Stefan Čolović

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Nasaf
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Stefan Čolović

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The Nasaf Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Yusuf Otubanjo takes the afternoon — 8.70

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yusuf Otubanjo provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

Filip Stanić due for a Nasaf medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Nasaf rebuffed over Hojimat Erkinov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pakhtakor have kept their man, and Nasaf go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Nasaf bid $32.0K for Dilshod Abdullayev

The offer went to Pakhtakor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Oybek Rustamov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oybek Rustamov and Nasaf agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

Yusuf Otubanjo the difference as Nasaf beat Shortan

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yusuf Otubanjo. 3‑1 against Shortan, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A last season at home is what Stefan Čolović is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Nasaf

Oybek Rustamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Nasaf promote Aziz Tukhtasinov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aziz Tukhtasinov 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.

In brief

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The Nasaf Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Bahodir Halilov at 19 — 7.83

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bahodir Halilov did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Bobur Abdiholiqov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bobur Abdiholiqov commits to Nasaf for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Nasaf

G'olib G'aybullayev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ivan Zenkov

Nasaf asked and Dinamo Brest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Home is on Stefan Čolović's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Nasaf are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words at Nasaf training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Umarbek Eshmurodov 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.

The terraces

Nasaf supporters have found a favourite in Bahodir Halilov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Bahodir Halilov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Nasaf find a way past Obod

Obod made Nasaf work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Kingsley Sokari was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief