2013 Uzbek League

The 2013 Uzbek League season was the 22nd season of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence in 1992. Pakhtakor were the defending champions from the 2012 campaign.

Uzbek League

Season	2013
Champions	Bunyodkor
Relegated	FK Guliston Shurtan Guzar
Champions League	Bunyodkor Lokomotiv Tashkent Nasaf Qarshi
Matches played	182
Goals scored	543 (2.98 per match)
Top goalscorer	Oleksandr Pyschur 19 goals
Biggest home win	Nasaf Qarshi 7-1 Qizilqum Zarafshon
Biggest away win	FK Buxoro 1-5 Nasaf Qarshi Guliston 1-5 Lokomotiv Tashkent
Highest scoring	Lokomotiv Tashkent 6-2 Guliston Metallurg Bekabad 5-3 Guliston Nasaf Qarshi 7-1 Qizilqum Zarafshon Olmaliq 5-3 Guliston
Longest winning run	Nasaf Qarshi (9)
Longest unbeaten run	Bunyodkor (9) Nasaf Qarshi Pakhtakor
Longest losing run	Qizilqum Zarafshon (6) Shurtan Guzar
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Teams

Guliston

Qizilqum

Tashkent

Metallurg

Nasaf

Bukhoro

Navbahor

Neftchi

Olmaliq

Dinamo

Shortan

Sogdiana

Tashkent teams:
Bunyodkor
Lokomotiv
Pakhtakor

Locations of the 2013 Uzbek League Teams

Mash'al Mubarek and FK Andijan were relegated in the last edition of the Uzbek League to First League. Sogdiana Jizzakh and FK Guliston replaced them.

Club	Coach	Location	Stadium	Capacity	2012
Bunyodkor	Mirjalol Qosimov	Tashkent	Bunyodkor Stadium	34,000	2nd
FK Bukhoro	Tachmurad Agamuradov	Bukhoro	Buxoro Arena	22,700	7th
FK Guliston	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	Guliston	Guliston Stadium	12,400	D1, 2nd
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Khakim Fuzailov	Tashkent	Lokomotiv Stadium	8,000	3rd
Metallurg Bekabad	Rustam Mirsodiqov	Bekabad	Metallurg Bekabad Stadium	11,000	10th
Nasaf Qarshi	Ruziqul Berdiev	Qarshi	Qarshi Stadium	14,750	4th
Navbahor Namangan	Usmon Asqaraliev	Namangan	Kosonsoy Stadium	30,000	12th
Neftchi Farg'ona	Evgeniy Shokhin	Farghona	Farghona Stadium	14,520	6th
Olmaliq FK	Igor Shkvyrin	Olmaliq	Metallurg Stadium	11,000	8th
Pakhtakor	Murod Ismailov	Tashkent	Pakhtakor Stadium	35,000	Champions
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Yuriy Lukin	Zarafshon	Progress Stadium	6,000	11th
Dinamo	Ravshan Khaydarov	Samarqand	Olimpiya Stadium	12,250	9th
Sogdiana Jizzakh	Davron Fayziev	Jizzakh	Zaamin Stadium	4,000	D1, 1st
Sho'rtan Ghuzor	Erkin Mirzaev	Ghuzor	Ghuzor Stadium	7,000	5th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Position in table	Date of appointment
Nasaf Qarshi	Usmon Toshev	Sacked	Ruziqul Berdiev	Pre-season	November 18, 2012[1][2]
Navbahor Namangan	Mustafo Bayramov		Usmon Asqaraliev	Pre-season	February, 2013
FK Dinamo Samarqand	Akhmad Ubaydullaev		Kamo Gazarov	Pre-season	February 27, 2013[3]
FK Dinamo Samarqand	Kamo Gazarov	Interim role	Ravshan Khaydarov	14th	May 6, 2013
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Ravshan Khaydarov	Resigned	Rustam Zabirov	14th	April 5, 2013[4]
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Rustam Zabirov	Sacked	Yuriy Lukin	14th	July 29, 2013
FC Shurtan Guzar	Edgar Gess	Sacked	Zoir Turakulov	11th	May 15, 2013
FC Shurtan Guzar	Zoir Turakulov	Sacked	Erkin Mirzaev	14th	October 18, 2013
Neftchi Farg'ona	Yuriy Sarkisyan	Sacked	Evgeniy Shokhin	10th	May 16, 2013[5][6]

Pre-season transfers

Further information: List of Uzbek football transfers 2013

Foreign players

Further information: List of foreign football players in Uzbekistan

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	AFC Players	Former players
Bunyodkor	Marko Blažić	Oleksandr Pyshchur
Buxoro	Yury Ryzhko	David Oniya	Volodymyr Kilikevych		Naoya Shibamura	Giorgi Kvesieshvili
Dinamo Samarqand	Andriy Melnychuk					Volodymyr Kilikevych
Guliston
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Alexandru Onica	Yevgeni Gogol	Alan Kusov		Akmal Kholmatov
Metallurg Bekabad
Nasaf					Artur Geworkýan
Navbahor Namangan	Pavelas Leusas	Denis Romanenco
Neftchi Fergana
Olmaliq	Giorgi Kvesieshvili	Igor Petković	Darko Stanojević		Maksatmyrat Şamyradow	Yevgeni Gogol
Pakhtakor Tashkent	Zhora Hovhannisyan	Kakhi Makharadze	Bojan Miladinović
Qizilqum Zarafshon
Sogdiana Jizzakh	Alexandru Melenciuc
Shurtan Guzar	Giorgi Megreladze	Artūras Fomenka				Pavelas Leusas

