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87 Server Djeparov 126 caps · 25 goals · Navbahor Namangan, Pakhtakor Tashkent FKBunyodkor signed him in 2007, and in 2008, his first full season, he scored 19 league goals from midfield to finish as the Uzbek top scorer and Asia's Footballer of the Year. He won that award a second time in 2011, lifted nine Uzbek league titles and eight cups with Pakhtakor, Bunyodkor and Lokomotiv Tashkent, took the K League with FC Seoul in 2010, and left the national team on 128 caps and 25 goals. CAM2007–11

86 Maksim Shatskikh 61 caps · 34 goals · FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Arsenal KyivArriving at Dynamo Kyiv in 1999, he scored 97 league goals for them over a decade and left the Ukrainian top flight tied with Serhii Rebrov as its all-time leading scorer on 123. Six Ukrainian championships and five cups came with that, along with two seasons as league top scorer, four Uzbek Footballer of the Year awards, and 34 goals in 61 caps that carried Uzbekistan to fourth place at the 2011 Asian Cup. ST1999–2011

86 Odil Ahmedov Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC Anzhi MakhachkalaHe struck first when Uzbekistan met the hosts Qatar in Doha on 7 January 2011, a 2-0 win that opened a run to the Asian Cup semi-finals and set the tone for a career built on shooting from range. Shanghai SIPG made him Chinese Super League champion in 2018, Pakhtakor had given him two Uzbek titles and three cups, and six Uzbekistan Player of the Year awards came with 108 caps and 21 goals. CDM2011–18

4 MQ 84 Mirjalol Qosimov 67 caps · 31 goals · FC Alania Vladikavkaz, FC Krylia Sovetov SamaraOn 12 September 1995 he scored against Liverpool in the UEFA Cup for Alania Vladikavkaz, one of 210 goals across a career that took him from Soviet football to Samara and back to Tashkent. Gold at the 1994 Asian Games, where Uzbekistan beat China 4-2 in the Hiroshima final and he was named Asia's best midfielder, heads a record of 67 caps and 31 goals, later followed by three Uzbek titles as Bunyodkor's coach. CM1994–95

82 Eldor Shomurodov FK Mash'al Mubarek, F.C. BunyodkorIn June 2023 his 36th goal for Uzbekistan moved him past Maksim Shatskikh, and two years on he was the captain who took the country to its first World Cup. He finished the 2025-26 Süper Lig as joint top scorer on 22 goals with Başakşehir, won the Europa Conference League with Roma in 2022, and holds the Uzbek scoring record with 45 in 95 caps. ST2022–25

81 Abduqodir Khusanov 26 caps · FC SKA-1938, R.C. LensHis Premier League debut on 25 January 2025 began with a mistake that handed Chelsea the opening goal, and he stayed on through a 3-1 win. A 40 million euro move made him the first Central Asian in the Premier League, and the FA Cup and League Cup followed in 2025-26, on top of the AFC U-20 Asian Cup in 2023, the CAFA Nations Cup in 2025 and the qualification that took Uzbekistan to its first World Cup. CB2023–25

7 AG 81 Alexander Geynrikh Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC Torpedo MoscowTwice he beat South Korea's goalkeeper in the 2011 Asian Cup third place match on 28 January, a penalty on the stroke of half time and a second eight minutes after the break, and Uzbekistan still went down 3-2. Fourth place in Qatar remains the country's best Asian Cup; he finished on 98 caps and 31 goals, won league titles with Pakhtakor and the Kazakh championship with Aktobe in 2013, and was Uzbek Footballer of the Year in 2002. SS2002–13

81 Timur Kapadze 119 caps · Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Incheon UnitedHe won 119 caps for Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2015 and scored ten times, then stood on the touchline on 5 June 2025 as the head coach the night Uzbekistan finally qualified for a World Cup. As a player he won six consecutive Uzbek titles with Pakhtakor from 2002, three more with Bunyodkor, a Kazakh championship with Aktobe in 2013, and reached four Asian Cups, the best of them the fourth-place run in 2011. CDM2002–25

9 IN 80 Ignatiy Nesterov FK Dinamo Samarqand, Pakhtakor Tashkent FKUzbekistan took him to five Asian Cups, the first in China in 2004 and the last in the Emirates in 2019, fifteen years and 106 caps between the two. Ten Uzbek league titles and ten Uzbek Cups make him the most decorated Uzbek footballer at club level, six of each with Pakhtakor, four more leagues with Bunyodkor, and gold with the under-21s at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games. GK2003–19

