| Club: | FC Shakhter Karagandy |
| Season: | 2018 |
| Manager: | Uladzimir Zhuravel (9 January-3 July) Andrei Finonchenko (Caretaker) (3 July-18 July) Nikolay Kostov (from 18 July) |
| Chairman: | Sergei Yegorov |
| Stadium: | Shakhter Stadium |
| League: | Premier League |
| League Result: | 8th |
| Cup1: | Kazakhstan Cup |
| League Topscorer: | Damir Kojašević (8) |
| Season Topscorer: | Damir Kojašević (9) |
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| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 FC Shakhter Karagandy season is the 27th successive season that the club will play in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Kazakhstan. Shakhter will also participate in the Kazakhstan Cup.
On 9 January 2018, Uladzimir Zhuravel was appointed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager.[1] On 3 July, Zhuravel left Shakhter Karagandy by mutual consent with Andrei Finonchenko being appointed as Caretaker Manager[2] On 18 July, Nikolay Kostov was confirmed as Shakhter Karagandy's new manager.[3]
| No. | Name | Nationality | Position | Date of birth (Age) | Signed from | Signed in | Apps. | Goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeepers | ||||||||||
| 1 | Abylaikhan Duysen |  | GK | 1994 6, df=yes | Astana | 2018 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 30 | Igor Shatskiy | | GK | 1989 5, df=yes | Academy | 2010 | 86 | 0 | ||
| 40 | Yegor Tsuprikov | | GK | 1997 5, df=yes | Bolat | 2018 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Defenders | ||||||||||
| 3 | Yevhen Tkachuk |  | DF | 1991 6, df=yes | Stal Kamianske | 2018 | 28 | 1 | ||
| 4 | Mikhail Gabyshev | | DF | 1990 1, df=yes | Vostok | 2012 | 122 | 6 | ||
| 5 | Kirill Pasichnik | | DF | 1993 5, df=yes | Buxoro | 2018 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 6 | Ilnur Mangutkin | | DF | 1986 9, df=yes | Okzhetpes | 2017 | 17 | 0 | ||
| 19 | Yevgeny Tarasov | | DF | 2011 10, df=yes | Vostok | 2009 | 191 | 8 | ||
| 20 | Mateo Mužek | DF | 1995 4, df=yes | Neftchi Baku | 2018 | 32 | 0 | |||
| 23 | Birzhan Kulbekov | | DF | 1994 4, df=yes | 2018 | 12 | 0 | |||
| 34 | Igor Pikalkin | | DF | 1992 3, df=yes | Astana | 2016 | 88 | 2 | ||
| 55 | Ruslan Alimbayev | | DF | 1997 3, df=yes | Olé Brasil | 2015 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Midfielders | ||||||||||
| 8 | Alyaksandr Valadzko |  | MF | 1986 6, df=yes | BATE Borisov | 2018 | 27 | 1 | ||
| 10 | Damir Kojašević |  | MF | 1987 6, df=yes | Vojvodina | 2018 | 28 | 8 | ||
| 16 | Sergei Mošnikov |  | MF | 1988 1, df=yes | Górnik Łęczna | 2018 | 9 | 0 | ||
| 18 | Igor Yurin | | MF | 1982 7, df=yes | Aktobe | 2018 | ||||
| 21 | Madi Zhakypbayev | | MF | 2000 3, df=yes | loan from Astana | 2018 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 22 | Marat Shakhmetov | | MF | 1989 2, df=yes | Akzhayik | 2017 | 61 | 6 | ||
| 27 | Egon Vůch |  | MF | 1991 2, df=yes | loan from Tobol | 2018 | 25 | 3 | ||
| 29 | Lukáš Droppa | | MF | 1989 4, df=yes | Slovan Bratislava | 2018 | 14 | 0 | ||
| 54 | Maxim Galkin | | MF | 1999 7, df=yes | Academy | 2018 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 77 | Gevorg Najaryan | | MF | 1998 1, df=yes | Astana | 2018 | 45 | 3 | ||
| 80 | Aidos Oral | | MF | 1999 4, df=yes | Academy | 2018 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 84 | Anton Chichulin | | MF | 1984 11, df=yes | Atyrau | 2018 | 13 | 1 | ||
| Forwards | ||||||||||
| 7 | Sergei Shaff | | FW | 1988 4, df=yes | Okzhetpes | 2018 | 25 | 2 | ||
| 11 | Gegham Harutyunyan |  | FW | 1990 8, df=yes | loan from Gandzasar Kapan | 2018 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 17 | Oralkhan Omirtayev | | FW | 1998 7, df=yes | Academy | 2015 | 53 | 5 | ||
| 70 | Zhanaly Pairouz | | FW | Academy | 2018 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 71 | Vyacheslav Putintsev | | FW | 1997 9, df=yes | Academy | 2016 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Players that left during the season | ||||||||||
| 9 | Aidos Tattybayev | | FW | 1990 4, df=yes | Bolat | 2016 | 70 | 10 | ||
| 13 | Oleksandr Mihunov | | MF | 1994 4, df=yes | Shakhtar Donetsk | 2018 | 17 | 1 | ||
| 24 | Milan Stojanović |  | MF | 1988 5, df=yes | Metalac Gornji Milanovac | 2017 | 47 | 10 | ||
| 31 | Danijel Subotić | FW | 1989 1, df=yes | Ulsan Hyundai | 2018 | 12 | 0 | |||
See main article: List of Kazakhstan football transfers winter 2017–18 and List of Kazakhstan football transfers summer 2018.
