2018 FC Kairat season explained

Club:	FC Kairat
Season:	2018
Manager:	Carlos Alós (until 15 October) Andrei Karpovich (Caretaker) (from 15 October)
Chairman:	Kairat Boranbayev
Stadium:	Central Stadium
League:	Premier League
League Result:	2nd
Cup1:	Kazakhstan Cup
Cup1 Result:	Champions
Cup2:	Europa League
Cup2 Result:	Third qualifying round vs Sigma Olomouc
Cup3:	Super Cup
Cup3 Result:	runners-up
League Topscorer:	Isael (13)
Season Topscorer:	Isael (13)
Prevseason:	2017
Nextseason:	2019
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The 2018 FC Kairat season is the 8th successive season that the club playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan, since their promotion back to the top flight in 2009. Kairat will participate in the Kazakhstan Super Cup and the Europa League as well as the Kazakhstan Cup and Premier League.

Season events

On 15 October 2018, Carlos Alós left Kairat by mutual consent,^[1] with Andrei Karpovich being appointed as Caretaker manager.^[2]

Squad

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No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Signed in	Apps.	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	Vladimir Plotnikov		GK	2018 11, df=yes	Zhetysu	2015	108	0
24	David Loria		GK	2018 11, df=yes		2018	17	0
27	Stas Pokatilov		GK	2018 11, df=yes	Rostov	2017	62	0
30	Oleg Grubov		GK	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2015	1	0
51	Vladimir Groshev		GK	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2012	1	0
Defenders
2	Yeldos Akhmetov		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Irtysh Pavlodar	2017	43	1
4	Sheldon Bateau		DF	2018 11, df=yes	loan from Krylia Sovetov	2017	48	0
5	Gafurzhan Suyumbayev		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Ordabasy	2016	94	6
14	Aybol Abiken		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2015	21	1
17	Stanislav Lunin		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Shakhter Karagandy	2014	93	3
26	Syarhey Palitsevich		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Gençlerbirliği	2018	11	0
32	Alibek Kassym		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2015	1	0
51	Sergey Keyler		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Okzhetpes	2018	7	0
Midfielders
3	Yan Vorogovskiy		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Kaisar	2016	55	3
6	Nuraly Alip		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2018	21	0
7	Islambek Kuat		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Astana	2014	142	13
8	Georgy Zhukov		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Ural Yekaterinburg	2017	58	4
9	Bauyrzhan Islamkhan		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Kuban Krasnodar	2014	195	56
10	Isael		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Krasnodar	2014	171	42
15	Aleksandr Sokolenko		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2017	29	2
20	Ivo Iličević		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Anzhi Makhachkala	2017	41	12
25	Ákos Elek		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Diósgyőri	2017	63	0
28	Andrey Arshavin		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Kuban Krasnodar	2016	108	30
30	Juan Felipe		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Vardar	2018	30	0
37	Rashid Lyukhay		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2017	1	0
38	Ramazan Orazov		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2017	5	0
	Nurlan Dairov		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2012	3	0
	Maksim Kotov		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2018	1	0
Forwards
18	Aderinsola Eseola		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	2018	22	12
19	Márton Eppel		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Budapest Honvéd	2018	19	9
22	Magomed Paragulgov		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2012	33	5
23	Vyacheslav Shvyrev		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2018	16	1
29	Samat Sarsenov		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Orenburg	2017	8	0
55	Artur Shushenachev		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2017	4	0
	Pavel Kriventsev		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2018	1	0
Players away on loan
13	Yermek Kuantayev		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Tobol	2014	96	6
16	Oybek Baltabaev		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2014	11	0
	Rifat Nurmugamet		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2013	5	0
Players that left during the season
11	Hugo Silveira		FW	2018 11, df=yes	loan from Nacional	2018	16	4
19	Gai Assulin		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Sabadell	2018	2	0
21	Chuma Anene		FW	2018 11, df=yes	Amkar Perm	2017	38	8
26	Cédric Gogoua		DF	2018 11, df=yes	Riga	2017	1	0
49	Akmal Bakhtiyarov		MF	2018 11, df=yes	Academy	2017	4	1

Out on loan

Transfers

See main article: article, List of Kazakhstan football transfers winter 2017–18 and List of Kazakhstan football transfers summer 2018.

