The represents
Uzbekistan in international
Football competitions. It is controlled by the
Uzbekistan Football Federation . 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 Asian Games in
1994 .
They have been knocked out in the final stage of Asian qualification to the after losing on the declared the result void after a mistake by a
Japan ese referee. The replay ended 1:1, and after the return finished 0:0, Uzbekistan was out.
