Abdukodir Khusanov
Abduqodir Husanov
#4 · Defender · age 21
Marquee asset; £40m January 2025 move to Man City; Pep Guardiola regular
66
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 38
- Career peak
- 41
- League level
- 100
- Competition pedigree
- 77
- International pedigree
- 68
- Longevity
- 58
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Career by season
Source: transfermarkt · fetched 2026-05-29
The single biggest reason Uzbekistan look like a credible World Cup defensive unit. Khusanov gives the country a level of top-five-league quality at centre-back that they have never previously had, and his transformation from Bunyodkor youth product to Pep Guardiola regular has been one of Asian football’s biggest individual stories of the past 18 months.
At 21 he is also the squad’s youngest senior starter and the long-term face of Uzbek football. The tactical question is whether the team can build around him defensively — playing higher up the pitch than Asian sides traditionally do — or whether the realities of Group K matchups force them deeper. Either way, he and Shomurodov are the team’s two genuine continental-level players.
Strengths
- Recovery pace
- Aerial duels
- Composure under pressure
- Press-resistant passing
Recent form
Manchester City rotation centre-back; consistent starter in 2025-26 high-pressure fixtures.
His £40m January 2025 transfer to Manchester City made him the most expensive Uzbek player ever — and the first Uzbek to play in the Premier League since Maksim Shatskikh's brief 2002 cup appearance.