The 2020
FC Tobol season was the 22nd successive season that the club will play in the
Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of
association football in Kazakhstan. Tobol will also play in the
Kazakhstan Cup and the
Europa League
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.
Season Events
On 14 December 2019,
Grigori Babayan
Grigori Konstantinovich Babayan (russian: Григорий Константинович Бабаян; 2 April 1980) is a Kazakh football manager and a former player of Armenian descent, who is currently Head Coach of Astana.
Career Club
During h ...
was announced as Tobol's new head coach.
On 7 February, Tobol announced the signing of
Roman Murtazayev
Roman Valeryevich Murtazayev (russian: Роман Валерьевич Муртазаев; born 10 September 1993) is a Kazakh footballer who plays for Shakhter Karagandy and the Kazakhstan national football team.
Career
Club
In December 2015 ...
on a one-year contract.
On 12 February, Tobol announced the signing of
Arman Hovhannisyan
Arman Hovhannisyan ( hy, Արման Հովհաննիսյան, born 7 July 1993) is an Armenian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Pyunik Yerevan.
Career
Born in Yerevan, Hovhannisyan is a product of his native Pyunik Yerevan ...
from
Gandzasar Kapan
Football Club Gandzasar Kapan ( hy, Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ Գանձասար Կապան), commonly known as Gandzasar, is an Armenian football club based in the town of Kapan, Syunik Province. Translated from the Armenian, "Gandz-a- ...
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On 17 February, Tobol announced the signing of
Aleksa Amanović
Aleksa Amanović (; born 24 October 1996) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Astana in the Kazakhstan Premier League.
Club career
Amanović is product of FK Partizan academy where he played until he made his seni ...
on a one-year contract, with the option of an additional year.
On 19 February, Tobol announced the signing of
Luka Zarandia on loan from
Zulte Waregem
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until 31 July.
On 22 February, Tobol announced the signing of
Aleksandr Mokin
Aleksandr Valeryevich Mokin (russian: Александр Валерьевич Мокин; born 19 June 1981) is a Kazakh professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
Club
Mokin started his career with Ordabasy.
On 23 Februar ...
on a one-year contract.
On 13 March, the
Football Federation of Kazakhstan
The Kazakhstan Football Federation (KFF, kz, Қазақстанның Футбол Федерациясы, Qazaqstannyñ Futbol Federatsıiasy; rus, Федерация Футбола Казахстана, r=Federatsiya Futbola Kazakhstana) is th ...
announced all league fixtures would be played behind closed doors for the foreseeable future due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
On 16 March the Football Federation of Kazakhstan suspended all football until 15 April.
On 4 April 2020,
Maxim Fedin joined
FC Kaisar
FC Kaysar ( kk, Қайсар Футбол Клубы, ''Qaısar Fýtbol Klýby'') is a Kazakh professional football club based in the Gany Muratbayev Stadium in Kyzylorda. They are founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League and have mis ...
on loan for the remainder of the 2020 season.
On 8 July, Tobol announced the signings of
Serhiy Malyi
Serhiy Viktorovych Malyi ( uk, Сергій Вікторович Малий; born 5 June 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ordabasy. Born in Ukraine, he plays for the Kazakhstan national team.
Career
Malyi is th ...
from
Astana and
Carlos Fonseca
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from
Irtysh Pavlodar
FC Irtysh Pavlodar ( kk, Ертіс Футбол Клубы, ''Ertis Fýtbol Klýby'') was a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 (as ''Ansat''), 1997, 19 ...
.
On 26 June, it was announced that the league would resume on 1 July, with no fans being permitted to watch the games.
The league was suspended for a second time on 3 July, for an initial two weeks, due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the country.
On 27 July,
Stephen Eze's contract with Tobol was ended by mutual consent, and
Luka Zarandia loan deal from
Zulte Waregem
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expired.
On 4 August, Tobol announced the signing of
Jérémy Manzorro
Jérémy Philippe Bernad Manzorro (born 11 November 1991) is a French professional footballer of Spanish origin who plays as a midfielder for Indian Super League club Jamshedpur.
Career
Born in Villeurbanne, Manzorro started his senior career at ...
from
Shakhter Karagandy
Football Club Shakhter ( kk, "Шахтер" футбол клубы, Shakhter fýtbol klýby), commonly referred to as FC Shakhter Karagandy ( kk, Қарағанды/Qarağandı ;Russian: Караганда/Karaganda), is a professional footbal ...
.
New Contracts
On 12 January,
Dmitri Miroshnichenko
Dmitry Andreyevich Miroshnichenko (russian: Дмитрий Андреевич Мирошниченко; born 26 February 1992) is a Kazakh footballer who plays as a defender for Russian club Spartak Kostroma.
Career
In January 2016, Miroshni ...
signed a new contract with Tobol until the end of 2020.
On 25 February, midfielder Daniyar Semchenkov extended his contract with Tobol until the end of 2020,
whilst defender
Roman Asrankulov
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* Rome, the capital city of Italy
* Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lett ...
also extended his contract until the end of 2020.
Squad
On loan
Transfers
In
Loans in
Loans out
Released
Friendlies
Competitions
Premier League
Results summary
Results by round
Results
League table
Kazakhstan Cup
Squad statistics
Appearances and goals
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, colspan="14", ''Players away from Tobol on loan:''
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, colspan="14", ''Players who left Tobol during the season:''
Goal scorers
Clean sheet
Disciplinary record
References
External links
Official Website
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FC Tobol seasons
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