FC Caspiy

Caspiy Football Club (Футбольный клуб «Каспий») is a Kazakhstani football club based at the Zhastar Stadium in Aktau. The club name derived from Caspian Sea (Каспий теңізі). Their best year was 1996, when they finished 4th in the Premier League and reached the semi-finals of the Kazakhstan Cup. Since 2001, they were stuck in the First Division, until gaining direct promotion to the top division in the 2019 season.

History
From 1979 – 1991, the team played in the Soviet second league. From 1992 onwards, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, they played in the championship of Kazakhstan. The best achievement – the 4th place in 1996.

Premier league return
Caspiy returned to the Kazakhstan Premier League for the first time in 19 seasons in 2020, with Head Coach Srdjan Blagojevic guiding them to a 10th-place finish. The following season, 2021, Blagojevic sealed an 8th-place finish before leaving to join Astana, with Nikolay Kostov being appointed as his replacement on 31 December 2021. On April 17, 2023, a Macedonian specialist, Igor Angelovski, was announced as the new head coach.

Names

 * 1962 : Founded as Trud
 * 1990 : The club is renamed Aktau
 * 1993 (July) : The club is renamed Munaishy
 * 1999 : The club is renamed Aktau
 * 2000 : The club is renamed Mangystau
 * 2002 : The club is renamed Caspiy

Honours

 * Kazakhstan First Division (1): 1994
 * Kazakh SSR Top League (1): 1978
 * Kazakh SSR Cup (3): 1964, 1977, 1978