Uzbek national football team

Republic of Uzbekistan
Oʻzbekiston Respublikasi

Association	Oʻzbekiston Futbol Federatsiyasi
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	Jako
Head coach	Vadim Abramov (since 2019)
Assistant coach	Timur Kapadze (since 2018)
captain	Odil Ahmedov
Record scorer	Maksim Shatskix (34)
Record player	Server Jeparov (128)
Home stadium	Paxtakor Central Stadium
FIFA code	UZB
FIFA rank	85th (1286 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
251 games 125 wins 49 draws 77 losses
statistics
First international match Tajikistan 2-2 Uzbekistan ( Dushanbe , Tajikistan ; June 17, 1992)
Biggest win Uzbekistan 15-0 Mongolia ( Chiang Mai , Thailand ; December 5, 1998)
Biggest defeat Japan 8-1 Uzbekistan ( Sidon , Lebanon ; October 17, 2000)
Successes in tournaments
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1996 )
Best results	Fourth 2011
(As of April 9, 2018)

The Uzbek national football team represents Uzbekistan and is considered to be the strongest team in the Central Asian countries. She showed her international class at the Asian Games in 1994 by winning the soccer tournament .

history

Uzbeks played in the team of the national football team of the USSR until 1992 .

In 1994 the UFF (Uzbek Football Association) joined FIFA and the AFC .

Uzbekistan has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup . In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , Uzbekistan reached third place in Group A in the third and final round of the Asian qualification . The two thirds of the group, Uzbekistan and Bahrain , determined who against fourth in the north and back Central America qualification would play for a World Cup place.

On September 3, 2005, Uzbekistan played 1-0 against Bahrain in Tashkent . However, on September 6, FIFA canceled the game due to a gross referee error . When the score was 1-0, the Japanese Toshimitsu Yoshida gave the Uzbeks a penalty. During the execution, however, an Uzbek player ran into the penalty area too early. Instead of retrying the penalty kick, the referee falsely decided to give Bahrain a free kick.

The second leg should have taken place on September 7th in Bahrain. October 8th in Tashkent and October 12th in Manama (Bahrain) were set as new dates . The UFF protested, but was unsuccessful. The replay in Tashkent ended 1: 1 on October 8, 2005. As the second leg ended 0-0 in Manama, Bahrain moved into the next round.

At the 2007 Asian Cup , the Uzbek team took second place in the group stage behind Iran and ahead of China and Malaysia , but failed in the subsequent quarter-finals 2-1 to what would later be the runner-up Asian champions Saudi Arabia . In 2011 the semi-finals were reached, which were lost 6-0 to Australia. In the game for 3rd place Uzbekistan lost 3-2 to South Korea.

In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil , the Uzbek team finished qualifying group 3 as group winners with 16 points, ahead of Japan with 10 points. The Uzbeks thus reached the final qualification group A of the Asian association AFC. There, Uzbekistan finished third after the group matches and thus played in the first and second leg against Jordan, third in Group B, in September. The first leg in Jordan ended 1-1, the second leg in Tashkent lost Uzbekistan 8: 9 on penalties after the score was 1: 1 after 90 minutes and extra time.

World Championship

• 1930 to 1994 - No participation, as part of the Soviet Union
• 1998 - did not qualify
• 2002 - did not qualify
• 2006 - did not qualify
• 2010 - did not qualify
• 2014 - did not qualify
• 2018 - did not qualify

Asian Championship

• Asian Championship 1956 to Asian Championship 1992 - No participation, as part of the Soviet Union
• 1996 - preliminary round
• 2000 - preliminary round
• 2004 - quarter-finals
• 2007 - quarter-finals
• 2011 - fourth
• 2015 - quarter-finals
• 2019 - round of 16

