FK Köpetdag Aşgabat

Football club

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

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

Continental history

As of match played 27 June 2022

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

References

1. "Köpetdag FK - Soccer - Team Profile - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics". Global Sports Archive. Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
2. "Золотой век". turkmenistan.gov.tm. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
3. turkmenportal. "Состоялась жеребьевка Кубка Туркменистана по футболу - Спорт". Туркменистан, интернет портал о культурной, деловой и развлекательной жизни в Туркменистане. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
4. "Чары Аннаков: "Задача у "Копетдага" – быть в первой тройке чемпионата Туркменистана" | Спорт". Archived from the original on 2020-09-11. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
5. ""Ахал" вырвал победу у "Шагадама" на последних минутах и сократил отставание от лидера | Спорт". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-08-04.