In

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
13 November 2017	DF		Cédric Gogoua	Kairat-A	Promoted	^[4]
13 February 2018	MF		Gai Assulin	Sabadell	Free	^[5]
29 March 2018	MF		Juan Felipe	Vardar	Undisclosed	^[6]
6 June 2018	FW		Aderinsola Eseola	Zirka Kropyvnytskyi	Undisclosed	^[7]
2 July 2018	FW		Márton Eppel	Budapest Honvéd	Undisclosed	^[8]
10 July 2018	DF		Syarhey Palitsevich	Gençlerbirliği	Undisclosed	^[9]
24 August 2018	GK		David Loria		Free	^[10]

Out

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Fee	Ref.
11 January 2018	MF		Bauyrzhan Turysbek	Tobol	Undisclosed	^[11]
	FW		Mohamed Konaté	Gomel	Undisclosed

Loans in

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	From	Date to	Ref.
29 December 2017	DF		Sheldon Bateau	Krylia Sovetov	End of Season	^[12]
13 February 2018	FW		Hugo Silveira	Nacional	4 July 2018	^[13]

Loans out

Date from	Position	Nationality	Name	To	Date to	Ref.
	MF		Oybek Baltabaev	Altai Semey	End of season
16 February 2018	DF		Yermek Kuantayev	Zhetysu	End of season	^[14]
16 February 2018	FW		Rifat Nurmugamet	Zhetysu	End of season

Released

Date	Position	Nationality	Name	Joined	Date	Ref.
30 March 2018	MF		Gai Assulin	Politehnica Iași	26 September 2019	^[15] ^[16]
4 July 2018	FW		Chuma Anene	Fredericia	4 September 2018	^[17]
	DF		Cédric Gogoua	SKA-Khabarovsk	24 August 2018	^[18]
	MF		Akmal Bakhtiyarov	Artsakh
30 November 2018^[19]	MF		Isael	Ferencvárosi	1 February 2019	^[20]
30 November 2018	GK		David Loria	Okzhetpes
30 November 2018	MF		Juan Felipe	Vardar
30 November 2018	MF		Ivo Iličević	1. FC Nürnberg	30 January 2019	^[21]
30 November 2018	MF		Ákos Elek	MOL Vidi	8 January 2019	^[22]
30 November 2018	MF		Andrey Arshavin	Retired	3 December 2018	^[23]
29 December 2018^[24]	DF		Stanislav Lunin	Irtysh Pavlodar	29 December 2018	^[25]
31 December 2018	GK		Oleg Grubov
31 December 2018	GK		Vladimir Groshev
31 December 2018	DF		Alibek Kassym
31 December 2018	DF		Yermek Kuantayev	Zhetysu
31 December 2018	MF		Oybek Baltabaev
31 December 2018	MF		Rashid Lyukhay
31 December 2018	MF		Maksim Kotov
31 December 2018	MF		Rashid Lyukhay
31 December 2018	FW		Pavel Kriventsev

Trial

Competitions

Super Cup

See main article: Kazakhstan Super Cup.

Premier League

See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Premier League.

League table

Kazakhstan Cup

See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Cup.

Final

UEFA Europa League

See main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.

Qualifying rounds

See main article: 2018–19 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round (Main Path).

