FC Kyzylzhar is a Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

i football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, playing in the north Kazakh city of Petropavl

Petropavl

Petropavl is a city on the Ishim River in North Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is capital of the North Kazakhstan Province...

 at the Avangard Stadium

Avangard Stadium

Avangard Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Petropavl, Kazakhstan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Esil Bogatyr....

. They are founding members of Kazakhstan Premier League. Kyzylzhar is the name of district in the city. Their main sponsors are Bogatyr Access Komir Ltd, a coal mining

Coal mining

The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for cement production. In the United States,...

company. They are two time runner-ups of the league (1999 and 2000). In 2009, the club finished 14th and were relegated.

Name History

• 1968 : Founded as Avangard
• 1970 : Renamed Metallist
• 1979 : Renamed Avangard
• 1990 : Renamed Metallist
• 1998 : Renamed Esil
• 1999 : Renamed Access-Esil
• 2000 : Renamed Esil Bogatyr
• 2008 : Renamed Kyzylzhar

Current squad