Season 2012 Start date 2012 Location Kazakhstan Goals scored 348 Relegated FC Sunkar, FC Okzhetpes | Biggest home win Astana 5-0 Atyrau Champion FC Shakhter Karagandy End date October 28, 2012 Matches played 144 | |
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Champions Shakhter Karagandy !Shakhter Karagandy Champions League Shakhter Karagandy !Shakhter Karagandy Europa League Astana !Astana
Irtysh Pavlodar !Irtysh Pavlodar
Aktobe !Aktobe Top goalscorer Ulugbek Bakaev and Ihar Zyankovich (9) | ||
The 2012 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 21st season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season was scheduled to start on 9 March 2012 and to conclude on 27 October 2012 Shakhter Karagandy as the defending champions having won their first league championship last year succeeded in preservation of its league title.
Contents
The league was expanded from twelve to fourteen teams for this season.
Changes from 2011 season
The league was expanded from twelve to fourteen teams for this season. This also led to a change in the competition modus. The second phase with it separate play-off groups for championship and relegation has been abolished; all teams will play a single home-and-away round-robin schedule.
Teams
Promoted
Relegated
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
League table
Updated to games played on 25 Oct 2012.
Source: FFK (Russian)
Rules for classification: 1st points;
Two team tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd head-to-head record; 3rd goals difference; 4th goals scored; 5th away goals scored;
Multiple teams tiebreak: 1st overall wins; 2nd goals difference; 3rd goals scored; 4th away goals scored
1Astana qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League as winner of 2012 Kazakhstan Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Updated to games played on 28 Oct 2012.
Source: (Russian)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.