Uzbekistan Super League () is the top division of professional football in Uzbekistan. It is operated under the auspices of the Uzbekistan Professional Football League. It was founded in 1992 and currently has 16 teams. The top team qualifies to the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
History The Uzbek League was founded in 1992. In 2018, it was renamed to the Uzbekistan Super League.
On 21 November 2017 according to a UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League, starting from the 2018 season. The number of teams playing in the top division is 16. Well-known players including Rivaldo, Eren Derdiyok, Zico, and Luiz Felipe Scolari have all played in the league.
The U19 and U21 Championship was established in 2020. Starting in 2021, it will be held between clubs from Uzbekistan Super League and Pro League footballers under 19 and 21 years old.
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 fourteen and seventeen 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.
The final match of the U19 and U21 Championship will also be held the day after the first team match in the Super League.
AFC ranking As of June 2025, Uzbekistan Super League is ranked ninth in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) national league table (an analogue of the UEFA coefficient table). A ninth-place ranking for the Uzbekistan Championship gives one participant from the Uzbekistan Super League one guaranteed place in the AFC Champions League Elite group stage and one additional place in the AFC Champions League qualifying play-off round.
For 2025. RankCountryPoints1 Saudi Arabia119.9572 Japan107.6633 South Korea90.9824 Qatar74.4665 Iran72.0186 United Arab Emirates64.1297 Thailand54.8738 China54.6829 Uzbekistan49.82110 Australia40.42011 Malaysia40.03912 Iraq39.28013 Jordan39.20514 Vietnam35.03815 Singapore29.40516 Bahrain27.33317 Oman26.06918 Indian Super League24.95819 Hong Kong Premier League24.43620 Turkmenistan Higher League24.211
Clubs The most decorated team among Uzbek clubs is Pakhtakor Tashkent. Pakhtakor has currently won the tournament 16 times. The winners of Uzbekistan Super League participate in the Asian Champions League. Specifically, the Uzbekistan champion and the winner of the Uzbekistan Cup directly qualify for Asian Champions League group stage, while the silver and bronze medalists of the Super League advance to the Champions League through qualifying matches. Currently, the best result for Super League teams in the continental Champions League is reaching the semi-finals. In some years, Uzbek clubs have also participated in the AFC Cup, the second most prestigious tournament in Asia. Nasaf, for example, won the 2011 AFC Cup final.
Foreign Players limit in the Super League To participate, a club can register up to five foreign players. One (or all) of these players must be citizens of an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member country, meaning Uzbekistan has a four-player limit. If a foreign player from an AFC member country is unavailable, the club cannot include more than four foreign players in its roster (players registered with a farm club also count).
Super League player records The Uzbekistan Super League has featured numerous renowned domestic and international footballers. Brazilian Rivaldo, for example, played for Bunyodkor from 2008 to 2010. In 2009, Rivaldo became the top scorer in the Uzbekistan Championship with 20 goals. Anvar Berdiev holds the record for most goals in the Super League. A longtime player for Neftchi, he scored 225 goals in the history of the Uzbekistan Championship. Asror Alikulov holds the record for most matches played. This renowned defender played a total of 520 matches.
Season Winners At the end of each season, three Super League winners are determined, along with the teams that finish in last place and are relegated to the Uzbekistan Pro League.
