FC Astana is a Kazakh

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...

 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 based at the Astana Arena.

History

The club formed as the result of a merger between FC Alma-Ata and Megasport

FC Megasport

FC Megasport were a Kazakhstani football club based in Almaty. The club was founded in 2005. They were members of Kazakhstan Premier League. At the beginning of 2009, they merged with FC Almaty to form FC Lokomotiv Astana.- 2008 Squad :...

 in the beginning of 2009. Later they moved to newly build Astana Arena. The club has benefited from a high salary role which has enabled them to attract players of status to the club. Tikhonov and Titov

Egor Titov

Yegor Ilyich Titov is a retired association footballer who played midfielder, who last played for Lokomotiv Astana. He was a goal scoring midfielder playing in "the hole" between the midfield and attack. He was well known for his vision, close control and accurate passing...

 first of all came from the Russian Premier League. Several more followed such as Patrick Ovie

Patrick Ovie

Patrick Ovie is a former Nigerian football defender last playing for FC Lokomotiv Astana in the Kazakhstan Premier League since 2009.- Career :...

 and Baffour Gyan. Maxim Shatskikh later arrived from Dynamo Kiev in the Ukrainian High League which is again a very high profile capture for the club. The majority of their other players have arrived from other clubs in the Kazakh League, mostly on free transfers from the clubs which were absorbed to make the club and several which last year went into bankruptcy.

Although FC Astana won the Kazakhstan Cup in 2010, they were ineligible for a UEFA license since they had not yet existed for at least three years. So they were not able to qualify for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League

2011–12 UEFA Europa League

The 2011–12 UEFA Europa League is the third season of the competition since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup. It began on 30 June 2011 with the first legs of the first qualifying round, and will end on 9 May 2012 with the final to be held at Stadionul Național in Bucharest, Romania...

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Current squad

Reserve team

Notable players

Baffour Gyan Talgat Adyrbekov Igor Avdeev

Igor Avdeev

Igor Gennadyevich Avdeev is a former Kazakhstani professional footballer. He last played for FC Lokomotiv Astana.-International career:Avdeev made 27 appearances and scored seven goals for the Kazakhstan national football team.-External links:...

 Aleksei Bulucevsky Andrei Karpovich

Andrei Karpovich

Andrei Vladimirovich Karpovich is a Kazakh footballer, who currently plays for FC Lokomotiv Astana.-Career:Karpovich started his career in his home town Semey playing for FC Elimay, and has since played for a number of different teams, finally signing for Russian side FC Dinamo Moskva in 2007...

 Timur Khalmuratov Zakhar Korobov Zhambyl Kukeyev
Roman Nesterenko Sergey Ostapenko Maksim Samchenko

Maksim Samchenko

Maksim Samchenko is a Kazakh football defender. He currently plays for the club FC Lokomotiv Astana and he has capped Kazakhstan national football team 6 times .He formerly played for FC Bolat, FC Vostok, FC Shakhter and FC Aktobe....

 Ruslan Sakhalbaev

Ruslan Sakhalbaev

Ruslan Sakhalbaev is a Kazakhstani football midfielder who plays for FC Atyrau in the Kazakhstan Premier League.- Career :On 2 August 2008, while playing for FC Megasport, Sakhalbaev scored a brace in a 5-0 league victory over Oqjetpes....

 Murat Suyumagambetov Bobi Bozinovski

Bobi Božinovski

Bobi Božinovski is a Macedonian international footballer playing for Vardar Skopje as a midfielder.-External links:* at National-football-teams....

 Vlade Lazarevski

Vlade Lazarevski

Vlade Lazarevski is a defender from the Republic of Macedonia playing for French club Amiens SC. He is regularly called to the Macedonian national football team....

 Eduard Valutsa

Eduard Valutsa

Eduard Văluţă is a Moldovan football defender, who played for Persikabo in Indonesia.- Career :He has played for Naftovyk in the Ukrainian Premier League, but has moved to FC Lokomotiv Astana for the 2009 season...

Roman Gerus

Roman Gerus

-Career:He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2001 for FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk.-External links:...

 Denis Petrov Mikhail Rozhkov

Mikhail Rozhkov

Mikhail Viktorovich Rozhkov is a Kazakhstan football player, who plays for FC Lokomotiv Astana.-Career:During the 2009 preseason he tried out with FC Dynamo Moscow and FC Moscow but ended up signing with FC Rostov. He made his debut in the Russian Premier League on 14 March 2009 in a game against...

 Evgeniy Naboychenko Arslan Satubaldin

Arslan Satubaldin

Arslan Saparniyazovich Satubaldin is a Turkmenistan footballer who currently plays for Kazakhstan Premier League club FC Taraz as a goalkeeper.-Club career stats:Last update: 15 March 2009-External links:...

 Madiyar Muminov

Madiyar Muminov

Madiyar Muminov is an Uzbek football who plays for FC Ordabasy in the Kazakhstan Premier League.-Career:...

 Aleksandr Shatskikh Maksim Shatskikh

Maksim Shatskikh

Maksim Aleksandrovich Shatskikh , is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays for Arsenal Kyiv in the Ukrainian Premier League....

External links

• Official website