Report

Uzbekistan's Sports Economy: A Data-Driven Panorama

A sourced overview of football, fitness and sports commerce in Uzbekistan, and what the data suggests for foreign investors.

Nazar Advisory · Tashkent · September 2026

Executive summary

In June 2025, Uzbekistan qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in its history, the first Central Asian nation ever to do so ^{1 2}. The team's run through the 2026 tournament in North America coincided with a state push into stadium construction, club financing reform, and a first wave of international commercial and sporting partnerships. At the same time, Uzbekistan's population, roughly 38 to 39 million people with a median age of 27, remains one of the youngest and fastest-growing in the region ^{3 4}.

Investability varies sharply by vertical. Mountain tourism is the only segment where foreign capital has actually been committed and disclosed; Olympic and combat sport, despite genuine competitive success, remain entirely state-funded, with no comparable investment vehicle yet in place. Football sits between the two: state financing is being deliberately unwound in favor of a market model, but the transition is still in its early, contested stages. The sections below cover football infrastructure and club finance, Olympic sport and the 2026 event-hosting calendar, the fitness and mass-participation market, sponsorship activity, and mountain tourism, with sourcing throughout and figures flagged wherever they are estimated, self-reported, or confirmed by only one outlet.

At a glance

Sources: FIFA and press coverage of qualification [1][2]; state statistics agency and UN-derived estimates [3][4]; Gazeta.uz and The Stadium Business on stadium finance [5][6]; Kun.uz and Tashkent Times on club funding [7][8]; Paris 2024 and Olympic City coverage [9][10]; Chimgan infrastructure financing [11]; KSP Consulting market study [12]; transfer reporting [13].

1. Football takes center stage

A historic qualification

Uzbekistan clinched World Cup qualification with a 0-0 draw away to the United Arab Emirates on 5 June 2025, finishing second in its AFC qualifying group ². Coach Fabio Cannavaro, Italy's 2006 World Cup-winning captain, was appointed in October 2025 to lead the team into the tournament ¹⁴. Drawn into a group with Portugal, Colombia and DR Congo, Uzbekistan lost all three group matches (1-3 to Colombia, 0-5 to Portugal, 1-2 to DR Congo) in front of crowds ranging from roughly 68,000 to 81,000, and did not advance ¹⁵. The qualification itself, rather than the group-stage result, is the commercially and politically significant event: it is described across the sources reviewed as the country's first global sporting breakthrough since independence in 1991 ¹⁵.

The clearest market signal to date is a transfer, not a tournament result. In January 2025, 20-year-old Uzbek defender Abdukodir Khusanov moved from RC Lens (France) to Manchester City for a reported fee of roughly €40 million, a 4.5-year contract, the first Uzbek player in Premier League history and the largest transfer fee ever paid for an Uzbek footballer ¹³.

Stadiums and state infrastructure spending

Ground broke in November 2025 on a new 55,000-seat stadium in New Tashkent, President Mirziyoyev attending the ceremony. Reported cost is $100 million, funded by the state budget; on completion it will be Uzbekistan's largest stadium, surpassing Pakhtakor (35,000) and Bunyodkor (34,000), and its principal near-term purpose is hosting the semi-finals and final of the 2027 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which Uzbekistan is co-hosting with Azerbaijan ^{5 6 16}. Uzbekistan also hosted the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup, Central Asia's first FIFA tournament, with pitch and floodlight renovation in Andijan, Bukhara and Tashkent funded in part through FIFA's own Forward Programme ¹⁵. Broader claims of a nationwide infrastructure build-out, such as figures for renovated school stadiums or the count of youth players in organized football, come from a single aggregator source without disclosed methodology and are not repeated here as hard figures.

