The 42-year-old has coached Montenegro U-19 team and also served as assistant coach in the Montenegro national team.

He will take over from Viktor Djalilov under whom the Uzbeks reached the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League this year where they lost to Saudi Arabia’s Al Ittihad 5-1 on aggregate.

Pakhtakor were placed in Group C of the 2010 AFC Champions League alongside former winners UAE’s Al Ain, Iran’s Sepahan and Saudi Arabia’s Al Shabab.