2023 Uzbekistan Super League

Uzbekistan Super League
Season	2023
Matches played	181
Goals scored	408 (2.25 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dragan Ćeran (13)
Biggest home win	Andijon 5–0 Metallurg Bekabad ; (24 April 2023); Navbahor Namangan 5–0 Turon ; (28 September 2023)
Biggest away win	Bunyodkor 1–5 Navbahor Namangan ; (22 May 2023)
Highest scoring	Bunyodkor 1–5 Navbahor Namangan ; (22 May 2023); AGMK 2–4 Metallurg Bekabad ; (23 September 2023); Qizilqum Zarafshon 4–2 Sogdiana Jizzakh ; (30 September 2023)
Longest winning run	9 matches ; Pakhtakor
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches ; Neftchi
Longest winless run	13 matches ; Turon
Longest losing run	6 matches ; Buxoro
Highest attendance	25,260 - Navbahor Namangan vs Pakhtakor Tashkent ; (10 August 2023)
Lowest attendance	153 - Olympic vs Qizilqum Zarafshon ; (26 October 2023)
Average attendance	4,570 ; (1 December 2023)
	← 2022 2024 → All statistics correct as of 1 December 2023.

Last updated February 16, 2024

The 2023 Uzbekistan Super League (known as the Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd season of top-level football in Uzbekistan since its establishment in 1992. Pakhtakor Tashkent are the defending champions for the 2022 campaign.^[1] FK Andijon, FK Turon Yaypan and FK Buxoro were the three teams promoted to the 2023 Super League.^[2] The first matches will take place on March 3, 2023.^[2]

Teams

Tashkent

AGMK

Andijan

Buxoro

Nasaf

Neftchi

Surkhon

Turon

Tashkent teams:
Bunyodkor
Olympic
Pakhtakor

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Location of teams in 2023 Uzbekistan Super League

AGMK	Andijon	Buxoro	Bunyodkor	Metallurg	Nasaf	Navbahor
AGMK Stadium	Bobur Arena	Buxoro Arena	Milliy Stadium	Metallurg Bekabad Stadium	Markaziy Stadium	Markaziy Stadium
Capacity: 12,415	Capacity: 18,360	Capacity: 22,700	Capacity: 34,500	Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 21,000	Capacity: 21,913

Neftchi Fergana	Olympic Tashkent	Pakhtakor	Qizilqum	Sogdiana	Surkhon	Turon
Istiqlol Stadium	JAR Stadium	Central Stadium	Yoshlar Stadium	Sogdiana Stadium	Alpamish Stadium	Uzbekistan Stadium
20,000	8,460	35,000	12,500	11,650	10,000	8,000


Club	Coach	Location	Kit sponsor	Shirt sponsor
AGMK	Mirjalol Qosimov	Olmaliq	Jako	AKMK
Andijon	Alexander Khomyakov	Andijan	D&D Collection	UzAuto
Buxoro	Khakim Fuzaylov	Bukhara	Puma	BNQIZ
Bunyodkor	Aleksandr Krestinin	Tashkent	Jako	Uzbekneftegaz
Metallurg	Luisma Hernández	Bekabad	Adidas	Uzbekistan Metallurgy Combinat
Nasaf	Ruziqul Berdiyev	Qarshi	Kelme	Uzbekistan GTL SGCC, ENTER Engineering¹
Navbahor	Samvel Babayan	Namangan	Adidas	Namangan City
Neftchi Fergana	Vitaly Levchenko	Fergana	Jako	FNQIZ
Olympic Tashkent	Timur Kapadze	Tashkent	Nike	Trustbank, Uzmobi¹
Pakhtakor	Maksim Shatskikh	Tashkent	Puma	Akfa, UzCard¹
Qizilqum	Asror Aliqulov	Navoiy	Jako	NMMC
Sogdiana	Ivan Bošković	Jizzakh	Joma	BMB Energo
Surkhon	Sergey Tokov	Termez	Jako	Eriel
Turon	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	Yaypan	Saller	Turon Eco Cement, Almera.app

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Ref.
Sogdiana Jizzakh	Ulugbek Bakaev	Resigned	7 November 2022	Preseason	Ivan Bošković	10 February 2023
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Nikola Lazarevic	Sacked	29 November 2022		Asror Aliqulov	10 January 2023
Surkhon Termez	Miguel Álvarez	Sacked	2 January 2023		Sergey Tokov	5 January 2023
Bunyodkor	Ivan Bošković		1 February 2023		Murat Atadzhanov	1 February 2023
Bunyodkor	Murat Atadzhanov		6 July 2023	8th	Aleksandr Krestinin	7 July 2023	^[3]

