The team is 12 points ahead of Khujand, which takes second place.
Dushanbe "Istiklol" three rounds before the end of the major league of the 2020 season officially became the champion of Tajikistan in football. This is the ninth champion title in Istiqlol's club history.
Previously, the Dushanbe club won gold medals in the national championship in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the press service of the Football Federation of the Republic reports.
In the sixteenth round on September 20 "Istiklol" played away a draw with Bokhtar "Khatlon" – 1:1. The hosts responded to the goal of Rustam Soirov with an accurate shot by Karomatullo Saidov from the penalty spot.
Three rounds before the end of the championship "Istiklol" is 12 points ahead of "Khujand", which takes the second place. Bokhtar "Khatlon" closes the top three with 24 points.
The matches of the next seventeenth round of the highest league of Tajikistan will be played on September 26 and 27.
