Server Djeparov

Server Djeparov is an Uzbek footballer and coach, a midfielder. He was born on 3 October 1982 in Chirchiq, Tashkent Region, and is of Crimean Tatar origin. He began his professional career in 2000 with Navbahor Namangan (46 games, 7 goals).

From 2002 to 2007 he played for Pakhtakor Tashkent, winning six Uzbek league titles and six Uzbek Cups and, in 2007, the CIS Cup. In 2008–2010 he played for Bunyodkor, winning two more league titles (2008, 2009); in 2008 he was the Uzbek league's top scorer with 19 goals and was named Asian Footballer of the Year and Uzbekistan Footballer of the Year.

In the summer of 2010 he was loaned to FC Seoul in South Korea and that year won the K League and the League Cup. In 2011 he moved to Saudi Arabia's Al-Shabab, champions in 2012. From 2013 he played for Seongnam (Korean FA Cup in 2014) and in 2015 for Ulsan Hyundai. In 2016 he returned to Lokomotiv Tashkent and won the Uzbek league and cup; in 2017 he joined Iran's Esteghlal (with a loan spell at Sepahan) and won the 2017–18 Hazfi Cup. He played for Kazakhstan's Zhetysu in 2018 and for Metallurg Bekabad from 2019.

He represented Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2017, with more than 120 appearances (sources give 126–128) and 25 goals, among the national team's record cap holders. He played at the 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2015 Asian Cups, led the team to its first Asian Cup semi-final in 2011 and was captain until 2015.

In 2020 he became head coach of Uzbekistan's under-14 side and then assistant coach of the senior national team.