The 2001 First League was the seventh season of the second-highest Kazakh division in men's football . The season started on April 28th and ended on October 24th, 2001.
Eight teams were divided into two groups of four clubs each. In the first phase, the teams played against each other once. The first two teams played in the second phase in the knockout system for places 1 to 4, the third and fourth places for places 5 to 8. There were no promoters this year.