Football Club Nasaf (), commonly referred to as Nasaf Qarshi, is a professional

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club based in

Qarshi Qarshi ( ; ) is a city in southern Uzbekistan. It is the capital of Qashqadaryo Region. Administratively, Qarshi is a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlement Qashqadaryo. It has a population of 278,300 (2021 estimate). It ...

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Qashqadaryo Region Qashqadaryo Region is one of the regions of Uzbekistan, located in the south-eastern part of the country in the basin of the river Qashqadaryo (river), Qashqadaryo and on the western slopes of the Pamir-Alay mountains. It borders with Tajikistan, ...

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. Founded in 1986, the club competes in the

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History

Name changes

* 1986–1991: ''Geolog'' () * 1992: ''Pakhtachi'' () * 1996: ''Dinamo-Nasaf'' () * 1993–1995, 1996–: ''FC Nasaf'' The club was founded in 1986 under the name ''Geolog''. Since 1997, the club has played in the highest level league in Uzbekistan. FC Nasaf is one of the leading clubs in Uzbekistan. It finished 6th in its first Uzbek League season in 1997. In 2000, the club finished third. It has represented Uzbekistan in continental tournaments where its best result has been reaching semi-finals of

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, prior to the launch of the new

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2010 renovation

In 2010, the club bought a number of players and changed its squad significantly as well as the head coach. Moreover, the main venue of the club was reconstructed upon the end of the 2008–09 season. The head coach

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was fired after team faced defeats against league main opponents

Bunyodkor Football Club Bunyodkor () is an Uzbek professional football club based in Tashkent that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Bunyodkor, a relatively unknown club at the time, made international headlines when it claimed to be close to sig ...

and Pakhtakor. On 10 August 2010,

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, once the player of the year in the former USSR and former manager of

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, was introduced as the new head coach during the first round break of the 2009–10 season. Nasaf appoints Anatoliy Demyanenko as head coach. In the 2011 season, Nasaf represented the country in

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and finished group stage with excellent result of sixth consecutive victories, beating Al Tilal in last group stage match. In March and April Nasaf went unbeaten in 12 games, winning 10 and drawing two. On 29 October 2011 in Final match Nasaf won

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with 2–1 and became the first Uzbekistan team to win the AFC Cup. In Uzbek League club finished second, playing last and deciding match of championship against Pakhtakor and scoring a last-minute penalty to draw 1–1. On 13 January 2012,

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published the ''Top 350 club'' list and Nasaf Qarshi placed on 98th position On 3 March 2012 IFFHS published its rating of ''Top 400 clubs (1st March 2011 – 29th February 2012)'' where Nasaf shared 89th place with

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. In the 2013 season, the club finished 3rd after

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and gained promotion to 2nd qualifying play-off round of 2014 AFC Champions League. In Uzbek Cup club played in

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3rd time in row and lost to

with 1–2. On 8 February 2014 in Doha in 2014 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off match against El Jaish Nasaf lost by 5–1. Nasaf finished 2015 season again third and secured place in AFC Champions League in 2015. The club won in 2015 for the first time in its history

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, defeating

by 2–1 in final match on 17 November 2015 in

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Stadium

Nasaf plays its home matches at the Markaziy Stadium, which was built in 2006. The first match at the new stadium was played between Nasaf Qarshi and Uz-Dong-Ju Andijon on 8 August 2008. The stadium was the venue of the

final on 29 October 2011.

Players

Current squad

Personnel

Current technical staff

Management

Honours

Domestic

**Winners (1):

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**Runners-up (4):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Uzbekistan Cup The O‘zbekiston Kubogi ( or ), known simply as Uzbek Cup, is the top knockout tournament in Uzbek football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football pl ...

**Winners (4): 2015,

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

**Runners-up (5): 2003, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016 *

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**Winners (4): 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up (2): 2021, 2022

Continental

**Winners (1):

**Runners-up (1):

**Semi-final:

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Managerial history

References

External links

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Club page
. ''pfl.uz''.
Club page
. ''weltfussballarchiv''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nasaf Football clubs in Uzbekistan Association football clubs established in 1986 1986 establishments in Uzbekistan AFC Champions League Two winning clubs