FC Tobol
Founded: 1967
Colors: green, yellow, white
Ground: Central Stadium
President: Nikolay Panin
Head coach: Grigori Babayan
Position in 2019 Kazakhstan Premier League: 4
Lineup average age: 25,77 yeas
Titles:
Champions of Kazakhstan: 1 title
Kazakhstan Cup: 1
Intertoto Cup: 1
Last season
Tobol finished fourth in domestic league last season. Actually they were claimants upon the title, but gained only 5 points in the last six games.
As for the national cup, Tobol reached the semifinal, but then lost against FC Kaisar on aggregate. In the Europa League first qualifying round Kostanay suffered the defeat against Jeunesse from Luxembourg.
Lineup:
For many Ukrainian fans the most well-known player in Tobol is probably Jaba Kankava, who used to feature for FC Arsenal Kyiv, FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and FC Dnipro. He’s been playing in Kazakhstan since 2018.
Tobol are quite active at the transfer market. They’ve signed defender Stephen Eze, halfbacks Serikzhan Muzhikov and Petros Avetisyan and forward Roman Murtazayev.
Coach:
Tobol gaffer is 39-year-old Grigori Babayan. As a player, he featured for FC Kairat and FC Alma-Ata, but finished his career when he was 25 and started coaching.
From 2005 till 2008 Babayan was FC Alma-Ata assistant coach. He also worked with Kazakhstan national and youth team.
From 2005 till 2008 he was FC Astana assistant coach. In 2013, 2014 and 2018 he performed the duties of caretaker coach. In 2018 he won the domestic league and Super Cup with Astana.
On December 14 2019 Grigori Babayan took charge of FC Tobol.
