2017 Kazakhstan Premier League
| Season | 2017 |
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| Matches played | 18 |
| Goals scored | 34 (1.89 per match) |
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All statistics correct as of 18 March 2017.
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The 2017 Kazakhstan Premier League is the 26th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. Astana are the defending champions having won their third league championship the previous year.
FC Zhetysu and FC Taraz were relegated at the end of the 2016 season, and was replaced by FC Kaisar and FC Altai Semey. However, on 3 February 2017, the Football Federation of Kazakhstan ruled that Altai Semey did not meet the required entry requirements for the Premier League, and ruled that FC Taraz will replace them for the 2017 season.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
In the regular season twelve teams played each other three times, home-and-away and then a third round decided on position at the end of the first two rounds, in a round-robin format for a total of 33 matches per team.
Atyrau started the season on -9 points as a punishment for unpaid debts to former manager Zoran Filipović.
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