Uzbekistan national team will hold a training camp in Tashkent starting from August 20 to prepare for the final two 2018 World Cup qualifiers against China and South Korea.
The national team will also play a friendly match against Kyrgyzstan on August 25. Samvel Babayan called up 27 players for these matches.
Goalkeepers: Aleksandr Lobanov (Pakhtakor), Ignatiy Nesterov (Lokomotiv), Nikita Rybkin (Qo’qon 1912);
Defenders: Farrukh Sayfiev (Nasaf), Vladimir Kozak (Pakhtakor), Vitaliy Denisov (Lokomotiv Moscow, Russia), Anzur Ismailov ( Changchun Yatai, China), Sherzod Azamov (Pakhtakor), Egor Krimets ( Beijing Guoan, China), Akmal Shorakhmedov ( Nasaf), Islam Tuhtahudzhaev (Lokomotiv), Davron Hashimov (Pakhtakor);
Midfielders: Server Jeparov, Esteghlal (Tehran, Iran), Jaloliddin Masharipov (Lokomotiv), Sardor Mirzayev (Lokomotiv), Eldor Shomurodov (Rostov, Russia), Aziz Ganiev (Nasaf), Odil Akhmedov (Shanghai SIPG, China), Fazil Musaev (Jubilo Iwata, Japan), Aziz Haydarov (Ajman, UAE), Otabek Shukurov (Bunyodkor), Jamshid Iskanderov (Pakhtakor), Sardor Rashidov (Al-Jazira, UAE), Marat Bikmaev (Lokomotiv Tashkent).
Strikers: Temurkhuja Abdukholiqov ( Al-Sayliya, Qatar), Igor Sergeev (Pakhtakor), Aleksandr Geinrich (Ordabasy, Kazakhstan).