1993 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Top Division

Season	1993
Champions	Ansat
Relegated	Dinamo Almaty Azhar Kokshetau Munaishy Kaisar Metallist Namys Almaty Karachaganak Taldykorgan
Top goalscorer	Aleksandr Shmarikov (28)
← 1992 1994 →

The 1993 Kazakhstan Premier League was the second season of the Top Division, now called the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest highest football league competition in Kazakhstan.^[1]

Teams

Metallist, Arman and CSKA Almaty were all relegated to the Kazakhstan First Division at the end of last season. Karachaganak, Namys Almaty, Dinamo Almaty, Dostyk and Metallist were all promoted to the Kazakhstan Premier League for the first time.

Before the start of the season, Arsenal-SKIF became SKIF-Ordabasy, Aktau became Munaishy, Uralets became Uralets-Arma, Montazhnik became Yassi, Zhetysu became Taldykorgan, Traktor became Ansat, Ekibastuzets became Batyr and Zenit Kokshetau became Azhar Kokshetau.

League Format

Originally planned 26 teams in total. But like the season earlier, one team withdrew during the season. This time it was FC Kokshetau. All its games were annulled. The competition was split into two stages. In first stage two groups of 12 and 13 teams were formed. In second stage the best six teams of each group joined together to play in a final group for positions 1 to 12. The rest of the teams played in a group for positions 13 to 25. Teams played against each other on home-away basis in their groups. Final standings of teams did not count the results of the first stage.

First Round

Group A Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Dostyk 24 14 5 5 58 25 +33 47 Championship round 2 Kairat 24 13 5 6 45 21 +24 44 3 Gornyak 24 13 4 7 31 29 +2 43 4 SKIF-Ordabasy 24 11 7 6 41 20 +21 40 5 Zhiger 24 11 6 7 47 31 +16 39 6 Aktyubinets 24 11 6 7 33 24 +9 39 7 Munaishy 24 12 2 10 43 41 +2 38 Relegation round 8 Uralets-Arma 24 11 4 9 26 21 +5 37 9 Fosfor 24 10 4 10 41 36 +5 34 10 Yassi 24 7 3 14 33 54 −21 24 11 Karachaganak 24 6 4 14 28 62 −34 22 12 Kaisar 24 5 4 15 22 43 −21 19 13 Taldykorgan 24 3 4 17 26 67 −41 13 Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993 Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round. Only applicable when the season is not finished: (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group B Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1 Ansat 22 13 4 5 51 26 +25 43 Championship round 2 Batyr 22 13 3 6 48 24 +24 42 3 Shakhter Karagandy 22 11 6 5 24 12 +12 39 4 Khimik 22 11 6 5 35 20 +15 39 5 Vostok 22 12 3 7 31 21 +10 39 6 Tselinnik Tselinograd 22 11 5 6 32 21 +11 38 7 Azhar Kokshetau 22 12 2 8 35 31 +4 38 Relegation round 8 Bolat 22 11 3 8 43 23 +20 36 9 Dinamo Almaty 22 9 3 10 34 35 −1 30 10 Namys Almaty 22 5 2 15 18 62 −44 17 11 Yelimay 22 2 4 16 19 50 −31 10 12 Metallist 22 1 1 20 18 63 −45 4 Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993 Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored (C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round. Only applicable when the season is not finished: (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Second round

Championship round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Ansat (C)	22	14	6	2	43	15	+28	48	1994–95 Asian Club Championship
2	Batyr	22	13	4	5	41	20	+21	43
3	Gornyak	22	12	6	4	36	28	+8	42
4	Zhiger	22	11	7	4	43	28	+15	40
5	SKIF-Ordabasy	22	9	6	7	27	25	+2	33
6	Shakhter Karagandy	22	8	6	8	25	29	−4	30
7	Dostyk	22	9	1	12	26	34	−8	28
8	Khimik	22	7	5	10	26	31	−5	26
9	Aktyubinets	22	5	7	10	27	31	−4	22
10	Vostok	22	7	2	13	26	40	−14	23
11	Kairat	22	5	3	14	23	41	−18	18
12	Tselinnik Tselinograd	22	4	3	15	21	42	−21	15

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
13	Bolat	24	16	5	3	43	15	+28	53
14	Fosfor	24	16	4	4	51	29	+22	52
15	Uralets-Arma	24	14	5	5	41	12	+29	47
16	Yassi	24	15	3	6	44	30	+14	48
17	Yelimay	24	13	4	7	32	35	−3	43
18	Dinamo Almaty	24	10	9	5	43	29	+14	39	Relegation to 1993 Kazakhstan First Division
19	Azhar Kokshetau	24	11	6	7	49	30	+19	39
20	Munaishy	24	11	3	10	41	36	+5	36
21	Kaisar	24	10	2	12	30	42	−12	32
22	Metallist	24	4	6	14	14	34	−20	18
23	Namys Almaty	24	3	3	18	21	55	−34	12
24	Karachaganak	24	3	3	18	26	49	−23	12
25	Taldykorgan	23	2	3	18	16	55	−39	9

Source: http://www.kpfl.kz/eng/chempionat_1993
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Aleksandr Shmarikov	Taraz	28
2	Nikolay Kurganskiy	Batyr	26
3	Pavel Demyan	Bulat	25
4	Sergei Kalabukhin	Azhar	23
5	Konstantin Kucheryavykh	Tselinnik	22
6	Askar Abildaev	Kairat	21
7	Viktor Antonov	Ansat	20
	Andrei Miroshnichenko	Aktyubinets
	Vladislav Kazankov	Yassi
	Sergei Krasnobaev	Azhar
	Erkin Sultanov	Munaishy
	Vyacheslav Suslitsyn	Karachaganak

References

1. Klisf.info: 1993 Season stats (Russian)

External links

• Lyakhov.kz 1993 Season