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FC Neftchi Fergana

Association football club in Uzbekistan

Summary

Association football club in Uzbekistan

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fullname	Neftchi Fargʻona Futbol Klubi
nickname	Buyuk chinorlar (Great maples)
Yoʻlbarslar (The Tigers)
founded
ground	Istiqlol Stadium
Fergana
capacity	20,000
owner	Fergana city administration
chrtitle	Chairman
chairman	Mansurbek Toshmatov
mgrtitle	Head coach
manager	Islombek Ismoilov
league	Uzbekistan Super League
season	2025
position	USL, 1st of 16 (Champions)
current	2025 FC Neftchi Fergana season
website
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Yoʻlbarslar (The Tigers) Fergana

F.C. Neftchi Fergana (, Нефтчи Фарғона футбол клуби) is an Uzbek professional football club based in Fergana. They play in the top division Uzbekistan Super League.

History

The early Soviet period

Neftchi was founded 1962 and appeared in the Soviet Second League (Central Asian Division) from 1962 to 1991 under the name Neftyanik Fergana. In 1990, the club advanced to the Soviet First League, winning Soviet Second League, conference East. In 1991 Soviet First League Neftchi ranked at 7th place which was club's highest achievement in Soviet football history.

Modern period, since 1992

Since 1992, the club has been playing in the Uzbek League, and along with Pakhtakor Tashkent and Navbahor Namangan, continuously participated in all seasons of the Uzbek League without a break.

On 22 November 2025, FC Neftchi Fergana won the 2025 Uzbekistan Super League.

Domestic history

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Champions	Runners-up	3rd Place, 4th Place or Losing semi-finalists

Season	League	Uzbek Cup	Top goalscorer	Manager	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Name
1992	1st	1st	32	23	5	4	66	14	51	Semifinal	Rustam Durmonov	13
1993	1st	1st	30	24	4	2	83	27	52	Semifinal	Rustam Durmonov	24
1994	1st	1st	30	21	8	1	82	36	50	Champions	Ravshan Bozorov	26
1995	1st	1st	30	24	4	2	83	32	76	Semifinal
1996	1st	2nd	30	23	3	4	72	30	72	Champions	Sergey Lebedev	13
1997	1st	2nd	34	26	3	5	105	42	81	Runners Up	Ravshan Bozorov
1998	1st	2nd	30	21	7	2	82	27	70	Runners Up	Sergey Lebedev	18
1999	1st	2nd	30	20	3	7	71	34	63	Semifinal	Umid Isoqov	24
2000	1st	2nd	38	28	6	4	96	32	90	Umid Isoqov	19
2001	1st	1st	34	27	3	4	93	27	84	Runners Up	Umid Isoqov	28
2002	1st	2nd	30	22	3	5	82	32	69	Runners Up	Mukhtor Kurbonov	20
2003	1st	2nd	30	23	2	5	80	35	71	Quarterfinal	Umid Isoqov	22
2004	1st	2nd	26	21	2	3	61	26	65	Semifinal	Umid Isoqov	17
2005	1st	5th	26	13	1	12	40	28	40	Runners Up	Anvar Berdiev	10
2006	1st	2nd	30	23	2	5	60	23	71	Semifinal	Nosirbek Otakuziev	19
2007	1st	4th	30	19	4	7	53	28	61	Semifinal	Akmal Kholmatov	19
2008	1st	3rd	30	18	6	6	42	25	60	Semifinal	Anvar Berdiev	12
2009	1st	5th	30	14	4	12	43	38	46	Semifinal	Sherzod Khakimov	10
2010	1st	10th	26	8	5	13	36	45	29	Semifinal	Alisher Kholiqov	13	Yuriy Sarkisyan
2011	1st	4th	26	13	5	8	36	27	44	Quarterfinal	Anvar Berdiev	11	Yuriy Sarkisyan
2012	1st	6th	26	10	7	9	36	29	37	Last 16	Anvar Berdiev	19	Yuriy Sarkisyan
2013	1st	9th	26	9	3	14	28	31	30	Quarterfinal	Nosirbek Otakuziev	6	Yuriy Sarkisyan
Evgeniy Shokhin
2014	1st	8th	26	7	7	12	19	26	28	R32	Sherzod Khakimov	6	Murod Ismoilov
2015	1st	5th	26	16	4	10	41	30	52	R32	Sherzod Khakimov	8	Murod Ismoilov
Andrei Fyodorov
2016	1st	11th	30	9	4	17	28	43	31	R3	Sherzod Khakimov	9	Andrei Fyodorov
2017	1st	align:center	15th	30	6	9	15	23	48	27	Quarterfinal	Muiddin Mamazulunov	9	Andrei Fyodorov
Vadim Abramov
2018	1st	12th	20	4	6	10	14	26	18	Round of 16	Sherzod Khakimov	4	Sergey Kovshov
2019	2nd	5th	28	15	3	10	37	26	48	Round of 16	Xamidullo Abduvohidov	4	Abdusmad Durmanov
2020	2nd	2nd	20	11	4	5	27	17	37	2QR	Doston Toshmatov	12	Abdusmad Durmanov
2021	2nd	1st	20	14	3	3	45	15	45	Last 16	Marko Obradović	12
2022	1st	9th	26	8	8	10	31	32	32	GS	Sirojiddin Kuziyev	5	Ilkhom Muminjonov
Vitaly Levchenko
2023	1st	5th	26	11	12	3	33	18	45	GS	Toma Tabatadze	5	Vitaly Levchenko
2024	1st	5th	26	11	10	5	32	24	43	Round of 16	Effiong Nsungusi	5	Vitaly Levchenko
2025	1st									Round of 16			Vitaly Levchenko

