2012 Uzbek League

Uzbek League

Season	2012
Champions	Pakhtakor 9th title
Relegated	FK Andijan Mash'al
Champions League	Pakhtakor Bunyodkor Lokomotiv Tashkent
Matches played	182
Goals scored	458 (2.52 per match)
Top goalscorer	Anvar Berdiev 16 goals
Biggest home win	Shurtan Guzar - FK Andijan - 6:1
Biggest away win	FK Buxoro - Bunyodkor - 0:4 Qizilqum Zarafshon - Pakhtakor - 0:4
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The 2012 Uzbek League season was the 21st season of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence in 1992. Bunyodkor were the defending champions from the 2011 campaign. The draw for the 2012 Uzbek League season took place on January 6, 2012.^[1]

FK Guliston was officially out of the season, and was replaced by Qizilqum Zarafshon, the reason for absence were financial problems of the club.^[2]

New rules

- The 4+1 format of foreign players has been reduced to 3+1.^[3]

Teams

Qizilqum Zarafshon and Sogdiana Jizzakh were relegated in the last edition of the Uzbek League to First League.

Andijan

Qizilqum

Tashkent

Metallurg

Nasaf

Bukhoro

Navbahor

Neftchi

Olmaliq

Dinamo

Shortan

Mash'al

Tashkent teams:
Bunyodkor
Lokomotiv
Pakhtakor

Locations of the 2012 Uzbek League Teams

Club	Coach	City	Stadium	Capacity	2011
FK Andijan	Azamat Abduraimov	Andijan	Soghlom Avlod Stadium	18,360	12th
Bunyodkor	Mirjalol Qosimov	Tashkent	JAR Stadium	8,460	Champions
FK Bukhoro	Tachmurad Agamuradov	Bukhoro	Buxoro Arena	22,700	9th
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Ravshan Muqimov	Tashkent	Lokomotiv Stadium	8,000	D1, 1st
Mash'al Mubarek	Vladimir Fomichev	Muborak	Bahrom Vafoev Stadium	10,000	5th
Metallurg Bekabad	Rustam Mirsodiqov	Bekabad	Metallurg Bekabad Stadium	11,000	8th
Nasaf Qarshi	Usmon Toshev	Qarshi	Qarshi Stadium	14,750	2nd
Navbahor Namangan	Mustafo Bayramov	Namangan	Markaziy Stadium	28,462	6th
Neftchi Farg'ona	Yuriy Sarkisyan	Farghona	Farghona Stadium	14,520	4th
Olmaliq FK	Igor Shkvyrin	Olmaliq	Metallurg Stadium	11,000	11th
Pakhtakor	Murod Ismailov	Tashkent	Pakhtakor Stadium	35,000	3rd
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Ravshan Khaydarov	Zarafshon	Progress Stadium	6,000	13th
Dinamo	Akhmad Ubaydullaev	Samarqand	Olimpiya Stadium	12,250	10th
Sho'rtan Ghuzor	Edgar Gess	Ghuzor	Ghuzor Stadium	7,000	7th

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Position in table	Date of appointment
FK Andijan	Orif Mamatkazin	Resigned	Aleksandr Averyanov	Pre-season	December 12, 2011[4]
FK Andijan	Aleksandr Averyanov	Sacked [5]	Azamat Abduraimov	Season	August 22, 2012 [6]
FK Buxoro	Gennadiy Kochnev	Sacked	Jamshid Saidov	Pre-season	December 24, 2011
FK Buxoro	Jamshid Saidov	Sacked	Tachmurad Agamuradov	Season	June 2, 2012 [7]
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Ravshan Muqimov	Resigned	Khoren Hovhannisyan	Pre-season	December 12, 2011 [8]
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Khoren Hovhannisyan	End of contract	Ravshan Muqimov	Season	June 12, 2012 [9]
Nasaf Qarshi	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Signed by Volyn Lutsk [10]	Ruziqul Berdiev	Pre-season	January 5, 2012 [11][12]
Nasaf Qarshi	Ruziqul Berdiev	Sacked	Usmon Toshev	Season	May 23, 2012 [13]
Pakhtakor	Murod Ismailov	Temporary position over	Dejan Đurđević	Pre-season	December 28, 2011 [14]
Pakhtakor	Dejan Đurđević	Mutual agreement	Murod Ismailov	Season	June 19, 2012 [15]
Shurtan Guzar	Tachmurad Agamuradov	Sacked	Igor Kriushenko	Pre-season	November 22, 2011 [16][17]
Shurtan Guzar	Igor Kriushenko	Sacked [18]	Edgar Gess	Season	July 5, 2012 [19]
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Sergei Arslanov	Temporary position over	Ravshan Khaydarov	Pre-season	January 8, 2012 [20]

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian player	Former players*
FK Andijan	Mikheil Alavidze	Levan Mdivnishvili	Tadas Gražiūnas	Muiddin Mamazulunov	Aleksandr Petukhov Oleksandr Polovkov Vladimir Shishelov Farhod Tohirov
Bunyodkor		Slavoljub Đorđević	Ján Kozák		Emil Kenzhesariev David Carney
FK Bukhoro	Giorgi Kvesieshvili	Naoya Shibamura	David Oniya	Amir Gurbani	Mikheil Kakaladze Oleksandr Tarasenko
Lokomotiv Tashkent	Zhora Hovhannisyan	Romik Khachatryan	Arturas Fomenka	Maksim Kazankov	Mahamat Moustapha
Mash'al Mubarek	Igor Petković	Milorad Resanovic		Alik Khaydarov	Toni Lindberg Ilya Fomitchev
Metallurg Bekabad	Bojan Kalević	Andriy Sirotyuk
Nasaf Qarshi	Andrejs Perepļotkins	Ivan Bošković	Vladimir Shishelov	Artur Gevorkyan	Bojan Mališić
Navbahor Namangan	Vital Panasyuk	Nikolay Ryndzyuk	Denis Romanenco	Maksim Belyh	Arturas Fomenka Vladimir Chekunov
Neftchi Farg'ona
Olmaliq FK	Evgeniy Gogol	Artem Nikitenko	Darko Stanojević	Pavel Kharchik
Pakhtakor Tashkent	Kakhi Makharadze	Sanibal Orahovac			Irakli Klimiashvili Naoya Shibamura
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Pavelas Leusas	Yuriy Usachov
FK Samarqand-Dinamo	Andrei Melnichuk	Andrei Erokhin	Egidijus Majus
Shurtan Guzar	Giorgi Megreladze	Patrick Agboh	Adama Soro		Vitaliy Rushnitskiy Muiddin Mamazulunov

