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League One side Fleetwood Town announce a partnership with Uzbekistan club Lokomotiv Tashkent which will include the development of commercial opportunities.

League One side Fleetwood Town have announced a partnership with Uzbekistan club Lokomotiv Tashkent.

The two clubs are to develop commercial opportunities and the Cod Army are expected to go on a pre-season tour to the Central Asian nation in 2016.

Lokomotiv marketing manager Davron Azizov told BBC Sport: "I see [Fleetwood] as a role model in UK football as they've developed from the very bottom up.

"We started in the second league and we're succeeding in the Premier League of Uzbekistan and playing in the Champions League.

"In the future we want to put all efforts together to develop a good partnership base on youth development."

Fleetwood were playing in the ninth tier of English football as recently as 2005 but now find themselves in the third tier.

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