In Northern Kazakhstan, where pine forests meet open steppe and blue-grey hills fade into mist, sits a football club whose badge carries industry, legend, and deep steppe memory. FC Okzhetpes are not just a provincial side playing out of the small city of Kokshetau – approximately a three-hour drive north of the capital – and set among some of the most beautiful forests and lakes you will ever find. They are a club shaped by factories, horses, mountains, and a story about fre

Here in the deep south of Kazakhstan, where the steppe softens into orchards, trade routes bend towards Uzbekistan, and history weighs heavily on the land, sits a club whose very name carries a unique national meaning. FC Ordabasy are not just a team from Shymkent. They are a footballing manifestation of unity, survival and cooperation. So let’s #GetTheBadgeIn and take a closer look. FC Ordabasy are based in Shymkent, Kazakhstan’s third-largest city and one of its most import

Here on the northern edge of Kazakhstan, close to the Russian border and wrapped in long winters and wide skies, sits a club whose badge carries far more than football ambition. FC Kyzylzhar are a team shaped by riverbanks, empire, steppe tradition, and a bird that has ruled the Kazakh imagination for centuries. This is a club named for a place before it was a city. For a landscape before borders. And for a symbol that still soars over the modern Kazakh state. So, let’s do it

Here on the far edges of UEFA’s map, where the floodlights glow against endless grasslands and winter temperatures can stop a ball dead in its tracks, sits FC Astana. This is a club born not just of football ambition, but of place. Of geography. Of empire. Of roads that once stitched together the ancient world. Astana itself is a young capital built on very old ground. Today it is all glass towers, bold curves, and award-winning architecture rising sharply from the flatlands.

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