Continental record

Competition	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Asian Club Championship	17	9	4	4	42	20
Asian Cup Winners' Cup	2	1	0	1	3	6
AFC Cup	15	6	6	3	28	25
AFC Champions League	23	9	1	13	29	38
Total	57	25	11	21	102	89

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1994–95	Asian Club Championship	Preliminary round	KAZ Ansat Pavlodar	3–0	1st
KGZ Alga Bishkek	9–0
TJK Sitora Dushanbe	3–0
TKM Köpetdag Aşgabat	2–1
First round		Bye
Second round	IRN Saipa	1–1	2–2	3–3 (a)
Quarterfinals	LBN Al Ansar	2–2	2nd
QAT Al-Arabi	0–1
UAE Al-Wasl	4–1
Semifinal	TAI Thai Farmers Bank	2–2 (2–3 p)
Third place match	KOR Ilhwa Chunma	1–0
1995	Asian Club Championship	First round	KAZ Yelimay Semipalatinsk	3–1	1–4	4–5
1996–97	Asian Club Championship	First round	TJK Pamir Dushanbe	4–1	4–1	8–2
Second round	IRQ Al-Zawraa	1–2	0–1	1–3
1997–98	Asian Cup Winners' Cup	First round	TKM Köpetdag Aşgabat	3–2	0–4	3–6
1998–99	Asian Club Championship	First round	TJK Vakhsh Qurghonteppa
2002–03	AFC Champions League	QR3	YEM Al-Ahli	6–0	2–1	8–1
QR4	IRN Esteghlal	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)
2004	AFC Champions League	Group D	IRN Sepahan	1–3	0–4	4th
KUW Al-Arabi	1–2	2–3
KSA Al-Ittihad	1–3	0–3
2005	AFC Champions League	Group C	KUW Kuwait	1–0	0–1	2nd
QAT Al Sadd	2–0	2–3
UAE Shabab Al Ahli	3–0	0–3
2007	AFC Champions League	Group C	IRQ Al-Najaf	1–1	1–0	2nd
QAT Al Sadd	2–1	0–2
SYR Al-Karamah	2–1	0–2
2009	AFC Cup	Group A	BHR Busaiteen	1–1	2–2	2nd
LBN Al Ahed	2–1	1–5
YEM Al-Tilal	1–0	5–0
Round of 16	SYR Al-Majd	0–0 (1–3 p)
Quarterfinal	HKG South China	5–4	0–1	5–5 (a)
2012	AFC Champions League	Playoff Round	UAE Al Shabab	0–3
2012	AFC Cup	Group D	IND Salgaocar	3–0	2–2	2nd
JOR Al-Wehdat	2–1	1–3
OMN Al-Orouba	3–1	0–0
Round of 16	IRQ Erbil	0–4

