Jafar Irismetov () (born 23 August 1976) is a former

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and coach.

Playing career

On 29 December 2012

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published list of ''The World's most successful Top Division Goal Scorer among the still active Players''. Jafar Irismetov ranked 8th in list, scoring 240 goals in 441 matches in his career. After 2012 season played for

Navbahor Namangan PFC. Navbahor Namangan () is an Uzbek professional association football, football club based in Namangan. The club's name literal translation, means ''New Spring''. They play in the Uzbekistan Super League. Name RAHIMOV origins from Persian lang ...

he decided to finish his playing career. Early in 2013 he announced to play

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and participated in 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification of (AFC) for

. He scored 5 goals in tournament. On 23 March 2015 in 2015 AFC Beach Soccer Championship in Qatar, Irismetov scored a hat-trick in the group stage match against

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, which ended with a 6–5 win for the Uzbek side.

International

He played 36 matches and scored 15 goals for the

between 1997 and 2007.

Managing career

Irismetov started managing career in 2014. In January 2014 he was named as head coach of NBU Osiyo, club in

Uzbekistan First League Uzbekistan First League ( Uzbek: ''O'zbekiston Birinchi ligasi / Ўзбекистон Биринчи Лигаси''; Russian: ''Первая лига Узбекистана'') is the third level (after the Super League and Pro League) football le ...

. On 31 May 2014 he resigned his post and left the club. In January 2016 he joined coaching stuff of Oqtepa.

Career Statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Uzbekistan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Irismetov goal.''

Honours

Club

;Dustlik *

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(1): 2000 * Uzbek Cup (1): 2000 ;Spartak Moscow * Russian Football Premier League (1): 2001 *

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(1): 2001 ;Pakhtakor *

(1): 2003 ;Kayrat Almaty *

Kazakhstan Premier League The Kazakhstan Professional Football League (, ''Qazaqstan Premier Ligasy''), commonly referred to as the Kazakh Premier League or simply the Premier League, is a professional association football league in Kazakhstan and the highest level of the ...

(1): 2004 ;Almaty *

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(1): 2006 Liaoning FC *

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Individual

* Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year: 2000 * Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year 2nd: 1997 * Uzbek League Top Scorer (3): 1996, 1997, 2000 * CIS Cup top goalscorer: 2001 (shared) *

Top Scorer (2): 2006, 2007 * Gennadi Krasnitsky club member: 203 goals

References

External links

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Irismetov goals in 2006 - Myspace
{{DEFAULTSORT:Irismetov, Jafar 1976 births Living people Uzbekistani men's footballers Men's association football forwards Uzbekistan men's international footballers Uzbekistani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Expatriate men's footballers in China Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Greece Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Russia Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Belarus Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in China Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players Kazakhstan Premier League players China League One players FC Dustlik players Panathinaikos F.C. players FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players FK Dinamo Samarqand players FC Spartak Moscow players FC Slavia Mozyr players FC Anzhi Makhachkala players Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players FC Kryvbas-2 Kryvyi Rih players FC Kairat players FC Aktobe players FC Andijon players Liaoning F.C. players FC Shurtan Guzar players PFC Navbahor Namangan players Qizilqum FC players