Rustam Ashurmatov (; born 7 July 1996), sometimes spelt as Rustamjon Ashurmatov, is an Uzbek footballer who plays as a defender for Iranian club Esteghlal.

Career

Club

On 7 February 2019,

FC 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 ...

announced that Ashurmatov had joined

Gwangju Gwangju (; ), formerly romanized as Kwangju, is South Korea's list of cities in South Korea, sixth-largest metropolis. It is a designated Special cities of South Korea, metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home ...

. On 19 January 2021,

Gangwon FC Gangwon FC () is a South Korean football club based in Gangwon Province. They joined the K League as its 15th club for the 2009 season. The club is sponsored by High1 Resort. History Gangwon Province's governor Kim Jin-sun announced a sch ...

announced that Ashurmatov had joined Gangwon. Gangwon announced that Ashurmatov left the club on 15 February 2022. On 18 February 2022, Ashurmatov signed with

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 ...

. On 14 January 2023, Ashurmatov joined

FC Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (; ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the Russian Premier League. Founded 1958 in Russia, in 1958, Rubin played its first-ever top flight season in 2003 Russia ...

in Russia on a 3.5-year contract. On 9 July 2025, Ashurmatov joined Esteghlal in Iran on a 2-year contract.

International

A player for the

Uzbekistan national football team The Uzbekistan national football team ( / ) represents Uzbekistan in men's international Association football, football and is controlled by the Uzbekistan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan holds t ...

since 2017, Ashurmatov has also have played for the Uzbekistan national youth teams in international tournaments such as

2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup The 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the fifteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. The tournament was held in the United Arab Emirates from 17 October to 8 November. Nigeria won the tournament after defeating Mexico 3–0 in the final, claimin ...

2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the twentieth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. The competition took place for the first time in New Zealand, the third time on Oceanian soil after ...

, and

2018 AFC U-23 Championship The 2018 AFC U-23 Championship (also known as the 2018 AFC U-23 Asian Cup) was the third edition of the AFC U-23 Championship, the biennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) f ...

, in which he would win the latter tournament with

Uzbekistan national under-23 football team The Uzbekistan national under-23 football team () represents Uzbekistan in international U-23 football competitions. The team is controlled by the Uzbekistan Football Association, and is a member of the Asian Football Confederation. Competitive ...

, with him scoring in the final.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Rubin *

Russian First League The Russian First League (, Pervaya liga), formerly called Russian First Division () and Russian Football National League (FNL) () is the second level of the Football in Russia#League system, Russian football league system. The Russian Professio ...

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

Gwangju *

K League 2 The K League 2 () is the men's second-highest division of the South Korean football league system. It is contested between thirteen professional clubs and operates on a promotion and relegation system with K League 1. History In 2011, the or ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Uzbekistan U-23 *

AFC U-23 Championship The AFC U-23 Asian Cup, previously the AFC U-22 Championship (in 2013) and AFC U-23 Championship (between 2016 and 2020), is a biennial international football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's under-23 n ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

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* * * Living people 1996 births Uzbekistani men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Men's association football defenders FC Bunyodkor players Gwangju FC players Gangwon FC players PFC Navbahor Namangan players FC Rubin Kazan players Esteghlal F.C. players Uzbekistan Super League players K League 2 players K League 1 players Russian First League players Russian Premier League players Uzbekistan men's international footballers Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games footballers for Uzbekistan Uzbekistani expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Iran Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Iran 2023 AFC Asian Cup players 21st-century Uzbekistani sportsmen {{Uzbekistan-footy-bio-stub