Uzbekistan national football team on March 18, departed for China to take part in the China Cup-2019 tournament.

The event will be held from March 21 to 25. The national teams of Uruguay, China and Thailand will also take part in it.

On March 22, in the semifinals, Uzbekistan will face Uruguay. Prior to that, the hosting Chinese national team will play against Thailand.

The third place and playoff matches will be held on March 25.

It should be reminded that Uzbekistan national team played a friendly match against Uruguay in June 2018. At that time, the national team of Uzbekistan competed with the South American team for the first time in their history and lost the match by 0 : 3.