Kazakhstan Premier League 1998 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Promotion and relegation of 1997 season

Two teams relegated:

FC Aktobe
FC Aktobe
FC Aktobe are a Kazakh football club based at the Central Stadium in Aktobe. Current members and four-time champions of the Kazakhstani Premier League, they also won the country's second level league – First Division – in 2000.-Name history:...
FC Ulytau
FC Ulytau
FC Ulytau are a defunct Kazakhstani football based in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. They were members of the Kazakhstan First Division.-Name History:*1967 : Founded as Yenbek*1975 : The club is renamed Gornyak*1980 : The club is renamed Dzhezkazganets...

Two teams promoted:

FC Nasha Kompaniya
FC Naryn
FC Akzhayik
FC Akzhayik are a Kazakhstani football based in Oral, Kazakhstan. They are current members of the Kazakhstan Premier League.-Current Squad:- Name History :*1968 : Founded as Uralets...

Also FC Kairat was replaced by FC CSKA Kairat at the start of this season

Final standings

Pos	Team	City	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	FC Yelimay FC Semey FC Spartak Semey are a Kazakhstani football club based in Semey. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, and under the name Yelimay they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998... (C)	Semipalatinsk Semey Semey , formerly known as Semipalatinsk and Alash-kala , is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.-History:The first settlement was in 1718,...	26	20	3	3	60	20	40	63
2	FC Batyr	Ekibastuz Ekibastuz Ekibastuz is a town in Pavlodar Province, northeastern Kazakhstan. it had a population of 141,000. It is served by Ekibastuz Airport.-History:...	26	18	5	3	50	17	33	59
3	FC Irtysh FC Irtysh FC Irtysh are a Kazakh football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. The most successful club in the country since independence, Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 , 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003. They are also founding members of the top league and never relegated to lower...	Pavlodar Pavlodar Pavlodar is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Province. It is located 350 km northeast of the national capital Astana, and 400 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the city has a population of 331710...	26	17	6	3	44	15	29	57
4	FC Kaisar-Hurricane FC Kaisar FC Kaisar Kyzylorda are a Kazakh football based in the Gany Muratbayev Stadium in Kyzylorda. They are founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League and have missed only three seasons following relegations. The most successful was the season of 1998, when they won the Kazakhstan Cup and got... (CW)	Kyzylorda	26	16	5	5	42	17	25	53
5	FC Vostok FC Vostok FC Vostok is a Kazakh football club from Oskemen , a founding member of the Kazakhstan Premier League since 1992. The club's biggest achieved position in the league is the 5th place in 1997 and 1998...	Ust-Kamenogorsk Oskemen Oskemen and Ust-Kamennaya , is the capital of the East Kazakhstan Province. It is served by the Ust-Kamenogorsk Airport.-History:...	26	17	1	8	49	25	24	52
6	FC Astana FC Astana FC Astana-64 are a Kazakhstani football club based at the K.Munaitpasov Stadium in Astana. Founding members of the Kazakhstan Premier League, they were relegated to First Division for the first time in 2009 after being declared bankrupt...	Astana Astana Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...	26	15	6	5	45	22	23	51
7	FC CSKA Kairat	Almaty Almaty Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...	26	13	4	9	45	32	13	43
8	FC Khimik FC Okzhetpes Football Club Okzhetpes Kokshetau are a Kazakhstani football based in the Torpedo Stadium in Kokshetau. The club currently play in the Kazakhstan Premier League....	Stepnogorsk Stepnogorsk Stepnogorsk is a town in Akmola Province, Kazakhstan. It was established in 1959, and has been a town since 1964. It is located about 200km North-East of Astana. It was first established as a secret town with code names Tselinograd-25 , Makinsk-2 . The town is known as a nuclear and biochemical site...	26	7	8	11	22	33
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9	FC Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet FC Shakhter "FC Shakhter" redirects here. For other uses, see Shakhtar .FC Shakhter are a Kazakh football based in the Shakhtyor Stadium in Karagandy. They have been members of the Kazakhstan Premier League since its foundation in 1992...	Karaganda Karaganda Karagandy , more commonly known by its Russian name Karaganda, , is the capital of Karagandy Province in Kazakhstan. It is the fourth most populous city in Kazakhstan, behind Almaty , Astana and Shymkent, with a population of 471,800 . In the 1940s up to 70% of the city's inhabitants were ethnic...	26	8	4	14	29	32
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10	FC Taraz FC Taraz FC Taraz are a Kazakh football club based at the Tsentralny Stadium in Taraz. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, they were champions in 1996, and cup winners in 2004...	Taraz Taraz Taraz , is a city and a center of the Jambyl Province in Kazakhstan. It is located in the south of Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, on the Talas River...	26	7	6	13	33	35
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11	FC Zhiger FC Ordabasy FC Ordabasy is a football club from Kazakhstan based at the K. Munaitpasov Stadium in Shymkent. Formed in 1998, it is currently a member of the Kazakhstan Premier league.-History:...	Shymkent Shymkent Shymkent , formerly known as Chimkent , is the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province, the most populated region in Kazakhstan. It is the third most populous city in Kazakhstan behind Almaty and Astana with a population of 629,600 . A major railroad junction on the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, the...	26	6	4	16	31	49
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12	FC Nasha Kompaniya	Astana Astana Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...	26	3	6	17	15	50
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13	FC Bulat	Temirtau Temirtau Temirtau is a city in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. Pop 180,000.-History:*1905, June, 15 - the first groups of settlers settled down on the left bank of the Nura River. There were 40 families, that had arrived from Samara...	26	3	3	20	10	60
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14	FC Naryn FC Akzhayik FC Akzhayik are a Kazakhstani football based in Oral, Kazakhstan. They are current members of the Kazakhstan Premier League.-Current Squad:- Name History :*1968 : Founded as Uralets...	Oral Oral, Kazakhstan Oral , Uralsk in Russian, formerly known as Yaitsk , is a city in northwestern Kazakhstan, at the confluence of the Ural and Chogan Rivers close to the Russian border. As it is located on the western side of the Ural river, it is considered geographically in Europe. It has a population of 350,000...	26	0	3	23	11	73
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Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

