The 2010 Turkmenistan Higher League (

Ýokary Liga The Turkmenistan Higher League, also called Türkmenistan Ýokary Liga ( Turkmen: ''Türkmenistanyň Ýokary Ligasy''; Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East ...

) season was the eighteenth season of

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

's professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

league. It began on 2 April 2010 with the first round of games and ended in December.

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won the title.

Teams

As league size was expanded from nine to ten teams, no team had to face relegation after the conclusion of the 2009 season.

FC Ahal Ahal Änew Football Club ( tk, Ahal Änew Futbol Kluby), or simply Ahal FC, is a Turkmen professional association football club based in the Änew, Ahal Province. Founded in 1989, the club played its first-ever top flight season in 1992. The c ...

as champions of the Turkmen second level of football were promoted. FC Bagtyýarlyk, Nebitçi Balkanabat and Turan Daşoguz were renamed

FC Lebap FC Lebap is a Turkmenistan football club based in Türkmenabat. Since 2015 they play in the second division, the Birinji liga. Their home stadium is Türkmenabat Stadium which can hold 10,000 people. History The club takes part in the champion ...

and

FC Daşoguz Turan Football Club ( tk, Turan futbol kluby) is a Turkmen football club based in Daşoguz. They play in the top division in Turkmen football, the Turkmenistan Higher League. Their home stadium is Sport Toplumy Stadium. In May 2010, the club cha ...

, respectively.

League table

Positions by round

Results

League season

Season statistics

Top scorers

''Including matches played on 11 December 2010''

Scoring

*First goalscorer: ** Didargylyç Urazow for

against

Lebap Lebap Region ( tk, Lebap welaýaty/Лебап велаяты from the Persian ''Lab-e āb'') is one of the regions of Turkmenistan. It is in the northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya. Its capital is T ...

, 26th minute (2 April 2010) *First hat-trick: **Ata Geldiýew for

FC Aşgabat Ashgabat Futbol Kluby is a Turkmen football club based in Ashgabat. They play in the top division of Turkmenistan football, Ýokary Liga. Their home stadium is Nisa Stadium. The club was first founded in 2006, they finished 3rd in their debut ye ...

against

(15 May 2010)

International competitions

2010 CIS Cup

* 2010 CIS Cup: :

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– HTTU Aşgabat (1–3) : HTTU Aşgabat – Russia U-21 (2–4) : HTTU Aşgabat –

FC Dynamo Kyiv Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was offici ...

(2–4) :

FC Bunyodkor Football Club Bunyodkor ( uz, Bunyodkor futbol klubi) is an Uzbekistan, Uzbek professional association football, football club based in Tashkent that competes in the Uzbekistan Super League. Bunyodkor, a relatively unknown club at the time, made ...

– HTTU Aşgabat (1–1) (2–4 pen.) : HTTU Aşgabat –

Rubin Kazan FC Rubin Kazan (russian: Футбо́льный клуб Руби́н Каза́нь, ''Futbolny klub Rubin Kazan'' , Tatar: Рубин Казан) is a Russian professional football club based in the city of Kazan. They play in the second-tier ...

(0–4)

2010 AFC President's Cup

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: : HTTU Aşgabat –

Druk Star FC Druk Stars FC, sometimes referred to as Druk Star FC, was a Bhutanese football club from Thimphu. The team have won the national championship twice and competed in the A-Division from 2002, when they won their first title, through to 2010, havin ...

(8–0) :

Yadanabon FC Yadanarbon Football Club ( my, ရတနာပုံ ဘောလုံး အသင်း ) is a Burmese professional football club based at the Bahtoo Stadium in Mandalay. The club was a founding member of the Myanmar National League in 2009. ...

– HTTU Aşgabat (0–0) :

Dordoi-Dynamo Naryn Football Club Dordoi Bishkek ('' ky, Дордой Бишкек Футбол Клубу, Dordoj Bişkek Futbol Klubu'') is a Kyrgyz professional football club based in Bishkek, that competes in the Kyrgyz Premier League. Founded in 1997, the club ...

– HTTU Aşgabat (2–0)

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:2010 Yokary Liga Ýokary Liga seasons

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