Uzbekistan Super League

Uzbekistan Super League, known as Artel Super League due to sponsorship reasons is the top division of professional football in Uzbekistan. It is operated under the auspices of the Uzbekistan [Professional Football League]. It was founded in 1992 and currently has 16 teams. The top team qualifies to the group stage of the AFC Champions League.

History

The Uzbek League was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its domestic league, the Soviet Top League. The league is known locally as the Higher League with relegation to the First League.

League system

The league is generally played between March and November in the calendar year and has occasionally had the Super Cup as a curtain raiser to the domestic campaign. Teams play each other on a home and away basis. Two or three teams can be relegated depending on the number of sides participating which has in the past been between fourteen and seventeen sides. Occasionally no sides would be promoted from the First League, due to reserve teams winning the championships. Reserve clubs are not allowed to feature in the top flight but can play at any level up to First League. On these occasions, clubs can be relegated without any promoted sides making the next campaign feature less sides than before. League winners enter the next edition of the AFC Champions League along with the winners of the Uzbekistan Cup.
On 21 November 2017 according to the UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League starting from 2018 season. The number of teams playing in top division of Uzbek football is reduced from 16 to 12. Famous personnels like Rivaldo, Eren Derdiyok, Zico, Luiz Felipe Scolari have contributed to the league so far.

Champions and top scorers

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*	League champions also won the Uzbekistan Cup, i.e. they completed the domestic Double.

As Uzbekistan Oliy Liga
As Uzbekistan Super League

Season

Top scorer

2018

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Pakhtakor

Navbahor

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Performance by club

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Winning seasons
Pakhtakor	16	7	2	1992*, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Neftchi Fergana\|Neftchi]	6	9	1	1992*, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2025
Bunyodkor	5	3	1	2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
Lokomotiv	3	4	1	2016, 2017, 2018
Dustlik	2	-	-	1999, 2000
Nasaf	1	4	12	2024
Navbahor	1	1	11	1996
MHSK	1	1	1	1997
AGMK	-	1	2
Mash'al Mubarek\|Mashʼal]	-	1	1
Sogdiana Jizzakh\|Sogdiana]	-	1	1
Bukhara	-	1	-
Qizilqum Zarafshon\|Qizilqum]	-	-	1

* Both teams were awarded with the title.
Defunct teams marked in Italics.

All-time table

All-time table of league, as of end of the 2024 season


1	Pakhtakor	33	2058	968	651	159	158	2128	820	16	6	2	1
2	Neftchi	30	1672	890	504	160	226	1667	942	5	9	1	1
3	Navbahor	33	1506	968	450	209	309	1556	1114	1	1	11	1
4	Nasaf	28	1494	816	443	175	198	1398	847	1	4	11	1
5	Bukhara	29	1121	864	325	146	393	1128	1314	0	1	0	2
6	Sogdiana	29	1047	856	293	168	395	1081	1341	0	1	1	2
7	Bunyodkor	18	1004	508	299	111	100	870	435	5	3	1	1
8	Andijon	28	945	818	256	177	385	1066	1329	0	0	0	5
9	Metallurg Bekabad\|Metallurg]	27	930	782	253	171	358	925	1169	0	0	0	5
10	Dinamo Samarqand\|Dinamo]	25	895	758	253	136	369	912	1119	0	0	0	4
11	Qizilqum	25	890	722	252	161	309	851	1022	0	0	1	3
12	Lokomotiv	17	877	486	254	115	169	836	633	3	4	1	1
13	Mashʼal Mubarek\|Mash'al]	19	744	538	214	102	223	673	725	0	1	1	2
14	AGMK	17	669	478	189	102	183	678	650	0	1	2	2
15	Kokand 1912	17	634	516	180	94	252	670	872	0	0	0	5
16	Traktor	16	621	490	178	87	225	684	814	0	0	0	4
17	Surkhon	18	572	530	158	98	263	605	945	0	0	0	6
18	Dustlik	11	559	346	169	52	125	669	532	2	0	0	1
19	Shurtan Guzar\|Shurtan]	12	381	340	109	54	177	393	566	0	0	0	4
20	MHSK	7	362	216	106	44	66	420	335	1	1	1	1
21	Khorazm	8	230	248	62	44	142	281	518	0	0	0	7
22	Zarafshon Navoiy	6	217	196	60	37	99	236	355	0	0	0	9
23	Yangiyer	7	205	216	56	37	123	266	385	0	0	0	10
24	Orol	5	155	164	44	23	97	171	329	0	0	0	11
25	Kosonsoy	5	145	156	40	25	91	171	305	0	0	0	8
26	Guliston	5	119	154	34	17	103	142	340	0	0	0	14
27	Atlaschi	4	118	124	34	16	74	149	280	0	0	0	7
28	Chirchiq	4	103	122	26	25	71	130	240	0	0	0	14
29	Tupalang-Sariosiyo	3	96	86	28	12	46	103	146	0	0	0	9
30	Kimyogar-Chirchiq	3	96	104	25	21	58	113	193	0	0	0	14
31	Olympik	3	91	78	21	28	29	79	98	0	0	0	6
32	Akademiya Toshkent	1	59	34	16	11	7	72	45	0	0	0	5
33	Semurg Angren	2	57	72	15	12	45	99	200	0	0	0	12
34	Turon Yaypan\|Turon]	2	33	52	6	15	31	32	88	0	0	0	13
35	Sementchi	1	31	30	8	7	15	39	64	0	0	0	15
36	Chilonzor	1	30	34	8	6	20	51	70	0	0	0	16
37	Shakhrikhon	1	28	32	7	7	18	25	67	0	0	0	15
38	Obod	1	24	30	6	6	18	25	51	0	0	0	14
39	Vobkent	1	15	30	3	6	21	23	70	0	0	0	16
40	Uz-Dong-Ju.	1	13	30	2	7	21	17	65	0	0	0	16

