Uzbekistan national football team

The Uzbek national football team represents Uzbekistan and is the strongest team in the new Central Asian states. Her international class they showed in 1994 by winning the Asian Games.

History

By 1992, the Uzbeks playing in the team of the national football team of the USSR.

1992 joined the UFF ( Uzbek Football Association) FIFA and the AFC.

In qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2006 Uzbekistan reached the third place in Group A in the third and final round of Asian qualifying. The two group Third Uzbekistan and Bahrain accounted for in a return match, who was allowed to play off against the fourth in the North and Central American qualifiers another qualified.

On September 3, 2005 played against Bahrain Uzbekistan 1-0 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On September 6, FIFA canceled the game, however, because of a rough referee error. With the score at 1-0, the Japanese Toshimitsu Yoshida gave a penalty for the Uzbeks. When executing an Uzbek player was too early in the penalty area. Rather than repeat the penalty, the referee ruled incorrectly on free kick in Bahrain.

The return match would have taken place on September 7 in Bahrain. As new dates October 8 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and October 12 in Manama, Bahrain were established. The UFF put a protest, but had no success. The replay ended in Tashkent on 8 October 2005 1:1.

In the Asia Cup in 2007, the Uzbek team won in the group stage in second place behind Iran and ahead of China and Malaysia, but failed in the subsequent quarter-finals 2-1 on later vice - Asian champions Saudi Arabia. 2011, the semi-final was reached, was lost in the against Australia with 0:6. The 3rd place match they lost 2:3 against South Korea.

In qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2014 Brazil for the Uzbek team finished the qualifying group 3 as group winners with 16 points, followed by Japan with 10 points. Uzbekistan to reach the final qualification group A of the AFC Asian Association. There Uzbekistan occupied after completion of the group in third place and played in September in return game against Jordan, the third group B. The first leg ended 1-1 in Jordan. The return match in Tashkent, Uzbekistan lost with 8:9 on penalties after it had been after 90 minutes and extra time also 1:1.

World cup

Asia Cup

  • Asia Cup 1956 and Asia Cup 1992 - No participation, as part of the Soviet Union
  • 1996 - Preliminary Round
  • 2000 - Preliminary Round
  • 2004 - Quarter-finals
  • 2007 - Quarter-finals
  • 2011 - Fourth
  • 2015 - qualified

Coach

Known player

  • Odil Akhmedov
  • Ulugbek Baqoyev
  • Vitaliy Denisov
  • Server Jeparov
  • Jafar Irismetov
  • Mirjalol Qosimov
  • Vladimir Alexandrovich Schischelow
  • Maksim Shatskix
  • Ilyas Zetulayev
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