✦ Europe club women's football / piłka nożna kobiet

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  1. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    For all the 'other' national leagues, cups, news, videos, general stuff...

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    2019:
    Górnik Łęczna have now won successive titles, in 2017/18 and 2018/19.

    Lithuania's champions, Gintra, also won the round-robin Women's Baltic League by beating top teams from Latvia and Estonia:

    Some other title-winners:

    Mitrovica and Subotica went to the 2019/20 Champions League and caused some suprises - Mitrovica were seeded last in their group but qualified in 1st place, and Serbia's Subotica nearly beat Atlético Madrid in Spain.


    2020:
    ?

     
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  2. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    The mystery of Turkey...

    As one of the forum's most cashless members, I accept this unpaid challenge

    [​IMG] One partial explanation I saw is that girls' football was banned in Turkish schools in 1987 (the education ministry prohibited that, wrestling, and weightlifting). In such a strong confederation as Uefa, that would've given the country a double disadvantage. It seems the Turkish government relaxed the law in the early 2010s but this hasn't helped much. Turkey bizarrely won an Olympic bronze medal in 2010 in the Youth Olympics, but in a very under-strength field.

    The women's league (obv the focus of this thread) was revived in 2006 after a hiatus, and has been a national round-robin since 2008, sometimes with playoff groups or a grand final game. The 2010s' foremost club were Konak Belediyespor who won 5 titles in 5 years. Their first Champions League season was their best, as they reached the last 16 in 2013.

    Turkey does better in club football than internationally - I suspect that'll continue. The latest champs, Beşiktaş in 2019, were a Champions League qualifying pot 3 team and finished 2nd undefeated in the Netherlands, but missed the last 32. Both Beşiktaş and Konak have mainly had Turkish players, so it's a bit of a mystery why the potential doesn't translate to the national team.

    Champion Beşiktaş in Women's Football 1st League (Kadınlar Futbol 1'inci Ligi’nde şampiyon Beşiktaş) youtu.be/W8odkfyLSxo
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    Some other stories from Turkish clubs in the 2010s were Gazi in Ankara, Diyarbakir (Kurdistan), Kireçburnu, and the eastern city Malayta. Also, in 2011, some men's football crowds were women-and-children-only, after some male fans' violence. And in a temporary reversal of the Iran situation, "at least one man, disguised under a headscarf and women's clothing, made it in to the stadium", proving once again that strict arbitrary divisions between all genders at all times make sense. Nah just kidding, they don't.
     
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  3. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Time for the exciting league action from Slovenia - the Women's Football League week 1 game could've been mistaken for a pastoral "relaxing sounds" video, until the commentator comes in. :)

    SŽNL 19/20 1.krog: ŽNK CERKLJE - ŽNK RADOMLJE
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IWV6KHv8go


    Slightly louder, the top 2 Slovenian clubs of recent years met in the 7th matchday - the champions and league leaders, Pomurje, vs Olimpija Ljubljana. The federation is streaming games on its video channel.

    SŽNL 19/20 7.krog ŽNK Pomurje Beltinci - ŽNK Olimpija
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZxBO_A7ik
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  4. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Portugal: Probably a league on the up... The 2010s marked the first decade when five clubs gained prestige in the Portuguese women's league.

    From the first Taça Nacional (1985) and Campeonato (1993), Boavista were champions, with 10 titles in 11 years. Their sole glory in the new century was in the 2013 cup final:

    Valadares 1 - 3 Boavista
    Dani Veloso 73' / Landinha 29', Rita Fontemanha 68', Guita 88'

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-oh5BHdsQ

    From 2000 to 2012, the club at the top were União 1.º Dezembro, with eleven league titles and seven league/cup doubles. Narrow losses in Europe meant they never progressed in the Uefa Women's Cup and Champions League. The team was disbanded in 2014.

    From 2012-19 a few clubs won two successive titles: Atlético Ouriense, CF Benfica, and Sporting CP, with Braga and SL Benfica on the rise too.