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	Bunyodkor (C)	26	19	4	3	59	13	+46	61	2014 AFC Champions League Group stage[a]
2	Lokomotiv Tashkent	26	19	3	4	63	21	+42	60	2014 AFC Champions League Play-off stage[a]
3	Nasaf Qarshi	26	18	4	4	64	27	+37	58
4	Pakhtakor Tashkent	26	17	3	6	45	25	+20	54
5	Olmaliq FK	26	11	7	8	46	43	+3	40
6	FK Buxoro	26	10	3	13	33	44	−11	33
7	Metallurg Bekabad	26	10	3	13	36	44	−8	33
8	FK Samarqand-Dinamo	26	8	8	10	28	36	−8	32
9	Neftchi Farg'ona	26	9	3	14	28	31	−3	30
10	Sogdiana Jizzakh	26	8	4	14	34	54	−20	28
11	Navbahor Namangan	26	7	6	13	29	48	−19	27
12	Qizilqum Zarafshon	26	8	1	17	28	48	−20	25
13	FK Guliston (R)	26	6	2	18	28	62	−34	20	Relegation to Lower Division
14	Shurtan Guzar (R)	26	4	5	17	22	47	−25	17

Updated to match(es) played on 8 November 2013. Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Number of entrants per association for 2014 AFC Champions League can be changed.

Results

Home \ Away	BUN	FJB	GUL	LOK	MET	NAS	NAV	NEF	OTM	PAK	QIZ	SAM	SHU	SOG
Bunyodkor		4–0	1–0	1–1	3–0	3–0	5–0	1–0	4–1	1–2	4–0	4–1	1–0	5–0
FJ Buxoro	0–0		3–1	0–1	3–1	1–5	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	4–3	0–2	3–2	4–1
FK Guliston	1–3	1–0		1–5	2–1	0–4	2–1	0–3	0–0	2–3	2–3	0–2	2–1	2–0
Lokomotiv Tashkent	1–1	5–1	6–2		2–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	3–1	3–0	3–1
Metallurg Bekabad	2–3	2–1	5–3	0–4		2–1	2–0	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–1
Nasaf Qarshi	1–0	3–1	3–1	2–1	3–1		5–0	2–0	2–2	1–1	7–1	3–2	3–0	4–2
Navbahor Namangan	0–3	2–3	3–0	1–1	2–1	1–2		1–1	1–3	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	3–1
Neftchi Farg'ona	0–1	1–0	4–1	1–3	0–1	1–1	2–0		4–0	0–3	2–0	1–0	2–0	0–2
Olmaliq FK	3–1	3–2	5–3	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–4	3–1		1–0	2–1	3–2	0–0	4–1
Pakhtakor Tashkent	0–2	2–1	2–0	1–2	5–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–2		1–0	4–0	4–1	4–3
Qizilqum Zarafshon	0–3	2–0	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	3–1	4–2	0–1		1–1	2–1	3–1
FK Samarqand-Dinamo	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–0		2–1	1–1
Shurtan Guzar	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–4	3–3	1–4	1–3	0–2	1–1	1–2	2–0	1–1		1–0
Sogdiana Jizzakh	0–2	1–1	1–0	1–4	2–1	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	4–3	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 8 November 2013. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

#	Scorer	Team	Goals (Pen.)
1	Oleksandr Pyschur	Bunyodkor	19 (5)
2	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf Qarshi	18 (6)
3	Farhod Tadjiyev	Lokomotiv Tashkent	17 (1)
4	Zafar Polvonov	Olmaliq FK	14 (0)
5	Vokhid Shodiev	FK Buxoro	12 (0)
6	Azamat Allaniyazov	Nasaf Qarshi	11 (0)
	Ilkhom Shomurodov	Nasaf Qarshi	11 (0)
	Muiddin Mamazulunov	Olmaliq FK/FK Guliston	11 (2)
9	Akmal Kholmatov	Lokomotiv Tashkent	10 (0)
	Farrukh Shotursunov	Qizilqum/Dinamo	10 (0)
11	Ivan Nagaev	Lokomotiv Tashkent	9 (0)
	Ruzimboy Ahmedov	Navbahor	9 (4)
	Shahzodbek Nurmatov	Metallurg Bekabad	9 (0)
14	Dilmurod Karimov	Metallurg Bekabad	8 (0)
15	Anvar Berdiev	Neftchi/Bunyodkor	7 (1)
	Sukhrob Berdiev	Sogdiana	7 (0)
	Alisher Shogulyamov	FK Guliston	7 (1)
	Pavel Solomin	Shurtan Guzar	7 (0)
	Lutfulla Turaev	Bunyodkor	7 (0)

Last updated: 8 November 2013
Source: Soccerway

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		Reference
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
March	Mirjalol Qosimov	Bunyodkor	Farhod Tadjiyev	Lokomotiv
April	Mirjalol Qosimov	Bunyodkor	Akmal Kholmatov	Lokomotiv
May	Ruziqul Berdiev	Nasaf	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf
June	Ruziqul Berdiev	Nasaf	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf
July	Ruziqul Berdiev	Nasaf	Akmal Kholmatov	Lokomotiv
August	Ruziqul Berdiev	Nasaf	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf	[7]
September	Amet Memet	Neftchi	Oleksandr Pyschur	Bunyodkor	[8]
October	Ruziqul Berdiev	Nasaf	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf	[9]