The President of KFU Rakhat Aliyev was awarded with one of the highest awards “Order of Merit” by FIFA for the development and promotion of football in Kazakhstan.

Visit to Kazakhstan of the FIFA President Joseph Blatter. During the visit, the head of world football met with the state secretary of Kazakhstan the O. Abdykarimov. In addition, together with the President of KFU Mr. Blatter laid the stone in the place of construction football fields in the Talgar (Almaty region), which had initiated the establishment of Football Academy. During that business trip the President of FIFA was accompanied by the President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Mr. Mohammed Bin Hammam, assistant to the President of FIFA Mr. Guy Philippe Mathieu, assistant to the President AFC Mr. Ali al-Meshadi, development Manager FIFA Mrs. Eva Pasquier, FIFA representative in Moscow Mr. Valery Chuhry and Manager of public relations Mr. David Ausseil.

With the home game against the team of Ukraine, Kazakhstan had debut in the World Cup qualification in European qualifying group. The teams head coach was Sergei Timofeev. A day earlier, Kazakhstan U-21 team under was headed by Oirat Saduov had debuted in the European Championship in the qualifying tournament .

At the meeting of the KFF Executive Committee was announced that the President of Kazakhstan N. A. Nazarbayev became the honorary President of the Football Union of Kazakhstan.

The presentation of the third volume of the Handbook “Kazakhstan football: 1913-2003”. This is the final volume of the Handbook “Kazakhstani football: 1913-2003” – publications containing detailed statistical information relating to the national footbal