1992 Kazakhstan Premier League

The 1992 Kazakhstan Top Division was the inaugural season of the Top Division, now called the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan.^[1][2]

Kazakhstan Top Division

Season	1992
Champions	Kairat
Relegated	Metallist Arman CSKA
Top goalscorer	Sergei Kogai (21)
1993 →

League format

See also: 1991 Soviet Second League B

Originally planned 25 teams in total. But withdrawal of Metallurg after couple of games and which results were annulled cut Group A one team fewer.

It was split into two stages. In first stage two groups of 11 and 13 teams were formed. In second stage the best seven teams of each group joined together to play in a final group for positions 1 to 14. The rest of the teams played in a group for positions 15 to 24. Teams played against each other on home-away basis in their groups. Final standings of teams did not count the results of the first stage.

Teams in the 1991 Soviet football season

1991 Soviet First League

• «Kairat» (Alma-Ata) - 14th place

1991 Soviet Second League

• «Vostok» (Ust-Kamenogorsk) - 5th place
• «Tselinnik» (Akmola) - 8th place
• «Traktor» (Pavlodar) - 9th place
• «Shakhter» (Karaganda) - 10th place
• «Fosfor» (Dzhambul) - 11th place
• «Zhiger» (Chimkent) - 12th place
• «Ekibastuzets» (Ekibastuz) - 18th place
• «Zhetysu» (Taldy-Kurgan) - 21st place

1991 Soviet Second League B (republican competition)

• «Aktyubinets» (Aktiubinsk) - 1st place
• «Spartak» (Semipalatinsk) - 2nd place
• «Khimik» (Kustanai) - 3rd place
• «Kaisar» (Kyzyl-Orda) - 4th place
• «Metallurg» (Dzhezkazgan) - 5th place
• «Gornyak» (Khromtau) - 6th place
• «Metallist» (Petropavlovsk) - 8th place
• «Bolat» (Temirtau) - 9th place
• «Kokshetau» (Kokchetav) - 11th place
• «Montazhnik» (Turkestan) - 12th place
• «Arman» (Kentau) - 13th place
• «Aktau» (Aktau) - 15th place
• «Uralets» (Uralsk) - 17th place

Teams without the Soviet status of "teams of masters" (professional teams)

• «Arsenal-SKIF» (Chimkent)
• «Zenit» (Kokchetav)
• CSKA (Alma-Ata)

Group A

Aktau

Aktyubinets

Arman

Fosfor

Gornyak

Kairat

Khimik

Kokshetau

Tselinnik

Uralets

Zhiger

Locations of teams in the 1992 Kazakhstan Premier League

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktau	Aktau	Zhastar Stadium
Arman	Kentau
Aktyubinets	Aktobe	Central Stadium
Fosfor	Taraz	Central Stadium
Gornyak	Khromtau
Kairat	Almaty	Central Stadium
Khimik	Kostanay	Central Stadium
Kokshetau	Kokshetau	Okzhetpes Stadium
Metallurg	Dzhezkazgan
Tselinnik	Astana	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium
Uralets	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium
Zhiger	Shymkent	Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium

Group B

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Arsenal-SKIF
Batyr
Bolat
CSKA	Almaty
Kaisar
Metallist
Montazhnik
Shakhter	Karagandy
Spartak	Semey
Traktor	Pavlodar
Vostok
Zenit	Kokshetau
Zhetysu

First round

Group A

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kairat	20	16	2	2	49	10	+39	50	Qualification for the championship round
2	Fosfor	20	12	3	5	36	19	+17	39
3	Tselinnik Tselinograd	20	10	4	6	35	26	+9	34
4	Zhiger	20	9	6	5	35	21	+14	33
5	Gornyak	20	10	3	7	24	22	+2	33
6	Khimik	20	9	2	9	30	26	+4	29
7	Aktyubinets	20	7	6	7	22	19	+3	27
8	Aktau	20	8	2	10	27	33	−6	26	Qualification for the relegation round
9	Uralets	20	5	3	12	15	39	−24	18
10	Kokshetau	20	5	1	14	15	39	−24	16
11	Arman	20	3	0	17	24	58	−34	9

