Saturday, 19, July, 2025

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The head coach of Uzbekistan national team Héctor Cúper announced the squad for the opening match against Palestine of the second round of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers. The group stage match will be played on September 5 at the Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium in Al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem.

Uzbekistan was drawn in Group D with Saudi Arabia in the second round of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup Asian qualifiers, following the draw ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday for the 40 nations.

Tashkent-based Humo hockey team will take part in the VHL-Silk Road Cup. The team is grouped in Division A with seven other teams, with the matches to be played in home-away system.

The Mexican fencer Paola Pliego Lara announced that she would cease the representation of Mexico in this discipline in the face of alleged acts of corruption and "outrage and disgrace" by Mexican managers.

The FIFA referee Ravshan Irmatov has been elected the vice-president of the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) to replace Umid Akhmadjonov who resigned from his post, UFA said.

The Tashkent-based Humo hockey club will play from the 2019-2020 season in the Higher Hockey League (VHL), the Uzbekistan Hockey Federation (UHF) said in a statement.

Turkey national team defeated Uzbekistan in a friendly match 2: 0, through the two goals by the Lille defender Zeki Çelik. The match at Alanya Bahcesehir Stadium saw Turkey go up in the 17th minute, when defender Zeki Celik's header found the net.

Hector Cuper announced the Uzbekistan national squad for training camp from May 28 to June 12. As part of preparation for the Qatar 2022 World Cup Uzbekistan team will play three friendly matches: against Turkey on June 2 (Antalya), and against DPRK and Syria on June 7 and 11 (Tashkent)

At the extraordinary general assembly of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) on Wednesday with the participation of PM Aripov and presidential adviser on youth, science, education, health and sports Abdujabar Abduvakhitov, Rustam Shaabdurakhmanov has been elected NOC President, the committee said.

Uzbekistan national football team will hold a number of friendly matches in June 2019, the Uzbekistan Football Association said.

The Hockey Federations of Uzbekistan and Russia yesterday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) in Moscow. The document was signed by the President of the Hockey Federation of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Fazylov and his Russian counterpart Vladislav Tretyak.

Gafur Rakhimov stepped down as head of the AIBA, world amateur boxing's governing body, on Friday amid a spat with the International Olympic Committee, who welcomed the move as they mull the status of boxing at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

The head coach of Uzbekistan national team Héctor Cúper has announced the squad for China Cup 2019 to be held between March 21-25.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the opening ceremony of the Humo Ice Arena complex, which will be held on March 15, the Uzbekistan Hockey Federation said.

President of the Uzbekistan Olympic Committee Umid Akhmadjonov has been elected Vice-President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at the 38th OCA General Assembly in Bangkok.

The Uzbekistan Olympic Committee has submitted bid to host the Asian Games-2030 in Tashkent and Samarkand, the committee said.

President of the Hockey Federation of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Fazylov and president of the Kontinental Hockey League Dmitry Chernyshenko reached a provisional deal on holding the KHL World Games in Tashkent. The two met on Tuesday in Moscow.

The leadership of the Uzbekistan Hockey Federation was elected at the National Olympic Committee Wednesday. Iskandar Shodiev, the manager of Binokor hockey club, has been by unanimous decision elected as the first deputy chairman of the federation. Iskandar Shodiev is the nephew of the Uzbek-born billionaire Pattokh Shodiev.

Uzbekistan national team will participate in the China Cup" international tournament, Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) said. The tournament will be held in Guanxi, China from 18 to 26 March. Uruguay, China and Thailand confirmed they would participate in the tournament.

Uzbekistan Hockey Championship featuring four teams: Tashkent, Binokor, Humo and Semurg will resume after a five-year break on Friday at Tashkent’s Ice City arena, the National Olympic Committee said.