Stefan Čolović

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Nasaf
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The Nasaf Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Sardorbek Bahromov out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasaf will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Javohir Ubaydullayev asks to leave Nasaf

“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.

Market

Muhammadjon Valiyev is on his way

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.

Match

Nasaf come up short against Neftchi

Neftchi left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Adenis Shala gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Abduvohid Ne'matov named player of the month

The award goes to Abduvohid Ne'matov, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Bobur Abdiholiqov

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Bobur Abdiholiqov has come out of that comparison in the side, and Nasaf have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Market

The Bobur Abdiholiqov story refuses to die

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.

Market

G'olib G'aybullayev runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Nasaf money.

In brief

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The Nasaf Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Sardorbek Bahromov out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasaf will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Nasaf through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Metallurg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Cruel end for Metallurg as Nasaf pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Nasaf scored in the 123th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Adenis Shala runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Abduvohid Ne'matov keeps Nasaf in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Behruz Haydarov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Yusuf Otubanjo yet — 7.90

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Akromjon Komilov pops up at the right end — 7.77

7.77, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Javohir Ubaydullayev is on his way

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.

In brief