FK Köpetdag Aşgabat


Football Club Köpetdag is a Turkmen football club based in Ashgabat, currently playing in the Ýokary Liga. Their home stadium is Köpetdag Stadium which can hold 26,000 people. Köpetdag traditional kit colours are blue and white. Having won 6 Turkmen championships and 6 Cup of Turkmenistan, they are one of the country's most successful clubs.

History

USSR

Club participated of 44 the USSR championships. They appeared under the names of Locomotiv, Spartak, Kolhozchi, Stoitel and Köpetdag.
In Soviet times, one of the coaches of the team in the 1980s was Valery Nepomnyashchy.

Turkmenistan

After the collapse of the Soviet Union team planned to participate in the open championship of the CIS, but because of the many differences the championship did not take place. The first few years team has been the basic club of Turkmenistan national football team.
In 2008 they were disbanded due to financial crisis, returning few years later.

New era

In 2015, on the basis of MIA of Turkmenistan the club FC Kopetdag was re-created. Club began to appearance in the First League of Turkmenistan. The team qualified for 2015 Turkmenistan Cup.
They managed promotion to the 2016 season by winning the promotion play-off.

Honours

Domestic

Notes: Home matches in bold

Commonwealth of Independent States Cup