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

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Goal scorers

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1	MF		10	Isael	13	0	0	0	13
2	FW		18	Aderinsola Eseola	9	0	0	3	12
3	MF		9	Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	3	4	0	3	10
4	MF		28	Andrey Arshavin	9	0	0	0	9
	FW		19	Márton Eppel	3	0	0	6	9
6	FW		21	Chuma Anene	4	0	0	0	4
	FW		11	Hugo Silveira	4	0	0	0	4
	MF		22	Magomed Paragulgov	3	1	0	0	4
9	MF		20	Ivo Iličević	3	0	0	0	3
	MF		3	Yan Vorogovskiy	1	1	0	1	3
11	DF		17	Stanislav Lunin	2	0	0	0	2
	MF		7	Islambek Kuat	1	1	0	0	2
	MF		15	Aleksandr Sokolenko	1	1	0	0	2
				Own goal	1	0	0	1	2
15	MF		8	Georgy Zhukov	1	0	0	0	1
	DF		5	Gafurzhan Suyumbayev	1	0	0	0	1
	FW		23	Vyacheslav Shvyrev	0	1	0	0	1
	MF		49	Akmal Bakhtiyarov	0	1	0	0	1
				TOTALS	60	10	0	14	84

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name	Premier League		Kazakhstan Cup		Super Cup		Europa League		Total
1		GK	Vladimir Plotnikov	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
2		DF	Yeldos Akhmetov	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1
3		MF	Yan Vorogovskiy	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
4		DF	Sheldon Bateau	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
5		DF	Gafurzhan Suyumbayev	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	1
6		MF	Nuraly Alip	3	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
7		MF	Islambek Kuat	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
8		MF	Georgy Zhukov	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
9		MF	Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
10		MF	Isael	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	1
14		DF	Aybol Abiken	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
15		MF	Aleksandr Sokolenko	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
18		FW	Aderinsola Eseola	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
19		FW	Márton Eppel	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
20		MF	Ivo Iličević	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
22		MF	Magomed Paragulgov	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
23		FW	Vyacheslav Shvyrev	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
25		MF	Ákos Elek	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
26		DF	Syarhey Palitsevich	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
27		GK	Stas Pokatilov	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
28		MF	Andrey Arshavin	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1
29		FW	Samat Sarsenov	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
30		MF	Juan Felipe	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	7	1
32		DF	Alibek Kassym	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
38		MF	Ramazan Orazov	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
51		DF	Sergey Keyler	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
55		FW	Artur Shushenachev	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players who left Kairat during the season:
11		FW	Hugo Silveira	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
21		FW	Chuma Anene	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
26		DF	Cédric Gogoua	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
			TOTALS	67	2	16	0	1	0	13	3	97	5

