The 2018 Uzbekistan Super League (known as the Pepsi Uzbekistan Super League for sponsorship reasons, in Uzbek: Футбол бўйича 2018-йилги Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси) was the 27th season of top level football in Uzbekistan since 1992. Lokomotiv Tashkent were the defending champions from the 2017 campaign.Uzbekistan 2018, RSSSF.com

Teams

On 21 November 2017 according to 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.

The draw for the 2018 Super League season was held on 3 February 2018. The first matchday is scheduled for 1 March 2018.

Sementchi, the winner of 2017 Uzbekistan First League did not participate in new Super League season. The club failed to pass licensing procedures like Mash'al Mubarek. These both clubs have been replaced by Neftchi Fergana and Sogdiana Jizzakh which according to 2017 season have been relegated to First League.

Club Coach Location Stadium Capacity Kit sponsor AGMK Viktor Kumykov Olmaliq AGMK Stadium 12,000 Adidas Bunyodkor Mirjalol Qosimov Tashkent Bunyodkor Stadium 34,000 Jako Bukhoro Ulughbek Baqayev Bukhara Bukhara Arena 22,700 Macron Kokand 1912 Numon Hasanov Kokand Kokand Stadium 10,500 Joma Lokomotiv Andrey Fyodorov Tashkent Lokomotiv Stadium 8,000 Joma Metallurg Andrey Shipilov Bekabad Metallurg Stadium 15,000 Joma Nasaf Ruziqul Berdiyev Qarshi Qarshi Markazi Stadium 16,000 Adidas Navbahor Ilkhom Muminjonov Namangan Namangan Markazi Stadium 22,000 Jako Neftchi Sergey Kovshov Ferghana Istiqlol Stadium 20,000 Joma Pakhtakor Shota Arveladze Tashkent Pakhtakor Stadium 35,000 Adidas Sogdiana Sergey Lushan Jizzakh Soghdiana Stadium 11,650 Joma Qizilqum Hamidjon Aktamov Zarafshan Progress Stadium 12,500 Joma Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Metallurg Rustam Mirsodikov Resigned Pre-season Andrey Shipilov Sogdiana Igor Shkvyrin Resigned Pre-season Alexander Mochinov Neftchi Vadim Abramov Pre-season Sergey Kovshov Sogdiana Alexander Mochinov Sacked 12th Sergey Lushan Lokomotiv Andrey Miklyaev Resigned 10th Andrey Fyodorov

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.

ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4AFC PlayerFormer Player AGMK Miloš Trifunović Vladimir Bubanja Jovan Đokić Vladislav Kosmynin Pavel Matyash Vadim Cemirtan Bunyodkor Filip Rajevac Bukhara Vlad Larinov Vadim Cemirtan Arslanmyrat Amanow Sergey Rusetsky Marko Klisura Kokand 1912 Darko Gojkovic Marko Milič Milan Spremo Lokomotiv Tashkent Kakha Makharadze Igor Jelić Nikolai Pogrebnyak Nivaldo Cho Suk-jae Metallurg Bekabad Andrei Shipilov Zoir Juraboev Nasaf Igor Golban Dragan Ceran Slavko Lukic Jahongir Aliev Navbahor Darko Stanojević Tomislav Pajović Darko Nikač Igor Golban Nenad Injac Neftchi Ferghana Vyacheslav Sushkin Vitali Myrnyi Pakhtakor Marko Simić Esmaël Gonçalves Tiago Bezerra Dragan Ceran Rostyn Griffiths Soghdiana Darvydas Šernas Miloš Simonović Nikola Milinković Milan Mitrović Kim Dong-hee Qizilqum Elgujja Grigalashvili Giorgi Kvesieshvili Nemanja Jovanovic Yevgeni Cheremisin Artur Gevorkyan In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Regular stage

Championship round Teams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against championship round opponents.

