • 2001 : Renamed Ekibastuzets-NK because of joint with Nasha Kampaniya
  • 2002 : Renamed Ekibastuzets
Kazakhstan Premier LeagueKazakhstan First DivisionKazakhstan Premier LeagueKazakhstan Premier League

Achievements

  • Kazakhstan First Division: 1
2002

Runner-up: Season 1993, 1998

References

  1. ^ In Kazakh language media, also in soviet time, club was named as ″Ekibastuz″
  2. ^ "Околофутбол". www.sports.kz/ (in Russian). sports.kz. 1 January 2008. Retrieved 18 December 2015.