THE BASIC LANDMARKS OF KAZAKHSTAN FOOTBALL HISTORY

1913-14s
First kazakhstani football teams appear in Semipalatinsk: SSK, “Olimp”, “Lastochka”, “Orlyata” and “Yarysh”. Due to one of the versions, football was implemented by coming Ehglish merchants in Semipalatinsk, the biggest trade center in Central Asia and Syberia. The player of "Yarysh" Football Team was the kazakhstani literary man, ethnographer and writer Mukhtar Omarkhanovich Auezov (1897 - 1961), who became famous even abroad later. He was the author of the epical novel "Abay's Way", which described the life and works of the famous kazakh enlightenment representative Abay Kunanbayev. The novel was translated into forty eight languages with a circulation of 2 000 000 copies. The content of the novel involves fundamental sheet for kazakh culture development and making. With Mukhtar Auezov were other "Yarysh" players, pioneers of the national football: Akhmetsalim Karimov (the captain), Kasymkhan Mukhammedov, Salakh Khismatullin, Ziyatdin Ryspaev, Mukhamed Saidashev, Yunus Nigmatullin, Amirzhan Syzdykov, Gabdulkhan Gabbasov, Mukhamedulla Kurmanov, Gusman Yambushev, Sabyrzhan Akhmedshin, who jointly with other enthusiasts established the improvement of the national football. In accordance with sources found by the eldest football historian Eugeny Yudin (Semipalatinsk), exactly "Yarysh" became the first kazakhstani team participated in the international match. The case is about the game with the team consisted of prisoners of the First World War. The interest to the players is raised, due to Yudin's documents, because two of them were the participants of the Olympic games in 1912! The first match was organized in the square where used to be the famous Semipalatinsk fair before the Revolution.

The pioneers of the national football.

FT "Yarysh", Semipalatinsk, 1914

1915-16s
The first "Yastreb" and "Zvirzdochka" football teams start play football in Pavlodar. The football teams from Pavlodar and Semipalatinsk permanently compete with the teams from neighboring Russian provinces, thus actively popularizing football in Central Asia and Syberia.
1921
The first football pitch is built in Dzhambul, Kazakhstan.
1928
The first official football match is organized in Petropavlovsk between provinces of Kazakh SSR. The first national team of Kazakhstan was formed from the players participated in the first official football match. They participated in the Qualifying games of the First All-Union Workers' Spartakiada (Sports day) for peoples of autonomies and regions of RSFSR. In that competition in Kazan, the national team of Kazakhstan played 5 matches and took the second place.
1936
The first official participation of the kazakhstani club in All-Union competitions. Акtyubink "Dinamo" club, in stead of the team mates from Kuibyshev that refused to participate in the last 64 round of the First USSR Competition between professional teams, played versus Moscow CDKA team. The match was finished 4 :0 to Moscow CDKA.

1937

The first participation of the kazakhstani club in the USSR championship between professional teams. The Almata-Ata "Dinamo" football club, participating in group "Goroda Vostoka" of the Third USSR championship for professional teams (7 participants), took the third place.