Competing in Super League

Competing in Pro League (2nd tier)

Competing in First League (3rd tier)

Club disappeared

Soviet Top League participation

Players records

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Years	Goals
1	Anvar Berdiev	1995–2019	225
2	Zafar Kholmurodov	1997–2012	200
3	Shuhrat Mirkholdirshoev	2000–2014	194
4	Bakhtiyor Hamidullaev	1997–2011	178
5	Jafar Irismetov	1993–2012	174
6	Umid Isoqov	1994–2009	171
7	Ravshan Bozorov	1992–2007	171
8	Anvar Soliev	1996–2015	164
9	Oybek Usmankhojaev	1992–2005	157
10	Rustam Durmonov	1992–2002	133
11	Farid Khabibullin	1992–2004	131
12	Mukhtor Kurbonov	1993–2009	128
13	Numon Khasanov	1992–2009	125
14	Nosirbek Otakuziev	2003–present	117
15	Server Djeparov	2000–present	113
16	Shuhrat Rahmonqulov	1992–2005	108
17	Nagmetulla Kutibayev	1992–2007	106
18	Artur Geworkyan	2007–present	105
19	Oleg Shatskikh	1993–2003	105
20	Vali Keldiev	1992–2006	104
21	Zayniddin Tadjiyev	2001–2015	102
22	Shakhboz Erkinov	2003–2019	101
23	Igor Taran	2003–present	95

Most appearances

Rank	Name	Years	Apps
1	Asror Aliqulov	1995–2015	520
2	Anvar Berdiev	1995–2019	505
3	Anvar Gafurov	2000–present	455
4	Khikmat Khoshimov	1998–2017	453
5	Ilkhom Yunusov	2000–2018	431
6	Botir Qoraev	1999–2017	428
7	Ignatiy Nesterov	2001–present	423
8	Vali Keldiev	1992–2006	415
9	Hayrulla Karimov	1996–2016	410
10	Ruziqul Berdiev	1992–2008	408
11	Jasur Hasanov	1999–present	406
12	Abdumajid Toirov	1996–2013	406
13	Anvar Soliev	1996–2015	406
14	Numon Khasanov	1992–2009	402
15	Mukhtor Kurbonov	1992–2012	402
17	Shavkat Salomov	2000–present	368
18	Erkin Boydullayev	2003–present	362
19	Nosirbek Otakuziev	2003–present	351
20	Artur Geworkyan	2007–present	330
21	Mamur Ikramov	2003–present	323

Sponsorship

From 1992 to 2017, the Uzbekistan Super League had no title sponsorship rights with any companies. Only starting from 2018 Uzbekistan Super League have got title League sponsor. On 4 April 2018 Uzbekistan Football Association vice-president Umid Akhmadjonov and IBT, the official PepsiCo bottler, reached an agreement that PepsiCo would become the official League sponsor for the 2018 season.

Period	Sponsor	Name
1992–2017	No sponsor	Oliy Liga
2018	Pepsi	Pepsi Uzbekistan Super League
2019–2023	Coca-Cola Company\|Coca-Cola]	Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League
2024–present	Artel	Artel Uzbekistan Super League