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 January 2018 | DF | | Yevhen Tkachuk | Stal Kamianske | Undisclosed | [4] | |
| 26 January 2018 | MF | | Alyaksandr Valadzko | BATE Borisov | Undisclosed | [5] | |
| 29 January 2018 | FW | | Sergei Shaff | Okzhetpes | Undisclosed | [6] | |
| 12 February 2018 | MF | | Damir Kojašević | Vojvodina | Undisclosed | [7] | |
| 14 February 2018 | MF | | Oleksandr Mihunov | Shakhtar Donetsk | Undisclosed | [8] | |
| 2 March 2018 | DF | | Kirill Pasichnik | Buxoro | Undisclosed | [9] | |
| 28 March 2018 | FW | Danijel Subotić | Ulsan Hyundai | Undisclosed | [10] | ||
| 4 July 2018 | MF | | Igor Yurin | Aktobe | Undisclosed | [11] | |
| 5 July 2018 | MF | | Anton Chichulin | Atyrau | Undisclosed | [12] | |
| 18 July 2018 | MF | | Lukáš Droppa | Slovan Bratislava | Undisclosed | [13] | |
| 26 July 2018 | MF | | Sergei Mošnikov | Górnik Łęczna | Undisclosed | [14] | |
| MF | | Gevorg Najaryan | Astana | Undisclosed |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Fee | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 December 2017 | MF | | Marko Stanojević | Astana | Undisclosed | [15] | |
| MF |  | Štefan Zošák | Poprad | Undisclosed | |||
| MF | | Július Szöke | Shakhtyor Soligorsk | Undisclosed | |||
| FW | | Sergei Khizhnichenko | Taraz | Undisclosed | |||
| 27 July 2018 | FW | | Aidos Tattybayev | Taraz | Undisclosed |
| Date from | Position | Nationality | Name | From | Date to | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 February 2018 | MF | | Madi Zhakypbayev | Astana | End of Season | ||
| 10 March 2018 | MF | | Egon Vůch | Tobol | End of Season | [16] [17] | |
| 30 July 2018 | FW | | Gegham Harutyunyan | Gandzasar Kapan | End of Season | [18] |
| Date | Position | Nationality | Name | Joined | Date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | | Yaroslav Baginskiy | |||||
| MF | | Vladislav Vasiliev | Energetik-BGU | ||||
| DF | Korede Aiyegbusi | Amical Saint-Prex | |||||
| MF | | Grigori Dubkov | |||||
| MF | | Sergei Skorykh | Kyzylzhar | ||||
| MF | | Kuanysh Ermekov | |||||
| 27 July 2018[19] | MF | | Oleksandr Mihunov | Dnipro-1 | |||
| 30 July 2018 | MF | | Milan Stojanović | Radnik Surdulica | |||
| 30 July 2018 | FW | Danijel Subotić | Dinamo București |
See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Premier League.
See main article: 2018 Kazakhstan Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away from Shakhter Karagandy on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Shakhter Karagandy during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=120 | Premier League | width=120 | Kazakhstan Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MF | | 10 | Damir Kojašević | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||
| 2 | MF | | 22 | Marat Shakhmetov | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||
| FW | | 17 | Oralkhan Omirtayev | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| 4 | FW | | 7 | Sergei Shaff | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| MF | | 27 | Egon Vůch | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | DF | | 19 | Yevgeny Tarasov | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||
| MF | | 77 | Gevorg Najaryan | 2 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 8 | MF | | 13 | Oleksandr Mihunov | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| MF | | 8 | Alyaksandr Valadzko | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| DF | | 3 | Yevhen Tkachuk | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| MF | | 84 | Anton Chichulin | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 11 | Gegham Harutyunyan | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 29 | 3 | 32 | ||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | Premier League | Kazakhstan Cup | Total | |||||||
| 1 | | GK | Abylaikhan Duysen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | | DF | Yevhen Tkachuk | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | | DF | Mikhail Gabyshev | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | | DF | Kirill Pasichnik | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | | FW | Sergei Shaff | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | | MF | Alyaksandr Valadzko | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | | MF | Damir Kojašević | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | | FW | Gegham Harutyunyan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | | FW | Oralkhan Omirtayev | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | | MF | Igor Yurin | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | | DF | Yevgeny Tarasov | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 20 | DF | Mateo Mužek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 22 | | MF | Marat Shakhmetov | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | | DF | Birzhan Kulbekov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 27 | | MF | Egon Vůch | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 29 | | MF | Lukáš Droppa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 30 | | GK | Igor Shatskiy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | | DF | Igor Pikalkin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 77 | | MF | Gevorg Najaryan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 88 | | MF | Anton Chichulin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Players who left Shakhter Karagandy during the season: | |||||||||||||
| 13 | | MF | Oleksandr Mihunov | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 31 | FW | Danijel Subotić | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| TOTALS | 61 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 69 | 1 | |||||||