History
After the split from the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Tajikistan on June 17, 1992. Uzbekistan have consistently been the strongest team out of the new Central Asian nations (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). They won the football competition at the 1994 Asian Games in Japan. Uzbekistan have never qualified to the final stages of the World Cup.
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