Trainer

Surname	nationality	Period	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	% Victories
Rustam Akramov	Uzbekistan	June 1992 – October 1994	18th	13	3	2	72%
Alexander Ivankov	Uzbekistan	July 1995 – November 1995	4th	0	1	3	0%
Bahodir Ibragimov	Uzbekistan	1996	8th	2	0	6th	25%
Rustam Mirsodiqov	Uzbekistan	May 1997 – October 1997	12	5	3	4th	42%
Ubirajara Veiga da Silva	Brazil	October 1997 – December 1998	11	5	4th	2	45%
Makhmud Rahimov	Uzbekistan	July 1999 – November 1999	7th	6th	0	1	86%
Viktor Borisov	Russia	February 2000	1	1	0	0	100%
Pavel Sadyrin	Russia	April 2000-May 2000	1	0	0	1	0%
Yuri Sarkisyan	Uzbekistan	July 2000 – October 2000	6th	1	1	4th	17%
Vladimir Salkov	Russia	December 2000 – October 2001	21st	12	3	6th	57%
Leonid Ostroushko	Kazakhstan	October 2001	1	1	0	0	100%
Ravshan Haydarov	Uzbekistan	January 2002 – November 2004	23	13	5	5	57%
Hans-Jürgen Gede	Germany	February 2005 – April 2005	3	1	1	1	33%
Ravshan Haydarov	Uzbekistan	June 2005 – July 2005	2	0	1	1	0%
Bob Houghton	England	July 2005 – December 2005	4th	2	2	0	50%
Valery Nepomnyashchi	Russia	January 2006 – December 2006	6th	3	2	1	50%
Up Inileyev	Uzbekistan	January 2007 – September 2008	27	13	4th	10	46%
Mirjalol Qosimov	Uzbekistan	September 2008 – April 2010	15th	4th	3	8th	27%
Vadim Abramov	Uzbekistan	April 2010 – June 2012	28	11	5	12	39%
Mirjalol Qosimov	Uzbekistan	June 2012 – June 2015	40	19th	9	12	48%
Samvel Babayan	Uzbekistan	June 2015 – September 2017	24	16	1	7th	66%
Ruziqul Berdyev	Uzbekistan	October 2017	1	0	0	1	0%
Timur Kapadze	Uzbekistan	February-June 2018	4th	0	1	3	0%
Héctor Cúper	Argentina	September 2018 – September 2019	17th	7th	4th	6th	41%
Vadim Abramov	Uzbekistan	since September 2019	0	0	0	0	0%

Record player

(As of February 23, 2020)

Record player
Games	player	position	Period	Gates
128	Server Jeparov	midfield	2002-2017	25th
118	Timur Kapadze	midfield	2002-2015	10
105	Odil Ahmedov	midfield	2007–	20th
105	Ignatiy Nesterov	goal	2002–	00
102	To Ismailov	Defense	2007–	03
097	Alexander Heinrich	attack	2002-2017	31
083	Azizbek Haydarov	midfield	2007–	01
072	Vitaliy Denisov	midfield	2006-2018	01
072	Islom Tuhtahujayev	Defense	2009-	02
067	Mirjalol Qosimov	midfield	1992-2005	31
064	Andrei Fyodorov	Defense	1994-2006	07th

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
34	Maksim Shatskix	1999-2014	061
31	Alexander Heinrich	2002-2017	097
31	Mirjalol Qosimov	1992-2005	067
25th	Server Jeparov	2002-2017	128
20th	Igor Shkvyrin	1992-2000	031
20th	Odil Ahmedov	2007–	105
19th	Eldor Shomurodov	2015-	042
15th	Jafar Irismetov	1997-2007	036
14th	Ulug'bek Baqoyev	2001-2014	052
13	Igor Sergeev	2013-	051
13	Nikolay Shirshov	1996-2005	063
12	Sardor Rashidov	2013–	044

Source: * rsssf.com

player

• Marat Bikmayev (2004-)
• Aziz Ibragimov (2007-2011)
• Anvar Jabborov (1992)
• Aleksandr Kletskov (2006)
• Dilshod Rakhmatullaev (2012)
• Shavkat Salomov (2007-2015)
• Vladimir Schischelow (2000–2012)
• Usmon Toshev (1993-1994)
• Sanjar Tursunov (2010-2015)
• Ilyas Zetulayev (2001-2007)

See also

• List of the international matches of the Uzbek national football team
• Uzbek National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
• Uzbek national football team (U-20 men)

Web links

Commons : Uzbek National Football Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• All international matches of the Uzbek national team (as of April 30, 2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ^ Uzbekistan - Record International Players