Uzbekistan Super League

Uzbekistan Super League (Uzbek: Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси; Russian: Узбекистан Суперлига), known as Artel Uzbekistan Super League due to sponsorship reasons (Uzbek: Артел Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси; Russian: Артель Узбекистан Суперлига), 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 16 teams. The top team qualifies to the group stage of the AFC Champions League.

Uzbekistan Super League
Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси
Узбекистан Суперлига

Organising body	Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Founded	1992; 33 years ago (1992)
Country	Uzbekistan
Confederation	AFC
Number of clubs	16
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Uzbekistan Pro League
Domestic cup(s)	Uzbekistan Cup Uzbekistan Super Cup
League cup(s)	Uzbekistan League Cup
International cup(s)	AFC Champions League Elite AFC Champions League Two
Current champions	Nasaf (1st title) (2024)
Most championships	Pakhtakor (16 titles)
Broadcaster(s)	Sport TV Futbol TV
Sponsor(s)	Artel Electronics
Website	pfl.uz t.me/uzpfl
Current: 2025 Uzbekistan Super League

History

The Uzbek League was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its domestic league, the Soviet Top League. The league is known locally as the Higher League with relegation to the First League.^{[citation needed]}

League system

The league is generally played between March and November in the calendar year and has occasionally had the Super Cup as a curtain raiser to the domestic campaign. Teams play each other on a home and away basis. Two or three teams can be relegated depending on the number of sides participating which has in the past been between 17 and 14 sides. Occasionally no sides would be promoted from the First League, due to reserve teams winning the championships. Reserve clubs are not allowed to feature in the top flight but can play at any level up to First League. On these occasions, clubs can be relegated without any promoted sides making the next campaign feature less sides than before.

League winners enter the next edition of the AFC Champions League along with the winners of the Uzbekistan Cup.

On 21 November 2017 according to the UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League starting from 2018 season. The number of teams playing in top division of Uzbek football is reduced from 16 to 12.^[1] Famous personnels like Rivaldo, Eren Derdiyok, Zico, Luiz Felipe Scolari have contributed to the league so far.

Champions and top scorers

See also: Uzbekistan Super League Top Scorer and Uzbekistan SSR Championship

Key

0*0	League champions also won the Uzbekistan Cup, i.e. they completed the domestic Double.

As Uzbekistan Oliy Liga

Season	Champions	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer
1992	Pakhtakor and Neftchi		Sogdiana	Valeriy Kechinov (Pakhtakor, 24 goals)
1993	Neftchi (2)	Pakhtakor	Navbahor	Rustam Durmonov (Neftchi, 24 goals)
1994	Neftchi (3) *	Bukhara	Navbahor (2)	Ravshan Bozorov (Neftchi, 26 goals)
1995	Neftchi (4)	MHSK	Navbahor (3)	Oleg Shatskikh (Navbahor, 23 goals)
1996	Navbahor	Neftchi	MHSK	Jafar Irismetov (Dustlik, 23 goals) Oleg Shatskikh (Navbahor, 23 goals)
1997	MHSK	Neftchi (2)	Navbahor (4)	Jafar Irismetov (Dustlik, 34 goals)
1998	Pakhtakor (2)	Neftchi (3)	Navbahor (5)	Mirjalol Kasymov (Pakhtakor, 22 goals) Igor Shkvyrin (Pakhtakor, 22 goals)
1999	Dustlik	Neftchi (4)	Navbahor (6)	Umid Isoqov (Neftchi, 24 goals) Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev (Andijon, 24 goals)
2000	Dustlik (2) *	Neftchi (5)	Nasaf	Jafar Irismetov (Dustlik, 45 goals)
2001	Neftchi (5)	Pakhtakor (2)	Nasaf (2)	Umid Isoqov (Neftchi, 28 goals)
2002	Pakhtakor (3) *	Neftchi (6)	Qizilqum	Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev (Andijon, 22 goals)
2003	Pakhtakor (4) *	Neftchi (7)	Navbahor (7)	Marsel Idiatullin (Qizilqum, 26 goals)
2004	Pakhtakor (5) *	Neftchi (8)	Navbahor (8)	Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev (Navbahor, 31 goals)
2005	Pakhtakor (6) *	Mashʼal	Nasaf (3)	Anvar Soliev (Pakhtakor, 29 goals)
2006	Pakhtakor (7) *	Neftchi (9)	Nasaf (4)	Pavel Solomin (Traktor, 21 goals)
2007	Pakhtakor (8) *	Kuruvchi	Mashʼal	Ilhom Moʻminjonov (Kuruvchi, 21 goals)
2008	Bunyodkor *	Pakhtakor (3)	Neftchi	Server Djeparov (Bunyodkor, 19 goals)
2009	Bunyodkor (2)	Pakhtakor (4)	Nasaf (5)	Rivaldo (Bunyodkor, 20 goals)
2010	Bunyodkor (3) *	Pakhtakor (5)	Nasaf (6)	Alisher Kholiqov (Neftchi, 13 goals) Nosirbek Otakuziev (AGMK, 13 goals)
2011	Bunyodkor (4)	Nasaf	Pakhtakor	Miloš Trifunović (Bunyodkor, 17 goals)
2012	Pakhtakor (9)	Bunyodkor (2)	Lokomotiv	Anvar Berdiev (Neftchi, 19 goals)
2013	Bunyodkor (5) *	Lokomotiv	Nasaf (7)	Oleksandr Pyschur (Bunyodkor, 19 goals)
2014	Pakhtakor (10)	Lokomotiv (2)	Nasaf (8)	Artur Gevorkyan (Nasaf, 18 goals)
2015	Pakhtakor (11)	Lokomotiv (3)	Nasaf (9)	Igor Sergeev (Pakhtakor, 23 goals)
2016	Lokomotiv *	Bunyodkor (3)	Nasaf (10)	Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov (Lokomotiv, 22 goals)
2017	Lokomotiv (2) *	Nasaf (2)	Pakhtakor (2)	Marat Bikmaev (Lokomotiv, 26 goals)

