FC Elimai
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| Full name | Football Club Elimai Елімай футбол клубы | ||
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| Founded | 1964 | ||
| Ground | Spartak Stadium Semey, Kazakhstan | ||
| Capacity | 8,000[citation needed] | ||
| Chairman | Akhmedzhan Kazakbayev | ||
| Manager | Andrei Karpovich | ||
| League | Kazakhstan Premier League | ||
| 2023 | Kazakhstan First Division, 1st (promoted) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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FC Elimai (Kazakh: Елімай футбол клубы) is a Kazakh professional football club based in Semey. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, and under the name Elimai Semey (or simply "Elimai") they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998. They are currently in Premier League.
History
Elimai most recently won the Kazakh league while the Football Federation of Kazakhstan were AFC affiliates. After Kazakhstan switched to UEFA affiliation, Elimai were relegated to the second-tier Kazakhstan First Division.
After the annex of former Semey Province to East Kazakhstan Province, the city of Semey was no longer a province capital. Thus all financial support from province went to FC Vostok, from Oskemen, the current province capital.
Names
- 1964 : Founded as Tsementnik
- 1971 : Renamed Spartak
- 1994 : Renamed Elimai
- 1999 : Renamed AES-Elimai
- 2001 : Renamed Elimai
- 2004 : Renamed Semey
- 2008 : Renamed Spartak
- 2022 : Renamed Elimai
Domestic history
| Season | League | Kazakhstan Cup | Top goalscorer | Manager | |||||||||
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| Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GS | GA | P | Name | League | |||
| 1992 | 1st | 14 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 25 | 60 | 13 | ||||
| 1993 | 1st | 17 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 32 | 35 | 30 | ||||
| 1994 | 1st | 1 | 30 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 70 | 29 | 47 |  Kairat Aubakirov
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| 1995 | 1st | 1 | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 68 | 23 | 67 | Winners | Andrei Miroshnichenko
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| 1996 | 1st | 3 | 34 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 67 | 17 | 74 | Bolat Esmagambetov
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| 1997 | 1st | 7 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 41 | 26 | 46 | Oleg Litvinenko
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8 | ||
| 1998 | 1st | 1 | 26 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 60 | 20 | 63 | Oleg Litvinenko
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| 1999 | 1st | 9 | 30 | 12 | 4 | 14 | 35 | 36 | 40 | ||||
| 2000 | 1st | 8 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 43 | 33 | 41 | Kairat Aubakirov
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| 2001 | 1st | 7 | 32 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 47 | 42 | 48 | Kairat Aubakirov
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| 2002 | 1st | 8 | 32 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 33 | 51 | 39 | ||||
| 2003 | 1st | 9 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 35 | 35 | 43 | ||||
| 2004 | 1st | 19 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 25 | 84 | 13 | ||||
| 2005 | 2nd | 2 | 24 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 76 | 17 | 59 | ||||
| 2006 | 2nd | 4 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 46 | 25 | 43 | ||||
| 2007 | 2nd | 9 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 29 | 49 | 29 | ||||
| 2008 | 2nd | 3 | 26 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 50 | 35 | 47 | First round | |||
| 2009 | 2nd | 7 | 26 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 35 | 41 | 38 | First round | |||
| 2010 | 2nd | 4 | 34 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 68 | 40 | 64 | First round | |||
| 2011 | 2nd | 14 | 32 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 36 | 53 | 32 | First round | |||
| 2012 | 2nd | 6 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 38 | 45 | 46 | First round | |||
| 2013 | 2nd | 2 | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 54 | 24 | 70 | First round |  Paul Puryshkin
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| 2014 | 1st | 12 | 32 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 52 | 21 | First round |  Nemanja Jovanović
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7 | Almas Kulshinbayev
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| 2015 | 2nd | 6 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 19 | 39 | Second round | |||
Continental history
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1995 | Asian Club Championship | First round | Neftchi Fargʻona
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1–3 | 4–1 | 5–4 |
| Second round |  Al-Nassr
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0–1 | 0–31 | 0–41 | ||
| 1996–97 | Asian Club Championship | First round |  AiK Bishkek
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4–2 | 2–1 | 6–3 |
| Second round |  Persepolis
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3–0 | 0–5 | 3–5 |
1 Elimai Semey withdrew after the 1st leg.
Current squad
- As of 11 July 2024[1]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
- Kazakhstan Premier League (3):1994, 1995, 1998
- Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1995
Notes
- ^ "Футбол клубы "Елімай"". pflk.kz (in Russian). Football Federation of Kazakhstan. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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