2016 Uzbek League

Andijan

Tashkent

Metallurg

Nasaf

Qizilqum

Navbahor

Neftchi

Olmaliq

Bukhoro

Sogdiana

Mash'al

Shortan

Kokand

Tashkent teams:
Bunyodkor
Lokomotiv
Obod Tashkent
Pakhtakor

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Location of teams in 2016 Uzbek League

Sogdiana Jizzakh remained for 2016 Uzbek League after winning in relegation play-off match with Oqtepa. Obod Tashkent promoted to 2016 League as 2015 First League winner. The draw of 2016 season was held on 22 December 2015. The first matchday is scheduled for 4 March 2016.

Club	Coach	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FK Andijan	Orif Mamatkazin	Andijan	Soghlom Avlod Stadium	18,360
Bunyodkor	Sergey Lushan	Tashkent	Bunyodkor Stadium	34,000
Bukhoro	Jamshid Saidov	Bukhoro	Buxoro Arena	22,700
Kokand 1912	Numon Khasanov	Kokand	Kokand Stadium	10,500
Lokomotiv	Andrey Miklyaev	Tashkent	Lokomotiv Stadium	8,000
Mash'al	Alexander Khomyakov	Muborak	Bahrom Vafoev Stadium	10,000
Metallurg	Rustam Mirsodiqov	Bekabad	Metallurg Stadium	15,000
Nasaf Qarshi	Ruziqul Berdiev	Qarshi	Qarshi Stadium	14,750
Navbahor	Ilkhom Muminjonov	Namangan	Navbahor Stadium	22,000
Neftchi	Andrey Fyodorov	Farghona	Istiqlol Stadium	20,000
Obod Tashkent	Jafar Irismetov	Tashkent	Obod Stadium
Olmaliq FK	Igor Shkvyrin	Olmaliq	Olmaliq SM Stadium	12,000
Pakhtakor	Grigoriy Kolosovskiy	Tashkent	Pakhtakor Stadium	35,000
Qizilqum	Yuriy Lukin	Zarafshon	Yoshlar Stadium	12,500
Sogdiana	Davron Fayziev	Jizzakh	Sogdiana Stadium	11,650
Shurtan Guzar	Ikhtiyor Karimov	Ghuzor	Ghuzor Stadium	7,000

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Obod	Khayrulla Abdiev	Resigned	December 2015	Pre-season	Bobur Zukhriddinov (interim)	December 2015
Kokand 1912	Vadim Shodimatov	end of caretaker spell	6 December 2015	Pre-season	Murod Ismoilov	7 December 2015[1]
Navbahor	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	Sacked	28 December 2015	Pre-season	Rashid Gafurov (interim)	28 December 2015
Shurtan	Mukhtor Kurbonov	Resigned	5 January 2016	Pre-season	Ikhtiyor Karimov
Andijan	Sergey Kovshov	end of caretaker spell	30 January 2016	Pre-season	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	30 January 2016
Navbahor	Rashid Gafurov	Sacked	27 April 2016	6th matchday	Alexander Volkov (interim)	27 April 2016
Kokand 1912	Murod Ismoilov	Resigned	16 May 2016		Sergey Kovshov (interim)	16 May 2016
Pakhtakor	Numon Khasanov	Resigned	27 May 2016		Grigoriy Kolosovskiy (interim)	27 May 2016
Kokand 1912	Sergey Kovshov	end of caretaker spell	11 June 2016		Numon Khasanov	11 June 2016
Andijan	Bakhtiyor Ashurmatov	Sacked	14 June 2016		Orif Mamatkazin	14 June 2016
Obod	Bobur Zukhriddinov	end of caretaker spell	18 June 2016		Alexander Mochinov	18 June 2016
Navbahor	Alexander Volkov	Sacked	22 June 2016		Mustafo Bayramov (interim)	22 June 2016
Navbahor	Mustafo Bayramov	end of caretaker spell	2 July 2016		Ravshan Bozorov	2 July 2016
Obod	Alexander Mochinov	Resigned	9 September 2016		Jafar Irismetov	10 September 2016
Navbahor	Ravshan Bozorov	Sacked	6 November 2016		Ilkhom Muminjonov	6 November 2016

The number of foreign players is restricted to five per USL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	AFC Player	Former players
AGMK	Graham Smith	Nemanja Jovanović	Darko Stanojević	Arslanmyrat Amanow	Yaroslav Martynyuk Evgeniy Gogol
Andijon	Denis Ilescu			Elman Tagayev
Lokomotiv	Kakhi Makharadze	Nemanja Janičić	Slaven Stjepanović	Artur Geworkyan
Pakhtakor	Adnan Orahovac
Mash'al Mubarek	Vladyslav Pavlenko	Vyacheslav Shevchenko
FC Buxoro	Vadim Cemirtan
FC Bunyodkor	Chaker Zouaghi	Jurica Buljat	Aleksandar Alempijević	Minori Sato	Samir Bekrić
Navbahor	Oleksandr Pyschur	Alexandru Melenciuc	Igor Golban	Choi Hyun-yeon
Neftchi Fergana				Akmal Kholmatov
FC Obod
Metallurg Bekabad
Nasaf	Dejan Boljević	Dragan Ceran	Ognjen Krasić		Rok Roj Artur Geworkyan
FC Shurtan Guzar	Oleksandr Pyschur
Kokand 1912	Darko Gojkovic	Nikola Valentić
Sogdiana Jizzakh
Qizilqum Zarafshon	Andriy Derkach	Georgiy Kvesieshvili

The one leg relegation play-off match between 15th placed team of Uzbek League, Navbahor Namangan and runners-up of 2016 Uzbekistan First League, FC Naryn Khakkulabad was played on 28 November 2016 in Tashkent. Navbahor won by 3:1 and remained in League.

28 November 2016

13:00 (UTC+05:00)

Navbahor Namangan	3–1	Naryn
I.Isakjanov 23' A.Makhmudov 29', 84'	Report	S.Dostonov 34'

TTYMI Stadium, Tashkent

Attendance: 582

Referee: B. Namazov

As of 23 November 2016^[2]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov	Lokomotiv	22 (1)
2	Zokhid Abdullaev	Metallurg	18 (0)
3	Shokhruz Norkhonov	Obod	14 (2)
4	Sardor Mirzaev	Lokomotiv	13 (0)
	Nemanja Jovanović	Andijon/Qizilqum	13 (3)
6	Zafar Polvonov	Shurtan Guzar	12 (0)
	Marat Bikmaev	Lokomotiv	12 (1)
	Dragan Ćeran	Nasaf	12 (1)
9	Shakhboz Erkinov	Mash'al	11 (1)
	Igor Sergeev	Pakhtakor	11 (3)

Player	Team	Against	Result	Date
Igor Taran	Shurtan	Sogdiana Jizzakh	4–2	7 May 2016
Oleksandr Pyschur	Navbahor	Kokand 1912	5–1	14 May 2016
Zafar Polvonov	Shurtan	Pakhtakor	3–1	20 June 2016
Aziz Ibragimov	Andijan	Bukhoro	1–4	26 August 2016
Kenja Turaev	Mashal	Andijan	5–0	24 September 2016
Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov	Mashal	Lokomotiv	0–4	18 October 2016