The Committee for Sports has been reorganized into the Ministry of Sports, a source in the government said. Rustam Kurbanov, who was in charge of the Sports Committee from February 2017, left the post, as did his first deputy Iskander Juraev.
Shoakrom Isroilov, Vice-president of the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA), has been appointed as the Minister of Sports and Oybek Kasymov, First vice-president of the National Olympic Committee/UFA Vice-president - as the first deputy minister.