FC Yelimay
Kazakh football club
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FC Yelimay (Kazakh: Елімай футбол клубы, "Elimay" futbol kluby) is a Kazakh professional football club based in Semey. A leading club in the early years of the Kazakhstan Premier League, then named Yelimay Semey (or simply "Yelimay"), they were three-time champions of Kazakhstan in 1994, 1995 and 1998. They are currently in Premier League.
Елімай футбол клубы
Semey, Kazakhstan
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| Full name | Football Club Yelimay 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 | ||
| 2025 | Kazakhstan Premier League, 4th of 13 | ||
| Website | fcelimai | ||
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History
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 Yelimay . Yelim-Ai (or Elim-ay) is the name of a historic poem of Kazakh people.
FC Yelimay most recently won the Kazakh league while the Football Federation of Kazakhstan were AFC affiliates. After Kazakhstan switched to UEFA affiliation, Yelimay 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.
Names
- 1964 : Founded as Tsementnik
- 1971 : Renamed Spartak
- 1994 : Renamed Yelimay
- 1999 : Renamed AES-Yelimay
- 2001 : Renamed Yelimay
- 2004 : Renamed Semey
- 2008 : Renamed Spartak
- 2022 : Renamed Yelimay
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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| 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 |
7 | Almas Kulshinbayev |
| 2015 | 2nd | 6 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 19 | 39 | Second round |  Aleksei Petrushin | ||
| 2016 | Did not participate in professional divisions | ||||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2nd | 1 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 76 | 17 | 76 | Playoff stage |  Beka Kavtaradze |
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| 2024 | 1st | 6 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 35 | 32 | 37 | Semi-finals |  Nikita Korzun |
7 | Andrey Karpovich |
| 2025 | 1st | 4 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 47 | 31 | 48 | Quarter-finals |  Euloge Placca Fessou |
9 | Andrey Karpovich |
Continental history
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 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 | ||
| 2026–27 | UEFA Conference League | First qualifying round | TBD |
1 Yelimay Semey withdrew after the 1st leg.
Current squad
- As of 8 March 2026[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.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
- Kazakhstan Premier League (3): 1994, 1995, 1998
- Kazakhstan First Division (1): 2023
- Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1995