Source: kpfl.kz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	AKT	ATA	ARM	FOS	GOR	KHI	KOK	KRT	TSE	URA	ZHI
Aktyubinets		2–0	0–2	0–5	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	8–0	0–2
Aktau	1–1		3–0	2–1	2–0	0–4	1–0	0–4	3–1	3–0	0–3
Arman	0–2	4–7		1–2	2–3	2–3	4–1	1–8	0–2	0–1	2–8
Fosfor	0–0	3–1	2–0		0–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	0–2	3–0	1–4
Gornyak	1–0	4–2	2–0	0–3		0–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	0–0
Khimik	1–1	0–1	3–0	3–2	1–2		2–0	0–3	2–2	1–2	2–1
Kokshetau	1–3	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–3	3–1		0–4	1–2	3–2	0–3
Kairat	3–1	1–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–0		5–1	1–0	1–1
Tselinnik Tselinograd	0–1	2–0	3–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	3–0	2–1		6–0	3–1
Uralets	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–2	2–2		0–3
Zhiger	0–0	1–1	1–3	1–4	3–1	1–0	0–0	0–2	1–1	1–0

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

Group B

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Batyr	24	16	2	6	35	17	+18	50	Qualification for the championship round
2	Shakhter Karagandy	24	13	8	3	46	17	+29	47
3	Traktor	24	14	5	5	47	26	+21	47
4	Kaisar	24	14	1	9	33	20	+13	43
5	Arsenal-SKIF	24	12	5	7	38	21	+17	41
6	Vostok	24	13	1	10	39	26	+13	40
7	Spartak	24	12	3	9	42	41	+1	39
8	Bolat	24	9	7	8	32	23	+9	34	Qualification for the relegation round
9	Metallist	24	9	6	9	41	41	0	33
10	Montazhnik	24	6	7	11	32	39	−7	25
11	Zhetysu	24	5	6	13	31	35	−4	21
12	Zenit Kokshetau	24	4	1	19	14	60	−46	13
13	CSKA	23	3	0	20	27	91	−64	9

Source: kpfl.kz
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	ARS	BAT	BOL	CSK	KSR	MPE	MON	SPA	SHA	TRA	VOS	ZEN	ZHE
Arsenal-SKIF		3–2	0–0	2–3	1–4	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	3–1	0–1	0–0
Batyr	0–1		2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	3–0
Bolat	1–1	2–1		5–0	0–3	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–2	2–1	0–2	2–1	0–0
CSKA	0–7	1–2	0–8		2–0	0–6	1–2	0–3	2–9	3–6	0–1	1–2	1–7
Kaisar	0–2	0–1	0–0	4–1		4–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	3–2
Metallist	0–4	0–1	1–1	4–1	3–1[lower-alpha 1]		2–2	1–1	1–4	2–6	1–0	3–0	0–1
Montazhnik	1–2	0–2	3–0	3–1	0–1	3–2		3–5	0–0	1–4	4–2	4–1	0–0
Spartak	1–0	1–1	0–2	6–3	0–1	3–3	2–0		1–4	3–1	3–2	2–0	2–1
Shakhter Karagandy	2–1	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	3–0		0–0	2–0	7–1	0–0
Traktor	2–1	1–0	2–1	5–3	0–2	0–0	4–2	2–0	1–1		2–0	4–0	1–0
Vostok	0–0	3–0	1–2	4–0	1–0	4–1	1–0	5–2	0–1	2–0		4–2	2–0
Zenit Kokshetau	XXX[lower-alpha 2]	0–4	0–2	0–4	2–0	0–6	0–0	2–0	1–2	0–3	2–1[lower-alpha 3]		2–1
Zhetysu	1–3	0–1	0–2	2–0	2–1	1–2	3–3	2–3	2–3	0–0	0–3	6–0

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

1. The result of the match between Metallist and Kaisar (3–1) was declared invalid and declared as a regulation win for Kaisar, but no goals.
2. The match between Zenit Kokshetau and Arsenal-SKIF was apparently never played, but the football association decided to win a regulation victory for Arsenal-SKIF declared, but without goals.
3. The result of the match between Zenit Kokshetau and Vostok (2–1) was declared invalid and led to a regulation win for Vostok declared, but without goals.

Second round

Championship round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kairat (C)	26	16	5	5	48	22	+26	53
2	Arsenal-SKIF	26	14	8	4	39	21	+18	50
3	Traktor	26	14	8	4	39	22	+17	50
4	Batyr	26	14	6	6	39	24	+15	48
5	Fosfor	26	12	5	9	40	29	+11	41
6	Zhiger	26	9	10	7	33	32	+1	37
7	Shakhter Karagandy	26	8	12	6	24	22	+2	36
8	Gornyak	26	8	7	11	24	29	−5	31
9	Tselinnik Tselinograd	26	7	9	10	32	37	−5	30
10	Kaisar	26	9	2	15	25	29	−4	29
11	Vostok	26	8	4	14	29	35	−6	28
12	Aktyubinets	26	4	12	10	12	31	−19	24
13	Khimik	26	7	3	16	29	45	−16	24
14	Spartak	26	5	3	18	25	60	−35	18

