FK Köpetdag Aşgabat (Football Club Köpetdag, ) is a professional

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club based in

Ashgabat Ashgabat (Turkmen language, Turkmen: ''Aşgabat'') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies between the Karakum Desert and the Kopet Dag, Kopetdag mountain range in Central Asia, approximately 50 km (30 ...

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

. It currently plays in the top tier

Ýokary Liga The Turkmenistan Higher League, also called Türkmenistan Ýokary Liga ( Turkmen: ''Ýokary liga futbol klublarynyň arasyndaky futbol boýunça Türkmenistanyň çempionaty''), is the top division of professional football in Turkmenistan, operat ...

. Their home ground is

Köpetdag Stadium Köpetdag Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and serves as the home for Köpetdag Aşgabat, that currently plays in the Ýokary Liga. The stadium holds 26,503 people and ...

which can hold 26,000 people. The Köpetdag traditional kit colours are

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. They are one of the country's most successful clubs having won 6 Turkmen championships and 6

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History

USSR

The club participated in 44 of the USSR championships (1947–54, 1956–91). They appeared under the names of Locomotiv (1947–49), Spartak (1950–54), Kolhozchi (1956–59, 1976–87), Stroitel (1962–75) and Köpetdag (1960, 1961, 1988–91, present). * Soviet League Second group (1947–49), the best place: 3rd in 1948 * Soviet League Class B (1950–54, 1956–63), the best place: 2nd in 1963 * Soviet League Class A, the second group (1964–69), the best place: 4th in 1967 *

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(1970–74, 1976–79), the best place: 9th in 1976 *

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(1975, 1980–91), the best place: 2nd in 1975 and 1991. In the Soviet era, one of the coaches of the team in the 1980s was

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Turkmenistan

After the collapse of the

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the team planned to participate in the open championship of the CIS, but because of many differences the championship did not take place. The team served as the defacto

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in the early years of Turkmenistan. In 2008 they were disbanded due to financial conditions but have since returned.

New era

In 2015, on the basis of MIA of Turkmenistan direction the club FC Kopetdag was re-created. Club began to make appearances in the First League of Turkmenistan. The team qualified for 2015 Turkmenistan Cup. They achieved promotion in the 2016 season by winning the promotion play-off.

Domestic history

Continental history

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

: Group stage *

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

: Semi-final *

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

: Group stage *

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

: Semi-final *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

: Semi-final *

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

: Group stage *

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: Semi-final

Honours

** Champions (6): 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000 * Birinji liga ** Champions (1): 2015 *

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** Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2018 ** Runners-up (4): 1995, 2005, 2006, 2020 * SSR Turkmenistan Cup ** Winners (1): 1992 *

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** Runners-up (1): 2019

Club officials

Technical staff

* Berdi Hotdyýew: Head Coach *

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: Assistant coach

Coaches

* Alexei Sokolov (1950–51) * Leo Olshansky (1952–53) * Stepan Arutyunov (1957) * Vladimir Alyakrinsky (1964) * Vladimir Eremeev (1965–66) * Sergei Budagov (1967–68) * Holodkov Seraphim (1969) * Sergei Korshunov (June 1970) * Sergei Budagov (1971) * Vladimir Yulygin (1973–74) * Viktor Kuznetsov (1975–78) * Anatoli Polosin (1979, until June 11) *

(June 11, 1979, 1982–83) * Edward Danilov (1984) * Arsen Naydyonov (1985) * Vladimir Yulygin (1986) * Viktor Kuznetsov (1987) * Vladislav Kazakov (1988) * Victor Orlov (1989) * Baýram Durdyýew (1990–96) * Boris Lavrov (1997–98) * Tachmurad Agamuradov (July 1998) * Viktor Pozhechevskyi (July 1998–Jan 1999) * Ravil Menzeleev – Sergei Kazankov (1999) * Tachmurad Agamuradov (2000–01) * Baýram Durdyýew (2001–02) * Berdymyrat Nurmyradow (2003–07) * Said Seyidov (2015 – May 2019) * Çary Annakow (May 2019 – June 2019) * Tofik Şükürow (June 2019 – August 2024) * Begenç Garaýew (August 2024 – December 2025) * Berdi Hotdyýew (January 2025 – nowadays)
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References

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