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to five per USL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	AFC Players	Former players
AGMK	Martin Boakye	Rubén Sánchez				Siavash Hagh Nazari	Mohamed Ali Ben Salem Irakli Rukhadze
Andijon	Rubin Hebaj	Levan Arveladze	Armin Bošnjak	Vladimir Bubanja	Ihor Lytovka		Akhtam Nazarov Nodar Kavtaradze
Bunyodkor	Aleksey Nosko	Wellington Taira	Igor Ivanović	Milan Marčić		Davronjon Ergashev	Viktar Sotnikaw
Buxoro	Luka Kukić	Frane Ikić	Vsevolod Nihaev	Aleksandar Stanisavljević	Oleksandr Kasyan	Mukhammadzhon Rakhimov	Nikola Stošić
Metallurg Bekabad	Kerim Palić	Reza Yazdandoost	Danial Mahini	Ivan Josović		Daler Sharipov	Marko Obradović Uladzislaw Kasmynin Filip Stamenković
Nasaf	Andrés Chávez	Mateus Lima	Jaba Jighauri	Marko Stanojević			Mukhammadzhon Rakhimov
Navbahor Namangan	Toma Tabatadze	Miloš Milović	Jovan Đokić	Luka Čermelj	Filip Ivanović
Neftchi Fergana	Tomislav Mrčela	Giorgi Nikabadze	Bachana Arabuli	Oleksiy Larin		Zoir Dzhuraboyev	Toma Tabatadze Yuriy Batyushyn Andriy Mishchenko
Olympic Tashkent
Pakhtakor Tashkent	Pavel Pavlyuchenko	Matthew Steenvoorden	Michał Kucharczyk	Przemysław Banaszak	Dragan Ćeran	Kimi Merk	Giorgi Papava Mohammadreza Kooshki
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Giorgi Kukhianidze	Akaki Shulaia	Marko Simonovski	Ifeanyi Ifeanyi	Nikolai Tarasov		Victor Mbaoma Oleg Tolmasov Bagtyýar Gurgenow
Sogdiana Jizzakh	Dženan Zajmović	Tarik Isić	Ljupcho Doriev	Milan Mitrovic	Marko Kolaković Damjan Radulović		Serder Serderov
Surkhon Termez	Artyom Sokol	Sylvanus Nimely	Tamirlan Dzhamalutdinov	Artyom Potapov			Shamil Gasanov
Turon Yaypan	Ngu Abega Enyang						Zakaria Beglarishvili Anri Chichinadze Nikola Kumburović Milan Bojović Dušan Stoiljković

In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pakhtakor (C)	26	16	5	5	41	25	+16	53	Qualification for AFC Champions League Elite league stage
2	Nasaf	26	13	9	4	31	16	+15	48	Qualification for the AFC Champions League 2 group stage
3	Navbahor	26	14	5	7	44	19	+25	47
4	AGMK	26	13	7	6	43	34	+9	46
5	Neftchi	26	11	12	3	33	18	+15	45
6	Surkhon	26	11	7	8	28	24	+4	40^{[lower-alpha 1]}
7	Andijon	26	12	4	10	27	25	+2	40^{[lower-alpha 1]}
8	Bunyodkor	26	10	7	9	30	33	−3	37
9	Olympic	26	8	7	11	26	32	−6	31
10	Metallurg	26	8	6	12	26	35	−9	30
11	Sogdiana	26	7	6	13	29	38	−9	27
12	Qizilqum	26	6	7	13	22	33	−11	25	Relegation play off Uzbekistan Pro League
13	Turon (R)	26	3	7	16	16	41	−25	16	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League
14	Buxoro (R)	26	4	3	19	12	35	−23	15	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League

Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1 2 Ranked on head-to-head points: Surkhon 4, Andijon 1.

Results

Results table

Home \ Away	AGM	AND	BUN	BUX	MET	NAS	NAV	NEF	OLY	PAK	QIZ	SOG	SUR	TUR
AGMK	—	2–1	2–3	3–1	2–4	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–0	3–2	2–3	2–1
Andijon	0–1	—	0–3	1–0	5–0	0–0	2–1	0–2	2–1	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	2–1
Bunyodkor	1–1	2–1	—	1–2	1–0	1–1	1–5	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–2	0–2	0–1	0–0
Buxoro	0–1	0–1	0–2	—	1–0	0–1	0–3	2–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–3
Metallurg	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	—	1–2	1–1	0–3	2–1	1–3	1–0	3–1	0–1	1–1
Nasaf	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	—	0–0	2–0	3–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	2–1
Navbahor	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	—	1–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–0	5–0
Neftchi	2–2	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	2–1	0–0	—	0–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1
Olympic	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–1	0–0	—	0–2	0–0	3–3	1–1	2–0
Pakhtakor	2–2	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	0–1	2–3	—	3–1	2–1	1–0	3–0
Qizilqum	1–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	2–3	—	4–2	0–0	1–0
Sogdiana	1–2	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	—	0–2	2–0
Surkhon	1–3	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–2	2–2	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	—	1–0
Turon	1–1	1–3	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	—

Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
AGMK	W	L	W	D	W	L	L	W	W	D	W	L	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	D
Andijon	W	L	L	W	L	L	W	L	L	W	W	W	D	D	D	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	L	L	W	W
Bunyodkor	W	W	W	D	W	D	L	D	L	L	D	L	L	L	D	W	W	L	W	L	D	D	W	L	W	W
Buxoro	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	L	L	D	L	L	L	L
Metallurg	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	D	W	D	L	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	D	L	L	L	W
Nasaf	L	W	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	D	W	W	L	D	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	W	D	D	D
Navbahor	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	L	D	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	D
Neftchi	W	W	W	D	W	D	D	D	W	D	D	D	W	W	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	D	L	L	W	D
Olympic	W	D	L	L	W	W	L	D	W	D	L	L	D	L	D	L	L	W	W	L	L	D	D	W	W	L
Pakhtakor	L	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	L	W	W	W	D	D	L	W	W	D	W	L
Qizilqum	L	W	L	D	L	D	L	L	L	L	D	D	W	L	L	L	D	L	W	W	D	L	D	W	L	W
Sogdiana	L	D	L	L	D	L	W	W	W	W	L	L	L	W	D	D	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	W	D	L
Surkhon	L	W	D	W	L	D	W	D	L	W	L	W	D	W	D	W	D	L	L	W	W	D	L	W	L	W
Turon	L	L	D	D	L	D	L	L	L	D	L	D	D	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	D	L	W	L	L	L

Source: Championat.asia
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
AGMK	3	5	4	4	3	6	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
Andijon	6	8	10	8	9	10	9	9	10	10	7	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7
Bunyodkor	7	3	2	2	2	2	4	4	6	6	6	8	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Buxoro	5	6	9	11	12	13	13	11	11	11	12	12	13	14	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	14
Metallurg	13	14	12	12	11	9	10	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	9	9	9	10	10	10
Nasaf	11	7	5	6	4	5	5	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	2	2	2	2
Navbahor	1	1	3	3	5	3	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3
Neftchi	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	5	5	5
Olympic	4	4	6	9	8	7	8	8	7	8	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	9	9	9
Pakhtakor	8	12	8	7	6	4	3	1	1	2	2	1	2	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Qizilqum	14	10	11	10	10	11	12	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12
Sogdiana	10	11	14	14	14	14	11	10	9	9	10	10	10	8	8	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	11	11	11
Surkhon	12	9	7	5	7	8	6	7	8	7	8	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6
Turon	9	13	13	13	13	12	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	13	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13

	Leader and qualification to AFC Champions League group stage
	Qualification to AFC Champions League group stage
	Qualification to the AFC Champions League preliminary round
	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League#Relegation play off
	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League

Updated to match(es) played on 1 December 2023. Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League

Season statistics

First goal of the season: Ruslanbek Jiyanov for Olympic Tashkent against Pakhtakor Tashkent (3 March 2023)

Goalscorers

As of match played 1 December 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dragan Ćeran	Pakhtakor Tashkent	13
2	Rubin Hebaj	Andijon	12
2	Sylvanus Nimely	Surkhon Termez	12
4	Oston Urunov	Navbahor Namangan	9
	Khursid Giyosov	AGMK
	Toma Tabatadze	Neftchi Fergana/ Navbahor Namangan
7	Dženan Zajmović	Sogdiana Jizzakh	8
7	Islom Kenjaboev	Qizilqum Zarafshon	8
9	Zabikhillo Urinboev	Metallurg Bekabad	7
10	Javohir Qahramonov	Sogdiana Jizzakh	6
	Martin Boakye	AGMK
	Alisher Odilov	Olympic Tashkent
	Jasur Hakimov	Bunyodkor

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Dragan Ćeran	Pakhtakor Tashkent	Metallurg Bekabad	3–1	2 April 2023	^[4]
Rubin Hebaj	Andijon	Metallurg Bekabad	5–0	24 April 2023	^[5]

Clean sheets

As of match played 1 December 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Utkir Yusupov	Navbahor Namangan	13
2	Artyom Potapov	Surkhon Termez	11
3	Vladimir Nazarov	Neftchi Fergana	9
	Abduvohid Nematov	Nasaf
	Ihor Lytovka	Andijon
6	Javohir Ilyosov	Qizilqum Zarafshon	7
	Khamidullo Abdunabiev	Olympic
	Milan Mitrović	Sogdiana Jizzakh
9	Sanjar Kuvvatov	Pakhtakor Tashkent	6
10	Akmal Ortikov	Metallurg Bekabad	5
10	Umidjon Ergashev	Nasaf	5

