Ulugbek Bakayev

Ulugbek Bakayev
Personal information
Date of birth	28 November 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth	Bukhoro, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Bukhara (Manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–2000	FK Buxoro
2001	CSKA Moscow
2001–2002	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow
2003	FK Buxoro
2003	FK Andijan
2003	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
2004–2007	Tobol
2008–2009	Bunyodkor
2009	→ FK Samarqand-Dinamo (loan)
2010	Tobol
2011	Zhetysu
2011	Dubai Club
2012–2014	Irtysh Pavlodar
2014	FK Buxoro
2015	Navbahor Namangan
International career
2001–2014	Uzbekistan
Managerial career
2017–2018	Bukhara
2019–2022	Sogdiana Jizzakh
2023–	Bukhara
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ulugbek Bakayev (Uzbek: Улуғбек Бақоев, Ulug`bek Baqoyev, Russian: Улугбек Бакаев; born 28 November 1978) is an Uzbekistani football coach and a former player who is the manager of Bukhara.

Club career

Bakayev played spent most of his career with Kazakhstan football clubs. Playing in the Kazakhstan Premier League, he scored a total of 111 goals (as of 12 July 2014) and became the league's top scorer four times . From 2012 to 2014, he played for Irtysh Pavlodar. In 2012, he became best goal scorer of League with 14 goals and was named Footballer of the Year in Kazakhstan. In August 2014, he signed a contract with his former club FK Buxoro.^[1] On 26 January 2017, he became head coach of FK Buxoro.

International career

Bakayev was a member of the Uzbekistan national team. At the 2011 Asian Cup he scored two goals against Jordan in a 2–1 win to put Uzbekistan into the semi-finals.^[2] On 29 May 2014, in Tashkent, he played his farewell match for national team against Oman.