FC Irtysh Pavlodar

FC Irtysh (Ертіс футбол клубы) is a Kazakh professional football club based at the Central Stadium in Pavlodar. Irtysh won the Kazakhstan Premier league in 1993 (as Ansat), 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003. The club was also founding members of the top league and never relegated to lower levels before being dissolved. Irtysh had participated in the AFC Champions League a number of times, reaching the semi-finals in 2001 (the final year of Kazakhstan's AFC affiliation), and played in UEFA Champions League qualifying round in 2003.

History
On 9 August 2017, Dimitar Dimitrov resigned as manager of the club, with Sergei Klimov being appointed in a caretaker capacity the next day. Vyacheslav Hroznyi was appointed as the club's permanent manager on 17 August 2017, leaving the club at the end of the 2017 season. On 21 December 2017, Gerard Nus was appointed as the new manager of Irtysh Pavlodar on a two-year contract.

On 28 April 2018 Nus was sacked as the club's manager, with Dmitry Kuznetsov being appointed as Caretaker Manager. On 10 July 2018, Irtysh Pavlodar announced the return of Dimitar Dimitrov on a two-and-a-half-year contract.

At the end of April 2019, rumors that manager Dimitar Dimitrov had left his role were downplayed by the club, but Dimitrov and his coaching staff subsequently went AWOL for Irtysh Pavlodar's match against Zhetysu on 1 May 2019. The following day, 2 May 2019, Dimitrov and his staff where summoned by club's leadership to explain their absence. Their explanation wasn't deemed valid by the club and Dimitrov was suspended. Sergey Klimov was appointed as caretaker manager. On 7 June 2019, Milan Milanović was announced as the club's new manager.

On 30 May, the Professional Football League of Kazakhstan announced that Irtysh Pavlodar had withdrawn from the league due to financial problems. All of their matches were excluded from the league results.

Naming history

 * 1965 : Founded as Irtysh
 * 1968 : Renamed Traktor
 * 1993 : Renamed Ansat
 * 1996 : Renamed Irtysh
 * 1999 : Renamed Irtysh-Bastau
 * 2000 : Renamed Irtysh

Continental history
1 Irtysh were ejected from the competition for using two ineligible players.


 * IFA Shield
 * 1993: Runners-up

UEFA coefficient
The table shows the position of FC Irtysh Pavlodar (highlighted), based on their UEFA coefficient club ranking.

As of 1 June 2018.

Domestic

 * Kazakhstan Premier League (5): 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003
 * Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1998
 * Kazakh SSR Cup (1): 1988

International

 * IFA Shield (IFA) : Runners-up (1993)

Last squad
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Managers
''Information correct as of match played 10 November 2019. Only competitive matches are counted.''

P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against %W – Percentage of matches won
 * Notes:

Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).