Table of matches Date and time (UZT) Home team Score Away team Attendance 01.03.2018, 18:00 Qizilqum 0 : 3 Lokomotiv 11,814 01.03.2018, 20:00 Neftchi 0 : 0 Nasaf 19,632 02.03.2018, 20:00 Pakhtakor 2 : 0 Sogdiana 15,026 03.03.2018, 17:30 Bukhara 1 : 0 Kokand 1912 13,448 03.03.2018, 20:00 Bunyodkor 1 : 1 OKMK 12,475 04.03.2018, 15:30 Metallurg 0 : 0 Navbahor 8,175 08.03.2018, 18:00 OKMK 1 : 2 Navbahor 8,320 08.03.2018, 20:00 Qizilqum 0 : 2 Kokand 1912 7,302 09.03.2018, 18:00 Nasaf 3 : 1 Bukhara 10,386 09.03.2018, 20:00 Lokomotiv 1 : 1 Metallurg 3,158 10.03.2018, 17:30 Bunyodkor 1 : 0 Pakhtakor 20,168 10.03.2018, 20:00 Sogdiana 0 : 0 Neftchi 8,512 16.03.2018, 18:00 Metallurg 1 : 0 Kokand 1912 5,641 16.03.2018, 20:00 Bukhara 3 : 0 Sogdiana 14,802 17.03.2018, 18:00 Neftchi 0 : 1 Bunyodkor 18,051 17.03.2018, 20:00 Navbahor 2 : 0 Lokomotiv 25,300 18.03.2018, 18:00 Pakhtakor 2 : 1 OKMK 12,852 18.03.2018, 18:00 Qizilqum 1 : 2 Nasaf 8,565 29.03.2018, 18:00 Sogdiana 1 : 3 Qizilqum 9,380 30.03.2018, 18:00 Bunyodkor 3 : 1 Bukhara 15,421 30.03.2018, 20:00 Nasaf 1 : 1 Metallurg 14,300 31.03.2018, 18:00 Kokand 1912 1 : 0 Navbahor 12,278 31.03.2018, 20:00 Pakhtakor 3 : 0 Neftchi 15,023 31.03.2018, 20:27 OKMK 1 : 0 Lokomotiv 8,430 05.04.2018, 18:00 Neftchi 1–3 OKMK 11,121 05.04.2018, 20:00 Qizilqum 0–1 Bunyodkor 11,253 06.04.2018, 18:00 Bukhara 1–0 Pakhtakor 15,150 06.04.2018, 20:00 Metallurg 2–0 Sogdiana 7,416 07.04.2018, 18:00 Lokomotiv 1–1 Kokand 1912 3,123 07.04.2018, 20:00 Navbahor 0–0 Nasaf 15,540 11.04.2018, 18:00 Bunyodkor 3–1 Metallurg 11,980 11.04.2018, 18:00 Sogdiana 3–2 Navbahor 7,226 11.04.2018, 20:00 Nasaf 2–1 Lokomotiv 13,071 12.04.2018, 18:00 OKMK 0–0 Kokand 1912 8,977 12.04.2018, 18:00 Pakhtakor 2–1 Qizilqum 10,241 12.04.2018, 20:00 Neftchi 0–1 Bukhara 14,200 19.04.2018, 18:00 Metallurg 0–5 Pakhtakor 8,150 19.04.2018, 20:00 Bukhara 4–2 OKMK 15,525 20.04.2018, 18:00 Navbahor 2–1 Bunyodkor 21,600 20.04.2018, 20:00 Qizilqum 1–0 Neftchi 11,450 21.04.2018, 18:00 Kokand 1912 0–0 Nasaf 11,056 21.04.2018, 20:00 Lokomotiv 2–0 Sogdiana 3,148 24.04.2018, 18:00 Neftchi 0–0 Metallurg 8,102 24.04.2018, 20:00 Bukhara 1–0 Qizilqum 20,631 25.04.2018, 18:30 Pakhtakor 1–0 Navbahor 17,465 25.04.2018, 20:30 Sogdiana 1–1 Kokand 1912 7,942 26.04.2018, 18:00 OKMK 0–0 Nasaf 8,745 26.04.2018, 20:30 Bunyodkor 1–2 Lokomotiv 19,452 25.05.2018, 18:49 Neftchi 0–2 Sogdiana 2,563 25.05.2018, 18:59 Pakhtakor 1–0 Bunyodkor 23,456 26.05.2018, 18:45 Kokand 1912 0–1 Qizilqum 5,847 26.05.2018, 18:50 Navbahor 1–0 OKMK 10,800 26.05.2018, 19:00 Metallurg 2–0 Lokomotiv 6,325 26.05.2018, 19:22 Bukhara 1–0 Nasaf 18,301 12.07.2018, 19:00 Sogdiana 3–0 Bukhara 5,360 12.07.2018, 20:00 Bunyodkor 2–1 Neftchi 1,064 12.07.2018, 21:00 OKMK 0–1 Pakhtakor 4,425 13.07.2018, 00:29 Nasaf 0–0 Qizilqum 2,118 13.07.2018, 19:00 Lokomotiv 3–1 Navbahor 2,278 13.07.2018, 20:00 Kokand 1912 2–1 Metallurg 4,827 10.06.2018, 19:02 Navbahor 