FK Köpetdag Aşgabat

FK Köpetdag
Full name	Köpetdag Futbol Kluby
Founded	1947; 75 years ago
Ground	Köpetdag Stadium
Capacity	26,000
Manager
League	Ýokary Liga
2021	Ýokary Liga, 4th of 8
Home colours	Away colours

Football Club Köpetdag (Turkmen: Köpetdag Futbol Kluby)^[1] is a Turkmen professional football club based in Ashgabat, currently playing in the Ýokary Liga. Their home stadium is Köpetdag Stadium which can hold 26,000 people. Köpetdag traditional kit colours are blue and white. Having won 6 Turkmen championships and 6 Cup of Turkmenistan, they are one of the country's most successful clubs.

History[]

USSR[]

Club participated of 44 the USSR championships (1947–54, 1956–91). They appeared under the names of Locomotiv (1947–49), Spartak (1950–54), Kolhozchi (1956–59, 1976–87), Stoitel (1962–75) and Köpetdag (1960, 1961, 1988–91, present).

Soviet League Second group (1947–49), the best place: 3rd in 1948
Soviet League Class B (1950–54, 1956–63), the best place: 2nd in 1963
Soviet League Class A, the second group (1964–69), the best place: 4th in 1967
Soviet First League (1970–74, 1976–79), the best place: 9th in 1976
Soviet Second League (1975, 1980–91), the best place: 2nd in 1975 and 1991.

In Soviet times, one of the coaches of the team in the 1980s was Valery Nepomnyashchy.

Turkmenistan[]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union team planned to participate in the open championship of the CIS, but because of the many differences the championship did not take place. The first few years team has been the basic club of Turkmenistan national football team.

In 2008 they were disbanded due to financial crisis, returning few years later.

New era[]

In 2015, on the basis of MIA of Turkmenistan the club FC Kopetdag was re-created.^[2] Club began to make appearances in the First League of Turkmenistan. The team qualified for 2015 Turkmenistan Cup. They managed promotion to the 2016 season by winning the promotion play-off. ^[3]

Domestic history[]

Season	League									Turkmenistan Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Turkmenistan Cup	Name	League	Manager
2015	2nd	1	28							Round of 16			Said Seýidow
2016	1st	7	36	11	6	18	37	63	39	Quarterfinal			Said Seýidow
2017	1st	7	32	9	6	17	35	55	33	Quarterfinal			Said Seýidow
2018	1st	6	28	8	5	15	27	39	29	Champions			Said Seýidow
2019	1st	4	28	11	6	11	33	37	39	Semifinal			Said Seýidow Çary Annakow (Caretaker) Tofik Şükürow
2020	1st	4	28	11	8	9	33	27	41	Runners Up			Tofik Şükürow
2021	1st	4	14	5	6	3	22	18	21		Begenç Akmämmedow	6	Tofik Şükürow

Continental history[]

As of match played 7 September 2001

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Asian Club Championship	22	9	3	10	39	29
Asian Cup Winners' Cup	8	3	1	4	16	13
AFC Cup	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	30	12	4	14	55	42

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1994–95	Asian Club Championship	Preliminary round	Ansat Pavlodar	2–0		2nd
			Sitora Dushanbe	7–1
			Alga Bishkek	1–0
			Neftchi Fergana	1–2
1995	Asian Club Championship	First round	Kant-Oil	6–0	0–2	6–2
		Second round	Al Ansar	1–1	5–0	6–1
		Quarterfinal	Saipa	0–1		4th
			Al-Arabi	2–2
			Al Nassr	0–1
1996–97	Asian Club Championship	First round	Persepolis	0–0	0–1	0–1
1997–98	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	First round	Neftchi Fergana	4–0	2–3	6–3
		Second round	Kairat	2–0	1–3	3–3 (a)
		Quarterfinal	Al-Shorta	4–0	1–1	5–1
		Semifinal	Al Nassr	1–2
		Third place match	Beijing Guoan	1–4
1998–99	Asian Club Championship	First round	Irtysh Pavlodar	4–1	0–3	4–4
		Second round	Vakhsh Qurghonteppa	5–0	1–0	6–0
		Quarterfinal	Al Ain	1–6		4th
			Al Hilal	2–4
			Esteghlal	1–0
2001–02	Asian Club Championship	First round	Nasaf Qarshi	0–1	0–3	0–4
2022	AFC Cup	Group F	Dordoi Bishkek
2022	AFC Cup	Group F	Khujand

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup[]

1993: Group stage
1994: Semi-final
1995: Group stage
1994: Group stage
1997: Semi-final
1998: Semi-final
: Group stage
: Semi-final

Honours[]

Ýokary Liga (6)
- Winner : 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
Birinji liga (1)
- Winner : 2015
Turkmenistan Cup (7)
- Winner : 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2018
- Runners-up : 1995, 2005, 2006, 2020
SSR Turkmenistan Cup (1)
- Winner : 1992
Turkmenistan Super Cup
- Runners-up : 2019

Coaches[]

Alexei Sokolov (1950–51)
Leo Olshansky (1952–53)
Stepan Arutyunov (1957)
Vladimir Alyakrinsky (1964)
Vladimir Eremeev (1965–66)
Sergei Budagov (1967–68)
Holodkov Seraphim (1969)
Sergei Korshunov (June 1970)
Sergei Budagov (1971)
Vladimir Yulygin (1973–74)

Viktor Kuznetsov (1975–78)
Anatoli Polosin (1979, until June 11)
Valery Nepomnyashchy (June 11, 1979, 1982–83)
Edward Danilov (1984)
Arsen Naydyonov (1985)
Vladimir Yulygin (1986)
Viktor Kuznetsov (1987)
Vladislav Kazakov (1988)
Victor Orlov (1989)
Baýram Durdyýew (1990–96)

Boris Lavrov (1997–98)
Tachmurad Agamuradov (July 1998)
Viktor Pozhechevskyi (July 1998–Jan 1999)
Ravil Menzeleev – Sergei Kazankov (1999)
Tachmurad Agamuradov (2000–01)
Baýram Durdyýew (2001–02)
Berdymyrat Nurmyradow (2003–07)
Said Seyidov (2015 – May 2019)
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References[]

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^ turkmenportal. "Состоялась жеребьевка Кубка Туркменистана по футболу - Спорт". Туркменистан, интернет портал о культурной, деловой и развлекательной жизни в Туркменистане. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
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