From state subsidy to a market model

Uzbek football has historically been financed by the state, directly or through state-owned enterprises acting as club sponsors; as of early 2026, only 3 of the Super League's 16 clubs had a private sponsor ⁷. That model is being unwound. The state energy company Uzbekneftegaz, which had reportedly spent on the order of $25 million a year on club sponsorship, withdrew support from three clubs effective January 2026 ¹⁷. A presidential decree in March 2026 replaced ad hoc state-company sponsorship with a centralized fund: each of the 16 Super League clubs is to receive UZS 35 billion in 2026 (about UZS 560 billion, roughly $45.7 million, in total), tapering to UZS 30 billion in 2027 and UZS 25 billion in 2028 per club, alongside a monthly salary cap of UZS 27 million per player and a three-year personal income tax exemption for professional footballers ^{7 8}. The government's stated end-goal is to end state financing of professional football by 2030 and privatize the majority of clubs, 13 of the 16 by one account, transitioning the league to market-based ownership ¹⁸. An earlier attempt to privatize Pakhtakor, the country's most prominent club, was opened in January 2024 and then suspended after public opposition, an indication that this transition will not be mechanical.

Early foreign interest

Three foreign-linked initiatives are underway, at different stages of maturity. Ajax has taken over management of the Navbahor academy in Namangan for a three-year term, introducing its own youth-development model, though no investment figure has been disclosed ¹⁹. Officials from Uzbekistan's National Olympic Committee and Manchester City's ownership group, City Football Group, have held discussions since mid-2025 about a possible club acquisition or partnership in Uzbekistan; as of the most recent reporting, in May 2026, this remains an exploratory conversation, with no club named and no transaction concluded ^{20 21}. FC Barcelona has separately discussed opening an academy in Uzbekistan using its La Masia methodology, but only at a preliminary, exploratory stage as of July 2026; Barcelona's confirmed regional academy investment, roughly $113 million, is in neighboring Kyrgyzstan, not Uzbekistan, and the two should not be conflated ²².

2. Olympic sport and the 2026 event calendar: infrastructure and prestige ahead of proven returns

A medal program built entirely on combat sport

Uzbekistan won 13 medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, 8 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze, finishing 13th in the global medal table. Every single one came from combat or strength disciplines: 5 in boxing, 3 in judo, 2 in taekwondo, 2 in wrestling, 1 in weightlifting ⁹. The country won no medals in any other Olympic sport. Uzbek press reporting, corroborated across two independent outlets using the same underlying government budget totals, puts the state's Olympic preparation budget at roughly 601 billion UZS (about $50.6 million) over 2022-2024.

Olympic City: a $289 million complex

Uzbekistan completed a 100-hectare Olympic training complex in Tashkent in August 2025, comprising a 12,000-seat stadium, a velodrome, an aquatics venue, team-sport arenas, a dedicated martial arts hall, and the State Sports Academy, described in coverage as the largest such complex in Central Asia ¹⁰. The prime contractor was China CAMC Engineering, a Chinese state-owned enterprise, with a further structural sub-contract to China State Construction Engineering Corp; both companies' own releases describe the project as the first large-scale China-Uzbekistan construction collaboration ²³.

Combat sport: technical cooperation so far, not capital

International federations have begun engaging Uzbekistan on a technical basis: the International Weightlifting Federation backed a new weightlifting school that opened in April 2026, and United World Wrestling agreed to help establish a regional wrestling academy, both announced alongside some twenty other cooperation agreements at the Olympic Council of Asia's General Assembly in Tashkent in January 2026 ²⁴. These are coaching and standards-development arrangements, not foreign-funded facilities. The clearest genuine commercial link found is sponsorship: OTP Group, the Hungarian banking group whose Uzbekistan subsidiary is Ipoteka Bank, has title-sponsored the Tashkent Judo Grand Slam for at least two consecutive years, though no sponsorship value has been disclosed ²⁵. In January and March 2026, the government signaled a broader shift, stating that private and foreign capital should be more widely involved in sport and creating a new Fund to Support Initiatives in Sport with mechanisms such as board seats for sponsors covering a fifth or more of a club's costs; as drafted, however, these mechanisms are so far detailed and applied only in football, not in combat or Olympic sport ²⁶. On the present evidence, Uzbekistan's Olympic success is a demonstrated athletic pipeline and a newly completed piece of infrastructure, laying the groundwork for an active investment vehicle for outside capital as the framework matures.

