Stefan Čolović

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Nasaf
27 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Stefan Čolović

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The Nasaf Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Behruz Haydarov damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Nasaf walk away from Sherzod G'ulomjonov

$27.0K was the most the club would pay and Navbahor were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Eyes on Bahodir Halilov again

The phone has started ringing about Bahodir Halilov again, and this time the name on the line is Astana. Nasaf are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Oybek Rustamov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oybek Rustamov, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Stefan Čolović

7.81, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Nasaf had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match

Stefan Čolović rescues a point for Nasaf

It needed Stefan Čolović to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Pakhtakor, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nasaf

Miloš Savić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Akmal Suyunov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Nasaf dressing room was either.

Squad

Player of the week: Bobur Abdiholiqov

Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.

In brief

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The Nasaf Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Nasaf say no — this time

The offer from Tobol for Sardorbek Bahromov 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Sardorbek Bahromov at 21 — 7.69

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sardorbek Bahromov did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Sharof Muhiddinov goes up and wins it — 7.89

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.89 for the rest of it.

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.

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.

Boardroom

Nasaf beat the market to Hojimat Erkinov from Pakhtakor

Pakhtakor will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Hojimat Erkinov has pre-agreed a move to Nasaf, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tomas Sikosek

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

In brief