Champions and top scorers
Key *League champions also won the Uzbekistan Cup, i.e. they completed the domestic Double. As Uzbekistan Oliy Liga
SeasonTop scorer 1992 Pakhtakor and Neftchi Sogdiana Valeriy Kechinov (Pakhtakor, 24 goals) 1993 Neftchi (2) Pakhtakor Navbahor Rustam Durmonov (Neftchi, 24 goals) 1994 Bukhara Navbahor (2) Ravshan Bozorov (Neftchi, 26 goals) 1995 Neftchi (4) MHSK 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) 2000Dustlik (2) * Neftchi (5) Nasaf Jafar Irismetov (Dustlik, 45 goals) 2001 Neftchi (5) Pakhtakor (2) Nasaf (2) Umid Isoqov (Neftchi, 28 goals) 2002 Neftchi (6) Qizilqum Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev (Andijon, 22 goals) 2003 Neftchi (7) Navbahor (7) Marsel Idiatullin (Qizilqum, 26 goals) 2004 Neftchi (8) Navbahor (8) Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev (Navbahor, 31 goals) 2005 Mashʼal Nasaf (3) Anvar Soliev (Pakhtakor, 29 goals) 2006 Neftchi (9) Nasaf (4) Pavel Solomin (Traktor, 21 goals) 2007 Kuruvchi Mashʼal Ilhom Moʻminjonov (Kuruvchi, 21 goals) 2008 Pakhtakor (3) Neftchi Server Djeparov (Bunyodkor, 19 goals) 2009 Bunyodkor (2) Pakhtakor (4) Nasaf (5) Rivaldo (Bunyodkor, 20 goals) 2010 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 Lokomotiv Nasaf (7) Oleksandr Pyschur (Bunyodkor, 19 goals) 2014 Pakhtakor (10) Nasaf (8) Artur Gevorkýan (Nasaf, 18 goals) 2015 Pakhtakor (11) Lokomotiv (3) Nasaf (9) Igor Sergeev (Pakhtakor, 23 goals) 2016 Bunyodkor (3) Nasaf (10) Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov (Lokomotiv, 22 goals) 2017 Nasaf (2) Pakhtakor (2) Marat Bikmaev (Lokomotiv, 26 goals)
As Uzbekistan Super League
SeasonTop scorer 2018 Lokomotiv (3) Pakhtakor (6) Navbahor (9) Tiago Bezerra (Pakhtakor, 17 goals) 2019 Bunyodkor Dragan Ćeran (Pakhtakor, 23 goals) 2020 Nasaf (3) AGMK Dragan Ćeran (Pakhtakor, 21 goals) 2021 Pakhtakor (14) Sogdiana AGMK (2) Dragan Ćeran (Pakhtakor, 16 goals) 2022 Pakhtakor (15) Navbahor Nasaf (11) Dragan Ćeran (Pakhtakor, 20 goals) 2023 Pakhtakor (16) Nasaf (4) Dragan Ćeran (Pakhtakor, 13 goals) 2024 Nasaf AGMK Navbahor (11) 2025 Neftchi (6) Pakhtakor Nasaf Igor Sergeev (Pakhtakor, 20 goals)
Performance by club
Club Winners Runners-up Third Place Winning seasons Pakhtakor 16 7 21992*, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Neftchi 6 9 11992*, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2025 Bunyodkor 5 3 12008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013 Lokomotiv 3 4 12016, 2017, 2018 Dustlik 2 - -1999, 2000 Nasaf 1 4 12 2024 Navbahor 1 1 11 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 season25 та Ўзбекистон чемпионатининг умумий жадвали , 30 November 2016
1Pakhtakor 33 2058 968 651 159 158 2128 820 16 6 2 1 2Neftchi 30 1672 890 504 160 226 1667 942 5 9 1 1 3Navbahor 33 1506 968 450 209 309 1556 1114 1 1 11 1 4Nasaf 28 1494 816 443 175 198 1398 847 1 4 11 1 5Bukhara 29 1121 864 325 146 393 1128 1314 0 1 0 2 6Sogdiana 29 1047 856 293 168 395 1081 1341 0 1 1 2 7Bunyodkor 18 1004 508 299 111 100 870 435 5 3 1 1 8Andijon 28 945 818 256 177 385 1066 1329 0 0 0 5 9Metallurg 27 930 782 253 171 358 925 1169 0 0 0 5 10Dinamo 25 895 758 253 136 369 912 1119 0 0 0 4 11Qizilqum 25 890 722 252 161 309 851 1022 0 0 1 3 12Lokomotiv 17 877 486 254 115 169 836 633 3 4 1 1 13Mash'al 