Football Club Köpetdag () is öpetdagAşa Turkmen professional 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
The club participated in 44 of the USSR championships (1947–54, 1956–91). They appeared under the names of Locomotiv (1947–49), Spartak (1950–54), Kolhozchi (1956–59, 1976–87), Stroitel (1962–75) and Köpetdag (1960, 1961, 1988–91, present).
Soviet League Second group (1947–49), the best place: 3rd in 1948
Soviet League Class B (1950–54, 1956–63), the best place: 2nd in 1963
Soviet League Class A, the second group (1964–69), the best place: 4th in 1967
Soviet First League (1970–74, 1976–79), the best place: 9th in 1976
Soviet Second League (1975, 1980–91), the best place: 2nd in 1975 and 1991.
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 make appearances 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.
Domestic history
Continental history
Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
1993: Group stage
1994: Semi-final
1995: Group stage
1994: Group stage
1997: Semi-final
1998: Semi-final
1999: Group stage
2001: Semi-final
Honours
Ýokary Liga
Champions (6): 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
Birinji liga
Champions (1): 2015
Turkmenistan Cup
Winners (7): 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2018
Runners-up (4): 1995, 2005, 2006, 2020
SSR Turkmenistan Cup
Winners (1): 1992
Turkmenistan Super Cup
Runners-up (1): 2019
Coaches
Alexei Sokolov (1950–51) Leo Olshansky (1952–53) Stepan Arutyunov (1957) Vladimir Alyakrinsky (1964) Vladimir Eremeev (1965–66) Sergei Budagov (1967–68) Holodkov Seraphim (1969) Sergei Korshunov (June 1970) Sergei Budagov (1971) Vladimir Yulygin (1973–74)
Viktor Kuznetsov (1975–78) Anatoli Polosin (1979, until June 11) Valery Nepomnyashchy (June 11, 1979, 1982–83) Edward Danilov (1984) Arsen Naydyonov (1985) Vladimir Yulygin (1986) Viktor Kuznetsov (1987) Vladislav Kazakov (1988) Victor Orlov (1989) Baýram Durdyýew (1990–96)
Boris Lavrov (1997–98) Tachmurad Agamuradov (July 1998) Viktor Pozhechevskyi (July 1998–Jan 1999) Ravil Menzeleev – Sergei Kazankov (1999) Tachmurad Agamuradov (2000–01) Baýram Durdyýew (2001–02) Berdymyrat Nurmyradow (2003–07) Said Seyidov (2015 – May 2019) Çary Annakow (May 2019 – June 2019) Tofik Şükürow (June 2019 – present)