The Navbahor Gazette
Match1 Aug 2026
Navbahor tear Sogdiana apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Sogdiana, and it could have been more.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Husain Norchayev scores twice — 8.12
Two goals and a mark of 8.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Husain Norchayev signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Husain Norchayev commits to Navbahor for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Navbahor
Joel Kojo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Husain Norchayev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
Zhetysu join the queue for Shukron Yo'ldoshev
Add another name to the list: Zhetysu have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Shukron Yo'ldoshev. The answer from Navbahor has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Ruslanbek Jiyanov
Still no offer on the table, and Ruslanbek Jiyanov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
17 new faces, and Navbahor are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Aziz Ismailov, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- Market Navbahor and Zabihillo O'rinboyev are talking past each other
- The dugout Joel Kojo knocks on the manager’s door
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Umar Adhamzoda