• Foreign players who left their clubs after first half of the season.

Pre-season transfers

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Pakhtakor Tashkent (C) (Q)	26	18	5	3	51	16	+35	59	2013 AFC Champions League Group stage ^1
2	Bunyodkor (Q)	26	17	6	3	42	16	+26	57
3	Lokomotiv Tashkent (Q)	26	14	7	5	43	22	+21	49	2013 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off ^1
4	Nasaf Qarshi	26	14	7	5	37	20	+17	49
5	Shurtan Guzar	26	12	4	10	38	33	+5	40
6	Neftchi Farg'ona	26	10	7	9	36	29	+7	37
7	FK Buxoro	26	10	5	11	24	31	−7	35
8	Olmaliq FK	26	9	4	13	39	46	−7	31
9	FK Samarqand-Dinamo	26	9	2	15	27	29	−2	29
10	Metallurg Bekabad	26	8	5	13	32	46	−14	29
11	Qizilqum Zarafshon	26	6	9	11	22	41	−19	27
12	Navbahor Namangan	26	6	8	12	19	34	−15	26
13	Mash'al Mubarek (R)	26	6	5	15	20	43	−23	23	Relegation to Lower Division
14	FK Andijan (R)	26	4	4	18	28	52	−24	16

Updated to games played on 21 November 2012.
Source: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Lokomotive Tashkent qualified due to Bunyodkor also winning the 2012 Uzbekistan Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away^[1]

AND

BUN

FJB

QIZ

LOK

MAS

MET

NAS

NAV

NEF

OTM

PAK

SAM

SHU

FK Andijan

0–2

1–2

5–1

0–1

4–0

3–3

3–4

0–1

1–0

1–4

2–4

0–3

1–2

Bunyodkor

0–0

1–0

3–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

0–0

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–0

2–1

3–0

FJ Buxoro

1–0

0–4

1–0

1–1

1–1

2–0

1–0

2–1

1–1

0–1

0–1

2–0

0–1

Qizilqum Zarafshon

1–2

2–2

1–0

1–1

1–1

0–0

1–1

1–1

2–1

2–1

0–4

1–1

2–0

Lokomotiv Tashkent

1–1

3–1

2–1

0–1

1–0

5–1

0–1

3–0

1–1

4–2

1–1

3–1

4–1

Mash'al Mubarek

1–0

0–2

1–1

0–2

1–2

2–1

0–0

2–0

3–0

2–1

0–3

2–0

1–3

Metallurg Bekabad

1–1

1–3

2–0

1–0

0–1

2–1

1–0

0–0

1–1

4–3

1–2

2–1

4–0

Nasaf Qarshi

4–0

0–0

3–0

2–0

0–2

3–0

1–0

1–1

1–2

4–2

0–2

2–1

2–1

Navbahor Namangan

1–0

2–1

1–1

0–0

0–2

2–2

1–0

1–2

1–0

3–1

0–1

1–1

1–1

Neftchi Farg'ona

2–0

1–2

3–1

3–1

1–1

3–0

4–0

0–0

3–0

4–2

3–1

1–0

1–1

Olmaliq FK

3–2

2–1

1–3

2–2

1–0

4–0

3–2

0–1

1–0

0–0

0–3

1–2

2–3

Pakhtakor Tashkent

1–0

1–1

4–1

4–0

2–1

3–0

5–0

0–0

2–1

3–0

0–0

2–0

0–0

FK Samarqand-Dinamo

3–0

0–1

0–1

3–0

0–1

2–0

3–2

0–2

2–0

2–0

0–1

0–1

1–0

Shurtan Guzar

6–1

0–1

0–1

2–0

2–1

1–0

1–2

2–3

4–0

2–0

1–1

3–1

1–0

Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

See also Coach and Player of Month

#	Scorer	Club	Goals (Pen.)
1	Anvar Berdiev	Neftchi Farg'ona	19 (5)
2	Igor Taran	Shurtan Guzar	14 (2)
3	Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov	Pakhtakor	13 (0)
	Vladimir Shishelov	Andijan/Nasaf Qarshi	13 (3)
5	Ruzimboy Ahmedov	FK Dinamo Samarqand	11 (1)
	Zaynitdin Tadjiyev	Lokomotiv Tashkent	11 (3)
7	Arturas Fomenka	Lokomotiv Tashkent	9 (0)
	Artur Gevorkyan	Nasaf Qarshi	9 (0)
	Zokhid Abdullaev	Metallurg Bekabad	9 (0)
10	Shahzodbek Nurmatov	Metallurg Bekabad	8 (0)

Last updated: 21 November 2012
Source: Soccerway

See also

• Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year
• Uzbek League Top Scorer

References

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16. „Игорь Криушенко назначен главным тренером «Шуртана», 22 ноября 2011 г.
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External links

• Uzbek League
• Championat.uz: Standings and Results