FC Spartak Semey

The FK Spartak Semey (Russian Футбольный клуб Спартак Семей ) is a Kazakh football club based in Semipalatinsk. The club colors are red and green.

  • 3.1 Championship successes
  • 3.2 Cup success

History

Soviet Championship

The association founded in 1964 as Tsementnik Semipalantinsk was renamed in 1971 in Spartak Semipalatinsk. The team took from 1967 to 1991 a total of 28 times at the Soviet Championship part. All seasons were spent in the third division of the Soviet Union. Although the Club 1970, 1971 and 1977 Zone Champion, was the club failed in each case in the promotion round.

Kazakh Cup

After the end of the Soviet era and the independence of Kazakhstan there has been a renewed renamed Yelimai Semipalatinsk. Under this name, the team celebrated the greatest success, as in 1994, 1995 and 1998, three times the champion title and 1995, winning the cup could be celebrated. During the 2004 season the team was renamed FC Semey and dismounted from the Kazakhstan Super League. Since then, the association, which was renamed in spring 2008 in Semipalatinsk Spartak played in the second Kazakh league. After the season 2013 the team from Semipalatinsk returned to the Kazakh upper house when the team won the runner-up in the second division and in the relegation match on neutral ground, in the capital's Astana Arena, the penultimate of the Premjer league Vostok Öskemen with 1: 0 was only defeated after extra time, a goal by Pawel Puryschkin in 118th minute. Thus Spartak Semey plays again top notch after nine years of abstinence.

Asia Cup

For the first time the club came out of Semipalatinsk in the AFC Champions League in the season 1995/ 96 in appearance. In the Central Asian group of Uzbek representatives FK Neftchi Fargona was eliminated with a total score of 5-4 in the first round. In the second round the team against Al -Nasr from Saudi Arabia had to let go first.

In the 1996/97 season the club AiK Kyrgyzstan Bishkek could be defeated in the first round after two wins. In the second round the team was eliminated again, the Iranian representative Persepolis Tehran proved after a 3-0 home success and subsequent 0:5 away defeat to be too strong.

Achievements

Cup successes

  • Kazakh champion: 1994, 1995, 1998
  • Zone champion in the third division of the USSR: 1970, 1971, 1977

Cup successes

  • Kazakh Cup Winners: 1995

Stadium

The club plays its home games at the Spartak Stadium, which holds 15,000 spectators.

Current squad for the 2014 season

Status: March 2014

Well-known former players

  • Kazakhstan Andrei Karpovich (1998-2000)
  • Kazakhstan Samat Smaqow (1997-1998, 2003)
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