Fans with the experience well remember that in 1954-56 in the centre of Tashkent the new stadium as well as the main club of republic, have decided to name Pakhtakor has been constructed. On August, 11th the new complex has in public celebrated the birthday. Among fifty thousand eyewitnesses of a grandiose holiday there were builders and, sportsmen and actors, heads and trainers. All of them have wished arena of long years of happy service to admirers of sports.
The first football match at new stadium has taken place on August, 20th, 1956 when 35 thousand spectators personally observed of a duel Tashkent and Tbilisi. And on September, 19th the central stadium Pakhtakor has accepted the first international game. The strongest club of Uzbekistan has beaten that day Dynamo from capital of Albania of Tirana. In October, 1956 on this arena the national team of the former union which became subsequently the champion of games in Australia prepared for the Olympic Games in Melbourne.
The stadium aspired to march in step in due course. For example, operation of lighting projectors on August, 10th, 1958 has begun. And in 1966 the spectators who have come on stadium have seen a new electronic board of manufacture of Hungarian firm Electroimpex.
Looking back, it is possible to recollect that in the field of native arena Pakhtakor has gained many beautiful victories over strong foreign contenders. For example, such clubs as Uruguayan Nacional, Brazilian Piracicaba, French Toulouse, modular Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Afghanistan, Ecuador and other countries have been compelled to recognize the defeat in Tashkent.
Stadium Pakhtakor witnessed the 100-th goal top-level legendary Gennady Krasnitsky, Berador Abduraimov clapped to the best goal scorer national championship of 1968, has remembered a large victory with the account 5:0 over the Dynamo Kyiv which have arrived to Uzbekistan in the rank of the strongest club of Europe. 60 thousand fans sobbed together with the announcer of stadium which has read to names of 17 favorites the publics who were tragically lost in an air crash when Pakhtakor went on a match to Minsk.
In the first years of independence the central stadium Pakhtakor became house arena of a national team of Uzbekistan. Here the main team of the country prepared for a victorious march on XIII Asian games in the Japanese Hiroshima.
With the big success here have passed the first Central-Asian games organized at the initiative of President of the republic Islam Karimov.
The first house meeting within the limits of the national championship Pakhtakor has spent on native arena on April, 8th, 1992 when has gained a convincing victory with the account 4:1 over club from Shakhrihan. And Shukhrat Maksudov became the author of the first goal then.
In the rank of the champion of Uzbekistan Pakhtakor the first international duel has spent at the central stadium on February, 9th, 1993 against South Korean club Song Sil and has won 4:2.
In the XXI century beginning in club there were fundamental changes which have not avoided also the central stadium Pakhtakor. It became obvious that belief and the truth the served arena require capital reconstruction. At the initiative of heads of club in July, 2007 have begun building and the repair work planned for two years.