External links

• Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: КАРЛОС АЛОС ПОКИДАЕТ ПОСТ ГЛАВНОГО ТРЕНЕРА КАЙРАТА . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 5 November 2018 . Russian . 15 October 2018.
2. Web site: НДРЕЙ КАРПОВИЧ — ИСПОЛНЯЮЩИЙ ОБЯЗАННОСТИ ГЛАВНОГО ТРЕНЕРА . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 5 November 2018 . Russian . 15 October 2018.
3. Web site: Основной состав . First Team Squad . FC Astana . 8 July 2014 . 4 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120304095051/http://fca.kz/rus/command_main/ . dead .
4. Web site: Седрик Гогуа – игрок Кайрата. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 13 November 2017. Russian. 13 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171113222325/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/1/sedrik_gogua_igrok_kajrata/1-1-0-2104. 13 November 2017. dead. dmy-all.
5. Web site: Гай Ассулин – новичок ФК Кайрат. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 13 February 2018. Russian. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213195423/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/1/gaj_assulin_novichok_fk_kajrat/1-1-0-2371. 13 February 2018. dead. dmy-all.
6. Web site: Официально: Хуан Фелипе – игрок Кайрата. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 29 March 2018. Russian. 29 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180329184442/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/1/oficialno_khuan_felipe_igrok_kajrata/1-1-0-2565. 29 March 2018. dead. dmy-all.
7. Web site: ОФИЦИАЛЬНО: АДЕРИНСОЛА ХАБИБ ЭСЕОЛА – ИГРОК "КАЙРАТА" . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 7 June 2018 . Russian . 6 June 2018.
8. Web site: ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ В КАЙРАТ, МАРТОН! . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 2 July 2018 . Russian . 2 July 2018.
9. Web site: СЕРГЕЙ ПОЛИТЕВИЧ — ОФИЦИАЛЬНО ЗАЯВЛЕН ЗА КАЙРАТ . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 10 July 2018 . Russian . 10 July 2018.
10. Web site: ОФИЦИАЛЬНО: ДАВИД ЛОРИЯ — ИГРОК КАЙРАТА. fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 24 August 2018 . Russian . 24 August 2018.
11. Web site: Турысбек стал игроком Тобола. fctobol.kz. FC Tobol. 17 January 2018. Russian. 11 January 2018. 27 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220127183232/https://fctobol.kz/turysbek-stal-igrokom-tobola/. dead.
12. Web site: Крылья и Кайрат договорились о продлении аренды Бато. kc-camapa.ru. FC Krylia Sovetov Samara. Russian. 29 December 2017.
13. Web site: Официально: Уго Сильвейра – игрок Кайрата. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 13 February 2018. Russian. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073438/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/1/oficialno_ugo_silvejra_igrok_kajrata/1-1-0-2372. 14 February 2018. dead.
14. Web site: Ермек Куантаев и Рифат Нурмугамет перешли в Жетысу. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 18 February 2018. Russian. 16 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090227/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/osnovnoj_sostav/ermek_kuantaev_i_rifat_nurmugamet_pereshli_v_zhetysu/3-1-0-2380. 19 February 2018. dead.
15. Web site: Спасибо, Гай!. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 30 March 2018. Russian. 30 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180330212509/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/osnovnoj_sostav/spasibo_gaj/3-1-0-2572. 30 March 2018. dead. dmy-all.
16. Web site: Gai Assulin a semnat până în 2021 cu Politehnica. 26 September 2019. 26 September 2019. Politehnica Iași. Romanian.
17. Web site: FCM bekræfter: Henter Anene i januar 2019 . bold.dk . bold.dk . 5 October 2018 . Danish . 8 September 2018.
18. Web site: FC SKA-Khabarovsk. СЕДРИК ГОГУА ПОДПИСАЛ КОНТРАКТ С ФК "СКА-ХАБАРОВСК". 24 August 2018. Russian.
19. Web site: "OBRIGADO, ISAEL!": ИСАЭЛЬ ПОКИДАЕТ "КАЙРАТ" . fckairat.com . FC Kairat . 30 November 2018 . Russian . 27 November 2018.
20. Web site: Bejelentés: Gólerős brazil támadó érkezett . fradi.hu/ . Ferencvárosi TC . 1 February 2019 . Hungarian . 1 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190202095228/http://www.fradi.hu/hu/labdarugas/nb-i/hirek/bejelentes-goleros-brazil-tamado-erkezett/20190201/c/23112 . 2 February 2019 . dead .
21. Web site: Ivo Ilicevic ist ab sofort Cluberer . fcn.de . 1. FC Nürnberg . 30 January 2019 . German . 30 January 2019.
22. Web site: Elek Ákos a MOL Vidi FC játékosa! . molvidi.hu/ . MOL Vidi FC . 9 January 2019 . Hungarian . 8 January 2019.
23. Web site: Championat. Аршавин: моя карьера уже закончена. Arshavin: My career is already over. 3 December 2018.
24. Web site: СТАНИСЛАВ ЛУНИН: "ЧАСТИЧКА МОЕГО СЕРДЦА НАВСЕГДА ОСТАНЕТСЯ В АЛМАТЫ" . fckairat.com/ . FC Kairat . 2 January 2019 . Russian . 29 December 2018.
25. Web site: ОФИЦИАЛЬНО: СТАНИСЛАВ ЛУНИН — ИГРОК ФК ИРТЫШ . fcirtysh.kz . FC Irtysh Pavlodar . 10 January 2019 . Russian . 29 December 2018.
26. Web site: Гидеон Баа – на просмотре в Кайрате. fckairat.com. FC Kairat. 5 February 2018. Russian. 1 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180204080511/http://fckairat.com/publ/fk_kajrat_2016/osnovnoj_sostav/gideon_baa_na_prosmotre_v_kajrate/3-1-0-2327. 4 February 2018. dead.