Stadium

Neftchi played its home matches initially at Fargona Stadium. Fargona Stadium was built in 1932 and was home ground of the club until 2012. The stadium was closed for reconstruction. The plans for construction of the new arena in another location were unveiled in 2011. The construction works for new 20,000 seater arena named Istiqlol Stadium in Fergana started in January 2012 and were finished at the end of 2014. It was planned Neftchi would play its home matches at new stadium in 2015. Neftchi played its home matches in 2012–14 and some matches of 2015 seasons at Kirguli SM Stadium and Kokand Stadium.

The opening match of the new Istiqlol stadium was held on 3 April 2015 with a friendly between Uzbekistan U-20 and New Zealand U-20 which ended with 1–0 victory of host team. The first official League match at the new stadium was played on 18 April 2018 with match Neftchi – Mash'al Mubarek.

Rivalries

Uzbek El Classico

Main article: Uzbek El Clasico

Traditionally there is always rivalry between two strongest teams in any League in club football. Since 1992 in Oliy League in Uzbekistan those two clubs were Neftchi and capital club Pakhtakor Tashkent. Already in first edition of Oliy League in 1992 bothe teams finished first with the same points and were recognised as champions. This competition goes on over the years. The match between Pakhtakor and Neftchi is held since 1992. The first match between the two clubs was played on 25 May 1992 in Tashkent. The match of two rivals became later the name O'zbek Classikosi by analogy with Spanish Clasico.

Valley derbies

Neftchi's biggest local rival has always been Navbahor Namangan, club from Fergana Valley region. Like Neftchi also Navbahor along Pakhtakor continuously is playing in Uzbek League since 1992 without any break. This rivalry was always of enormous interest of both fans sides.

Another Neftchi's Valley rival is FK Andijan. Andijan was founded in 1964.

Honours

Type	Competition	Titles
Domestic	6	1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2025
2	1994, 1996
1	2021
1	1990

Players

Main article: List of FC Neftchi Fergana players

Current squad

Personnel

Current technical staff

Position	Name
Manager	UZB Islombek Ismoilov
Assistant coach	GER Hans-Jürgen Gede
Assistant coach	ITA Facundo Styk
Goalkeeper coach	MLD Vitalie Galat
Fitness coach	GRE Antonios Sarioglou

Managerial history

Soviet Union Arkadi Alov (1969–1971)
Soviet Union Ivan Larin (1972)
Soviet Union UZB Yuriy Sarkisyan (Jan 1987 – May 16, 2013)
UKR Amet Memet (2013–2014)
UZB Murod Ismoilov (May 16, 2013 – Sept 14, 2015)
RUS Andrey Fyodorov (Sept 15, 2015 – June 5, 2017)
UZB Vadim Abramov (June 5, 2017 – December 16, 2017)
UZB Sergey Kovshov (Januar 27, 2018 – present)
UZB Bakhrom Khaydarov (2018 — 2019)
UZB Abdusamad Durmonov (2019–2020)
UZB Sergey Lebedev
UZB Ilkhom Muminjonov (Jan 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022)
TJK Vitaliy Levchenko (July 1, 2022 – ...)

References

[https://fcneftchi.uz/%d1%80%d0%b0%d2%b3%d0%b1%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b8%d1%8f%d1%82 Клуб бош директори: Мансурбек Тошматов] FC Neftchi Fergana Official website
link. Клуб любителей истории и статистики футбола
[https://globalsportsarchive.com/en/soccer/match/2025-11-22/pfk-neftchi-vs-pfk-qizilqum/3898547 PFK Neftchi vs PFK Qizilqum - November 22, 2025 - O‘zbekiston Superligasi 2025 - Soccer. Global Sports Archive]
(2015-04-03). "Uzbekistan U-20 outplays New Zealand". UzDaily.
link. Мозийга қайтиб... "Нефтчи"ни фақат "Пахтакор" юта олади
"Club history". FC Neftchi Fergana.
"Neftchi". Uzbekistan Professional Football League.

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