 A permanent Kazakh SSR Football Federation was established in 1959.Leading club side FC Kairat Almaty went on to make history in 1960 by becoming the first Kazakh side to compete in the Soviet Top League and made further history in 1963 by reaching the semi-finals of the Soviet Cup, the best performance by a Kazakh team in the competition.They would go on to record Kazakhstan's first triumph in the Soviet First League in 1976.