Ilyos Zeytulayev

Ilyos Zeytulayev
Personal information
Full name Ilyos Zeytulayev
Date of birth (1982-07-13) 13 July 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Angren, Tashkent Oblast, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, Forward
Team information
Current team
Bunyodkor (head coach)
Youth career
Sportakademklub
Juventus
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Juventus 0 (0)
2005–2007 Reggina 2 (0)
2006Crotone (loan) 13 (3)
2006–2007Genoa (loan) 12 (0)
2007Vicenza (loan) 6 (0)
2007–2008 Verona 13 (1)
2008–2009 Pescara 28 (7)
2009–2013 Lanciano 52 (1)
2014 Torino 0 (0)
2014HNK Gorica (loan)
2015–2018 Cupello
International career
2001–2007 Uzbekistan 10 (2)
Managerial career
2021–2023 San Salvo
2023–2024 Virtus Cupello
2024– Bunyodkor
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2011

Ilyos Zeytulayev[1] (Uzbek: Илёс Зейтулаев; born 13 July 1982) is an Uzbek retired footballer who played as a midfielder or as a forward. He is currently the head coach of Uzbekistan Super League club Bunyodkor.

Zeytulayev has spent most of his career in the Italian Serie B and Lega Pro Prima Divisione (formerly Serie C1). His first name is sometimes spelled Illyos, or Ilyas (Cyrillic: Ильяс), the latter of which is the Russian equivalent. Moreover, Zeytulayev is also romanized as Zeytulaev.

  1. ^ "Hal qiluvchi uchrashuv" (in Uzbek). Uzbekistan National News Agency. 11 November 2006. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2010.