Anvar Berdiev

Anvar Berdiev
Personal information
Date of birth	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
1995	Temiryo'lchi Qo'qon
1995–1996	Mash'al Mubarek
1997–1999	Nasaf Qarshi
2000–2013	Neftchi Farg'ona
2013–2015	Bunyodkor
2015–2016	Andijan
2018	Neftchi Farg'ona
2019	Istiqlol Fergana
International career‡
1998–2003	Uzbekistan
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

Uzbek League (1): 2001
Uzbek League runner-up (5): 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
Uzbek Cup runner-up (2): 2001, 2002

Bunyodkor

Uzbek League (1): 2013
Uzbek Cup (1): 2013
Uzbekistan Super Cup (1): 2014

Individual

Uzbek League Topscorer: 2012 (19 goals)
All time topscorer of Uzbekistan Super League: 225 goals
Gennadi Krasnitsky club: 277 goals (as of 29 November 2018)

Career statistics

As of 29 November 2018

Club	Season	Apps	Goals
Mash'al Mubarek	1995		4
Mash'al Mubarek	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
Bunyodkor	2014		1
	Total		5
FK Andijan	2015	11	7
FK Andijan	2016	22	4
	Total	33	11
Neftchi Farg'ona	2018	12	1
Career Total			225