Nasaf

Qarshi's club won a continental trophy before it won anything at home. Nasaf took the AFC Cup in 2011, Asia's second-tier competition, with no domestic league title to its name. That one arrived the following season, in 2012, and the club has not won the league since.

The Uzbekistan Cup cost more patience. Nasaf lost the final in 2003, then lost it again in 2011, 2012 and 2013 — four defeats before a first win in 2015, and another final in 2016 that went the same way as the early ones. The run since has been of a different order: the Cup came to Qarshi in 2021, 2022 and 2023, three years without interruption.

Markaziy grew alongside the team. The ground held 16,000 when the Dragons were making their name in Asia; rebuilt in 2011 and again in 2017, it now seats 21,000.

Continental football has stayed a part of the calendar without producing a second title. The club reached the AFC Cup final for a second time in 2021 and lost it. Its deepest run in the Asian Champions League came in 2022, when it went out in the last 16.

The Super Cup has proved the steadiest of the four competitions Nasaf has won. The first came in 2016, the year of that lost Cup final; the next three followed in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Six trophies have gone to Qarshi since 2021.