Anvar Berdiev

Anvar Berdiev
Personal information
Date of birth (1978-05-11) 11 May 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
FC Turon (assistant coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995 Temiryo'lchi Qo'qon
1995–1996 Mash'al Mubarek 48 (11)
1997–1999 Nasaf Qarshi 45 (33)
2000–2013 Neftchi Farg'ona 345 (164)
2013–2015 Bunyodkor 22 (5)
2015–2016 Andijan 33 (11)
2018 Neftchi Farg'ona 12 (1)
2019 Istiqlol Fergana 0 (0)
International career
1998–2003 Uzbekistan 5 (2)
Managerial career
2019– Istiqlol Fergana (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 August 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 March 2014

Anvar Berdiev (born 11 May 1978) is a retired Uzbek professional footballer. He currently assistant coach in Istiqlol Fergana.

Career

He began his career at Temiryo'lchi Qo'qon.[1] In 2000, he moved to Neftchi Farg'ona. Playing for Neftchi, he won the Uzbek League in 2001.

He is the current top scorer in Uzbek League history with 224 goals (as of 30 November 2016). On 13 September 2012 he scored his 199th and 200th goals in the match against Qizilqum Zarafshon in the Uzbek League and became the second Uzbek player after Zafar Kholmurodov to score 200 goals in the league.[2]

On 29 December 2012 IFFHS published a list of The World's most successful Top Division Goal Scorer among the still active Players. Anvar Berdiev ranked 18th in the list, having scored 205 goals in 433 matches in his career.[3] On 31 December 2012, IFFHS published its updated list of The World's most successful Top Division Goal Scorers of all time. Anvar Berdiev ranked 296th in the list among 326 players with 240 goals.[4]

On 28 June 2013 he moved to capital club Bunyodkor and signed a year and a half contract with the club.[5] In summer 2015 he left Bunyodkor und signed a contract with FK Andijan. Playing 11 matches for Andijan, Berdiev scored 7 goals and made a significant contribution to help Andijan remain in the Uzbek League. He was Andijan's best goalscorer in the season with 7 goals.

In January 2018 Berdiev moved back to Neftchi. On 12 June 2018 he played hs 500th official match in Uzbekistan Super League, scoring goal for Neftchi on 88 Minute.[6]

He played in 2019 for Uzbekistan Pro League club, Istiqlol Fergana. In August 2019 Berdiev announced that he finished his playing career and started his trainer career at Istiqlol Fergana as assistant coach to Sergey Lebedev.

International

He made his debut for the national team on Friday 24 April 1998 in a match against Azerbaijan who won 2–1. He played 5 matches and scored 2 goals for the national team. He hasn't lost in non-league and non-national team competition any of the last 5 at home matches and hasn't won in UPFL any of the last 16 away from home matches.

Honours

Club

Neftchi
Bunyodkor

Individual

Career statistics

As of 29 November 2018
Club Season Apps Goals
Mash'al Mubarek 1995 4
1996 7
Total 11
Nasaf Qarshi 1997 12
1998 9
1999 12
Total 33
Neftchi Farg'ona 2000 17
2001 14
2002 18
2003 17
2000 2
2005 10
2006 9
2007 9
2008 12
2009 13
2010 10
2011 11
2012 19
2013 3
Total 164
Bunyodkor 2013 4
2014 1
Total 5
FK Andijan 2015 11 7
2016 22 4
Total 33 11
Neftchi Farg'ona 2018 12 1
Career Total 225

References

  1. ^ "Анвар Бердыев. Archived February 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine 6 Января 2009.
  2. ^ "Анвар Бердиев забил свой юбилейный 200-гол". Championat.uz. 13 September 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013.
  3. ^ "IFFHS: The World's most successful Top Division Goal Scorer among the still active Players". IFFHS. 29 December 2012.
  4. ^ "IFFHS, Updating: The World's 326 most successful Top Division Goal Scorers of all time". IFFHS. 31 December 2012.
  5. ^ Анвар Бердиев: Меня приняли очень хорошо (in Russian). FC Bunyodkor. 28 June 2013. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013.
  6. ^ "Neftchi vs. Pakhtakor 1 - 1". soccerway. 12 June 2019.