ALMATY, December 24. /TASS/. Head Coach of the Kazakhstan’s national football team Stanislav Cherchesov remains in his post and continues working with the country’s national squad, the press office of the Kazakhstan Football Federation (KFF) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Kazakh journalist and commentator Yermuhamed Maulen earlier reported on numerous occasions that Cherchesov was bound to be sacked from the post of the Kazakh national football team’s head coach.
"Information about the departure of the Kazakhstani head coach Stanislav Cherchesov does not correspond to reality," the statement reads. "To date, Stanislav Cherchesov is the head coach of the national team and has a valid contract with the Kazakhstan Football Federation."
"The KFF press service urges to trust only official sources and follow all information on the federation's website, as well as on our pages on social networks," the statement added.
Former head coach of the Russian national football team Stanislav Cherchesov was appointed to take charge of the national squad of Kazakhstan in early June this year.
Led by Cherchesov, the national team of Kazakhstan played six matches in the UEFA Nations League finishing the first match with the draw and losing the rest without scoring a single goal.
Team Kazakhstan is now set to play qualifying matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The team shares its qualifying group with the national squads from Belgium, Wales, North Macedonia and Lichtenstein.
Russia’s ex-Head Coach Cherchesov
Cherchesov, 60, took the reins of the national football squad in the summer of 2016, signing a contract with the RFU (the Russian Football Union) to work as the head coach of the team until August 2018.
In July 2018, the RFU extended Cherchesov’s contract for two more years with the option of prolonging it for another two-year term. The decision of the Russian governing football body to maintain its partnership with Cherchesov followed the national team’s successful home performance during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Led by Cherchesov, the Russian national football team managed to reach the knockout stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup advancing with a win over the Spanish team in the Round of 16 and then losing in a penalty shootout in the quarterfinals to Croatia, who eventually went on to the final of the world championship in Russia.
However, during the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup in June 2021, the Russian national team, led by Cherchesov, failed to clear the group stage of the tournament, which was postponed for one year due to the global spread of the novel coronavirus. The Russian football team wrapped up its European championship tour finishing in the cellar of Group B with three points after three matches.
In late December 2021, Cherchesov signed a contract to manage Hungary’s Ferencvaros FC. Under Cherchesov’s lead, the Hungarian football club won the country championships twice and clinched also the National Cup.
In the 2022/2023 season, Hungary’s Ferencvaros FC qualified for the first time in 47 years to the play-off round of European tournaments and, having reached the Round of Last 16 of the UEFA Champions League lost to Germany’s Bayer FC on the aggregate (0-2; 0-2).