    A highlight of the calendar is the cup final - here's the 2018 match:

    Sporting vs Braga Taça de Portugal Feminino 27/05/2018
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZNoo6JlGZE&t=6m57s
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  5. shlj

    shlj Member+

    Apr 16, 2007
    London
    Club:
    FC Nantes
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Austria news: Championship and Cup cancelled

    All girls' and women's football competitions are also affected. The Planet Pure Women's Bundesliga and the SPORT.LAND.NÖ Women's Cup will be canceled and will not be scored.

    Based on the legal opinion obtained, the following applies to all competitions that have not been completed:

    -The competition will not be counted.
    -There is no master or cup winner.
    -There are no promotions.
    -There are no relegations.
     
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  6. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    (I should add, for Future People) ^ That's due to coronavirus, not cos the ÖFB is evil.

    The final table:
    austria-frauenliga-2019-20.png

    [​IMG] Austria had one of the oldest leagues in women's football with the DFU in 1936. The current Frauen-Bundesliga dates back to 1972 in different guises. A consistent club throughout its history has been USC Landhaus, but they haven't won a trophy since 2002. Landhaus made a partial merger with Austria Vienna in 2018.

    The dominant '90s club were Union Kleinmünchen Linz (who play in division 2 now). From 2002−14, SV Neulengbach won every single title: a perfect 12 in 12 years, capped with a Champions League quarterfinal, before St Pölten began its reign as Austria's best team: 5 titles in the seasons 2014−19 and was on course for a 6th before this season was halted.

    A few game vids from 2019:
    FC Wacker Innsbruck v St. Pölten, 15 May
    (they later played a match with a 14-3 result :thumbsup:) ... :confused:
    SV Neulengbach v Austria Vienna/Landhaus, 26 Oct
    Austria Vienna/Landhaus v St. Pölten, 3 Nov
     
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  7. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
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    And people keep talking about USA-Thailand 13-0 as if it was a big deal! :rolleyes::p

    Worth noting that, out of the 3 goals scored by FW Wacker-Innsbruck in that 14-3 bashing, 2 were scored by Japanese players. :ninja:
     
  8. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
  9. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Iceland is unrivalled in world sport at kicking above its weight - and the national team has had some great women's football moments like the one that Páll posted.

    There's sure to be more info on the Iceland Premier Division (Úrvalsdeild) as we go on, but the big teams are Breidablik, Valur, Stjarnan, and northerners Thór/KA. Each one has won the championship since 2016 (it changed hands every year), and all got near the top in the 1970s or '80s as well.
    More interesting to watch imo will be the 1st division (i.e. 2nd division) club ÍA ... to find out if the ball gets hit into the sea. Basically, I love this league before even seeing it or the complementary Milk Cup.

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    Iceland in 2017 - (Sven Mandel, cc-by-sa)

    This is some Úrvalsdeild action, shamelessly sponsored by Red Bull

    Deildin kvenna 2019 (best goals of the season, women) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWUwJ4RKHPI
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  10. Lechus7

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    Aug 31, 2011
    Wroclaw
    [​IMG] Polish Ekstraliga close after 12 legs.

    The clubs were informed about it by the PZPN (the Polish FA) via online meeting yesterday. Supposed week long consultations that were scheduled beforehand never really took place.
    PZPN also added insult to injury when they just stated that KPP Rem Marco Bydgoszcz club (last in Ekstraliga table) will be relegated to lower league (no other club, man or women, in any league in Poland closed due to coronavirus was relegated). KPP Bydgoszcz is here a victim of women's league reform planned by PZPN for next year.
    Club management is furious and says that will look for justice in courts. Also KPP Rem Marco Bydgoszcz along with KKPK Medyk Konin and undisclosed third party started talking about foundation of women's Ekstraliga S.A (private venture) independent from PZPN. Would that happen then an ownership war would quickly ensue - same as in Italy's Serie A ast year.

