Köpetdag Aşgabat

Köpetdag Ashgabat (Russian « Копетдаг » Ашхабад ) is a former football club from the Turkmen capital Ashgabat and time of its existence, one of the most successful clubs in the country.

History

The club was in 1936 or 1937/38, as Lokomotiw Ashgabat Turkmen respective first Cup Winners' Cup and Republic champions, in the wake of the club played under different names ( pre-1938 and 1946-1949 Lokomotiw; 1939-1945 Dynamo Ashgabat, Ashgabat 1950-1955 Spartak, 1956 -1959 and 1976-1988 Kolchostschy Ashgabat, Ashgabat Stroitel 1962-1975, since 1989 Köpetdag ) usually in the second and third division of the Soviet Union, but it was after the collapse of the USSR, each with six league titles and cup wins most successful club in Turkmenistan, in summer 2008 However, the club moved back during the ongoing operation of the Turkmen League game from the game and broke up in the episode.

In the 1930s and 40s, the club nine out of ten first cup competitions of the Turkmen SSR won.

1939, also reached the first of four times the knockout stages of the Soviet Cup; In the late 1940s the first time you got into the third Soviet division into the entire 1950 years in the second Soviet League ( B-Class ) to play, but was downgraded in the 1960s with the League in the third division. Stieg but referred to in the now A- class in the first year of the third-class (1963 ) 2 league again. With the exception of a year in the third league, the club was able to keep the league until the end of the 1970s; at this time played the educated in their own youth Gurban Berdiýew for the club. 1979 is, however, rose again in the third division from where they remained in the early 1990s to the end of the USSR.

In the first eight years of the club not only twice each Turkmen Cup winner and champion, with the turn of the millennium, however, the club lost its dominance. Although it was still 2001 and runner-up in 2005 and 2006 Vice Cup Winners' Cup, but the club was insolvent in July 2008 and broke up.

The name of the club derives from the city of Ashgabat Kopet -Dag Mountains.

Well-known former players

• Turkmenistan Vladimir Baýramow
• Soviet Union / Turkmenistan Gurban Berdiýew
• Russia Valeri Broschin
• Georgia Kakha Gogoladse
• Soviet Union / Turkmenistan Kamil Mingazow
• Turkmenistan Çäryýär Muhadow
• Soviet Union / Russia Valeri Nepomnjaschtschi
• Russia Dmitri Neschelew
• Turkmenistan Arslan Satubaldin