Tomorrow Dinamo Tbilisi will hold the seventh match on the camp in Turkey. Our team will compete with the champion of Uzbekistan - Pakhtakor of Tashkent. The match will be held in Belek and will start at 17:30 Tbilisi time. Live coverage will be available on Setanta Sports TV channels, Facebook and Youtube platforms.
Pakhtakor was founded in 1956. The Tashkent club colors are blue and yellow. Home matches are played by Pakhtakor at the Central Stadium, which has a capacity of 35,000 spectators. Tashkent finished the Uzbek Super League with 60 points from 26 matches and won gold medals for the third time in a row.
Pakhtakor has won the Uzbek Super League for 14 times, that is a local record. Also in record numbers, rival has won the National Cup for 13 times. Uzbekistan Super Cup and League Cup one at a time. During the Soviet era, Pakhtakor lost the Crystal Cup final to Torpedo Moscow in 1968. In 2007, the Lions (also the team's third nickname - the People's Team) won the Community Cup in a penalty shootout with Latvian Ventspils, and the following year lost the final of the same tournament 3-4 to Lenkoran Khazar. On the international stage, Pakhtakor has reached the semi-finals of the Asian Champions League twice - in the 2002/2003 and 2004 seasons. For the first time, the People's Team lost to Thai Tero Sanas, and the next semifinal was lost to Korean Seonam.
The history of our teams' matches is 42 matches. 19 matches ended in favor of Tbilisi, Tashkent won 10 matches, and in 13 cases a draw was recorded.
Pakhtakor is on camp in Antalya since February 5 and have also managed to hold two friendly matches. On February 7, our future opponent defeated Minai Uzhgorod 1-0, and on February 11, the match with the football club Ufa ended in a 1-1 draw.
Since January North Macedonian football specialist Slavče Vojneski is the head coach of the team. He replaced Peter Huistra from the Netherlands. Before that, it should be noted that Shota Arveladze coached Tashkent in 2017-2020.