The 2021 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 30th season of the
Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest
football
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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 ...
.
FC Kairat were the defending champions after winning their third title the previous season.
FC Tobol
FC Tobol ( kk, Тобыл футбол клубы, Tobyl Futbol Kluby) is a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Kostanay. They have been members of the Kazakhstan Premier League since its foundation in 1992. They ...
won their second title.
Teams
FC Okzhetpes
Football Club Okzhetpes ( kk, Оқжетпес Футбол Клубы, ''Oqjetpes Kókshetaý Fýtbol Klýby'') is a Kazakhstani professional football based in the Torpedo Stadium in Kokshetau. The club currently plays in the Kazakhstan Premie ...
(relegated after two years in the top flight) was relegated at the end of the 2020 season, whilst
FC Irtysh Pavlodar withdrew from the league in May 2020, and as a result also dropped down into the
Kazakhstan First Division. They were replaced by
FC Aktobe
Football Club Aktobe ( kk, Aqtóbe Fýtbol Klýby), commonly referred to as FC Aktobe or simply Aktobe, is a professional football club based in Aktobe. They last played in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. For ...
and
FC Atyrau after they had spent one season in the Kazakhstan First Division.
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.
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.
For the 2020 season, the
KFF announced that players from countries of the
Eurasian Economic Union
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would not be counted towards a club's foreign player limit.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
Managerial changes
Regular season
League table
Results
Games 1–26
Results by match played
Positions by round
Statistics
Scoring
* First goal of the season:
Vitaliy Balashov
Vitaliy Balashov ( uk, Віталій Юрійович Балашов; born 15 January 1991) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for Kazakh side FC Turan, T ...
for
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 ...
against
Atyrau
Atyrau ( kk, Атырау, ', ; russian: Атырау, ), known until 1991 as Guryev (russian: Гурьев, ), is a city in Kazakhstan and the capital of Atyrau Region. Atyrau is a transcontinental city, at the mouth of the Ural River on the Cas ...
()
Top scorers
:
References
External links
Official website
{{2021–22 in European football (UEFA)
Kazakhstan Premier League seasons
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