2021 Uzbekistan Super League

2021 Uzbekistan Super League
Season	2021
Dates	9 March — 27 November
Matches played	132
Goals scored	288 (2.18 per match)
Top goalscorer	Dragan Ćeran (10)
	← 2020 2022 → All statistics correct as of 21 September 2021.

The 2021 Uzbekistan Super League (known as the Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League for sponsorship reasons) is the 30th season of top-level football in Uzbekistan since its establishment on 1992. Pakhtakor Tashkent were the defending champions from the 2020 campaign.

Season events

Teams

Tashkent

Tashkent teams:
Bunyodkor
Lokomotiv
Pakhtakor

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Location of teams in 2021 Uzbekistan Super League


Club	Coach	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Kit sponsor	Shirt sponsor
AGMK	Mirjalol Qosimov	Olmaliq	AGMK Stadium	12,000	Jako	Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Combine
Andijan	Otabek Gulomkhojaev	Andijan	Soghlom Avlod Stadium	18,360	D&D Collection	Makro Farm Andijan
Bunyodkor	Shukhrat Maqsudov	Tashkent	Milliy Stadium	34,000	Jako	Uzbekneftegaz
Kokand 1912	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	Kokand	Markaziy Stadium	10,500	Jako	Bazis
Lokomotiv	Micael Sequeira	Tashkent	Lokomotiv Stadium	8,000	Joma	Orient Finance Bank, Uztelecom ¹, Drivers Village ¹
Mash'al	Alexander Khomyakov	Muborak	Bahrom Vafoev Stadium	10,000	Saller	Uzbekneftegaz
Metallurg	Luisma Hernández	Bekabad	Metallurg Bekabad Stadium	15,000	Adidas	Uzbekistan Metallurgy Combinat
Nasaf	Ruziqul Berdiyev	Qarshi	Markaziy Stadium	16,000	Adidas	Uzbekistan GTL SGCC, ENTER Engineering¹
Navbahor	Numon Khasanov	Namangan	Markaziy Stadium	22,000	Jako	Namangan City
Pakhtakor	Pieter Huistra	Tashkent	Central Stadium	35,000	Adidas
Qizilqum	Hamidjon Aktamov	Navoiy	Yoshlar Stadium	12,500	Jako	Navoi Mining and Metallurgy Combinat
Sogdiana	Ulugbek Bakayev	Jizzakh	Sogdiana Stadium	11,650	Joma	BMB Energo
Surkhon	Rifat Akramkhujaev	Termez	Alpamish Stadium	6,000	Adidas	Uzbekgidrenergo
Turon	Bogusław Baniak	Yaypan	Uzbekistan Stadium	5,000	Jako	Fitogether, Aloqabank, Turon World Cooperation¹

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Ref.
Bunyodkor	Vadim Abramov			Preseason	Shukhrat Maqsudov
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Timur Kapadze				Micael Sequeira	7 January 2021	^[1]
Mash'al Mubarek	Dilyaver Vaniyev				Alexander Khomyakov
Pakhtakor Tashkent	Shota Arveladze	Resigned	22 December 2020		Pieter Huistra	6 January 2021	^[2]^[3]
Qizilqum	Hamidjon Aktamov		3 June 2020	10th	Täçmyrat Agamyradow	4 June 2020
Qizilqum	Täçmyrat Agamyradow		26 August 2020	5th	Hamidjon Aktamov	27 August 2020

