Dostonbek Khamdamov

Dostonbek Khamdamov
Достонбек Хамдамов

Khamdamov with Anzhi Makhachkala in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Dostonbek Khurshid o'g'li Khamdamov[1]
Date of birth	(1996-07-24) 24 July 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth	Bekabad, Uzbekistan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Pakhtakor
Number	17
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–2018	Bunyodkor	93	(37)
2018–2019	Anzhi Makhachkala	9	(0)
2019–2020	Pakhtakor	48	(16)
2021	Al-Nasr	2	(0)
2021	→ Hatta (loan)	10	(0)
2021–	Pakhtakor	37	(4)
2022	→ Al-Sailiya (loan)	7	(1)
International career‡
2013	Uzbekistan U17	4	(0)
2014	Uzbekistan U19	5	(1)
2014–2015	Uzbekistan U20	4	(3)
2015–2018	Uzbekistan U23	12	(4)
2015–	Uzbekistan	33	(5)
Medal record Representing  Uzbekistan Men's football AFC U-16 Championship 2012 Iran Team AFC U-19 Championship 2014 Myanmar Team AFC U-23 Championship 2018 China Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:42, 19 May 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 08:04, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Dostonbek Khamdamov (Uzbek: Dostonbek Xurshid o'g'li Hamdamov, Uzbek Cyrillic: Достонбек Хуршид ўғли Ҳамдамов; born 24 July 1996) is an Uzbek professional footballer, Asian Young Footballer of the Year2015,^[2][3] winner of the Asian Youth Championship 2018^[4][5] and plays as a winger for Pakhtakor^[6] and the Uzbekistan national team.

On 15 March 2018, Khamdamov was registered by Russian Premier League club Anzhi Makhachkala, taking the #7 jersey after signing an 18-month contract.^[1][7] On 15 February 2019, Anzhi Makhachkala announced that Khamdamov had left the club to join Pakhtakor Tashkent.^[8]

Khamdamov was released by Pakhtakor Tashkent on 13 January 2021.^[9] On 23 July 2021, Khamdamov returned to Pakhtakor Tashkent, signing a contract until the end of 2022.^[10] On 22 January 2022, Pakhtakor announced that Khamdamov had signed for Al-Sailiya on loan until 30 June 2022.^[11]

Khamdamov was part of the U-19 squad when they finished in the semi-finals of the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship, where Khamdamov scored one goal only. After that match, Khamdamov would go on to make an outstanding performance in the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where he scored three goals and produced a magnificent performance as Uzbekistan ran into the quarter-finals before bowing to Senegal. For this performance, he became the first Uzbek player to be nominated as the Asian Young Footballer of the Year.^[12][13]

He participated in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship and scored two goals, but his team went out from the group stage. Two years later, he would lead Uzbekistan to conquer the country's first-ever U-23 trophy. For this successful display, Khamdamov earned a place and would go to be part of the senior squad for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

As of match played 4 December 2021^[14]

Statistics accurate as of match played 17 November 2020^[15]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	19 January 2018	Jiangyin Stadium, Jiangyin, China	Japan	2–0	4–0	2018 AFC U-23 Championship
2.	14 August 2018	Pakansari Stadium, Cibinong, Indonesia	Bangladesh	2–0	3–0	2018 Asian Games
3.	16 August 2018		Qatar	3–0	6–0

Scores and results list Uzbekistan's goal tally first.^[15]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	9 November 2019	Pakhtakor Central Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Kyrgyzstan	2–1	3–1	Friendly
2.	17 November 2020	The Sevens Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Iraq	1–0	2–1	Friendly
3.	9 October 2021	Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan	Malaysia	1–0	5–1	Friendly
4.				2–0
5.	8 June 2022	Markaziy Stadium, Namangan, Uzbekistan	Sri Lanka	2–0	3–0	2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Bunyodkor

• Uzbekistan Super Cup: 2014

Uzbekistan U-23

• AFC U-23 Championship (1): 2018

Uzbekistan U-16

• AFC U-16 Championship (1): 2012

• Asian Young Footballer of the Year: 2015