    2019/20 season in Poland

    Champion: Górnik Łęczna
    vice-Champion: Medyk Konin, Czarni Sosnowiec

    remaining Polish Cup 19/20 semifinals and finals were pushed for September when new season 20/21 starts (no information if that will happen).
     
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  11. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Serbia's champion club is celebrating its 50th birthday this week - ŽFK Spartak Subotica began on 20 May 1970. The northern club played at first in the Yugoslav league and cup, so let's look back.

    [​IMG] The former Yugoslavia had women's clubs in 1937-39, mainly in Croatia. The first women's league season is recorded as 1974/75, when Subotica won its only Yugoslav trophy. More successful were Belgrade's Sloga Zemun (still an opponent today), who formed in 1969 and won 5 titles and 3 cups. Appropriately, the last champion of the original Yugoslav league in 1990/91 was an original Croatian 1937 club, ŽNK Maksimir Zagreb.

    The greatest Serbian women's club ever was also founded in 1970 - ŽFK Mašinac Niš. They've won 24 titles and 15 cups over the years - however, their 4-1 cup triumph of 2011 has been followed by a decade of Spartak Subotica dominance.
    The Blue Doves of Subotica opened their anniversary with a new club centre, laden with trophies - but how long will their winning run last?

    ŽFK Spartak wins Serbian Cup 2014/15
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3yUIwfGRiI
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  12. Páll Guðmundsson

    Valur FC
    Iceland
    Sep 14, 2018
    Reykjavík
    Nat'l Team:
    Iceland
    The Icelandic women's league (Úrvaldsdeild kvenna) will start in two weeks. I was wondering if there is any interest for regular posts about the league, even have a thread dedicated to it. I would be willing to make regular posts. What do you think?

     
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  13. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
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    I can't promise I'd take part to the discussion, because I already post on multiple women's football threads here on BigSoccer, but I'd sure be glad to follow what you'd post.

    I'd say that anything that generates interest for women's football's leagues here on this forum is welcome and if your posts manage to be quite as good as some other posters' ones were in the past, the thread could be a successful one. :)

    For instance, I am not sure if you've ever read @Bauser's Norway thread, but he's so dedicated to documenting Norwegian women's football and his posts are usually so insightful and well written that, as soon as I started reading them, I was hooked up almost right away. Now, I sure don't want to put too high a target for you by mentioning his thread :giggle:, but for sure it's a good example of something that many people here (ok, actually, there aren't "many people" almost anywhere on the women's boards :x3:: let's say "most of the regulars", then) were happy to follow.
     
  14. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    #14 sbahnhof, Jun 1, 2020
    Last edited: Jun 1, 2020
    So proud to have a new thread :'-)
    The Icelandic women's football league (Úrvalsdeild)

    A few other European countries' clubs are back or returning after Covid-19, along with Germany (relatively low infection) and Belarus (sad situation, delusional government).

    [​IMG] The modern Danish league began in 1973, after Boldklubben Femina became the 1970 world champions in Italy. The top division (Elitedivisionen or Kvindeliga) has been a 2-horse race in most of the 21st century, between Brøndby and Fortuna Hjørring. Denmark's only Uefa club finalist was Hjørring in 2003.

    Cup final: Fortuna Hjørring - Brøndby IF (yellow), 5 Jun 2013
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GY8Bmkzx28
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    The Kvindeliga format is one of the best at encouraging a close title race: an 8-team round robin puts the top 6 into the end-of-season championship group with weighted points. Meanwhile the bottom 2 play the lower division's best teams in their group.

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    So far in 2019/20, a single point separated the northerners Hjørring (30pts) from their Copenhagen rivals (29), and Nordsjælland had 26pts. The teams will return for the season's final stage on 6 June.
     
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  15. sbahnhof

    sbahnhof Member+

    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Imagine calling a national league the Champions League, and then stealing Ajax and Arsenal for it! Sounds like something US Soccer would do, but no, it's Estonia... The clubs in question are the capital rivals Tallinn Ajax and Tallinn Arsenal, playing in the women's Meistriliiga. But 2019 ended with bad news, the loss of the league's most important club.

