The 2010 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 19th season of the
Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
league competition in
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
. It started on 22 March 2010 and the regular season ended on 14 August 2010. The playoff rounds began on 22 August 2010 and ended on 6 November 2010.
Aktobe
Aktobe ( kz, Ақтөбе, Aqtöbe; russian: Актобе, Aktobe) is a city on the Ilek River in Kazakhstan. It is the administrative center of Aktobe Region. In 2020, it had a population of 500,757 people.
Aktobe is located in the west of K ...
are the defending champions, having won their fourth league title in five seasons and their third in a row
last season.
This year's competition was completed in two stages. The first stage consisted of all 12 clubs playing against each other twice, once at home and once away. After these matches were completed, the league was split into two halves for the second stage, where each club played every other club in its group twice, once at home and once away. The top six clubs played for the league title while the bottom six clubs played to avoid relegation.
Teams
Kyzylzhar,
Kaisar and
Kazakhmys
Kazakhmys Group is a vertically integrated holding company whose key assets are concentrated in the mining industry and non-ferrous metallurgy. It was established and registered in the form of a joint-stock company in August 1997. On 14 January ...
were relegated to the
Kazakhstan First Division at the end of
last season for finishing at the bottom of the league. Because of the league's contraction to twelve clubs for this season, only the First Division champions,
Kairat, were promoted in their places.
Okzhetpes finished 11th in last season's competition and took part in a promotion/relegation playoff against the First Division runners-up,
Akzhayik, for one spot in this year's competition. Akzhayik won this match 3–2. However, during the off-season,
Vostok Vostok refers to east in Russian but may also refer to:
Spaceflight
* Vostok programme, Soviet human spaceflight project
* Vostok (spacecraft), a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union
* Vostok (rocket family), family of rockets derived from ...
were expelled from this year's competition due to unpaid debts. Therefore, Okzhetpes will retain their spot in the Premier League.
Stadia and locations
First round
Final league table
Results
First stage
During these matches, each team played each other team twice (once at home and once away).
Second stage
During these matches, each team played every other team in their half of the table twice (once at home and once away).
Top goalscorers
''Source
KFF.''
References
External links
kff.kz
lyakhov.kz
soccerway.com
{{2010–11 in European football (UEFA)
Kazakhstan Premier League seasons
1
Kazakh
Kazakh