FC Shakhter Karagandy is a Kazakh football club based in Karaganda.
Shakhter first qualified for European football at the end of the 2005 season, where they finished in 5th position and were Kazakhstan's representative in the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup.
After defeating BATE Borisov and then Skënderbeu Korçë, Shakhter were drawing against Celtic.
Shakhter won the first leg, played at the Astana Arena, 2-0 thanks to goals from Andrei Finonchenko and Sergey Khizhnichenko.
[4] Celtic then went on to win the second leg of the tie 3–0 at Celtic Park to progress to the group stages of the Champions League,[5] whilst Shakhter dropped down in to the group stage of the UEFA Europa League were they would finish bottom on two points.