Kazakhstan's Kairat Nominated for World’s Best Futsal Club Award

Kazakhstan's Kairat futsal club has been nominated for one of the world’s top titles following the announcement of the nominees for the 26th annual Futsal Planet Awards.

Organized by Futsal Planet, the world’s largest futsal website, the annual awards review the past year in global futsal and recognize outstanding achievements across multiple categories, The Caspian Post reports, citing Kazakh media.

Kazakhstan is among the countries represented in the nominations for the 2025 awards.

In the Best Men’s Futsal Club of the World 2025 category, Almaty-based Kairat is listed as one of the contenders. Over the past year, the club secured its 21st Kazakhstan national championship and advanced to the final of the UEFA Futsal Champions League, where it was defeated by Spain’s RCD Mallorca (Palma).

Kairat will compete for the title against several prominent international clubs, including Palma and Cartagena from Spain, Boca Juniors of Argentina, Hongyen Thakam of Thailand, Jaraguá of Brazil, Meta Catania of Italy, and Peñarol of Uruguay.

Former Kairat player, Brazilian goalkeeper Dennis Cavalcanti, now playing for Palma, has been nominated for Best Futsal Goalkeeper of the World 2025.

Spain's Marlon Velasco, a former head coach of Kairat who now leads Spanish club Viña Albali, is also in contention for the Best Futsal Coach of the World 2025 award.