Sports in Uzbekistan includes sports that are played worldwide, such as football, boxing, wrestling, futsal, and judo, as well as sports that originate in the country such as kurash, which is a type of upright wrestling, belbogli kurash, turon, and boyqurgan. Uzbekistan will host the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup and the 2025 Asian Youth Games.
Timur Kapadze is an Uzbekistani former professional football midfielder of Ahiska-Turkish descent. He is currently manager of Uzbekistan's U23 and Olympic football teams, and also Olympic Tashkent football club.
Jafar Irismetov is a former Uzbekistan footballer and coach.
Pakhtakor Football Club is an Uzbek professional football club, based in the capital city of Tashkent, that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Pakhtakor is often considered the most successful football club in Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan Super League, known as Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League due to sponsorship reasons, is the top division of professional football in Uzbekistan. It is operated under the auspices of the Uzbekistan Professional Football League and Uzbekistan Football Association. It was founded in 1992 and currently has 14 teams. The top team qualifies to the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent.
Alexander Rudolfovich Geynrikh is an Uzbek former footballer who played as a forward for the Uzbekistan national team.
Odil Akhmedov is a former Uzbek professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He represented Uzbekistan national team.
Football Club Bunyodkor is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League.
Davron Mirzaev is an Uzbekistani footballer who last played for Rubin Yalta in the Crimean Premier League. He also holds Russian citizenship.
Artur Aleksandrowiç Geworkýan is a Turkmen former footballer who plays as a forward.
Dragan Ćeran is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Uzbekistan Super League club Pakhtakor.
Michał Kucharczyk is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger or a striker for Legia Warsaw II.
The 2012 season was Pakhtakors 21st season in the top Uzbek League in Uzbekistan. Pakhtakor competed in Uzbek League, Uzbek Cup and AFC Champions League tournaments.
Alisher Mirzo is an Uzbek painter whose works are kept in galleries, museums and private collections in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Russia, Japan, India, Madagascar and the United States of America. He combines elements of Impressionism and Abstract Art with traditional Uzbek art forms such as miniature painting and decorative styles of applied art. His subjects range from landscapes and still lives to intimate scenes of ethnic Uzbek life.
Igor Vladimirovich Sergeev is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club BG Pathum United and the Uzbekistan national team.
Moses John Dyer is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays for Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League, on loan from Vancouver FC.
Jaloliddin Masharipov is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays as a winger for Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal, and the Uzbekistan national team.
Dostonbek Khamdamov is an Uzbek professional footballer, Asian Young Footballer of the Year2015, winner of the Asian Youth Championship 2018 and plays as a winger for Pakhtakor and the Uzbekistan national team.
Lazizbek Mirzaev is an Uzbek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lokomotiv Tashkent.
