Azizbek Haydarov

Azizbek Saidrahimovich Haydarov was born on 8 July 1985 in Tashkent. He is a former Uzbek midfielder who began at Lokomotiv Tashkent in 2004 and played for Bunyodkor in 2007-2011, winning the Uzbek League (2008, 2009, 2010) and the Uzbek Cup (2008, 2010) and reaching the AFC Champions League semi-finals in 2008.

On 26 July 2011 he signed with Al-Shabab in the UAE, where he played until 2017, then played for Ajman in 2017-18. He returned to Bunyodkor in 2018 and to Lokomotiv in 2019, ending his playing career that year. From 2019 to 2021 he was director of the national teams centre at the Uzbekistan Football Association, and in 2022 he was appointed general director of Bunyodkor's academy.

He captained Uzbekistan's Olympic team in 2007 and debuted for the senior team that year, making 67 appearances by 31 March 2015, including six qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup. He played at the 2007 (three games), 2011 (all six games, semi-finals) and 2015 (all four games) AFC Asian Cups; at the 2011 tournament he scored against Kuwait in the group stage, a goal sometimes credited to Maksim Shatskikh.