2016 Uzbek League First League, "FC Naryn Khakkulabad" was played on 28 November 2016 in Tashkent. Navbahor won by 3:1 and remained in League. 2016 Uzbek League The 2016 Uzbek League was the 25th season of top level football in Uzbekistan since 1992. Pakhtakor were the defending champions from the 2015 campaign. <section begin=map /> <section end=map /> Sogdiana Jizzakh remained for 2016 Uzbek League after winning in relegation play-off match with Oqtepa. Obod Tashkent promoted to 2016 League as 2015 First League winner. The draw of 2016 season was held on 22 December 2015. The first matchday is scheduled for 4 March
Soviet Top League most popular clubs besides the above-mentioned were PFC CSKA Moscow, FC Ararat Yerevan, and FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The first team that won 10 championships was Dynamo Moscow in 1963, followed by Spartak in 1979. Dinamo Tbilisi became famous for finishing third but never winning the title, the first title they won in 1964. Perceived as exclusively Russian by people from other countries, the league was truly multinational with other republics in the USSR being represented. Eleven clubs spent over 30 seasons in the league with just under half (five) of them from Moscow. Dynamo Moscow and Dynamo Kyiv were the