FC “Yelimai” became the first Kazakhstani club that have won the Kazakhstan Championship three times.

Kazakhstan national football team of veterans won the Asian Olympic Games among veterans held in the UAE.

The AFC declared the head coach of Kazakhstan national youth team Vladimir Fomichev became the best coach of Asia in October 1998.

Kazakhstan national youth team took the fourth place in the final round of the ХХХI Asian championship and won the right to represent Kazakhstan in the X World Cup, and reached the final round of the World Cup for the first time.

Kazakhstan national youth team won the Asian championship qualifiers for the second time and qualified the final stage of this tournament.