Timur Kapadze

What grabs me about Timur Kapadze is the arc from player to nation-builder. Born in Fergana, Uzbekistan in 1981, he gave the national team years on the pitch, then came back as a coach and did something no one before him had managed: guiding Uzbekistan to its first-ever World Cup, the 2026 edition. That's not a footnote, it's history. I find it telling that he's now in charge at Navbahor Namangan too, staying rooted in the domestic game rather than chasing a glamour move abroad. To me he reads as a builder, the type who quietly raises a whole footballing culture.

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Name (English)

Timur Kapadze

Name (Japanese)

ティムル・カパーゼ

Reading

てぃむる・かぱーぜ

Born

September 5, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Fergana, Fergana Region, Uzbekistan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/timurkapadze18/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur%20Kapadze
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969355

Tags

• Fergana Region
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.