Attendances

As of match played 1 December 2023^[6]

By round

2023 Uzbekistan Super League Attendance
Round	Total	GP.	Avg. Per Game
Round 1	33,017	7	4,717
Round 2	39,960	7	5,709
Round 3	24,038	7	3,434
Round 4	32,409	7	4,630
Round 5	26,939	7	3,848
Round 6	33,079	7	4,726
Round 7	28,418	7	4,060
Round 8	37,022	7	5,289
Round 9	33,693	7	4,813
Round 10	35,353	7	5,050
Round 11	37,077	7	5,297
Round 12	29,255	7	4,179
Round 13	29,997	7	4,285
Round 14	38,850	7	5,550
Round 15	38,373	7	5,482
Round 16	53,908	7	7,701
Round 17	32,394	7	4,628
Round 18	35,759	7	5,108
Round 19	28,952	7	5,790
Round 20	32,460	7	4,637
Round 21	30,017	7	5,003
Round 22	32,795	7	4,685
Round 23	22,475	7	3,211
Round 24	32,757	7	4,680
Round 25	21,136	7	3,019
Round 26	15,560	7	2,223
Total	827,145	181	4,570

By team

Team \ Match played	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Total	Average
AGMK	279	3,745	4,400	408	723	402	1,010	8,088	4,256	2,345	2,430	1,235	1,611	30,932	2,379
Andijon	2,135	8,450	1,051	2,605	3,227	961	13,217	12,801	8,912	15,231	10,584	12,607	0	91,781	7,060
Bunyodkor	999	3,203	12,012	4,073	1,021	1,198	1,005	2,135	1,624	856	2,321	1,320	315	32,082	2,468
Buxoro	8,123	8,153	8,725	8,200	6,800	3,895	7,996	6,616	6,327	6,052	1,256	1,245	2,971	76,359	5,874
Metallurg	6,623	2,803	5,201	4,582	4,321	4,509	4,322	2,138	2,225	762	560	423	173	38,642	2,972
Nasaf	5,005	3,021	2,218	5,001	7,571	3,120	2,179	4,416	15,107	4,905	6,124	3,981	2,752	65,400	5,031
Navbahor	11,707	12,132	13,950	16,250	10,200	15,816	9,323	25,260	7,582	7,057	15,227	8,883	10,608	163,995	12,615
Neftchi	17,103	7,720	5,345	14,414	19,191	13,800	8,345	14,600	19,316	12,452	12,107	6,821	5,866	157,080	12,083
Olympic	212	410	286	4,404	413	879	1,493	2,124	561	1,641	853	153	853	14,282	1,099
Pakhtakor	2,350	7,748	1,010	1,082	3,216	317	808	10,200	1,823	5,377	218	12,365	426	46,940	3,611
Qizilqum	5,614	3,471	2,331	3,852	2,925	1,254	5,591	1,120	3,428	4,315	2,879	2,061	1,973	40,814	2,885
Sogdiana	1,438	1,035	1,015	1,052	989	2,453	5,505	1,630	2,755	2,594	951	969	769	23,155	1,781
Surkhon	373	776	658	558	557	341	354	526	1,023	681	2,022	570	6,063	14,502	1,116
Turon Yaypan	5,521	2,002	2,311	7,694	2,340	3,125	2,003	3,489	3,905	1,936	1,136	1,951	2,316	39,729	3,056

References

↑ "Uzbekistan Professional Football League". www.pfl.uz/uz. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
1 2 "2023 season fixtures released: Uzbekistan Super League to start on 3 March". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. Retrieved 28 February 2023.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ "Александр Крестинин – "Бунёдкор" жамоаси бош мураббийи!". fcbunyodkor.com/ (in Uzbek). FC Bunyodkor. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
↑ "Metallurg Bekabad 1-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ "Andijon 5-0 Metallurg Bekabad". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
↑ "2023 Superliga". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

External links

Official website (in Uzbek and Russian)

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[1] "Uzbekistan Professional Football League". www.pfl.uz/uz. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2023.

[UPFL-news-2] 1 2 "2023 season fixtures released: Uzbekistan Super League to start on 3 March". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. Retrieved 28 February 2023.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[3] "Александр Крестинин – "Бунёдкор" жамоаси бош мураббийи!". fcbunyodkor.com/ (in Uzbek). FC Bunyodkor. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.

[5] "Metallurg Bekabad 1-3 Pakhtakor Tashkent". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2023.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[6] "Andijon 5-0 Metallurg Bekabad". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.

[7] "2023 Superliga". pfl.uz/. Uzbekistan Professional Football League. Archived from the original on 15 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

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