10 IS 80 Igor Shkvyrin 31 caps · 20 goals · FK Yangiyer, Pakhtakor Tashkent FKEight goals in seven matches at the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, two against Saudi Arabia on 1 October and two against Malaysia two days later, made him both top scorer and best player of the tournament. Uzbekistan took the gold medal there, beating China 4-2 in the final; he scored 20 in 31 caps for his country and 121 for Pakhtakor, and won league titles in Malaysia in 1995, Uzbekistan in 1998 and India in 2000. ST1994–2000

11 JM 80 Jaloliddin Masharipov Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Al-NassrWhen Cristiano Ronaldo signed for Al Nassr in January 2023 the number seven was already taken, so Masharipov gave it up and played on in 77. He won four Uzbek league titles with Pakhtakor between 2014 and 2020 and three domestic cups, was named Uzbek Footballer of the Year in 2020, and made the Team of the Tournament at the 2023 Asian Cup during a 74-cap international career. LM2014–23

12 IS 79 Igor Sergeev Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC AktobeTen seasons separate his two Uzbek league Golden Boots, 24 goals in 2015 and 20 more in 2025, both scored in Pakhtakor colours after a spell abroad in between. Pakhtakor gave him four league titles and three cups, Tobol a Kazakh championship in 2021, and Uzbekistan a place in its first World Cup squad, with 25 goals in 87 caps and the Golden Boot at the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup. LM2015–25

79 Vitaliy Denisov PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Spartak Nizhny NovgorodVoted the best left back in the Russian Premier League for 2013-14, his first season at Lokomotiv Moscow, he had already spent six years and 135 matches on Dnipro's left flank before that. Lokomotiv gave him the Russian title in 2017-18 and the Russian Cup in 2015 and 2017; he was Uzbekistan's Footballer of the Year in 2013 and won 72 caps between 2007 and 2018. LB2007–18

14 AA 78 Andrey Akopyants 40 caps · 6 goals · Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC RostovChernomorets Novorossiysk got 15 goals in 30 games out of him in 2006, three times his return from five seasons at Rostov, where 116 appearances had brought him five. Uzbekistan named him Footballer of the Year in 1999, a year after he won the league with Pakhtakor and two after the Uzbek Cup, and he took 40 caps and six goals out of the national side between 1998 and 2005. ST1998–2006

15 AF 78 Andrey Fyodorov On 16 October 1994 in Hiroshima he was in the Uzbekistan side that beat China 4-2 for Asian Games gold, seven wins from seven matches and the independent country's first major football title. The Russian championship came with Rubin Kazan in 2008 at the end of eight seasons there, after four Uzbek league titles with Neftchi Farg'ona between 1992 and 1995 and 65 caps with seven goals. CB1992–2008

16 AI 78 Anzur Ismailov Traktor Tashkent, Pakhtakor Tashkent FKHe put Uzbekistan ahead in the fifth minute against Jordan in Tashkent on 10 September 2013, then missed the tenth penalty of the shootout that followed and saw a World Cup place go the other way, 9-8. The caps ran to 101, alongside fourth place at the 2011 Asian Cup, league titles with Pakhtakor and Bunyodkor, and seven years and 193 matches at Changchun Yatai in China. CB2011–13

17 AH 78 Aziz Haydarov Lokomotiv Tashkent, F.C. BunyodkorOne of his two goals in 86 internationals came at the 2011 Asian Cup against Kuwait, a deflection off a Maksim Shatskikh free kick, which is about right for a holding midfielder who spent eleven years doing other work. Three straight Uzbek titles with Bunyodkor from 2008 to 2010, two Uzbek Cups and the 2008 AFC Champions League semi-final make up his club record, and he was in the side that finished fourth at the 2011 Asian Cup. CDM2008–11

18 JH 78 Jasur Hasanov Sogdiana Jizzakh, Navbahor NamanganThird place in the 2009 Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year vote put him behind Odil Ahmedov and Rivaldo, then his Bunyodkor teammate, in the middle of three league titles in a row. Bunyodkor won the league in 2008, 2009 and 2010 with him in the side, with the Uzbek Cup in 2008, and a loan delivered Lekhwiya's first Qatari title in 2010-11, before fourth place at the 2011 Asian Cup and the AFC Cup Golden Boot in 2022. CAM2008–22