As Uzbekistan Super League

Season	Champions	Runner-up	Third place	Top scorer
2018	Lokomotiv (3)	Pakhtakor (6)	Navbahor (9)	Tiago Bezerra (Pakhtakor, 17 goals)
2019	Pakhtakor (12) *	Lokomotiv (4)	Bunyodkor	Dragan Ceran (Pakhtakor, 23 goals)
2020	Pakhtakor (13) *	Nasaf (3)	AGMK	Dragan Ceran (Pakhtakor, 21 goals)
2021	Pakhtakor (14)	Sogdiana	AGMK (2)	Dragan Ceran (Pakhtakor, 16 goals)
2022	Pakhtakor (15)	Navbahor	Nasaf (11)	Dragan Ceran (Pakhtakor, 20 goals)
2023	Pakhtakor (16)	Nasaf (4)	Navbahor (10)	Dragan Ceran (Pakhtakor, 13 goals)
2024	Nasaf	AGMK	Navbahor (11)
2025

Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Winning seasons
Pakhtakor	16	6	2	1992*, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Neftchi	5	9	1	1992*, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001
Bunyodkor	5	3	1	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
Lokomotiv	3	4	1	2016, 2017, 2018
Dustlik	2	-	-	1999, 2000
Nasaf	1	4	11	2024
Navbahor	1	1	10	1996
MHSK	1	1	1	1997
AGMK	-	1	2
Mashʼal	-	1	1
Sogdiana	-	1	1
Bukhara	-	1	-
Qizilqum	-	-	1

* Both teams were awarded with the title.
Defunct teams marked in Italics.

All-time table

All-time table of league, as of end of the 2024 season^[2]

Pos	Team	Seasons	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	G.F.	G.A.	1	2	3	Best
1	Pakhtakor	33	2058	968	651	159	158	2128	820	16	6	2	1
2	Neftchi	30	1672	890	504	160	226	1667	942	5	9	1	1
3	Navbahor	33	1506	968	450	209	309	1556	1114	1	1	11	1
4	Nasaf	28	1494	816	443	175	198	1398	847	1	4	11	1
5	Bukhara	29	1121	864	325	146	393	1128	1314	0	1	0	2
6	Sogdiana	29	1047	856	293	168	395	1081	1341	0	1	1	2
7	Bunyodkor	18	1004	508	299	111	100	870	435	5	3	1	1
8	Andijon	28	945	818	256	177	385	1066	1329	0	0	0	5
9	Metallurg	27	930	782	253	171	358	925	1169	0	0	0	5
10	Dinamo	25	895	758	253	136	369	912	1119	0	0	0	4
11	Qizilqum	25	890	722	252	161	309	851	1022	0	0	1	3
12	Lokomotiv	17	877	486	254	115	169	836	633	3	4	1	1
13	Mash'al	19	744	538	214	102	223	673	725	0	1	1	2
14	AGMK	17	669	478	189	102	183	678	650	0	1	2	2
15	Kokand 1912	17	634	516	180	94	252	670	872	0	0	0	5
16	Traktor	16	621	490	178	87	225	684	814	0	0	0	4
17	Surkhon	18	572	530	158	98	263	605	945	0	0	0	6
18	Dustlik	11	559	346	169	52	125	669	532	2	0	0	1
19	Shurtan	12	381	340	109	54	177	393	566	0	0	0	4
20	MHSK	7	362	216	106	44	66	420	335	1	1	1	1
21	Khorazm	8	230	248	62	44	142	281	518	0	0	0	7
22	Zarafshon Navoiy	6	217	196	60	37	99	236	355	0	0	0	9
23	Yangiyer	7	205	216	56	37	123	266	385	0	0	0	10
24	Orol	5	155	164	44	23	97	171	329	0	0	0	11
25	Kosonsoy	5	145	156	40	25	91	171	305	0	0	0	8
26	Guliston	5	119	154	34	17	103	142	340	0	0	0	14
27	Atlaschi	4	118	124	34	16	74	149	280	0	0	0	7
28	Chirchiq	4	103	122	26	25	71	130	240	0	0	0	14
29	Tupalang-Sariosiyo	3	96	86	28	12	46	103	146	0	0	0	9
30	Kimyogar-Chirchiq	3	96	104	25	21	58	113	193	0	0	0	14
31	Olympik	3	91	78	21	28	29	79	98	0	0	0	6
32	Akademiya Toshkent	1	59	34	16	11	7	72	45	0	0	0	5
33	Semurg Angren	2	57	72	15	12	45	99	200	0	0	0	12
34	Turon	2	33	52	6	15	31	32	88	0	0	0	13
35	Sementchi	1	31	30	8	7	15	39	64	0	0	0	15
36	Chilonzor	1	30	34	8	6	20	51	70	0	0	0	16
37	Shakhrikhon	1	28	32	7	7	18	25	67	0	0	0	15
38	Obod	1	24	30	6	6	18	25	51	0	0	0	14
39	Vobkent	1	15	30	3	6	21	23	70	0	0	0	16
40	Uz-Dong-Ju.	1	13	30	2	7	21	17	65	0	0	0	16

