Uzbekistan national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Oq boʻrilar (White Wolves) |
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| Association | Uzbekistan Football Federation (UFF) |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | CAFA (Central Asia) |
| Head coach | |
| Captain | Odil Ahmedov |
| Most caps | Server Djeparov (121) |
| Top scorer | Maksim Shatskikh (34) |
| Home stadium |
Bunyodkor Stadium, Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium |
| FIFA code | UZB |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 61  1 (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 45 (November 2006–January 2007) |
| Lowest | 119 (November 1996) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 46 (11 January 2017) |
| Highest | 45 (12 December 2012) |
| Lowest | 95 (February 2001) |
| First international | |
 Tajikistan 2–2 Uzbekistan  (Dushanbe, Tajikistan; 17 June 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |
Uzbekistan 15–0 Mongolia  (Chiang Mai, Thailand; December 5, 1998) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Japan 8–1 Uzbekistan (Sidon, Lebanon; October 17, 2000) |
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| Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 7 (first in 1996) |
| Best result | Fourth place, 2011 |
The Uzbekistan national football team represents Uzbekistan in association football and is controlled by the Uzbekistan Football Federation, the governing body for football in Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan's home ground is Bunyodkor Stadium in Tashkent and their current head coach is Samvel Babayan. Uzbekistan have never qualified to the final stages of the World Cup, but they had been in AFC Asian Cup since the independence.
After the split from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Tajikistan on June 17, 1992. Uzbekistan have consistently been the strongest team out of the new Central Asian nations (Kazakhstan (but they joined UEFA in 2006), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). Some media outlets, especially from Russia, Croatia and the Balkans, refer to them as the "Croatia of Asia" due to their high levels of talent, similar to that of the Croatian national football team.
Uzbekistan won the 1994 Asian Games tournament as debutants.
Uzbekistan failed to make further impact on the continental stage until they reached the last eight of the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, where they were beaten by Bahrain after a penalty shoot-out.
That performance was followed by victory over Iraq in the second qualifying round for World Cup 2006 in Germany, with goals from Maksim Shatskikh and Alexander Geynrikh sending them through to the last eight.
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