    13 times champions since 1994, Pärnu JK came from the southwestern coastal city. Anastassia Morkovkina led the goalscoring charts across 2 decades with legendary numbers: 773 league goals for Narvane, Tallinn Arsenal and Pärnu, and 40 in international football. She then became Pärnu's manager.

    I am here: Anastassia Morkovkina
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMR-abGIqiU
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  16. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    The end of former champions Pärnu JK was apparently years in the making, as the club was based around youth and amateurism, and disbanded. The men's team was promoted in 2019, but the club denied it was a factor. (Tallinn Arsenal was renamed Levadia, either thru a lawsuit or some sense of shame.)

    FC Flora won their first title from Pärnu in 2018 and took the nation's European berth. Flora opened 2020 with a Supercup win, one of Europe's first games after lockdown. The best hope for the league may be if newly promoted Pärnu club, Vaprus, can build up and continue the city's fine tradition in women's football, but Flora beat them in game 1 on Sunday.

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    Pärnu in Estonia - (Kristian Pikner, cc-by-sa)
     
  17. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] The picturesque isles where 1 in 10 people are registered footballers, and a possible future World Cup co-host :oops: the Faroe Islands are back in action! The leagues returned in May 2020 after coronavirus ended with a few hundred cases.
    This forum always gives the islands fair coverage (except for Blissett who questioned the neutrality of their mad commentators), and the 1st division is older than some more famous leagues. It goes back to 1985, including a 17-title run by KÍ Klaksvík from 2000-2016; now the usual situation is a title race between KÍ and EBS-Skála.

     
  18. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Belgium was a pioneer in women's club and international football in the 1920s and 1930s. New leagues were formed from 1971-73, with Standard Liège going on to win 20 titles in the First Division. Since 2015, the top league has been the Super League, which began with 2 titles for Standard, followed by 2 for Anderlecht, while team numbers were inconsistent.

    The 2019/20 season was ended early: the Belgian FA decision on 27 March made it a title hat-trick for RSC Anderlecht, they of the lucky orange ball. The news for 2020/21 is that the Super League will expand to 10 clubs, the largest contingent of Belgian teams in a top division since 2012.
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    Belgium's : Cayman, De Neve and Coutereels
    (Threecharlie, cc-by-sa)

    [​IMG] [​IMG] With that news, a quick look back at the experimental cross-border league from 2012 to 2015, the BeNe League. The Dutch FC Twente beat Standard to the first 2 titles, while the real future star was the teenage Vivianne Miedema with 66 goals in 2 seasons for Heerenveen.

    The last BeNe League title went to Belgium, as Standard Liège ended 2pts ahead of Twente in 2014/15 and Tessa Wullaert scored 18 goals.

     
  19. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] A club from Ukraine conquered the USSR in 1990 - Nyva (aka Tornado Kyiv) won the Soviet title and it looked as if the great Kyiv clubs would dominate the new independent Ukrainian league with Dynamo Kyiv (1992) and Arena Kyiv (1993) but it didn't last. Hanna Kostraba from the far western Transcarpathia began her playing career in Ukraine in the '80s and then had great success in the Russian league.

    In the end, the northeastern city of Kharkiv ruled in Ukrainian women's football - the team Zhytlobud-1 (past affiliate of Metalist Kharkiv) have won 20 trophies in their 17 years. Their neighbours Zhytlobud-2 began with youth success in 2005 and became national champions in 2016 and 2017. Olha Ovdiychuk was main goalscorer for Z-1 and signed for Atlético Madrid, while Anna Voronina has been a consistent striker for Z-2.

    In 2017/18 the women's league changed to the autumn-spring format (including a winter mini-championship with snowy results).
    The club numerals do make scorelines a little confusing

    Zhytlobud-1 (blue) 2 - 1 Zhytlobud-2 (yellow)
    Nadezhda Kunina 29', Daria Apanashchenko 43'p / Veronica Andruhiv 18'
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTEKzntgR0
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    [​IMG] Albania's National Championship is back today, Vllaznia are hoping to complete their 7th title in a row. The teams in Croatia will also return next week. The new Lithuanian season began a few days ago.
     
