Pakhtakor FK (Tashkent)
Paxtakor Tashkent ( Uzbek- cyrillic: ФК " Пахтакор " Тошкент; Russian ФК Пахтакор Ташкент / FK Pachtakor Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani football club was established in 1956 from the capital Tashkent.
Club history
The club was called until 1952 Dinamo Tashkent and 1953-55 Spartak Tashkent, followed by the current name, then in the notation Pachatakor (Cyrillic Пахтакор ), accepted. During the time of the Soviet Union Pachtakor was the only club from Uzbekistan the ever played in the highest Soviet league. Under coach Alexander Keller succeeded in 1960, the promotion to the top division.
The club then spent a total of 22 seasons in the top division of the USSR, but never achieved a better result than the sixth place and suffered descents over again, but was able to return in the highest league usually after a short break. 1968 Pachtakor reached the final of the Cup of the USSR, but lost 0-1 against Torpedo Moscow. A large contribution to the successes of the 1960s had the striker Gennady Krasnizki.
Died in 1979, the entire squad of Pachtakor in an airplane accident on board a Tupolev Tu- 134. A new team was composed of volunteers. In the following five years Pachtakor should be allowed to keep his place in the top flight in each case according to the resolution of the Soviet Football Federation, regardless of the sporting results. Shortly after, Andrei Jakubik came to the club, and contributed considerably to the club in 1982 ended up in sixth place in the table - the best ever placement. 1984 but you had to descend into the Perwaja league start, where you remained for six years. In the 1990 season, however, managed to rise again, so that you spent 1991, the last season of the Soviet Union once again in the top league.
Then we played in the newly formed Uzbek football league.
The club has eight tracks also today's Uzbek record champion (1992, 1998, 2002-2007, 2012 ) and with nine wins record Cup Winners (1993, 1997, 2001-2007 ). Pachtakor took part in all the respective master sweeps of the AFC Champions League and was able to move forward in 2003 and 2004 respectively to the semifinals. In recent years, however, Bunyodkor Tashkent proved as the most successful club of Uzbek.
Honours
National
- Uzbekistan Professional Football League
- Uzbek Cup
- Master Perwaja League
- Football Cup of the Soviet Union
Continental
- AFC Champions League
- CIS Cup
Former notable players
- Uzbekistan Odil Ahmedov
- Soviet Union Mikhail On
- Soviet Union Lithuania Virginijus Baltušnikas
- Uzbekistan Marat Bikmaev
- Vitaliy Denisov of Uzbekistan (Youth)
- Soviet Union Greece Vassilis Hatzipanagis
- Uzbekistan Alexander Henry
- Soviet Union Germany Edgar Hess
- Uzbekistan Jafar Irismetov
- Uzbekistan Anvar Jabborov
- Soviet Union, Russia Andrei Jakubik
- Uzbekistan server Jeparov
- Uzbekistan Timur Kapadze
- Soviet Union Gennady Krasnizki
- Soviet Union Georgia Manutschar Mataschaidse
- Serbia Milan Nikolić
- Soviet Union Kazakhstan Dmitri Ogai
- Uzbekistan Mirjalol Qosimov
- Russia Vladimir Schischelow
- Uzbekistan Maksim Shatskix (Youth)
- Turkmenistan Konstantin Sosenko
- Sanjar Tursunov Uzbekistan (Youth)
- Kazakhstan Qairat Utabajew