The Navbahor Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Joyce Katulondi agrees terms with Obod
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Navbahor people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Navbahor
Husain Norchayev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Muhammadali G'iyosov again
The phone has started ringing about Muhammadali G'iyosov again, and this time the name on the line is Shakhter. Navbahor are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Navbahor promote Sherzod Nematov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sherzod Nematov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Navbahor promote Rustam Abdullaev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rustam Abdullaev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Umar Adhamzoda beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match8 Aug 2026
Navbahor caught on 93 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Bunyodkor scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Husain Norchayev was the difference for Navbahor
Marked 7.76. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad10 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.
In brief
- Match Navbahor and Bunyodkor take a point apiece
- The dugout Joel Kojo knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Abdulla Shomurodov on the point