The Uzbekistan national football team is participating in the FIFA World Cup 2026 for the first time. The team lost their first match 3-1 to Colombia. Abbosbek Fayzullaev scored the team's first goal in the 60th minute. Fayzullaev currently plays for the Turkish club Istanbul Basaksehir. Previously, he played for Moscow's CSKA club. The Colombian team is participating in the World Cup for the seventh time. They reached the quarterfinals in 2014. The Uzbekistan team qualified for the World Cup for the first time, finishing second in the Asian qualification group. Uzbekistan became the first Central Asian country to qualify for the World Cup.