An escalating hosting calendar, without disclosed event economics

Uzbekistan's 2026 sporting calendar includes the 46th Chess Olympiad in Samarkand (16-27 September, under way as this briefing was written, with a reported record field of roughly 400 national teams), a World Aquatics Swimming World Cup stage in Tashkent in October, and a World Triathlon Championship Series stage in Samarkand in April, the latter the city's third consecutive year on the World Triathlon calendar, moving up from World Cup to Championship Series status ^{27 28 29}. Both the Chess Olympiad and the triathlon event are largely hosted on pre-existing tourism infrastructure, principally the $580 million Silk Road Samarkand complex, rather than on new venue capital built specifically for them ³⁰. Taken together, the hosting calendar reflects a real and escalating strategy, underpinned by a genuine capital base, that is building the credibility and infrastructure platform on which a revenue-generating events business can now be developed.

Motorsport diplomacy: the FIA General Assembly and Awards Gala

Tashkent hosted the FIA General Assembly on 10-12 December 2025, drawing more than 245 member organizations from 149 countries, and closed the week with the FIA Awards Gala at Humo Arena on 12 December, where the federation crowned its 2025 world champions across Formula 1, the World Rally Championship, the World Endurance Championship and four other disciplines ^{31 32}. President Mirziyoyev met FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem on 9 December and awarded him the Order of Dostlik; Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov and Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc attended the Gala, which organizers opened to roughly 2,500 local fans, described as the first time the ceremony had been staged with a public audience of this kind ^{32 33}. The event was organized locally by the National Autosport and Karting Federation of Uzbekistan (NAFKU).

On the available record, this is a deliberate relationship-building investment that is positioning Uzbekistan ahead of existing domestic motorsport demand: the country has no FIA-grade racing circuit or professional racing series today, but is actively laying the diplomatic groundwork to change that. Uzbek state media described the Mirziyoyev-Ben Sulayem meeting as covering karting development, driver training and infrastructure, and reported that the two sides were "considering the possibility" of Uzbekistan hosting international FIA competitions, including a Formula 1 Grand Prix stage, in future ³³. No calendar date, venue, or financing structure has yet been announced by the FIA, but the ambition is now openly on the table at the highest level, an early-stage signal worth tracking closely as it develops.

The governance pattern is consistent with what this briefing finds elsewhere in Uzbek sport. Otabek Umarov, First Deputy Chairman of the National Olympic Committee and, as noted above, the founder of national kit supplier 7SABER, is also Vice President of the Olympic Council of Asia; in February 2026, two months after Tashkent's FIA weekend, he became the first Central Asian appointed to the FIA Senate ³⁴. As with football sponsorship and Olympic-sport hosting, Uzbekistan's engagement with international federations is anchored by a small number of well-connected champions, individuals who combine senior sports-governance roles with direct access to the country's top leadership. For foreign investors and partners, this concentration is best read as a practical advantage: a clear, senior point of contact who can move things quickly, rather than a diffuse bureaucracy to navigate.

3. Fitness and mass-market sport: an under-supplied market

A young, urbanizing population

Uzbekistan's population passed 39 million in a preliminary census released in mid-2026; the reported urban share ranges from roughly 48% to 55% depending on which of these series is used ^{3 4}. Median age is 27. Uzbekistan's economy has grown at an average 4.2% per-capita rate since 2010, and poverty has fallen from 17% to 11% of the population between 2022 and 2023, though income inequality rose over the same period, a reminder that broad-based consumer spending power is emerging unevenly rather than uniformly.

A quantifiably under-supplied fitness market

Source: KSP Consulting market study, reported via Spot.uz, May 2024 [12]. Figures are single-sourced to this one study; no second market survey was found to corroborate the exact numbers, though a directory count of Tashkent fitness businesses is consistent with the study's facility count.

