From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nurjahon Muzaffarov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Mashal.
Market1 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bobur Abdiholiqov signs something — a contract at Nasaf or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market1 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Metallurg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abrorbek Ismoilov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Neftchi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Dec 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pakhtakor hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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Steady
Market1 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Navbahor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Andijon, another week without a signature from Usmonali Ismonaliyev.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month closes with Matija Krivokapić out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Bunyodkor have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 7.87 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Bunyodkor have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nurbek Sarsenbaev is the month's best young player — 6.92
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.92 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Qizilqum player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Navbahor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Sherzod Mirzaev leads the division for assists — 6.91
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Obod player marked 6.91, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nasaf is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Oct 2026
Taraz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Obod did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Bunyodkor man
Matija Krivokapić averaged 7.87 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Oct 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mahmud Jo'raboyev reports back to Mashal with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Andijon leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
2 goals in 4 appearances for Obod, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Amir Ganah keeps the pressure on
2 goals in 4 appearances for AGMK leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 5 appearances for Neftchi.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Jamshid Iskanderov is the division's player of the month — 7.77
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Neftchi man on 7.77 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Davronbek Usmonov is the month's best young player — 6.84
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.84 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Navbahor player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
Sogdiana say no — this time
The offer from Krasnodar for Ljupce Doriev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bukhara, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody made more than Xurshid G'iyosov this month
2 assists, 7.64, and a Neftchi player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Andijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Jamshid Iskanderov is the division's best-marked player — 7.77
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.77 across 5 matches for Neftchi.
Market1 Sep 2026
The name of Miraziz Mahamadaliyev has come up in conversations Andijon were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 in 5 for Bukhara. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Steady
Market1 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasaf can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Aug 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pakhtakor hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Aug 2026
Pakhtakor may not be able to give Flamarion what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Flamarion wants continental football; whether Pakhtakor can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.