Vakhsh Bokhtar () formerly known as Khatlon Bokhtar is a professional

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club based in

Bokhtar Bokhtar (), previously known as Qurghonteppa, Kurganteppa and Kurgan-Tyube, is a city in southwestern Tajikistan, which serves as the capital of the Khatlon region. Bokhtar is the largest city in southern Tajikistan, and is located south of Dusha ...

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. They currently play in the top division of the country.

History

FC Vakhsh was founded in 1960. In Soviet times was the farm club of the core team of the

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan, the Tajik SSR, TaSSR, or simply Tajikistan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia. The Tajik Re ...

–

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based CSKA Pomir Dushanbe. From 1966 to 1984 the team played under the name of Pakhtakor. "Vakhsh" first became a champion of Tajikistan in 1961 and four years later the club won the Cup for the first time in Tajikistan. Footballers from Qurghonteppa for the first time took part in the USSR Championship in 1966, playing in the Central Asian zone of B League, when finished 16th out of 19 teams. Although from the following season the team improved their performance, in 1967 17th place (among 22 teams), in 1968 10th (out of 22), 1969 – 6th (out of 24) and in 1970 5th place (out of 18). Unfortunately, the further advancement of the team was stopped due to reorganization of the Soviet football structure in 1971. In 1978 Pakhtakor became champion of the

and won a ticket to the soviet second league. From 1978 to 1984 Pakhtakor played in the second league. Again, the team was just beginning to acquire confidence as a solution of the Sports Committee of the

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removed from the rally. Since 1986, Qurghonteppa was re-introduced in the second league. To defend the honor of the city took "Vakhsh – champion of the republic in 1985. This team also goes through the gradual conquest of positions. From 16th place in 1986, Vakhsh up to 4th place in 1989, after which the club has to play in the buffer zone, though not as a team, which finished in fourth place, but as the representative of

. In those days, Vakhsh's best footballers always ended up in

's best team, CSKA Pomir Dushanbe. The most notable of these are Mukhsin Mukhamadiev, Khakim Fuzailov, Rustam Zabirov, Sergei Mandreko, Alimzhon Rafikov, Alexander Asimov and Vladimir Dolganov. Since 1992, Vakhsh plays in the

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. In the same year "Vakhsh" took third place. The club has achieved great success in the 1997 season, having won

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, and qualified for the first time to participate in AFC Cup Winners Cup. Also in 1997, the year Vakhsh became the champion of Tajikistan. Striker Rustam Usmanov scoring 21 goals was named the best scorer of the national championship. In 2002, Vakhsh played in the

final and in 2003 won the

. In 2004, Vakhsh took second place and was awarded the silver medals of the championship in Tajikistan. In 2005, Vakhsh once again reached the final of

, losing the deciding match

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in a penalty shootout. Although in the same year, Vakhsh became champions of

, a 17-year-old striker by the name of Akhtam Khamrakulov was named best scorer of the championship with 12 goals. Vakhsh reached her peak of success in the international arena in 2006, when the team reached the final of

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losing to eventual champions Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn 2–1 in the extra time. In February 2018, Vakhsh was taken over by the local government of

(previously known as Qurghonteppa) due to financial difficulties, and was renamed FC Khatlon.

Domestic history

Continental history

Honours

* SSR Tajik League **Champions (2): 1961, 1985 * SSR Tajikistan Cup **Winners (1): 1965 *

**Champions (3):

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

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 ...

**Winners (2): 1997, 2003

Current squad

References

External links

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Vakhsh Fan ClubVakhsh page
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