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We continue to introduce the awards presented by the League at the end of each season.
As a reminder, each award is named in honor of a distinguished figure in Kazakh football. The award presented to the Best Coach of the Season bears the name of Georgiy Khutidi.
Georgiy Khutidi is an Honored Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan who paved the way into football for many of the country's well-known players.
In the 1970s, alongside his main professional work, he coached youth football teams that regularly won the Kazakh SSR Championship and reached the finals of the Leather Ball tournament, consistently ranking among the top six teams in the USSR.
For 25 years, he coached the student team of the Dzhambul Hydromelioration and Construction Institute. The team won the Kazakh SSR Cup twice, as well as the Kazakh SSR Championship among physical culture collectives. In 1982, it also claimed bronze medals at the All-Union Student Games in Tbilisi.
Over the years, he developed a whole generation of Kazakh footballers, including Anton Shokh, Vakhid Masudov, Dmitriy Ogay, Kairat Aimanov, and many others.
Later, while serving as a senior industrial executive, he founded the Montazhnik youth football school in Taraz and personally financed the construction of a stadium where children could train. The school produced several players for FC Taraz, the most famous of whom is Yerkebulan Seydakhmet.
Khutidi served on the Executive Committee of the Kazakhstan Football Federation for five years. In recognition of his long-standing contribution to the development of football in Kazakhstan and the training of young players, he was awarded the title of Honored Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
What makes Georgiy Khutidi's achievements unique is that he became the only coach to receive this honorary title without formal sports education or experience working at professional football clubs. Coaching was never his main occupation, yet his dedication helped launch the careers of many celebrated Kazakh footballers.
Georgiy Khutidi Award winners by year:
2023 – Maksim Gabunov (Aktobe U-18).
2024 – Ruslanzhan Raimbakiyev (Kairat U-18).
2025 – Igor Soloshenko (Shakhter U-17).
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