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

Results

Home \ Away	AKT	ARS	BAT	FOS	GOR	KHI	KRT	KSR	SPA	SHA	TRA	TSE	VOS	ZHI
Aktyubinets		0–2	0–1					0–0	0–0	1–1	0–6		1–3
Arsenal-SKIF	2–0			2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1					1–1		0–0
Batyr	0–1			2–3	1–1	2–1	1–1					4–0		0–0
Fosfor		1–2	0–2					1–0	2–0	0–0	0–1		2–0
Gornyak		0–1	0–2					0–2	1–0	0–0	0–2		4–0
Khimik		1–3	1–2					0–2	4–2	1–1	1–2		1–0
Kairat		1–2	1–2					1–0	5–1	2–0	0–0		1–0
Kaisar	1–1			0–2	2–3	0–1	0–1					3–0		2–3
Spartak	1–1			2–4	0–3	4–2	0–1					0–2		1–2
Shakhter Karagandy	0–0			2–2	2–1	1–2[lower-alpha 1]	1–3					0–0		0–2
Traktor	0–0			2–0	2–2	3–0	4–3					1–0		2–2
Tselinnik Tselinograd		0–3	2–2					3–0	6–0	1–1	1–1		2–2
Vostok	0–1			1–0	1–1	4–1	1–3					1–0		0–1
Zhiger		1–1	0–4					1–3	3–0	1–1	1–2		1–1

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

1. The result of the match between Shakhter Karagandy and Khimik (1–2) was declared invalid and declared as a regulation win for Shakhter Karagandy, but no goals.

Relegation round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
15	Aktau	18	13	1	4	48	19	+29	40
16	Uralets	18	13	0	5	42	17	+25	39
17	Bolat	18	10	4	4	37	12	+25	34
18	Montazhnik	18	9	5	4	32	23	+9	32
19	Metallist (R)	18	9	2	7	43	26	+17	29	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
20	Kokshetau	18	9	1	8	30	28	+2	28
21	Zhetysu	18	8	3	7	32	20	+12	27
22	Arman (R)	18	6	0	12	35	41	−6	18	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division
23	Zenit Kokshetau	18	2	2	14	12	61	−49	8
24	CSKA (R)	18	2	0	16	15	79	−64	6	Relegation to the Kazakhstan First Division

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

Results

Home \ Away	ATA	ARM	BOL	CSK	KOK	MPE	MON	URA	ZEN	ZHE
Aktau			2–2	5–0		2–1	2–3		2–0	2–0
Arman			0–2	1–3		XXX[lower-alpha 1]	0–1		5–2	0–1
Bolat	5–0	2–0			4–1			1–0
CSKA	0–7	2–6			0–4			0–8
Kokshetau			1–0	5–0		1–2	1–0		2–2	1–3
Metallist	0–5	7–2			4–2			1–2
Montazhnik	2–3	1–2			2–1			0–2
Uralets			1–0	4–1		2–0	2–3		3–1	2–4
Zenit Kokshetau	0–4	1–8			0–1			0–7
Zhetysu	XXX[lower-alpha 2]	3–2			0–3			XXX[lower-alpha 3]

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

1. The match between Arman and Metallist (unk.) was declared as a regulation victory for Arman, but with no goals.
2. The match between Zhetysu and Aktau (unk.) was declared as a regulation win for Aktau, but no goals were scored.
3. The match between Zhetysu and Uralets (unk.) was declared as a regulation victory for Uralets, but no goals were scored.

Statistics

Top scorers

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Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sergei Kogai	Kaisar	22
2	Eduard Glazunov	Aktau	20
3	Pavel Demyan	Bulat	19
	Igor Grokhovskiy	Arman
	Radik Baiburin	Metallist
	Nikolay Kurganskiy	Ekisbastuzets
7	Evgeniy Sorokin	Gornyak	18
	Sergei Kondratskiy	Metallist
9	Oleg Rylov	Traktor	16
	Ruslan Duzmambetov	Vostok

See also

• Kazakhstan national football team 1992

References

1. Klisf.info: 1992 Season stats (in Russian)
2. Klisf.info: 1992 Season team roster (in Russian)
3. "ЧЕМПИОНАТ КАЗАХСТАНА. ВЫСШАЯ ЛИГА – 1992". kaz-football.kz/ (in Russian). Kazakhstan Football. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

External links

• Kazakhstan 1992. RSSSF
• The First football championship of Kazakhstan in 1992. Top League (I ЧЕМПИОНАТ КАЗАХСТАНА ПО ФУТБОЛУ - 1992. ВЫСШАЯ ЛИГА). Kazakhstan Football. (in Russian)