Competing in Super League

Competing in Pro League (2nd tier)

Competing in First League (3rd tier)

Club disappeared

Soviet Top League participation

Pos	Team	Seasons	Points	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	G.F.	G.A.	1	2	3	Best
15	Pakhtakor	22	629	722	212	211	299	805	1035	-	-	-	6

Players records

Main article: Gennadi Krasnitsky club

Top scorers As of 2 December 2019[3][circular reference] Rank Name Years Goals 1 Anvar Berdiev 1995–2019 225 2 Zafar Kholmurodov 1997–2012 200 3 Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev 2000–2014 194 4 Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev 1997–2011 178 5 Jafar Irismetov 1993–2012 174 6 Umid Isoqov 1994–2009 171 7 Ravshan Bozorov 1992–2007 171 8 Anvar Soliev 1996–2015 164 9 Oybek Usmankhojaev 1992–2005 157 10 Rustam Durmonov 1992–2002 133 11 Farid Khabibullin 1992–2004 131 12 Mukhtor Kurbonov 1993–2009 128 13 Numon Khasanov 1992–2009 125 14 Nosirbek Otakuziev 2003–present 117 15 Server Djeparov 2000–present 113 16 Shuhrat Rahmonqulov 1992–2005 108 17 Nagmetulla Kutibayev 1992–2007 106 18 Artur Geworkyan 2007–present 105 19 Oleg Shatskikh 1993–2003 105 20 Vali Keldiev 1992–2006 104 21 Zayniddin Tadjiyev 2001–2015 102 22 Shakhboz Erkinov 2003–2019 101 23 Igor Taran 2003–present 95

Most appearances As of 2 December 2019[4] Rank Name Years Apps 1 Asror Aliqulov 1995–2015 520 2 Anvar Berdiev 1995–2019 505 3 Anvar Gafurov 2000–present 455 4 Khikmat Khoshimov 1998–2017 453 5 Ilkhom Yunusov 2000–2018 431 6 Botir Qoraev 1999–2017 428 7 Ignatiy Nesterov 2001–present 423 8 Vali Keldiev 1992–2006 415 9 Hayrulla Karimov 1996–2016 410 10 Ruziqul Berdiev 1992–2008 408 11 Jasur Hasanov 1999–present 406 12 Abdumajid Toirov 1996–2013 406 13 Anvar Soliev 1996–2015 406 14 Numon Khasanov 1992–2009 402 15 Mukhtor Kurbonov 1992–2012 402 17 Shavkat Salomov 2000–present 368 18 Erkin Boydullayev 2003–present 362 19 Nosirbek Otakuziev 2003–present 351 20 Artur Geworkyan 2007–present 330 21 Mamur Ikramov 2003–present 323

Sponsorship

See also: Uzbekistan Professional Football League § Sponsors

From 1992 to 2017, the Uzbekistan Super League had no title sponsorship rights with any companies. Only starting from 2018 Uzbekistan Super League have got title League sponsor. On 4 April 2018 Uzbekistan Football Association vice-president Umid Akhmadjonov and IBT, the official PepsiCo bottler, reached an agreement that PepsiCo would become the official League sponsor for the 2018 season.^[5]

Period	Sponsor	Name
1992–2017	No sponsor	Oliy Liga
2018	Pepsi	Pepsi Uzbekistan Super League
2019–2023	Coca-Cola	Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League
2024–present	Artel	Artel Uzbekistan Super League

See also

• List of foreign football players in Uzbekistan
• Uzbekistan Pro League
• Uzbekistan First League
• Uzbekistan Second League
• Uzbekistan Cup
• Uzbekistan League Cup