Current FIFA Ranking: 50
Highest FIFA Ranking: 45 (last Jan 2007)
Lowest FIFA Ranking: 118 (Nov 1996)
Football Team Nickname: The White Wolves
Honours: None
Head coach: Fabio Cannavaro (since Oct 2025)
Top scorer in qualifying: Eldor Shomurodov (5)
Star players: Abdukodir Khusanov (Man City), Eldor Shomurodov (Istanbul Basaksehir), Igor Sergeev (Pakhtakor)
Uzbekistan have qualified for their first ever World Cup following seven failed attempts since their first campaign as an independent nation in 1998 – they had reached the final stages of the continental stages in qualifying for 2006 and 2014.
Ten years after he earned his 119th and final cap as a player, Timur Kapadze led the central Asian nation to the USA but was replaced by 2006 World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro in October – Kapadze will be one of his assistants at the finals.
Unrelated non-football trivia! Uzbekistan is one of two doubly landlocked countries in the world, along with Liechtenstein - requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline.
Previous World Cup appearances (0)