3–0 Kokand 1912 11,350 11.06.2018, 19:30 Qizilqum 2–0 Sogdiana 7,553 12.06.2018, 19:03 Neftchi 1–1 Pakhtakor 3,815 12.06.2018, 19:11 Metallurg 2–2 Nasaf 7,200 12.06.2018, 19:11 Lokomotiv 2–1 OKMK 4,180 12.06.2018, 19:32 Bukhara 2–2 Bunyodkor 18,891 08.07.2018, 19:00 Pakhtakor 2–0 Bukhara 7,557 08.07.2018, 20:00 OKMK 2–2 Neftchi 3,420 08.07.2018, 21:00 Nasaf 1–1 Navbahor 3,126 09.07.2018, 19:00 Kokand 1912 1–2 Lokomotiv 5,850 09.07.2018, 20:00 Sogdiana 0–1 Metallurg 4,300 09.07.2018, 21:00 Bunyodkor 2–0 Qizilqum 1,286 18.07.2018, 20:00 Kokand 1912 3 – 0 OKMK 4,936 18.07.2018, 21:00 Lokomotiv 3 – 1 Nasaf 2,312 18.07.2018, 21:00 Qizilqum 1 – 2 Pakhtakor 7,558 19.07.2018, 20:00 Metallurg 1 – 1 Bunyodkor 7,241 19.07.2018, 20:00 Bukhara 0 – 0 Neftchi 7,851 19.07.2018, 21:00 Navbahor 2 – 0 Sogdiana 11,237 23.07.2018, 19:00 OKMK 2 – 0 Bukhara 3,422 23.07.2018, 20:00 Pakhtakor 3 – 0 Metallurg 6,122 23.07.2018, 21:00 Nasaf 1 – 0 Kokand 1912 2,108 24.07.2018, 19:00 Sogdiana 0 – 0 Lokomotiv 5,660 24.07.2018, 20:00 Neftchi 0 – 1 Qizilqum 4,153 24.07.2018, 21:00 Bunyodkor 2 – 1 Navbahor 9,741 28.07.2018, 20:00 Metallurg 1 – 0 Neftchi 5,415 28.07.2018, 20:00 Navbahor 1 – 0 Pakhtakor 21,450 28.07.2018, 20:00 Nasaf 0 – 2 OKMK 2,194 29.07.2018, 19:00 Kokand 1912 2 – 1 Sogdiana 3,978 29.07.2018, 20:00 Qizilqum 0 – 1 Bukhara 6,588 29.07.2018, 21:00 Lokomotiv 3 – 1 Bunyodkor 5,722 01.08.2018, 19:00 Sogdiana 0 – 1 Nasaf 5,700 01.08.2018, 20:00 OKMK 3 – 0 Qizilqum 3,188 01.08.2018, 21:00 Pakhtakor 1 – 1 Lokomotiv 16,280 02.08.2018, 19:00 Neftchi 2 – 1 Navbahor 7,241 02.08.2018, 20:00 Bukhara 2 – 1 Metallurg 12,000 02.08.2018, 21:00 Bunyodkor 1 – 3 Kokand 1912 3,174 11.08.2018 18:00 Sogdiana 1:3 OKMK 2,308 11.08.2018 20:00 Nasaf 1:4 Bunyodkor 3,146 11.08.2018 20:00 Lokomotiv 1:1 Neftchi 2,412 12.08.2018 18:30 Metallurg 2:1 Qizilqum 5,700 12.08.2018 18:30 Qo‘qon-1912 1:1 Paxtakor 8,130 12.08.2018 20:30 Navbahor 2:0 Bukhara 14,186 17.08.2018 20:30 Bunyodkor 2:2 Sogdiana 527 17.08.2018 20:30 Neftchi 1:0 Qo‘qon-1912 5,446 17.08.2018 20:30 OKMK 2:3 Metallurg 3,840 17.08.2018 20:30 Bukhara 0:1 Lokomotiv 15,480 18.08.2018 20:00 Paxtakor 4:0 Nasaf 7,341 18.08.2018 20:00 Qizilqum 2:0 Navbahor 3,400 13.09.2018 18:00 Qo‘qon-1912 1:1 Nasaf 2,682 13.09.2018 20:00 Sogdiana 2:2 Qizilqum 2,437 14.09.2018 18:00 Metallurg 0:1 Lokomotiv 6,712 14.09.2018 20:00 Navbahor 3:3 Paxtakor 22,650 15.09.2018 18:00 OKMK 0:1 Neftchi 2,825 15.09.2018 20:00 Bunyodkor 3:0 Bukhara 4,250

Relegation round Teams keep records from regular stage (10 matches) against relegation round opponents.

Relegation play-off

Sogdiana and AGMK will play in 2019 Uzbekistan Super League next season.

Season statistics Top scorers .

#PlayerClubGoals1 Tiago BezerraPakhtakor172 Esmaël GonçalvesPakhtakor163 Marat Bikmaev Lokomotiv144 Bobur AbdikholikovNasaf135 Jovan ĐokićAGMK11 Murod KholmukhamedovKokand 1912 Jovlon IbrokhimovBunyodkor

References