An unexpected champion, silver for Babayan and the end of Shakhtar. Results of the KPL-2024 – who surprised and who disappointed – Football

The intrigue of the gold medals remained until the last second of the meeting, since the Astana players were satisfied with any loss of points on the part of the Almaty team. However, Grigory Babayan's team again came second, failing to justify their bid for the domestic championship.

The Republican Internet portal Sports.kz summed up the season, assessing who surprised and who disappointed relative to initial expectations.

The champion tondo returns to Almaty four years later. This result is clearly more of an unexpected one, because almost no one talked about a possible victory for Kairat this year before the start of the KPL, and even more so after the failure of Kirill Keker in the first six rounds. The team was trained by three coaches over the course of nine months, which is something you rarely see among future champions, and no one believed in their final success until the end, except…