FK Taras

FK Taras
Basic data
Surname	Taras Football Club
Seat	Taras
founding	1961
president	Gabit Kazbekov
Website	fctaraz.kz
First soccer team
Head coach	Vait Talgayev
Venue	Taras Central Stadium
Places	12,525
league	Premjer League
2019	10th place
home Away

The FK Taras ( Kazakh Тараз Футбол Клубы; Russian Футбольный клуб Тараз; English FC Taraz ) is a Kazakh football club from the city of Taras in southern Kazakhstan .

history

Name development

• 1961: Founded as a metallist Jambul (Металлист Джамбул)
• 1967: Renamed Vozhod Jambul (Восход Джамбул)
• 1968: Renamed Energetik Jambul (Энергетик Джамбул)
• 1971: Renamed Alatau Jambul (Алатау Джамбул)
• 1975: Renamed Chimik Jambul (Химик Джамбул)
• 1992: Renamed Fosfor Jambul (Фосфор Джамбул)
• 1994: Renamed to FK Taras (ФК Тараз)

Soviet championship

The club was founded in 1961 and has always played in the third division of the Soviet Union . The team from southern Kazakhstan was runner-up in one of the zone championships of the lowest professional class in the USSR in the 1971, 1973 and 1986 seasons.

Kazakh championship

The club was a founding member of the Kazakh Super League . In 1996 the team was able to win the championship title. In addition, two runners-up titles were celebrated in 1995 and 1997, although in 1997 the team was defeated 0-1 to tied Irtysh Pavlodar on October 13 in the decider in the Almaty central stadium in front of 7,500 spectators . After the 2001 season , the team rose after a 15th place in the second division , but managed the immediate promotion. After the 2007 season , the team slipped again into the second division and again returned to the top division of Kazakhstan after only one season.

In 2004 they won their first cup when FK Qairat Almaty were beaten 1-0. In addition, the team was twice in the final of the Kazakh Cup. In 1992 the opponent FK Qairat Almaty prevailed 5-1, in 1993 the final was lost 2-4 against FK Dostyk Almaty . In the 2014 season , the club saved itself to 11th place in the table (relegation place). In the relegation Taras met Kyran Schymkent , won the penalty shootout and secured relegation. In 2016 , FK Taras had to relegate again, lost 3-0 to FK Altai Semei and is now relegated .

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  Logo 2010–2012

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  Logo since 2012

Participation in AFC competitions

For the first time the club from Taras appeared in the Asian Cup Winners' Cup in the 1994/95 season. In the Central Asian group of the preliminary round, all four games were won against Pakhtakor Tashkent from Uzbekistan, Merw Mary from Turkmenistan, Ravshan Kulyab from Tajikistan and Alai Osch from Kyrgyzstan with a goal difference of 27: 3. In the second round, the team was defeated by the Iranian representative Jonoob Ahvaz .

In the 1997/98 season, the team was in the first round of the AFC Champions League inferior to Nisa Ashgabat from Turkmenistan after a 2-2 home draw and subsequent 0-2 away defeat.

Stadion

The club plays its home games in the 12,525-seat central stadium in Taras , which was built in 1976.

successes

• Kazakh Championship :
  • Master: 1996
  • Runner-up: 1995 , 1997
• Kazakh Cup :
  • Winner: 2004
  • Finalist: 1992, 1993

Current squad for the 2020 season

number	player	nationality	Date of birth	With FK Taras since
goalkeeper
24	Jurachon Babakhanov		October 31, 1991	2020
-	Samat Otarbayev		19th February 1990	2018
Defense
4th	Beksat Schadmanov		August 12, 1997	2017
14th	Berik Aitbayev		June 26, 1991	2018
20th	Maxat Amirkhanov		February 10, 1992	2019
22nd	Madijar Nuraly		January 20, 1995	2015
23	Dejan Boljevic		May 30, 1990	2020
95	Goran Brkić		April 28, 1991	2020
-	Igor Pikalkin		March 19, 1992	2019
midfield
7th	Absal Taubai		February 18, 1995	2015
9	Ovidijus Verbickas		4th July 1993	2020
11	Gawril Kan		January 10, 1999	2019
15th	Toni Silva		5th September 1993	2020
21st	Jovan Čađenović		January 13, 1995	2020
27	Dmitri Yevstigneyev		November 27, 1986	2020
-	Shakyp Koschamberdy		February 26, 1992	2019
-	Pavel Schabalin		October 23, 1988	2019
Storm
10	Alischer Sulei		November 1, 1995	2019
13	Bratislav Punoševac		July 9, 1987	2020
-	Samat Sarsenow		August 19, 1996	2019

Status: March 2020

Well-known former players

Kazakhstan Qairat Aeschirbekow (2001) Maxim Asowski (2004) Älibek Böleschew (2010) Bauyrschan Islamchan (2011–2012) Yevgeny Jarowenko (1981-1983) Ulan Konysbayev (2008-2010) Dmitri Ogai (1986, 1989) Alexei Schapurin (2007-2008) Murat Sujumaghambetov (2012) Murat Tleshev (1998–1999)

CIS and former Soviet Union Anton Semljanuchin (2010-2011) Alan Gatagow (2015) Konstantin Golowskoi (2013) Davron Ergashev (2016-2017) Arslan Satubaldin (2010) Oleksandr Aliyev (2016) Ruslan Romantschuk (2004) Ihar Sjankowitsch (2016)

Europe Damir Memišević (2011) Neven Vukman (2012) Ostoja Stjepanović (2011) Nikola Tonev (2010) Sigourney Bandjar (2014) Desley Ubbink (2014-2015) Nils Zatl (2020) Manuel Curto (2013) Miloš Adamović (2011) Danilo Belić (2011) Predrag Govedarica (2018) Ersin Mehmedović (2012-2013) Ivan Perić (2012)

Africa Mohammed Diarra (2017) Titi Essomba (2009, 2013) Izu Azuka (2015) Abdoulaye Diakhaté (2011-2013) Malick Mane (2016, 2017) Serge Nyuiadzi (2019) America Jean-Eudes Maurice (2017)

Trainer

• Gurban Berdiýew (1986–1989)
• Dmitri Ogai (2010)
• Ljupko Petrović (2012-2013)
• Yevgeny Yarovenko (2014-2015)
• Yuri Maximov (2016)

Web links

• Official website of the association (Russian)
• FK Taras on worldfootball.net