Ruziqul Berdiev

Ruziqul Berdiev (; born 27 October 1971) is an Uzbekistani professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Super League club Nasaf.

Career

From 1992 to 1996 he played for the club "Yangiyer". From 1997 to 2008, until the end of his football career, he played for "Nasaf".

Since 2008, he began his coaching career. Until 2011, he was one of the assistants to the head coach of Nasaf, including an assistant to Anatoliy Demyanenko, who worked at Nasaf in 2010-2011 and won the AFC Cup with this club. After Demyanenko's resignation in January 2012, he became the head coach of Nasaf, and worked in this position until May of the same year. After that, he headed the youth team of this club. In November 2012, he was again appointed head coach of Nasaf, and has been working with this club to this day.

On October 20, 2017, he was temporarily appointed acting head coach of the Uzbekistan national team. Under Berdyev's leadership, the Uzbekistan national team played a friendly match with the UAE national team, in which they lost with a minimal score of 1:0.

Honours Manager

Nasaf Uzbekistan Super League (1): 2024 Uzbek Cup (4): 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023 Uzbekistan Super Cup (3): 2015, 2023, 2024 AFC Cup runners-up: 2021

Individual Uzbekistan Football Coach of the Year: (5) 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 Uzbekistan Super League Coach of the Month: April 2025