FC Irtysh qualified to Asian Club Championship after withdrawal of FC Yelimay and FC Batyr

(C)	1998 Champions
(CW)	1998-99 Cup winner
	Qualified for the Asian Club Championship 2000
	Qualified for the Asian Cup Winners Cup 2000 Asian Cup Winners Cup The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation . The competition was started in 1991 as a tournament for all the domestic cup winners from countries affiliated to the AFC...
	Relegated to First Division Kazakhstan First Division The Kazakhstan First Division is the second division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Union of Kazakhstan and feeds into the Kazakhstan Premier League, having been founded in 1994. It runs from spring and to late autumn, making each championship correspond to a...

Kazakhstan Champions 1998
FC Yelimay FC Semey FC Spartak Semey are a Kazakhstani football club based in Semey. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, and under the name Yelimay they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998... Third Title

Top scorers

Player	Team	Goals (from penalty)
Oleg Litvinenko Oleg Litvinenko Oleg Litvinenko 23 November 1973 - 19 November 2007) was a Kazakh football forward from Taraz. He has scored 147 goals in Kazakhstan Premier League and he is the all-time top scorer of the tournament. He has been unarguably one of the best players of National team...	Yelimay	14 (2)
Nurken Mazbaev Nurken Mazbaev Nurken Mazbaev was a Kazakhstani football forward. He retired on 20 May 2008, having played 16 seasons and scoring 142 goals in Kazakhstan Premier League, which makes him the second all-time top scorer of the tournament....	Kaisar-Hurricane	13
Seitzhan Baibossynov	Zhiger	11 (1)
Viktor Antonov	Irtysh	10 (2)
Konstantin Kotov	Astana	10 (2)
Vitaliy Airykh	Taraz	8
Kairat Aubakirov	Yelimay	8
Aleksandr Miroshnichenko	Yelimay	8 (1)

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