Uzbekistan Super League (), known as Artel Super League due to sponsorship reasons () is the top division of professional football in Uzbekistan. It is operated under the auspices of the Uzbekistan Professional Football League. It was founded in 1992 and currently has 16 teams. The top team qualifies to the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
Uzbek League was founded in 1992. In 2018, was renamed to Uzbekistan Super League.
On 21 November 2017 according to the UzPFL management decision the Uzbek League was officially renamed to Uzbekistan Super League starting from 2018 season. The number of teams playing in top division is 16. Famous personnels like Rivaldo, Eren Derdiyok, Zico, Luiz Felipe Scolari have contributed to the league so far.
The U19 and U21 Championship was established in 2020. Starting in 2021, it will be held between clubs from Uzbekistan Super League and Pro League footballers under 19 and 21 years old.
The league is generally played between March and November in the calendar year and has occasionally had the Super Cup as a curtain raiser to the domestic campaign. Teams play each other on a home and away basis. Two or three teams can be relegated depending on the number of sides participating which has in the past been between fourteen and seventeen sides. Occasionally no sides would be promoted from the First League, due to reserve teams winning the championships. Reserve clubs are not allowed to feature in the top flight but can play at any level up to First League. On these occasions, clubs can be relegated without any promoted sides making the next campaign feature less sides than before. League winners enter the next edition of the AFC Champions League along with the winners of the Uzbekistan Cup.
The final match of the U19 and U21 Championship will also be held the day after the first team match in the Super League.
As of June 2025, Uzbekistan Super League is ranked ninth in Asian Football Confederation (AFC) national league table (an analogue of the UEFA coefficient table). A ninth-place ranking for the Uzbekistan Championship gives one participant from the Uzbekistan Super League one guaranteed place in the AFC Champions League Elite group stage and one additional place in the AFC Champions League qualifying play-off round.
For 2025.
The most decorated team among Uzbek clubs is Pakhtakor Tashkent. Pakhtakor has currently won the tournament 16 times. The winners of Uzbekistan Super League participate in the Asian Champions League. Specifically, the Uzbekistan champion and the winner of the Uzbekistan Cup directly qualify for Asian Champions League group stage, while the silver and bronze medalists of the Super League advance to the Champions League through qualifying matches. Currently, the best result for Super League teams in the continental Champions League is reaching the semi-finals. In some years, Uzbek clubs have also participated in the AFC Cup, the second most prestigious tournament in Asia. Nasaf, for example, won the 2011 AFC Cup final.
To participate, a club can register up to five foreign players. One (or all) of these players must be citizens of an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member country, meaning Uzbekistan has a four-player limit. If a foreign player from an AFC member country is unavailable, the club cannot include more than four foreign players in its roster (players registered with a farm club also count).
The Uzbekistan Super League has featured numerous renowned domestic and international footballers. Brazilian Rivaldo, for example, played for Bunyodkor from 2008 to 2010. In 2009, Rivaldo became the top scorer in the Uzbekistan Championship with 20 goals. Anvar Berdiev holds the record for most goals in the Super League. A longtime player for Neftchi, he scored 225 goals in the history of the Uzbekistan Championship. Asror Alikulov holds the record for most matches played. This renowned defender played a total of 520 matches.
At the end of each season, three Super League winners are determined, along with the teams that finish in last place and are relegated to the Uzbekistan Pro League.
As Uzbekistan Oliy Liga
As Uzbekistan Super League
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Both teams were awarded with the title.<br> Defunct teams marked in Italics.
All-time table of league, as of end of the 2024 season
In the first season, Valeriy Kechinov became the top scorer with 24 goals. In the 2000 season, Jafar Irismetov became the top scorer for the "Dustlik" team, scoring 45 goals, a result that is still considered a record for a single season.
From 1992 to 2017, the Uzbekistan Super League had no title sponsorship rights with any companies. Only starting from 2018 Uzbekistan Super League have got title League sponsor. On 4 April 2018 Uzbekistan Football Association vice-president Umid Akhmadjonov and IBT, the official PepsiCo bottler, reached an agreement that PepsiCo would become the official League sponsor for the 2018 season.