FC Shakhter Karagandy finished the Kazakhstan Premier League in 7th place, but things could have been a whole lot worse for the club. Shakhter was one of two clubs involved in a match-fixing scandal that initially saw the teams disqualified from the league. Instead, Shakhter's penalty was reduced to a 9-point deduction. The team still would have missed out on European competition without the penalty.
Shakhter put up one of the best fights among teams from the lower ranked leagues in the UEFA Cup first qualifying round. Despite coming from the 44th best league in Europe, Shakhter lost only 2-1 aggregate to Debrecen of Hungary. The teams played to a 1-1 draw in Shakhter's home leg, but Debrecen won the return match 1-0 to advance to the next round.
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