Foreign players

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	Naturalized Players	Former players
AGMK	Alvin Fortes	Martin Boakye	Jovan Đokić	Oleksandr Kasyan
Andijan	Vasiliy Sovpel	Pavel Zabelin	Plamen Dimov	Vladislav Vasilyev			Marco Bueno Edgar Bernhardt Martin Boakye
Bunyodkor	Ibrahim Tomiwa	Odiljon Abdurakhmanov			Davron Ergashev
Kokand 1912	Yacouba Bamba	Ivan Josović	Slavko Lukić
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Kakhi Makharadze	Samuel Opeh					Diego Bardanca
Mash'al Mubarek	Michael Ibe	Ifeanyi Ifeanyi	Samuel Chigozie Ononiwu	Godwin Chika Okwara			Ukeme Williams
Metallurg Bekabad							Andrey Shipilov Yevgeni Makeyev Yevhen Chumak
Nasaf	Marko Stanojević	Andrija Kaludjerović
Navbahor Namangan	Guttiner	Bojan Najdenov	Ivan Solovyov	Bojan Ciger	Ehson Panjshanbe	→ Igor Golban	Marko Putinčanin Nikola Tasić Slaviša Stojanović
Pakhtakor Tashkent	Dragan Ćeran	Bojan Matić					Eren Derdiyok
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Mate Vatsadze	Elgujja Grigalashvili	Georgiy Kukhianidze	Oleg Tolmasov			Jahongir Ergashev
Sogdiana Jizzakh	Luka Čermelj	Marko Kolaković	Milan Mitrović	Darko Stanojević			Arslanmyrat Amanow
Surkhon Termez	Vladimir Bubanja
Turon	Siniša Babić	Dajan Ponjević	Kim Bo-yong		Firdavs Chakalov	→ Uladzislaw Kasmynin	Kwame Karikari Umarjon Sharipov

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	Pakhtakor (C)	26	19	3	4	51	18	+33	60	Qualification to the AFC Champions League group stage
2	Sogdiana	26	12	11	3	28	15	+13	47^[a]	Qualification to the 2022 AFC Cup group stage^[b]
3	AGMK	26	13	8	5	34	25	+9	47^[a]
4	Nasaf	26	13	6	7	42	24	+18	45	Qualification to the AFC Champions League preliminary round^[c]
5	Bunyodkor	26	13	6	7	43	30	+13	45
6	Navbahor	26	10	9	7	23	19	+4	39
7	Lokomotiv	26	11	6	9	37	32	+5	39
8	Kokand 1912	26	9	9	8	37	36	+1	36
9	Qizilqum	26	7	10	9	26	29	−3	31
10	Surkhon	26	7	4	15	17	43	−26	25
11	Metallurg	26	8	1	17	22	35	−13	25
12	Mash'al (R)	26	5	8	13	21	35	−14	23	Relegation play off Uzbekistan Pro League
13	Andijon (R)	26	4	7	15	22	41	−19	19	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League
14	Turon (R)	26	3	8	15	16	37	−21	17	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League

Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Sogdiana second on head-to-head points : Sogdiana 4; AGMK 1
^ Sogdiana are the standby team for the AFC Cup, should Nasaf advance to the AFC Champions League group stage. As Nasaf advanced to the AFC Champions League group stage, the standby team entered the AFC Cup.
^ Nasaf qualified to the AFC Champions League as 2021 Uzbekistan Cup champions.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
Team ╲ Round
Pakhtakor Tashkent	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sogdiana Jizzakh	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	2
AGMK	2	3	8	4	6	8	7	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	2	3	3	3	3	4	4	2	2	2	2	3
Nasaf Qarshi	8	11	12	7	4	3	4	6	8	7	4	3	4	5	5	6	5	4	5	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Bunyodkor	6	8	3	3	5	6	6	7	5	4	7	6	6	6	6	4	4	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Lokomotiv Tashkent	10	12	13	13	9	7	5	8	4	8	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	7	8	6	6	7	7	6	7	6
Navbahor Namangan	13	6	6	8	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	8	8	7	7	7	8	6	7	7	6	6	7	6	7
Kokand 1912	3	4	3	6	3	4	3	4	7	6	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Qizilqum Zarafshon	5	5	5	5	8	9	9	9	10	9	5	5	5	4	4	5	6	6	7	8	8	9	9	9	9	9
Surkhon Termez	7	10	7	9	11	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	14	12	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	10	10	10	12	10
Metallurg Bekabad	14	9	9	12	7	5	8	5	6	5	6	7	9	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	12	12	12	11	11
Mash'al Mubarek	12	14	11	11	13	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	12
Andijon	11	7	10	10	12	12	12	12	13	13	14	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13
Turon	9	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14

