FC Elimai

The club's predecessor is the Soviet team of masters of the local brick factory in Semey, hence the name Tsementnik (cement producer). The team of masters spent some 28 seasons in the Soviet Second League (Class B).

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in mid 1990s the club as Elimai became one of the leaders of the Kazakhstani championship. Yelim-Ai (or Elim-ay) is the name of a historic poem of Kazakh people.

FC Elimai most recently won the Kazakh league while the Football Federation of Kazakhstan were AFC affiliates. After Kazakhstan switched to UEFA affiliation, Elimai were relegated to the second-tier Kazakhstan First Division.

After the merger of former Semey Province into East Kazakhstan Province in 1997, the city of Semey was no longer a province capital. Thus, all financial support from former province went to Oskemen, the current province capital.

• 1964 : Founded as Tsementnik
• 1971 : Renamed Spartak
• 1994 : Renamed Elimai
• 1999 : Renamed AES-Elimai
• 2001 : Renamed Elimai
• 2004 : Renamed Semey
• 2008 : Renamed Spartak
• 2016 : merger (along with FC Vostok) into FC Altai
• 2022 : Reestablished anew Elimai

Season	League									Kazakhstan Cup	Top goalscorer		Manager
	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P		Name	League
1992	1st	14	26	5	3	18	25	60	13
1993	1st	17	24	13	4	7	32	35	30
1994	1st	1	30	20	7	3	70	29	47		Kairat Aubakirov	16
1995	1st	1	30	21	4	5	68	23	67	Winners	Andrei Miroshnichenko	23
1996	1st	3	34	22	8	4	67	17	74		Bolat Esmagambetov	14
1997	1st	7	26	13	7	6	41	26	46		Oleg Litvinenko	8
1998	1st	1	26	20	3	3	60	20	63		Oleg Litvinenko	14
1999	1st	9	30	12	4	14	35	36	40
2000	1st	8	28	12	5	11	43	33	41		Kairat Aubakirov	15
2001	1st	7	32	14	6	12	47	42	48		Kairat Aubakirov	13
2002	1st	8	32	11	6	15	33	51	39
2003	1st	9	32	12	7	13	35	35	43
2004	1st	19	36	4	1	31	25	84	13
2005	2nd	2	24	18	5	1	76	17	59
2006	2nd	4	24	12	7	5	46	25	43
2007	2nd	9	26	7	8	11	29	49	29
2008	2nd	3	26	13	8	5	50	35	47	First round
2009	2nd	7	26	12	2	12	35	41	38	First round
2010	2nd	4	34	19	7	8	68	40	64	First round
2011	2nd	14	32	8	8	16	36	53	32	First round
2012	2nd	6	30	14	4	12	38	45	46	First round
2013	2nd	2	34	21	7	6	54	24	70	First round	Paul Puryshkin	13
2014	1st	12	32	7	7	18	30	52	21	First round	Nemanja Jovanović	7	Almas Kulshinbayev
2015	2nd	6	24	11	6	7	34	19	39	Second round			Aleksei Petrushin

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995	Asian Club Championship	First round	Neftchi Fargʻona	1–3	4–1	5–4
		Second round	Al-Nassr	0–1	0–31	0–41
1996–97	Asian Club Championship	First round	AiK Bishkek	4–2	2–1	6–3
		Second round	Persepolis	3–0	0–5	3–5

¹ Elimai Semey withdrew after the 1st leg.

As of 6 October 2024^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   KAZ Rakhat Mavlikeev 3 DF   NGA Samuel Odeyobo 4 DF   RUS Daniil Penchikov 5 DF   KAZ Sergey Keiler 7 FW   KAZ Roman Murtazayev 8 MF   KAZ Yuriy Pertsukh 9 FW   RUS Islam Mashukov 10 MF   KAZ Yerkebulan Nurgaliyev (captain) 11 FW   KAZ Ivan Sviridov 12 MF   KAZ Aslan Darabayev 15 DF   KAZ Dmitriy Schmidt 18 DF   KAZ Nursultan Sovetkazy 19 DF   KAZ Mikhail Gabyshev

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW   BRA China 21 DF   KAZ Sultan Abilgazy 22 FW   KAZ Zhan-Ali Payruz 23 MF   BRA Maicom David 24 MF   DOM Edarlyn Reyes 35 GK   UKR Maksym Koval 37 MF   KAZ Meyrdzhan Zhumadilov 63 DF   BIH Ivan Šaravanja 77 DF   KAZ Dmitry Shomko 78 GK   RUS Denis Kavlinov 81 MF   BLR Nikita Korzun 88 DF   RUS Dmitri Yashin 92 MF   FRA Quentin Cornette

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   KAZ Bakytzhan Malikov (at Altai Oskemen until 31 December 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   KAZ Arman Smailov (at Irtysh Pavlodar until 31 December 2024)

• Kazakhstan Premier League (3):1994, 1995, 1998
• Kazakhstan Cup (1): 1995

• Official website