Football Club Kairat Almaty «Қайрат» футбол клубы Qairat Almaty Futbol Kluby
Nickname(s)
Халық командасы / Halyq Komandasy (The Nations's Team)
Founded
1954; 70 years ago (1954) as Lokomotiv Alma-Ata[1]
Ground
Central Stadium
Capacity
23,804[2]
Chairman
Kairat Boranbayev
Manager
Kirill Keker
League
Kazakhstan Premier League
2023
Kazakhstan Premier League, 4th of 14
Website
Club website
Home colours
Away colours
Current season
Football Club Kairat (Kazakh: Qaırat Fýtbol Klýby) is a professional football club based in Almaty, which plays in the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest level of Kazakh football. Founded in 1954 as Lokomotiv Alma-Ata, they became Urozhay in 1955 and Kairat in 1956.[1] The club's home ground is the Central Stadium which has a capacity of 23,804. The club's home kit colours are yellow and black striped shirts, black shorts and black socks.
Kairat was the leading Kazakh club during the Soviet period and the only representative of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Top League.[3] For this, Kairat became nicknamed The Nation's Team, and remains to be widely supported all over the country.[4] All in all, the club spent 24 seasons in the Soviet highest level. They also won Soviet First League titles twice in 1976 and 1983. During this period, Kairat was a part of the Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union.
In modern history, Kairat won three league titles, eight Kazakhstan Cups and two Kazakhstan Super Cups. The club's strongest rivalry is FC Astana, among fans their matches are considered as the Two Capitals Derby.[5]
^ ab"History". FC Kairat. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
^Стадион [Stadium] (in Russian). FC Kairat. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
^Aidyn Kozhakhmetov (8 July 2015). "Кайрат": пять поводов для гордости ["Kairat": five reasons for pride]. UEFA.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
^Кайрат Боранбаев: Кайрат — Народная команда. Так было всегда, и мы хотим это возродить [Kairat Boranbayev: Kairat is the People's Team. It has always been so, and we want to revive it]. sports.kz (in Russian). 3 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
^Tlek Adryshev (2 May 2017). "Two Capitals Derby: Astana Share Spoils With Kairat Thanks to Last-Gasp Equaliser". Football Federation of Astana (FFA). Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
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