Abdikokhor Marifaliev (russian: Абдукаххор Марифалиев; born 1 May 1971) is a former
Uzbekistan international 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 ...
player and manager.
Career
Marifaliev began playing football for Sokhibkor Khalkabad in the
Soviet Second League
The Soviet Second League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу (вторая лига), Soviet football championship (Second League)) was the third highest division of Soviet football, below the Soviet First League. The leagu ...
. In 1991, he joined
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
side
FC Pakhtakor Tashkent
(The cotton grower) uz, Sherlar(The Lions) uz, Xalq jamoasi(People's team)
, founded =
, ground = Pakhtakor Central Stadium
, capacity = 35,000
, owner =
, chairman = Bobur Shodiev
, chrtitle = President
, manager ...
. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Marifaliev would spend most of his career playing in the
Uzbek League
Uzbekistan Super League ( uz, O'zbekiston Superligasi), also called Coca-Cola Uzbekistan Super League due to sponsorship reasons ( uz, Coca-Cola O'zbekiston Superligasi / Coca-Cola Ўзбекистон Суперлигаси), is the top division ...
, winning five championships (with Pakhtakor Tashkent in 1992, with
Navbahor Namangan
PFC. Navbahor Namangan ( uz, Navbahor Namangan Futbol Klubi) is an Uzbekistan, Uzbek professional association football, football club based in Namangan. The club's name means ''New Spring.'' They play in Uzbekistan Super League.
Name
Navbahor ori ...
1996, with MHSK in 1997 and with
Do'stlik in 1999 and 2000).
He moved to Greece in 1998, but played only one
Superleague match for
PAOK F.C.
P.A.O.K. FC ( el, ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών, '' Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstadinoupolitón'', "Pan-Thessalonian Sports club, Athlet ...
before returning to Uzbekistan.
He made 32 appearances and scored 5 goals for the senior
national team
A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport.
The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exam ...
between 1992 and 2001.
Following his playing career, Marifaliev became a football manager, leading
Metallurg Bekabad
PFK Metallurg Bekabad ( uz, "Metallurg Bekobod") is an Uzbek football club based in Bekabad. They play in the Uzbekistan Super League.
History
The club was founded in 1945. Metallurg played in one of the regional zones of Soviet Second League un ...
during the 2008 Uzbek League season.
References
External links
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Profile at KLISF
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1971 births
Living people
Soviet men's footballers
Uzbekistani men's footballers
Uzbekistani expatriate men's footballers
Uzbekistan men's international footballers
Pakhtakor Tashkent FK players
Navbahor Namangan players
PFC Lokomotiv Tashkent players
PAOK FC players
FC Kyzylzhar players
Soviet Top League players
Super League Greece players
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Uzbekistani expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Men's association football midfielders
Asian Games gold medalists for Uzbekistan
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games