	Leader and qualification to AFC Champions League group stage
	Standby team of the AFC Cup group stage
	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League#Relegation play off
	Relegation to Uzbekistan Pro League

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2021. Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League

Results

Home \ Away	AGM	AND	BUN	KOK	LOK	MAS	MET	NAS	NAV	PAK	QIZ	SOG	SUR	TUR
AGMK	—	3–2	3–1	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	1–1	2–1	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–0
Andijon	2–3	—	1–4	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–1
Bunyodkor	1–1	3–1	—	2–1	3–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	3–2	1–0	2–2	3–1	3–1
Kokand	2–2	1–1	0–0	—	2–1	2–2	0–1	1–2	1–2	4–2	0–0	2–3	2–0	2–2
Lokomotiv	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	—	2–1	1–3	2–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	1–0	2–0	3–1
Mash'al	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–4	—	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–0
Metallurg	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	—	2–1	2–2	0–3	1–2	0–2	0–1	1–0
Nasaf	1–1	2–0	5–0	3–1	1–3	1–0	1–0	—	0–1	2–3	2–1	1–0	6–0	4–0
Navbahor	0–0	0–1	2–1	2–3	1–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	—	1–2	0–0	0–1	2–0	0–0
Pakhtakor	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	—	4–2	0–0	5–0	3–1
Qizilqum	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	0–0	2–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	0–1	—	1–1	1–1	2–1
Sogdiana	0–0	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	1–0
Surkhon	0–1	2–0	1–5	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	0–4	1–0	0–1	—	1–0
Turon	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–2	2–2	0–0	2–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	—

Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by match played

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Team ╲ Round
AGMK	W	D	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	D	D	L	D	W	D
Andijon	L	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	D	L	L	W	L	W
Bunyodkor	W	L	W	D	D	L	W	L	D	W	L	W	L	D	W	W	W	D	W
Kokand	W	D	D	D	W	L	W	L	L	W	L	L	L	D	D	W	L	D	W
Lokomotiv	L	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	D	L	W	D	L	W	D	W	L
Mash'al	L	L	W	D	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	L	W	D	L	W	L	D	D
Metallurg	L	W	L	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	L	W	L
Nasaf	L	D	D	W	W	W	L	W	L	W	W	W	L	L	D	L	W	W
Navbahor	L	W	D	L	L	D	D	W	D	W	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	D	W
Pakhtakor	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	D	L
Qizilqum	W	D	D	D	L	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	W	D	D	L	D	L	D
Sogdiana	W	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W	D	D	L	D	W	L	W	W	D	D
Surkhon	W	L	D	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	L	W	W	L	L	L
Turon	L	L	D	L	L	D	D	L	L	L	D	W	D	D	W	L	L	L	L

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2021. Source: Championat.asia
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed

Relegation play-off

Team 1	Score	Team 2
FK Olympic Tashkent	3–1	FK Mash'al Mubarek

Season Statistics

First goal of the season: Alvin Fortes for AGMK against Lokomotiv Tashkent (9 March 2021)^[4]

Pakhtakor's Dragan Ćeran won the Super League Golden Boot after scoring 16 goals, a record for a 21-game Super League season

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Goalscorers

As of match played 27 November 2021

#	Player	Club	Goals
1	Dragan Ćeran	Pakhtakor Tashkent	16
2	Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov	Lokomotiv Tashkent	14
3	Khusayin Norchaev	Nasaf	13
4	Shokhruz Norkhonov	Sogdiana Jizzakh	10
5	Elgujja Grigalashvili	Qizilqum Zarafshon	9
5	Khursid Giyosov	Bunyodkor	9
7	Sherzod Temirov	Pakhtakor Tashkent	8
	Mirjahon Mirakhmadov	Bunyodkor
	Azizbek Amanov	Lokomotiv Tashkent
10	Marko Stanojević	Nasaf	6
	Farrukh Ikromov	Bunyodkor
	Ibrahim Tomiwa	Bunyodkor
	Martin Boakye	Andijon/AGMK
	Aleksandr Kasyan	AGMK

