Football is a very popular sport in Shymkent. You can see in every district of Shymkent a football field and also every school have a small football field.
The most famous football club is the club FC Ordabasy. It was founded in 2000 by two football clubs of Shymkent – the FC Zhiger and FC Tomiris. Both football clubs played already in the Premier League and merged to the new football club FC Ordabasy.
Shymkent’s best football club.
The greatest success of FC Ordabasy was winning the Kazakhstan Cup in 2011 and the Kazakhstan Super Cup in the next year. The football club is playing in the Kazakhstan’s Premier League currently. It’s stadium is the Kazhymukan Munaitpasov Stadium with a capacity of 20,000 fans and it is located north of Abay Park.
The next soccer game of Shymkent’s Club FC Ordabasy‘s is:
| Position | Team | Pts |
| 1 | FC Ordabasy | 58 |
| 2 | FC Astana | 53 |
| 3 | FC Aktobe | 44 |
| 4 | FC Kairat | 44 |
The full timetable of Kazakhstan’s Premier League: Kazakhstan’s Premier League 2021
Learn more about Shymkent’s football club FC Ordabasy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Ordabasy