1997 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Top Division
Season	1997
Champions	Irtysh Pavlodar
Relegated	Aktobe ; Ulytau
Asian Club Championship	Irtysh Pavlodar
Asian Cup Winners' Cup	Kaisar-Hurricane
Matches played	182
Goals scored	462 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nurken Mazbaev (16)
	← 1996 1998 →

The 1997 Kazakhstan Top Division was the sixth season of the Top Division, now called the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan.^[1]^[2]

Teams

Following the conclusion of the previous season, no teams were promoted or relegated. However Tobol, Munaishy, Kainar and SKIF-Ordabasy all withdrew from the league prior to the start of the season due to financial reasons.

Before the 1997 season started, Kokshe became Avtomobilist, Metallist became Ulytau, Aktobemunai became Aktobe, Tselinnik Akmola became Astana, Shakhter Karagandy became Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet and Vostok became Vostok Adil. Kaisar-Munai became Kaisar-Hurricane half-way through the season, in July.

Team overview

Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet

Locations of teams in the 1997 Kazakhstan Premier League

Team	Location	Venue
Aktobe	Aktobe	Central Stadium
Astana	Astana	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium
Avtomobilist	Kokshetau	Torpedo Stadium
Batyr	Ekibastuz	Shakhtyor Stadium
Bolat	Temirtau	Metallurg Stadium
Irtysh Pavlodar	Pavlodar	Central Stadium
Kairat	Almaty	Central Stadium
Kaisar-Hurricane	Kyzylorda	Gani Muratbayev Stadium
Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet	Karaganda	Shakhter Stadium
Taraz	Taraz	Central Stadium
Ulytau	Jezkazgan
Vostok	Oskemen	Vostok Stadium
Yelimay	Semey	Spartak Stadium
Zhiger	Shymkent	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Irtysh Pavlodar (C)	26	17	5	4	46	15	+31	56^[a]	Qualification for the Asian Club Championship
2	Taraz	26	18	2	6	49	18	+31	56^[a]
3	Kairat	26	16	5	5	52	14	+38	53
4	Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet	26	16	4	6	40	22	+18	52
5	Vostok Adil	26	14	8	4	42	16	+26	50
6	Batyr	26	15	2	9	38	22	+16	47
7	Yelimay	26	13	7	6	41	26	+15	46
8	Kaisar-Hurricane	26	13	5	8	39	23	+16	44	Qualification for the Asian Cup Winners' Cup
9	Astana	26	11	4	11	32	21	+11	37
10	Zhiger	26	8	5	13	27	40	−13	29
11	Avtomobilist	26	5	0	21	23	68	−45	15
12	Aktobe (R)	26	4	3	19	16	56	−40	15	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
13	Bolat	26	3	5	18	13	47	−34	14
14	Ulytau (R)	26	1	1	24	4	74	−70	4	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division

Source: kpfl.kz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Championship was decided in a decision game.

Golden match

13 October 1997

Irtysh Pavlodar	1–0	Taraz
Viktor Antonov 54'

Central Stadium, Almaty

Attendance: 7,500

Referee: A.Kulakov

Results

Home \ Away	AKT	AST	AVT	BAT	BOL	IRT	KRT	KSR	SHA	TAR	ULY	VOS	YEL	ZHI
Aktobe		0–3^[a]	0–3^[a]	0–1	2–1	0–4	0–2	0–3^[a]	1–2	0–2	3–0^[b]	1–1	0–0	0–0
Astana	2–0		5–1	2–3	0–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–1
Avtomobilist	1–0	0–1		0–2	1–0	1–4	2–4	0–1	0–3	0–1	3–0	0–5	2–4	3–4
Batyr	2–0	1–0	5–0		3–0	1–2	0–2	1–0	3–0	1–3	1–0	0–2	1–0	2–0
Bolat	0–2	1–1	1–0	2–3		0–2	0–1	1–1	1–4	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–3	0–0
Irtysh Pavlodar	1–0	0–0	3–0	2–1	5–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	5–1	2–0	1–1	4–1
Kairat	7–0	3–0	3–0	0–1	4–0	0–0		1–1	2–0	1–0	7–0	1–1	1–2	3–0
Kaisar-Hurricane	1–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	3–0	1–0	1–3		3–0	1–2	3–0^[b]	0–0	2–0	3–1
Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–1	1–2	3–2		2–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	2–0
Taraz	9–1	2–0	5–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0		3–0^[b]	1–0	3–1	1–0
Ulytau	0–5	0–3^[b]	0–3^[b]	0–3^[b]	0–1	0–3^[b]	0–3^[b]	0–4	0–3	1–3		0–0	0–1	2–1
Vostok Adil	3–0^[a]	1–0	8–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	3–0^[b]		0–0	3–1
Yelimay	3–0^[a]	2–1	1–0	2–2	4–0	3–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	4–2	3–0^[b]	1–0		3–1
Zhiger	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	3–0^[b]	2–3	2–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e As Aktobe withdrew after 21 games, the remaining 5 games were turned into a 0–3 win for the opponents.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k As Ulytau withdrew after 14 games, the remaining 12 games were turned into a 0–3 win for the opponents.

Statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Nurken Mazbaev	Taraz	16
2	Vladimir Loginov	Kaisar-Hurricane	12
3	Viktor Zubarev	Irtysh	10
3	Ruslan Duzmambetov	Vostok-Adil	10
5	Bolat Esmagambetov	Yelimay/Irtysh	9
6	Ruslan Imankulov	Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet	8
	Oleg Litvinenko	Yelimay
	Faizulla Ordabaev	Shakhter-Ispat-Karmet
9	Eduard Glazunov	Batyr	7
9	Yuri Zvonarenko	Batyr	7

References

^ Klisf.info: 1997 Season stats (in Russian)
^ Lyakhov.kz: 1997 Season stats Archived 2005-02-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

[table_hth_IRT0.35300882037403-3] Championship was decided in a decision game.

[table_note_1_AKT_AST0.71341546285591-4] As Aktobe withdrew after 21 games, the remaining 5 games were turned into a 0–3 win for the opponents.

[table_note_1_AKT_ULY0.71341546285591-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k As Ulytau withdrew after 14 games, the remaining 12 games were turned into a 0–3 win for the opponents.

[1] Klisf.info: 1997 Season stats (in Russian)

[2] Lyakhov.kz: 1997 Season stats Archived 2005-02-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

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