2014 Kazakhstan Premier League
The 2014 Kazakhstan Premier League was the 23rd season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began on 15 March 2014 and was finished in November. Aktobe were the defending champions having won their fifth league championship the previous year.
Teams
and FC Akzhayik were relegated at the end of the 2013 season, and were replaced by FC Kaisar and Spartak Semey.Team overview
| Team | Location | Venue | Capacity |
| Aktobe | Aktobe | Aktobe Central Stadium | 15,000 |
| Astana | Astana | Astana Arena | 30,000 |
| Atyrau | Atyrau | Munaishy Stadium | 9,500 |
| Irtysh | Pavlodar | Pavlodar Central Stadium | 15,000 |
| Kairat | Almaty | Almaty Central Stadium | 25,057 |
| Kaisar | Kyzylorda | Gany Muratbayev Stadium | 7,500 |
| Ordabasy | Shymkent | Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium | 35,000 |
| Shakhter | Karagandy | Shakhter Stadium | 20,000 |
| Spartak Semey | Semey | Spartak Stadium | 8,000 |
| Taraz | Taraz | Taraz Central Stadium | 11,525 |
| Tobol | Kostanay | Kostanay Central Stadium | 10,500 |
| Zhetysu | Taldykorgan | Zhetysu Stadium | 4,000 |
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Aktobe |  Vladimir Nikitenko | Petr Badlo | Adidas | — |
| Astana |  Stanimir Stoilov | Kairat Nurdauletov | Adidas | Samruk-Kazyna |
| Atyrau |  Anatoliy Yurevich | Valentin Chureev | Adidas, | — |
| Irtysh | Talgat Baisufinov | Sergei Ivanov | Adidas | ENRC |
| Kairat |  Vladimír Weiss | Kyril Shestakov | Nike | KazRosGaz |
| Kaisar | Dmitriy Ogai | Nike | — | |
| Ordabasy |  Viktor Pasulko | Kairat Ashirbekov | Adidas | TAU |
| Shakhter |  Viktor Kumykov | Andrey Finonchenko | Lotto | — |
| Spartak Semey | Almas Kulshinbayev | Adidas | — | |
| Taraz | Evgeny Yarovenko | Vitali Yevstigneyev | Adidas | — |
| Tobol | Timur Urazov | Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev | Adidas | — |
| Zhetysu | Omari Tetradze | Zahar Korobov | Adidas | — |
Managerial changes
Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to seven per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 |
| Aktobe |  Robert Primus |  Robert Arzumanyan | Marcos Pizzelli |  Timur Kapadze |  Danilo Neco | Anderson Mineiro | Oleksiy Antonov |
| Astana |  Marin Aničić |  Damir Kojašević |  Roger Cañas |  Guy Essame |  Patrick Twumasi | Atanas Kurdov |  Foxi Kéthévoama |
| Atyrau |  Michael Odibe |  Marko Blažić |  Giorgi Peikrishvili | Miloš Trifunović | Dominic Adiyiah | ||
| Irtysh | Miodrag Dzudovic | Igor Burzanovic | Kostyantyn Dudchenko | Orlin Starokin |  Simeon Bulgaru | Rinar Valeyev | |
| Kairat | Ľubomír Michalík | Žarko Marković |  Josip Knežević | Artur Yedigaryan |  Sito Riera | Isael da Silva Barbosa |  Gerard Gohou |
| Kaisar |  Martin Klein | Miljan Jablan |  Mamoutou Coulibaly |  Matic Maruško |  Rimo Hunt |  Dušan Savić | Valentin Furdui |
| Ordabasy |  Andrew Mwesigwa | Freire | Artem Kasyanov |  Abdoulaye Diakate | Ondřej Kúdela | ||
| Shakhter | Aleksandar Simčević |  Gediminas Vičius | Shavkat Salomov | Kamoliddin Murzoev |  Mihret Topcagić | Nikola Pokrivač | Ján Maslo |
| Spartak Semey | Viktor Genev | Nemanja Čović | Nikolay Dyulgerov | Daniel Peev | Nemanja Jovanović | :ru:Авагян, Артур|Artur Avagyan | Goran Obradović |
| Taraz |  Sigourney Bandjar | Rok Roj | Jovan Golić | Desley Ubbink | Denys Vasilyev | :uk:Яровенко Олександр Євгенійович|Oleksandr Yarovenko | Dmytro Bashlay |
| Tobol | Štěpán Kučera | Ondřej Kušnír | Ognjen Krasić | Tomáš Šimkovič | Nenad Šljivić | Jiří Jeslínek | Ivan Sadownichy |
| Zhetysu | Didier Kadio |  Arūnas Klimavičius | Marko Putinčanin | Marko Đalović | Boti Demel | Mersudin Ahmetović |  Davron Ergashev |
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
First round
League table
Results
Second round
Championship round
League table
Results
Relegation round
League table
Results
Relegation play-offs
Season statistics
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 |  Foxi Kéthévoama | Astana | 15 |
| 2 | Miloš Trifunović | Atyrau | 13 |
| 3 | Gerard Gohou | Kairat | 12 |
| 4 | Kostyantyn Dudchenko | Irtysh | 11 |
| 4 | Patrick Twumasi | Astana | 11 |
| 6 | Mihret Topcagić | Shakhter | 10 |
| 7 | Marat Khairullin | Aktobe | 9 |
| 8 | Rimo Hunt | Kaisar | 8 |
| 8 | Aslan Darabayev | Kairat | 8 |
| 8 | Oleksiy Antonov | Aktobe | 8 |
| 8 | Marcos Pizzelli | Aktobe | 8 |
Hat-tricks
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Maksim Azovskiy for Spartak Semey against Tobol
- Fastest goal of the season: 2nd minute,
- *Edin Junuzović for Ordabasy against Aktobe
- Latest goal of the season: 94th minute,
- *Damir Kojašević for Astana against Kaisar
- *Dmitri Miroshnichenko for Aktobe against Kaisar