  20. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
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    Sparta v Brno - (img: Cloudz679, cc-by-sa)

    [​IMG] The Czech Republic First Division (1. liga žen) might be the biggest 2-horse race in sport: since 2001/02 Sparta Prague and Slavia Prague were ahead, with Slovácko, Plzeň and Liberec chasing 3rd place. While Slavia rarely lost a match, their striker Kateřina Svitková has won 3 top-scorer awards and 5 titles, including the curtailed 2019/20.

    There were pre-1993 Czechoslovak championships, Slavia the first Czech women's champion in 1969/70 (the Slovak league was mostly separate), but the earliest women's club was not in Prague, but in Brno way back in 1934.

    Slavia - Sparta 3:2 (1. liga žen, 2017/18)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd7Vp9NNdlw
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    And did I mention Holky Taky? HOLKY TAKY!

    [​IMG] [​IMG] Two more leagues are back today: Finland's new season, while Bulgaria's resumes, as NSA Sofia seek another title.
     
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  21. sbahnhof

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    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Hungary, home of the Magical Magyars, has the women's league Női NB I, going back to 1984, but without much international magic in women's football outside some Champions League qualifications, and the national team's good results in the early 2000s. The greatest Hungarian women's player, Anita Pádár, had an incredible record - the top goalscorer in 17 consecutive seasons, from the 1990s until 2015, with four different clubs.


    The Hungarian league's top women's clubs in early decades were László Kórház and FC Femina, while in the 2010s it was a battle of Ferencváros and MTK Hungária. In the league, MTK have won 8 titles and are managed by an ambitious coach, ex-player Attila Varga, while Ferencváros are cup specialists, unbeaten in 5 years. The league in 2019/20 was dead level on points, but incomplete due to lockdown. No champion was declared. But Ferencváros won the European CL qualifying place over MTK in a playoff series ending on 18 June.

    Cup Final 2019: Ferencváros 4 - 3 DVTK
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih5r1gJvbQk
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  22. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] Romania had women's clubs in 1935 in a mini-championship (writes Stipica Grgić) and 1972 in the 'Carmen' Cup. In the late days of communism, a zonal women's championship began in 1987, and the current league kicked off just after the Romanian revolution.

    The women's national champion in 1990/91 was ICIM Brașov, a club that won 3 more times. In the 21st century, a single city has taken nearly every title: Cluj-Napoca in the northwest, where club Clujana became Olimpia Cluj and has won in 17 league seasons in total. The 2010 champs Târgu Mureş were relegated in 2018. Like in Austria, the 2019/20 Romanian season was cancelled midway, but Cluj (5pts ahead of Galați) were declared champions.

    Olimpia Cluj 3–0 ASA Târgu Mureş, Cup final 2014
    youtube.com/watch?v=cyM0Tqz9qhI
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  23. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] The league of Switzerland is Nationalliga A, we had a thread once...
    Look, I'll fill in the gaps later, but @gricio61 was into it, and that's good enough for me.

     
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  24. sbahnhof

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    Nov 21, 2016
    Aotearoa
    [​IMG] A little to the east, Kazakhstan joined Uefa from the AFC in 2002. (Don't give Australia any ideas.) But despite its new status in European football, Kazakhstan has made an important impact in Champions League history... mainly in showing the bitter irony of the name "Champions League"!
    The Uefa calculations have added a 2nd Kazakh women's team, FC Okzhetpes, who were runners-up in the 6-team league in 2019. But the perennial champions BIIK-Kazygurt have a good enough record in all competitions, and those are the Uefa rules. The national league goes back to 2000, and has been dominated by the Shymkent club and its forerunner Alma KTZH.

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    Kazakhstan in 2016 - (Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT)
     
  25. Lechus7

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    Aug 31, 2011
    Wroclaw
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