78 Marat Bikmaev Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, PFC Spartak NalchikAt 31, back home with Lokomotiv Tashkent after nine seasons in Russia, he scored 27 league goals in 2017 and took both the Uzbek scoring title and Footballer of the Year. Six Uzbek league titles, three won with Pakhtakor as a teenager and three with Lokomotiv, sit alongside five Uzbek Cups, the Kazakh championship with Aktobe in 2013, and 56 caps with nine goals for Uzbekistan. SS2013–17

78 Sardor Rashidov Sogdiana Jizzakh, F.C. BunyodkorMelbourne, 18 January 2015: two minutes into Uzbekistan's Asian Cup meeting with Saudi Arabia he had already scored, and on 78 minutes he scored again to seal a 3-1 win and a place in the quarter-finals. Four Uzbek league titles sit on his record, three at Bunyodkor and one at Lokomotiv Tashkent in 2018, alongside three Uzbek Cups, the 2014 Super Cup, and 13 goals in 50 caps. RM2014–18

21 AA 77 Asror Aliqulov 63 caps · FK Mash'al Mubarek, Nasaf QarshiSixty-one caps for Uzbekistan between 1999 and 2008 and not a single goal, which says plainly what Asror Aliqulov was there to do. He joined Pakhtakor from Nasaf in 2003 and won five league titles and five Uzbek Cups in a row, reached the AFC Champions League semi-finals in 2003 and 2004, took the Merdeka Tournament with Uzbekistan in 2001 and played at the 2004 and 2007 Asian Cups. CB1999–2008

22 MN 77 Mikhail Naumov Born in Qashqadaryo in 1985, Naumov did his steadiest work at the province's clubs, 30 league games for Mash'al Mubarek in 2008 and then four seasons on Nasaf Qarshi's books from 2009. His record is a decade in the Uzbek top flight between 2004 and 2015, at Surkhon Termez, Tupalang Sariosiyo, Mash'al Mubarek, Nasaf Qarshi, Shurtan Guzar and Sogdiana Jizzakh, with no senior cap and no major honour recorded. GK1985–2015

77 Otabek Shukurov F.C. BunyodkorHis first goal for Uzbekistan arrived on 11 October 2016 in a World Cup qualifier against China, and he has since reached 87 caps while spending nearly every club season after 2017 abroad, in the Emirates, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He was part of the squad that won the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup and reached Uzbekistan's first World Cup, and he had already taken AFC U-23 gold in 2018 and the U-16 title back in 2012. CM2012–25

24 RK 77 Ravshan Khaydarov FK Khiva, FK Orol NukusSnow was falling in Changzhou on 27 January 2018, the U-23 final level at 1-1, when a Khamdamov corner found Andrey Sidorov in the 120th minute and Khaydarov's Uzbekistan side had the trophy. The AFC U-23 Championship that night was Uzbekistan's first, and he added the 2023 U-20 Asian Cup, league and cup doubles with Pakhtakor in 2006 and 2007, and Coach of the Year in 2018 and 2023 after a defender's career at Traktor Tashkent. CB2006–23

77 Sanzhar Tursunov FC Irtysh Omsk, FC Volga Nizhny NovgorodThirteen minutes into a World Cup qualifier in Doha on 16 October 2012, Tursunov struck the only goal of the night and Uzbekistan left the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium with a win over Qatar. Voted Uzbekistan's Footballer of the Year for 2012, he had already helped the country to fourth place at the 2011 Asian Cup, won promotion from the Russian First Division with Volga Nizhny Novgorod in 2010, and finished with 49 caps and five goals. CM2010–12

26 AS 76 Akmal Shorakhmedov Sogdiana Jizzakh, Navbahor NamanganSix seasons at Bunyodkor gave him 171 appearances and seven goals from right back, and he was still in Uzbekistan's squad at the 2019 Asian Cup, nine years after his first cap in 2010. Two Uzbek League titles came during that Bunyodkor spell, in 2011 and 2013, along with the Uzbek Cup in 2012 and 2013 and the 2014 Super Cup, and he closed his international account on 34 caps. RB2010–19

