| Club: | FC Taraz |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Manager: | Evgeny Yarovenko (until 15 May) Yuriy Maksymov (from 15 May) |
| Stadium: | Central Stadium |
| League: | Kazakhstan Premier League |
| League Result: | 11th |
| Cup1: | Kazakhstan Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Last 16 vs Okzhetpes |
| League Topscorer: | Malick Mané (13) |
| Season Topscorer: | Malick Mané (13) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
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The 2016 FC Taraz season is the eighth successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, and 23rd in total. Taraz will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League as well as the Kazakhstan Cup.
See main article: List of Kazakhstan football transfers winter 2016. In:[2] [3] Out:[4] [5] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [6] [4] [4] [4] [7] [4] [8] [9] [4]
See main article: List of Kazakhstan football transfers summer 2016. In:[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] Out:[16] [17] [18]
See main article: 2016 Kazakhstan Premier League.
See main article: 2016 Kazakhstan Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Taraz on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who appeared for Taraz that left during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=120 | Premier League | width=120 | Playoff | width=120 | Kazakhstan Cup | width=80 | Total |
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| 1 | FW |  | 13 | Malick Mané | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||||||
| 2 | MF |  | 7 | Alisher Suley | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| 3 | FW |  | 78 | Ihar Zyankovich | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| DF | 12 | Ioan Mera | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 5 | FW | | 71 | Daurenbek Tazhimbetov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| MF |  | 67 | Andriy Yakovlyev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 7 | MF | | 25 | Taras Danilyuk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 6 | Marat Shakhmetov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 10 | Bauyrzhan Baitana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 8 | Vitali Yevstigneyev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 88 | Oleksandr Aliyev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF |  | 84 | Davron Ergashev | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| DF | | 99 | Aleksandr Kirov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 33 | 0 | 1 | 34 | |||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Playoffs | Kazakhstan Cup | Total | |||||
| 1 | | GK | Aleksandr Grigorenko | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2 | | DF | Daniyar Bayaliev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 3 | | MF | Abzal Taubay | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| 4 | | DF | Ilya Vorotnikov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| 5 |  | MF | Jovan Golić | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 6 | | MF | Marat Shakhmetov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 7 | | MF | Alisher Suley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 8 | | MF | Vitali Yevstigneyev | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 9 | | MF | Sherkhan Bauyrzhan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 10 | | MF | Bauyrzhan Baitana | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
| 12 | DF | Ioan Mera | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||
| 13 | | FW | Malick Mané | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 17 | | MF | Oleg Nedashkovsky | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 19 | | MF | Dmitri Yevstigneyev | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 20 | | DF | Maksat Amirkhanov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 22 | | DF | Madiyar Nuraly | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 23 | | MF | Kurmet Karaman | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 25 | | MF | Taras Danilyuk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 44 | | MF | Adilet Abdenabi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 67 | | FW | Andriy Yakovlyev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 71 | | MF | Daurenbek Tazhimbetov | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 75 | | FW | Oleksandr Pyschur | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 84 | | DF | Davron Ergashev | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 85 |  | DF | Anton Grigoryev | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 99 | | DF | Aleksandr Kirov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| TOTALS | 84 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 90 | 2 | ||||