Attendances

By round

As of match played 21 September 2021

2021 Uzbekistan Super League Attendance
Round	Total	GP.	Avg. Per Game
Round 1	47,752	7	6,822
Round 2	37,687	7	5,384
Round 3	39,491	7	5,642
Round 4	28,634	7	4,091
Round 5	40,273	7	5,753
Round 6	18,253	7	2,608
Round 7	22,496	7	3,214
Round 8	13,997	7	2,000
Round 9	29,900	7	4,271
Round 10	28,456	7	4,065
Round 11	16,084	7	2,298
Round 12	17,844	7	2,549
Round 13	0	7	0
Round 14	0	7	0
Round 15	0	7	0
Round 16	0	7	0
Round 17	0	7	0
Round 18	0	7	0
Round 19	4,397	6	733
Total	345,264	132	2,616

By team

Pos	Team	Total	High	Average	Change
1	AGMK	14,544	4,411	1,616	n/a^†
2	Andijon	33,613	13,800	3,361	n/a^†
3	Bunyodkor	14,702	5,100	1,838	n/a^†
4	Kokand	21,927	6,542	2,436	n/a^†
5	Lokomotiv	10,637	5,089	1,182	n/a^†
6	Mash'al	6,261	3,200	696	n/a^†
7	Metallurg	23,608	6,340	2,361	n/a^†
8	Nasaf	34,703	11,812	3,856	n/a^†
9	Navbahor	64,300	19,358	7,144	n/a^†
10	Pakhtakor	18,323	10,560	1,832	n/a^†
11	Qizilqum	32,343	7,832	2,940	n/a^†
12	Sogdiana	14,010	4,200	1,557	n/a^†
13	Surkhon	14,920	4,545	1,658	n/a^†
14	Turon	41,373	6,496	3,761	n/a^†
	League total	345,264	19,358	2,616	n/a^†

Updated to games played on 21 September 2021
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Monthly awards

References

^ "Mikael Sekeyra – "Lokomotiv" bosh murabbiyi! 🚂⚽️". lokomotiv.uz (in Uzbek). PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "Шота Арвеладзе ушел с поста главного тренера Пахтакора". sport-express.ru/ (in Russian). Sport Express. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
^ "ПИТЕР ХЮИСТРА - ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР "ПАХТАКОРА"". pakhtakor.uz/ (in Russian). Pakhtakor Tashkent FK. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "Янги мавсумнинг илк голи легионер томонидан киритилди". pfl.uz/ (in Uzbek). Uzbekistan Super League. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

[table_hth_SOG0.033605355785045-4] Sogdiana second on head-to-head points : Sogdiana 4; AGMK 1

[table_note_res_PCUPGS0.033605355785045-5] Sogdiana are the standby team for the AFC Cup, should Nasaf advance to the AFC Champions League group stage. As Nasaf advanced to the AFC Champions League group stage, the standby team entered the AFC Cup.

[table_note_res_CLPR0.033605355785045-6] Nasaf qualified to the AFC Champions League as 2021 Uzbekistan Cup champions.

[1] "Mikael Sekeyra – "Lokomotiv" bosh murabbiyi! 🚂⚽️". lokomotiv.uz (in Uzbek). PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

[2] "Шота Арвеладзе ушел с поста главного тренера Пахтакора". sport-express.ru/ (in Russian). Sport Express. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2021.

[3] "ПИТЕР ХЮИСТРА - ГЛАВНЫЙ ТРЕНЕР "ПАХТАКОРА"". pakhtakor.uz/ (in Russian). Pakhtakor Tashkent FK. 6 January 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.

[7] "Янги мавсумнинг илк голи легионер томонидан киритилди". pfl.uz/ (in Uzbek). Uzbekistan Super League. 9 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.

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