FK Köpetdag Aşgabat

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.

FK Köpetdag

Full name	Köpetdag Futbol Kluby
Founded	1947; 76 years ago (1947)
Ground	Köpetdag Stadium
Capacity	26,000
Manager	Tofik Şükürow
League	Ýokary Liga
2021	Ýokary Liga, 4th of 8
Home colours Away colours

History

USSR

The club participated in 44 of the USSR championships (1947–54, 1956–91). They appeared under the names of Locomotiv (1947–49), Spartak (1950–54), Kolhozchi (1956–59, 1976–87), Stroitel (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
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
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 27 June 2022

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	2	1	0	1	2	3
Total	32	13	4	15	57	45

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	1–0		2nd
			Khujand	1–3

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

• 1993: Group stage
• 1994: Semi-final
• 1995: Group stage
• 1994: Group stage
• 1997: Semi-final
• 1998: Semi-final
• 1999: Group stage
• 2001: Semi-final

Honours

• Ýokary Liga
  • Champions (6): 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
• Birinji liga
  • Champions (1): 2015
• Turkmenistan Cup
  • Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2018
  • Runners-up (4): 1995, 2005, 2006, 2020
• SSR Turkmenistan Cup
  • Winners (1): 1992
• Turkmenistan Super Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 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) Çary Annakow^[4] (May 2019 – June 2019) Tofik Şükürow^[5] (June 2019 – present)

References

1. "Köpetdag FK - Soccer - Team Profile - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics". Global Sports Archive.
2. "Золотой век". turkmenistan.gov.tm. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
3. 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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5. "«Ахал» вырвал победу у «Шагадама» на последних минутах и сократил отставание от лидера | Спорт".