International cups are a highlight for most teams. Both Al Taawon and Pakhtakor are looking forward to this AFC Champions League fight to decide who advances from the Group Stage.
These teams have little in common geographically as Pakhtakor have to travel 4000 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Al Taawon form and stats
Taawon was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the AFC Champions League.When playing at home in the Pro League, Al Taawon have managed 3 wins, 5 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 12 games.
Al Taawon are returning here after guesting Al Duhail in a AFC Champions League game and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. The forward Tawamba was declared "man of the match" for Taawon with a rating of 7.92/10. Tawamba scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, served one assist and hit two key passes.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Abha that finished 1-1.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the AFC Champions League game versus Sepahan in only four days. This game is also played here at King Abdullah Sport City Stadium.
A decent goal production from Al Taawon in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 12 league matches. Taawon's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 17 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Pakhtakor form and stats
They also participated in AFC Champions League last season. This ended in the group stage.Pakhtakor are still undefeated on their travels in the Professional Football League. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a AFC Champions League home loss versus Sepahan with 1-3 on the scoreboard. The attacker Ceran got a match rating of 7.62 in that game. Ceran scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 22 successful passes (of 27 total).
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Navbahor.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The AFC Champions League trip to Al Duhail.
Pakhtakor have the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
![]() L. Tawamba Kana 15 goals | ![]() A. Romero Gamarra 3 goals |
Al Taawon missing players
Pakhtakor missing players
| Al Taawon | Pakhtakor | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 40 | 21 | Scored | S | 17 | 37 | ||
| 39 | 19 | Conceded | C | 11 | 20 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 52% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 16% | ||
| 80% | 77% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 15% | Clean Sheets | C S | 54% | 56% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 16% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.2 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.4 | 3.2 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10.8 | 11.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 9.4 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 3.8 | ||
| 36% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 42% | ||
| 10.4 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 5.9 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sepahan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Al Taawon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Al Duhail | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 4 | Pakhtakor | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Al Ittihad | 25 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 54 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 34 | 60 |
| 2 | Al Hilal | 23 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 24 | 49 |
| 3 | Al Nassr | 25 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 31 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 48 |
| 4 | Al Shabab | 25 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 46 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 47 |
| 5 | Dhamk | 25 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 0 | 42 |
| 6 | Abha | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 39 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 23 | -13 | 32 |
| 7 | Al Fateh | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 36 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 31 |
| 8 | Al Feiha | 24 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 30 |
| 9 | Al Raed | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 37 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 27 | -8 | 29 |
| 10 | Al Ahli | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 33 | 36 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -3 | 28 |
| 11 | Al Faisaly | 25 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 25 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -8 | 28 |
| 12 | Al Ta'ee | 25 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 25 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 21 | -16 | 27 |
| 13 | Al Taawon | 25 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 39 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 25 | -3 | 26 |
| 14 | Al Batin | 25 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -11 | 25 |
| 15 | Al Ittifaq | 24 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 28 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -11 | 24 |
| 16 | Al Hazm | 25 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 19 | -19 | 14 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Qizilqum | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 2 | Pakhtakor | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Sogdiana | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Navbahor | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Bunyodkor | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Kokand-1912 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Nasaf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Metalourg | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | AMGK | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | FK Olympic | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 11 | Lokomotiv | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 12 | Neftchi | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 3 |
| 13 | Surkhon | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 |
| 14 | Dinamo Samarqand | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 1 |