19 744 538 214 102 223 673 725 0 1 1 2 14AGMK 17 669 478 189 102 183 678 650 0 1 2 2 15Kokand 1912 17 634 516 180 94 252 670 872 0 0 0 5 16Traktor 16 621 490 178 87 225 684 814 0 0 0 4 17Surkhon 18 572 530 158 98 263 605 945 0 0 0 6 18Dustlik 11 559 346 169 52 125 669 532 2 0 0 1 19Shurtan 12 381 340 109 54 177 393 566 0 0 0 4 20MHSK 7 362 216 106 44 66 420 335 1 1 1 1 21Khorazm 8 230 248 62 44 142 281 518 0 0 0 7 22Zarafshon Navoiy 6 217 196 60 37 99 236 355 0 0 0 9 23Yangiyer 7 205 216 56 37 123 266 385 0 0 0 10 24Orol 5 155 164 44 23 97 171 329 0 0 0 11 25Kosonsoy 5 145 156 40 25 91 171 305 0 0 0 8 26Guliston 5 119 154 34 17 103 142 340 0 0 0 14 27Atlaschi 4 118 124 34 16 74 149 280 0 0 0 7 28Chirchiq 4 103 122 26 25 71 130 240 0 0 0 14 29Tupalang-Sariosiyo 3 96 86 28 12 46 103 146 0 0 0 9 30Kimyogar-Chirchiq 3 96 104 25 21 58 113 193 0 0 0 14 31Olympik 3 91 78 21 28 29 79 98 0 0 0 6 32Akademiya Toshkent 1 59 34 16 11 7 72 45 0 0 0 5 33Semurg Angren 2 57 72 15 12 45 99 200 0 0 0 12 34Turon 2 33 52 6 15 31 32 88 0 0 0 13 35Sementchi 1 31 30 8 7 15 39 64 0 0 0 15 36Chilonzor 1 30 34 8 6 20 51 70 0 0 0 16 37Shakhrikhon 1 28 32 7 7 18 25 67 0 0 0 15 38Obod 1 24 30 6 6 18 25 51 0 0 0 14 39Vobkent 1 15 30 3 6 21 23 70 0 0 0 16 40Uz-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
Players records
Top scorers
Place Name Years Number of goals1Anvar Berdiev1995—20192252Zafar Kholmurodov1997—20122003Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev2000—20141944Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev1997—20111785Jafar Irismetov1993—20121746Umid Isoqov1994—20091717Ravshan Bozorov1992—20071718Anvarjon Soliev1996—20151649Oybek Usmankhojaev1992—200515710Dragan Ćeran2016—hozirgacha15011Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov2010—13312Rustam Durmonov1992—200213313Farid Khabibulin1992—200413114Mukhtor Kurbonov1993—200912815Numon Khasanov1992—200912516Igor Sergeev2011—11916Nosirbek Otakuziev2003—201711717Server Djeparov2000—201911318Shuhrat Rahmonqulov1992—200510819Nematullo Quttiboev1992—200710620Shakhboz Erkinov2003—202410521Artur Gevorkýan2007—201810522Oleg Shatskikh1993—200310523Vali Keldiev1992—200610424Marat Bikmaev2003—202310325Zayniddin Tadjiyev2001—2015102
Top players
Place Name Years Number of games1Asror Aliqulov1995—20155202Jasur Hasanov1999—20245053Anvar Berdiev1995—20195054Ignatiy Nesterov2001—20234665Anvar Gafurov2000—20204556Khikmat Khashimov1998—20174537Ilkhom Yunusov2000—20184318Botir Qoraev1999—20174289Erkin Boydullayev2002—202342810Vali Keldiev1992—200641511Hayrulla Karimov1996—201641012Ruziqul Berdiev1992—200840813Abdumajid Toirov1996—201340614Anvarjon Soliev1996—201540615Numon Khasanov1992—200940216Mukhtor Kurbonov1992—201240217Shavkat Salomov2000—202236818Stanislav Andreev2006—36619Mansur Saidov2000—202137320Nosirbek Otakuziev2003—201735121Islom Tukhtakhujaev2008—34022Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov2010—33623Artur Gevorkyan2007—201833024Shukhrat Mukhammadiev2007—32425Maʼmur Ikromov2003—2022323
List of winners and top scorers by season In the first season, Valeriy Kechinov became the top scorer with 24 goals. In the 2000 season, Jafar Irismetov became the top scorer for the "Dustlik" team, scoring 45 goals, a result that is still considered a record for a single season.