“Astana” to meet “Sinegorye”, capital's first guests in the National League season

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The Presidential Basketball Club “Astana” will hold the first series of home matches in the season of the National League against Kokshetau “Sinegorye”.

“Sinegorye” - is a Kazakhstan professional basketball club from the city of Kokshetau, founded in 2017.

Achievements:

• Bronze medalist of the Major League Championship of Kazakhstan: 2017/2018.

This season, the Kokshetau team is headed by Oleg Kiselev, who in the past seasons was a head coach of «Almaty Legion», and as well as of «Barsy Atyrau» and «Caspiy». It is worth noting that last season, “Sinegorye” was headed by Andrei Mekhovyh, who spent several seasons in the coaching staff of the capital team. In the offseason, the ex-player of “Astana” Denis Degtyarev left the Kokshetau team, as well as all the “big” ones — Alexander Danilchenko, Mikhail Evstigneev, and Russian Sergey Dubinin. «Sinengorye» retained their Kokshetau backbone, as well as point guard Azim Yagodkin. The experienced centers, Ukrainian Stanislav Zavadsky and Dmitry Sviridov from the “Legion”, became the new members of the team. Also, defender Vadim Korzhov, shooting guards Roman Marchuk and Russian Roman Lagutin joined “Sinegorye”. Also, Vasily Petrishinets from “Tobol” joined the team.

The history of the games: “Sinegorye” debuted in the National League last season, and it was then that “Astana” and the Kokshetau team first met on the court. Over the past season, the teams played 6 times in the National League and 1 time in the Cup of Kazakhstan. In all seven matches, the metropolitan team won a landslide victory, leaving no particular chance to their rivals.

Tournament standings: “Astana”, after the first two games with “Caspiy”, is leading the league table of the National League, and “Sinegorye” is the last team that has not yet played a single match and just starts this season with games in Nur-Sultan.

Interesting Facts:

• In the last game, “Astana” scored 129 points per match, and repeated its record for scoring points, which was set in the season 2011/2012.
• The head coach of “Sinegorye” Oleg Kiselev is the only coach who was able to deprive the capital team of the title of Champion of Kazakhstan, this happened in the season 2015/2016, then Oleg Kiselev headed “Barsy Atyrau”.

For “Astana” it will be the first home matches of the National League, and although “Sinegorye” have not yet shown their game this season, in the upcoming matches in Nur-Sultan, “Astana” will be an absolute favorite.

Matches will take place on Thursday and Friday on October 24 and 25 in Nur-Sultan in Saryarka Cycle Track arena. Beginning of matches at 19:30 Nur-Sultan time. Free admission.

Detailed information about the tournament, standings, the schedule and match results are published in the Tournaments section.

We remind you that tickets for the next home matches in the VTB United League on November 4 against St. Petersburg Zenit and November 9 against the Belarusian «Tsmoki» Minsk are on sale now.