A plane carrying the Kazakh national football team had to make an emergency landing at Yerevan airport.

“The aircraft captain made a decision to return to the airport after the takeoff,” official spokesperson of the team Yerbol Kairov tweeted.

“The team’s aircraft had to return to Yerevan because of landing gear malfunction,” he said.

Armenian beat Kazakhstan 2:0 in the 2018 World Cup qualifier on Sunday.