FC Elimai

FC Elimai

Full name	Football Club Elimai Елімай футбол клубы
Founded	1964; 61 years ago (1964) 2022; 3 years ago (2022)
Dissolved	2016; 9 years ago (2016)
Ground	Spartak Stadium Semey, Kazakhstan
Capacity	8,000[citation needed]
Chairman	Akhmedzhan Kazakbayev
Manager	Andrei Karpovich
League	Kazakhstan Premier League
2024	Kazakhstan Premier League 6th of 13
Website	fcelimai.kz
Home colours Away colours
Current season

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, then named Elimai Semey (or simply "Elimai"), they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998. They are currently in Premier League.

The club's predecessor is the Soviet team of masters of the local brick factory in Semey, hence the name Tsementnik (cement producer). The team of masters spent some 28 seasons in the Soviet Second League (Class B).

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the mid 1990s the club became one of the leaders of the Kazakhstani championship as Elimai . Yelim-Ai (or Elim-ay) is the name of a historic poem of Kazakh people.

FC 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 merger of former Semey Province into East Kazakhstan Province in 1997, the city of Semey was no longer a province capital. Thus, all financial support from the former province went to Oskemen, the current province capital.

• 1964 : Founded as Tsementnik
• 1971 : Renamed Spartak
• 1994 : Renamed Elimai
• 1999 : Renamed AES-Elimai
• 2001 : Renamed Elimai
• 2004 : Renamed Semey
• 2008 : Renamed Spartak
• 2016 : merger (along with FC Vostok) into FC Altai
• 2022 : Reestablished anew Elimai

Season	League									Kazakhstan Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	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	16
1995	1st	1	30	21	4	5	68	23	67	Winners	Andrei Miroshnichenko	23
1996	1st	3	34	22	8	4	67	17	74		Bolat Esmagambetov	14
1997	1st	7	26	13	7	6	41	26	46		Oleg Litvinenko	8
1998	1st	1	26	20	3	3	60	20	63		Oleg Litvinenko	14
1999	1st	9	30	12	4	14	35	36	40
2000	1st	8	28	12	5	11	43	33	41		Kairat Aubakirov	15
2001	1st	7	32	14	6	12	47	42	48		Kairat Aubakirov	13
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	13
2014	1st	12	32	7	7	18	30	52	21	First round	Nemanja Jovanović	7	Almas Kulshinbayev
2015	2nd	6	24	11	6	7	34	19	39	Second round			Aleksei Petrushin

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995	Asian Club Championship	First round	Neftchi Fargʻona	1–3	4–1	5–4
		Second round	Al-Nassr	0–1	0–31	0–41
1996–97	Asian Club Championship	First round	AiK Bishkek	4–2	2–1	6–3
		Second round	Persepolis	3–0	0–5	3–5

¹ Elimai Semey withdrew after the 1st leg.

As of 6 October 2024^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  KAZ Rakhat Mavlikeev 3 DF  NGA Samuel Odeyobo 4 DF  RUS Daniil Penchikov 5 DF  KAZ Sergey Keiler 7 FW  KAZ Roman Murtazayev 8 MF  KAZ Yuriy Pertsukh 9 FW  RUS Islam Mashukov 10 MF  KAZ Yerkebulan Nurgaliyev (captain) 11 FW  KAZ Ivan Sviridov 12 MF  KAZ Aslan Darabayev 15 DF  KAZ Dmitriy Schmidt 18 DF  KAZ Nursultan Sovetkazy 19 DF  KAZ Mikhail Gabyshev 20 FW  BRA China

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  KAZ Sultan Abilgazy 22 FW  KAZ Zhan-Ali Payruz 23 MF  BRA Maicom David 24 MF  DOM Edarlyn Reyes 35 GK  UKR Maksym Koval 37 MF  KAZ Meyrdzhan Zhumadilov 63 DF  BIH Ivan Šaravanja 77 DF  KAZ Dmitry Shomko 78 GK  RUS Denis Kavlinov 81 MF  BLR Nikita Korzun 88 DF  RUS Dmitri Yashin 92 MF  FRA Quentin Cornette — MF  BLR Yevgeny Beryozkin

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  KAZ Bakytzhan Malikov (at Altai Oskemen until 31 December 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  KAZ Arman Smailov (at Irtysh Pavlodar until 31 December 2024)

• Kazakhstan Premier League (3):1994, 1995, 1998
• Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1995

• Official website