The 2013 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 22nd season of the
Kazakhstan Premier League
The Kazakhstan Professional Football League ( kk, Қазақстан Премьер Лигасы, ''Qazaqstan Premer Ligasy''), commonly referred to as Kazakh Premier League or simply Premier League, is the top division of football in Kazakhstan ...
, the highest
football
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league competition in
Kazakhstan
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. The season began on 9 March 2013 and ended on 2 November.
Shakhter Karagandy were the defending champions, having won their second league championship the previous year.
Changes from 2012 season
The league was reduced from fourteen to twelve teams for this season.
Teams
For the 2013 season, the league changed from 14 teams to 12, meaning the bottom two teams from the
previous season,
Sunkar and
Okzhetpes, along with
Kaisar were relegated to 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 ( kk, Қа ...
with only
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, the second place team, gaining promotion.
Team overview
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA
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eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managerial changes
Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
First round
League table
Results
Championship round
Table
Results
Relegation round
Table
Results
Relegation play-off
Top goalscorers
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References
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