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01 Server Djeparov 126 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Uzbekistan) · 25 (as of 4 October 2026) 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q495418
CAM2002–2017
02 Maksim Shatskikh 61 caps (Uzbekistan) · 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q317058
ST1999–2014
03 Odil Ahmedov Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC Anzhi Makhachkala
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q559470
CDM2007–
04 MQ Mirjalol Qosimov 67 caps (Uzbekistan) · 31 goals · FC Alania Vladikavkaz, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q622183
CM1992–2005
05 Eldor Shomurodov FK Mash'al Mubarek, F.C. Bunyodkor
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q20641483
ST2015–
06 Abduqodir Khusanov 26 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Uzbekistan) · FC SKA-1938, R.C. Lens
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q111479885
CB2023–
07 AG 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q494864
SS2002–
08 Timur Kapadze 119 caps (Uzbekistan) · Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Incheon United
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q969355
CDM2002–2015
09 IN Ignatiy Nesterov FK Dinamo Samarqand, Pakhtakor Tashkent FK
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1341173
GK2002–
10 IS Igor Shkvyrin 31 caps (Uzbekistan) · 20 goals · FK Yangiyer, Pakhtakor Tashkent FK
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1659177
ST1992–2000
11 JM 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.
Career sourcesIdentity and career · Wikidata Q19831829
LM
12 IS Igor Sergeev Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, FC Aktobe
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q10549264
LM2013–
13 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1332288
LB2006–
14 AA Andrey Akopyants 40 caps (Uzbekistan) · 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1588356
ST1998–2005
15 AF 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.About the editorial selection CB
16 AI 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1085244
CB2007–
17 AH Aziz Haydarov Lokomotiv Tashkent, F.C. Bunyodkor
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q2655579
CDM2007–
18 JH Jasur Hasanov Sogdiana Jizzakh, Navbahor Namangan
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1393815
CAM2007–
19 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1355028
SS2004–
21 AA Asror Aliqulov 63 caps (Uzbekistan) · FK Mash'al Mubarek, Nasaf Qarshi
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1659807
CB1999–2008
22 MN 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.About the editorial selection GK
24 RK 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.
Career sourcesIdentity and career · Wikidata Q1587671
CB
25 Sanzhar Tursunov FC Irtysh Omsk, FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q1321515
CM2010–
26 AS 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q4701453
RB2010–
27 IZ Ilyas Zeytulayev 10 caps (Uzbekistan) · 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q937810
CM2001–2007
28 IT 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q6084423
RB2009–
29 Jamshid Iskanderov 44 (as of 4 October 2026) caps (Uzbekistan) · 4 (as of 4 October 2026) goals · Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Seongnam
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q16235461
CAM2014–
31 DT 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.
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q17119063
RM2014–
32 DT 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.
Career sourcesIdentity and career · Wikidata Q60043576
LB
33 Egor Krimets Pakhtakor Tashkent FK, Beijing Guoan
Career sourcesCareer dates · checked 4 October 2026
Identity and career · Wikidata Q3701834
CB2013–

About this XI

The collection opens with Server Djeparov, Maksim Shatskikh and Odil Ahmedov. The 33 covers 3 goalkeepers, 10 defenders, 14 midfielders and 6 forwards, with sourced senior international careers spanning the 1990s to the 2020s. Pick a formation, drag your eleven onto the pitch, then explore the careers and 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?
The editorial collection starts with Server Djeparov. Its first five careers: 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 collection covers every position across Uzbekistan's football history. Honours, international records and career achievements inform the editorial order. Each entry opens a career note and its sources. Fan votes in the duels build a separate ranking.
Where can I read about the careers?
Open a player page from the collection to read the career scene, club record and recorded honours. The source links show where the available records come from.
Can I build and share my own Uzbekistan all-time XI?
Yes. Pick one of 8 formations, place any of the 33 players onto the pitch, and export your lineup as a PNG. There is no account and no sign-up.