2015 Kazakhstani women's football championship

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Kazakhstani women's football championship
Season2015
Champions League BIIK-Kazygurt
Matches played40
Goals scored237 (5.93 per match)
Top goalscorer Gulnara Gabelia (30)
Biggest home win BIIK-Kazygurt 19-0 ODYUCSH №2
Biggest away win ODYUCSH №2 0-12 BIIK-Kazygurt
Highest scoring BIIK-Kazygurt 19-0 ODYUCSH №2
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The 2015 Kazakhstani women's football championship is the 11th season of the Kazakhstani women's football championship, the highest women's football league competition in Kazakhstan. The season began in April 2015 and finished in November. BIIK-Kazygurt were the defending championship title.

The Kazakhstani women's football championship is contested in the top level women's football league in Kazakhstan. Before 1991, some Kazakh women's clubs had competed in the Soviet Union women's league system, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union most women's teams left for Russia or simply dissolved.

Association football Team field sport

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

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Teams

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Locations of teams in the 2015 Kazakhstani women's football championship
TeamLocationVenueCapacity
BIIK-Kazygurt Shymkent BIIK Stadium 3,000
BIIK-SDYUCSH №7 Shymkent Namys Stadium 3,000
CSHVSM-Barys Almaty KazNTU Stadium 3,000
Kokshe Kokshetau Zhastar Stadium 3,000
ODYCSH №2 Almaty KazNTU Stadium 3,000

Format

Team play each other four times, thus totalling 16 matches per team.

League table

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsPromotion, qualification or relegation
1 BIIK-Kazygurt 1616001124+10848Qualification to Champions League
2 CSHVSM-Barys 168354121+2027
3Kokshe165563224+820
4BIIK-SDYUCSH №716421026552914
5ODYCSH №216201491101016
Source: uefa.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Top scorers

As of Match played 2 October 2015
RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Flag of Georgia.svg Gulnara Gabelia BIIK-Kazygurt30
2 Flag of Nigeria.svg Charity Adule BIIK-Kazygurt27
3 Flag of Mexico.svg Desirée Monsiváis BIIK-Kazygurt24
4 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Svetlana Bortnikova BIIK-SDYUCSH №712
5 Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Begaim Kirgizbaeva CSHVSM-Barys9

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