The Irtysh Herald
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Irtysh
A 1‑0 win over Okzhetpes, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market17 Aug 2026
Shakhter come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yeldos Abiken in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Rinat Tagybergen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Aibol Orazov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aibol Orazov, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yeldos Abiken stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yeldos Abiken and Irtysh agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Gafurzhan Kuat
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Irtysh borrow Dias Ańdyrmash
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Dias Ańdyrmash arrives from Taraz with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Market17 Aug 2026
Beibit Ğalym arrives on loan
Irtysh have taken Beibit Ğalym on loan from Tobol — cover where cover was needed.
In brief
- Market Irtysh put Nurbol Baizhanov up for sale
- Player ratings Kairat Zainutdinov ran the game
- The terraces The press have found their man in Abzal Murtazaev