From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
116 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Navbahor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Navbahor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Javohir Abdujabborov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
130 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Anri Chichinadze: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Navbahor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
137 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Alex Fernandes out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Navbahor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Shukron Yo'ldoshev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for O'tkir Yusupov
144 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Navbahor lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Alex Fernandes out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Navbahor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Navbahor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Javohir Abdujabborov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Navbahor game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Qizilqum runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Yoav Hofmeister falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
181% of the income goes out in wages at Navbahor
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Sardorbek Hoshimov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Navbahor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Navbahor may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Islombek Mamatkazin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Denwin Farmer hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Navbahor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Navbahor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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; Navbahor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Navbahor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Yoav Hofmeister falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
239% of the income goes out in wages at Navbahor
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Benjamin Teidi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Benjamin Teidi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market5 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Navbahor know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Navbahor have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to O'tkir Yusupov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Navbahor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yoav Hofmeister falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market21 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Taraz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Shukron Yo'ldoshev. The answer from Navbahor has not changed — yet.
Match19 Sep 2026
Bukhara left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for O'tkir Yusupov
Nobody at Navbahor is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Zafarbek Rahimjonov leaves Navbahor the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Navbahor say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotiv for Muhammadali Usmonov 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Navbahor, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.10, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Aktobe come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Navbahor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Navbahor can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navbahor they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yoav Hofmeister falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Navbahor, 1‑0 the final word against Qizilqum in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anri Chichinadze, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.84. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sardorbek Hoshimov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Navbahor, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 3‑1 win over Kokand 1912, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denwin Farmer, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Neftchi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Navbahor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Islombek Mamatkazin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Navbahor's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Navbahor has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad24 Aug 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yoav Hofmeister falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Taraz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Shukron Yo'ldoshev. The answer from Navbahor has not changed — yet.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Bukhara ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with O'tkir Yusupov: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bunyodkor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Navbahor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Navbahor
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Navbahor are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Islombek Mamatkazin has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Navbahor is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jaloliddin Sodiqov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navbahor the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jaloliddin Sodiqov has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Navro'zbek Iminjonov has left for Nasaf in a $270.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Qizilqum will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ilhomjon Kenjayev has pre-agreed a move to Navbahor, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Navbahor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Muhammadali G'iyosov has come up in conversations Navbahor were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Navbahor say no — this time
The offer from Bnei Yehuda for Shukron Yo'ldoshev 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” O'tkir Yusupov and Navbahor agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
O'tkir Yusupov 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
Husain Norchayev falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.