27 IZ 76 Ilyas Zeytulayev 10 caps · 2 goals · F.C. Crotone, Delfino Pescara 1936Reggina gave him his Serie A debut against Juventus on 19 March 2005, the club that had raised him in its Primavera and given him nothing beyond two Coppa Italia appearances. It left him the first Uzbek in Italy's top division, a distinction he carried through Crotone, Genoa, Verona and Pescara, where he scored seven in 28; he made ten Uzbekistan appearances and scored twice between 2001 and 2007, and now manages Bunyodkor. CM2001–07

28 IT 76 Islom Tukhtakhujaev FC Neftchi Fergana, Neftchi Baku PFCLokomotiv Tashkent had him for seven seasons, 191 league games and 19 goals, an unusual tally for a right-back, and he scored for Uzbekistan in Tokyo on 31 March 2015. He won the Uzbek League in 2016 and 2017, three Uzbek Cups in 2014, 2016 and 2017, the Super Cup in 2015, and played 73 times for Uzbekistan, including the Asian Cups of 2015 and 2019. RB2014–19

76 Jamshid Iskanderov 44 caps · 4 goals · Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, SeongnamThe Uzbek League named him its player of the year for 2014 when he was still at Pakhtakor, and eight years later, at Navbahor Namangan, he was voted Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year for 2022. Three Uzbek league titles with Pakhtakor in 2012, 2014 and 2015 sit alongside the 2011 Uzbek Cup and the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup, and he scored 19 league goals in 126 games for the club where he made his name. CAM2011–25

76 Utkir Yusupov Nasaf QarshiBorn across the border in Sayram, Kazakhstan, Utkir Yusupov was 27 before Uzbekistan handed him a first cap in 2018, and he has taken more than 40 since. He was in the squad that won the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup and the one that reached the 2026 World Cup, Uzbekistan's first, and he was named in the Super League Team of the Season in 2021 and 2022 with Navbahor before two seasons at Foolad in Iran. GK2018–26

31 DT 75 Diyorjon Turapov FC AGMKAt the Bursa Atatürk Stadium on 23 June 2013, Turapov scored the third goal in a 3-0 win over New Zealand, the only victory that took Uzbekistan's under-20s through to the knockout rounds. The honours came at Lokomotiv Tashkent: Uzbekistan Super League titles in 2017 and 2018, the Uzbek Cup in 2017, the Super Cup in 2019, and a single senior cap, won against Oman on 29 May 2014. RM2013–19

32 DT 75 Dostonbek Tursunov Snow was falling on Changzhou when he lined up in Uzbekistan's U-23 Asian Cup final on 27 January 2018, the temperature at freezing, and Andrey Sidorov's goal in the 120th minute beat Vietnam 2-1. The gold medal from that night leads his honours, with two Uzbekistan Super League titles at Pakhtakor in 2022 and 2023, the 2025-26 Hong Kong League Cup with Lee Man, and eight caps taking in the 2019 Asian Cup and a goal against North Korea. LB2018–25

75 Egor Krimets Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Beijing GuoanIn Doha on 6 September 2016 the 1.93m centre-back put Uzbekistan ahead against Qatar, the second of only two international goals he scored and the one that came in World Cup qualifying. Five Uzbek league titles and two cups came with Pakhtakor, where he made 149 league appearances and scored 15, and he won 40 caps between 2013 and 2020, playing at the 2015 and 2019 Asian Cups either side of two loan spells at Beijing Guoan. CB2013–20

About this XI

The three highest rated names in Uzbekistan's pool are Server Djeparov, Maksim Shatskikh and Odil Ahmedov. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 14 midfielders and 6 forwards. Server Djeparov leads the pool at 87 overall. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then settle the duels below. Your votes reorder the people's ranking of these 33 in real time.

Who is the greatest Uzbekistan footballer of all time?

In the 33 Legends editorial ranking, Server Djeparov leads Uzbekistan with an overall rating of 87. The editorial top five: Server Djeparov, Maksim Shatskikh, Odil Ahmedov, Mirjalol Qosimov, Eldor Shomurodov. The people's ranking on this page moves with every duel vote and can disagree.

How were these 33 Uzbekistan players chosen?

The pool covers every position across Uzbekistan's football history. Ratings weigh peak level, longevity, honours and historical standing, then the full methodology page explains the tiers. Fan votes in the duels build a second, independent ranking.

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