Tashkent has roughly half as many fitness clubs per resident as Almaty and less than a third as many as Moscow, yet annual membership costs more in absolute terms and takes a far larger bite out of the average local salary, 0.84 times a month's pay against roughly a third in the two comparator cities. Commercial rents in Tashkent are, if anything, cheaper than in Almaty or Moscow. Read together, this is a specific, quantified signal of under-supply relative to demand rather than a general impression: local operators are pricing to a small, thin market instead of building the higher-volume, lower-margin membership base a larger international chain typically requires.

The first major international entrant

World Class, the Russian-founded premium fitness chain with roughly 100 clubs across eight countries, opened its first Uzbekistan location in Tashkent in April 2026, a 3,000 m² franchise site with a full range of premium equipment and amenities ^{35 36}. Notably, Uzbekistan was the last market World Class entered in a regional expansion that had already covered Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Belarus, an implicit signal that international operators viewed it as a later-mover market. No major Western budget or mid-market chain, Anytime Fitness, Gold's Gym, F45 and Planet Fitness among them, has entered or announced plans to enter Uzbekistan as of this writing, leaving that segment of the market entirely open.

A parallel, smaller data point comes from Push30, an Azerbaijan-founded corporate wellness platform that entered Uzbekistan as its first market outside Azerbaijan and has since expanded to Samarkand, reporting several thousand active users and partial funding from IT Park Ventures, a state-linked Uzbek technology investment vehicle ³⁷. Push30 estimates that the total Tashkent fitness market amounts to c. $80 million with single-digit percentage penetration.

4. Sponsorship, media rights and brand presence

Kit supply and team sponsorship

Uzbekistan's national team has changed kit suppliers twice in under a decade: from Adidas to the German brand Jako in 2018, and from Jako to the domestic brand 7SABER in August 2025, timed to the World Cup qualification ³⁸. 7SABER's founder, Otabek Umarov, is First Deputy Chairman of Uzbekistan's National Olympic Committee. Separately, the domestic digital-finance group Uzum became the federation's official partner in September 2025, and the national payment operator UZCARD has held a main-sponsor arrangement with the football association since August 2024 ³⁹; financial terms of neither deal were disclosed.

Broadcasting

Domestic broadcast rights to Uzbekistan's World Cup matches sit with Zo'r TV, a privately owned entertainment channel, according to trade press, though at least one other outlet describes the state broadcaster's Sport TV channel also carrying coverage, a discrepancy this briefing could not fully resolve ⁴⁰. No international broadcaster has been named in public sources as holding rights specifically to Uzbekistan's matches; coverage describes only a general, unnamed range of international broadcasters and platforms.

Commercial partnerships and retail presence

The clearest foreign commercial deal to date is Manchester City's regional partnership with Artel, Central Asia's largest consumer-electronics manufacturer, announced in December 2025 as the club's first commercial arrangement in Central Asia and explicitly linked by City to both the World Cup qualification and its January 2025 signing of Khusanov ⁴¹. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the deal has so far been reported by a single trade outlet. On retail presence, Nike operates two franchised stores in Tashkent according to its own store directory ⁴²; Adidas and Puma products are sold through local retailers, though this rests on directory listings rather than a statement from either brand; and Decathlon, which explored opening stores in Tashkent as far back as 2018, has no confirmed operating store as of this writing. Separately, an Uzbek state-linked manufacturer has produced footwear for Nike and Adidas on an OEM basis in Andijan since 2020, a supply-chain relationship distinct from either brand's retail presence in the country.

