FC Irtysh Pavlodar
Five-time Kazakh champion and former AFC semi-finalist.
FC Irtysh Pavlodar, called Ertis FC in Kazakh and FC Irtysh in Russian, is a professional football club from Kazakhstan that plays at Central Stadium in Pavlodar. The team won the Kazakhstan Premier League five times: 1993 (as Ansat), 1997, 1999, 2002, and 2003. It was a founding member of the top division and never faced relegation before being dissolved in 2020. The club returned to competition in the Kazakhstan Second League in 2024 and earned promotion to the Kazakhstan First League for 2025. Irtysh competed in the AFC Champions League several times, reaching the semi-finals in 2001, the last year Kazakhstan was part of the AFC, and later played in the UEFA Champions League qualifying round in 2003.
Quick Facts
- Club
- Ertis
- Full name
- Ertis Football Club; Ертіс футбол клубы
- Founded
- 1965
- Ground
- Central Stadium; Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
- Capacity
- 12,000
- Chairman
- Roman Skljar
- Manager
- Vacant
- League
- Kazakhstan First League
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The club reached the AFC Champions League semi-finals in 2001, the final year of Kazakhstan's AFC affiliation.
- The club won the Kazakhstan Cup once, in 1998.
- Irtysh was the runners-up in the IFA Shield in 1993.
History
On 9 August 2017, Dimitar Dimitrov stepped down as the club's manager, and Sergei Klimov took over on a temporary basis the following day. Vyacheslav Hroznyi became the permanent manager on 17 August 2017, but he left after the 2017 season ended. Gerard Nus was hired as Irtysh Pavlodar's manager on 21 December 2017, signing a two-year deal. Nus was fired on 28 April 2018, with Dmitry Kuznetsov stepping in as caretaker. On 10 July 2018, the club brought back Dimitar Dimitrov on a two-and-a-half-year contract. In late April 2019, the club downplayed rumors that Dimitrov had left, but he and his coaching staff went missing for the match against Zhetysu on 1 May 2019. The next day, the club summoned them to explain their absence, found the explanation unacceptable, and suspended Dimitrov. Sergey Klimov was again appointed caretaker. Milan Milanović was named the new manager on 7 June 2019. On 30 May 2020, the Professional Football League of Kazakhstan announced that Irtysh Pavlodar had pulled out of the league due to financial troubles, and all their results were wiped from the standings.
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