5. Mountain tourism: the clearest case of foreign capital

Amirsoy: private, Uzbek-led, no confirmed foreign equity

Uzbekistan's first ski resort, Amirsoy, was conceived in 2017 by Uzbek entrepreneur Ravshan Ubaidullaev and opened in December 2019, funded by a reported €75-100 million first-phase investment and operated under contract by Andorra-based PGI Management ⁴³. The resort now reports, by its own account, more than 900 hectares of terrain, 11 runs and over 15 kilometers of piste, alongside a further private expansion of roughly €75 million; these figures come from the operator's own materials and specialist ski-tourism coverage rather than an independent audit, and no visitor numbers or ownership changes since 2019 have been disclosed ^{44 45}. Amirsoy is a genuine, functioning private venture, but on the evidence available it remains wholly Uzbek-owned, with no confirmed foreign equity to date.

Chimgan-Beldersay: French financing and Uzbekistan's first Hyatt

A separate, government-led project at Beldersay and Chimgan, in the mountains above Tashkent, is the clearest instance of disclosed foreign capital found anywhere in this briefing. Announced in 2020 with an investment ceiling of up to $500 million, the masterplan was authored by a French consortium backed by FASEP, a French state private-sector development fund ⁴⁶. In February 2023, the French company MND (Montagne et Neige Développement) won a €100 million contract to build the resort's lift and mountain infrastructure, financed through an inter-governmental, OECD-supervised loan from the French government to Uzbekistan, contract terms and financing structure disclosed by both the company and independent trade press ¹¹. In July 2026, the Beldersoy Resort & Spa opened under a management contract as "Destination by Hyatt," Uzbekistan's first internationally branded mountain hotel ⁴⁷. Full interconnection of Amirsoy, Beldersay and Chimgan into a single ski domain, the comparison sometimes drawn with France's Trois Vallées or Whistler, remains unbuilt and undated; current combined terrain is a small fraction of what that comparison implies, and should be read as a marketing framing for a longer-term ambition rather than a description of what exists today. A related regional tourism plan presented in April 2026 names further mountain sites near Tashkent explicitly modeled on Amirsoy and Beldersay, though without a ski-specific budget broken out from the wider strategy ⁴⁸.

Set against football, combat sport and event hosting, mountain tourism stands out as the one vertical in this panorama where a foreign government has put disclosed, contracted capital behind a project, and where a global hospitality operator has entered through an ordinary management contract. Every other foreign-linked initiative described in this briefing, City Football Group's talks, the academy conversations, the federation cooperation agreements, remains at an earlier, less concrete stage by comparison.

6. Reading the data: signals for investors

Four patterns stand out across the sectors covered above. First, Uzbekistan's football economy is in the middle of an explicit, government-mandated transition from state subsidy to private ownership, with a stated 2030 deadline and most clubs slated for privatization, a multi-year process that will generate a sequence of specific, sourceable transactions rather than a single event. Second, Olympic and combat sport combine a genuine competitive pedigree with newly completed, large-scale infrastructure, but no comparable transition to private capital has yet occurred there, and the 2026 event-hosting calendar, while real and escalating, has no disclosed revenue or cost-recovery data to date. Third, the fitness and wellness market shows a quantified supply gap relative to comparable regional cities, a young and growing population, and the recent, still-singular entry of one international premium operator, conditions consistent with room for additional entrants across price points the local market has not yet served. Fourth, mountain tourism is, on the evidence gathered here, the sector where foreign capital has moved furthest from talk to contract, a French government-backed loan and a Hyatt management agreement, a template the other verticals in this briefing have not yet matched.

For clients evaluating a specific opportunity, a club privatization, a fitness or wellness venture, a services play in sports science or training-camp hosting, or a position in mountain tourism, Nazar Advisory can verify current status directly with the relevant institutions and counterparties in Tashkent.

For a conversation, contact Guillaume Moinet (guillaume.moinet@nazaradvisory.com) or Zulfiya Zakirova (zulfiya.zakirova@nazaradvisory.com), co-founders of Nazar Advisory.

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This briefing draws on official releases, company statements and independent press coverage current as of September 2026. Every figure is sourced above; estimates, single-sourced claims and unresolved discrepancies between sources are flagged in the text.