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Football Clubs In Azerbaijan
This is a list of football clubs in Azerbaijan from 2025–26 season. Azerbaijan Premier League The top tier league will be contested with 12 teams. Azerbaijan First Division The second tier league will be contested with 10 teams. Azerbaijan Second League The third tier league will be contested with 12 teams. * Ağdaş FK * Araz Saatlı * Dinamo Baku * Göygöl FK * Hypers FC * Kür-Araz * Qaradağ Lökbatan * Qusar FK * Sheki City FK * Şəmkir PFK * Şirvan FK * Xankəndi FK Azerbaijan Regional League Group A * ŞKGB * Şirvanovka FK * Gənclər PFM * Lokomotiv Baku * Ramana FK * ATİDEL PFK * Record Club * İnşaatçı PİK Group B * Cəngi FK * City Baku FK * Xanlıq * Əmirli FK * Çinar Zəngilan FK * Dirçəliş FK Group C * Mübariz FA * Xudat City FA * Bayıl Rovers * Qaradağ Şıxlar FK * İCBFA * Gənclik İK Group D * Ümid FK * Marafon İK * Bahar * Avşar FK * Hacıqabul * Şirvan OİK Group E * Araz * Sabirabad FK * Xankəndi F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kakhaber Tskhadadze
Kakhaber Tskhadadze ( ka, კახაბერ ცხადაძე; born 7 September 1968) is a Georgian football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Azerbaijani club Gabala. As a player he was defender who notably played in the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt, in the Premier League for Manchester City and in the Russian Premier League for Spartak Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, Alania Vladikavkaz and Anzhi Makhachkala. He has also played for Metalurg Rustavi, Lokomotivi Tbilisi, Dinamo Tbilisi and GIF Sundsvall. He was capped 6 times by Soviet Union and 25 times for Georgia. Moving into management in 2001 he was initially player/manager of Lokomotivi Tbilisi, before returning to Dinamo Tbilisi in 2005. He has since gone on to manage Sioni Bolnisi, Standard Baku, Georgia U21, Inter Baku, Georgia, FC Kairat, FC Ordabasy before returning once more to Dinamo in 2021. Club career Tskhadadze's club career started in 1986 in Dinamo Tbilisi. He became kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turan Tovuz
Turan Tovuz () is an Azerbaijani football club based in Tovuz. The club won the Azerbaijan championship once, in 1994–1995. The club's home stadium is Tovuz City Stadium. History Founded by Vidadi Ahmedov on 23 February 1992, the club was the first Azerbaijani professional football club under the name of Turan Tovuz. However, since 1997, club found themselves slipping further and further down the table, which was influenced by financial difficulties. In 2011–12 season, ended with Turan in 11th position in Azerbaijan Premier League, the club's lowest ever league finish. In 2012–13 season, Turan for the first time in their history relegated to the Azerbaijan First Division, after twenty years in the top flight. In 2013, club's owners decided to change the club's name to ''Turan-T''. The club restored their name a few months later. On March 29, 2025, in the 28th round of the 2024–25 season of the Premier League, Turan Tovuz played their 100th anniversary match, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumgayit City Stadium
Mehdi Huseynzade Sumgait City Stadium () is a stadium in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan. It has a capacity of 9,502 and it is the new home of Sumgayit FK of the Azerbaijan Premier League. It is planned to open in 2023 and will replace the club's current home, Kapital Bank Arena. References Football venues in Azerbaijan Sport in Sumgait Multi-purpose stadiums in Azerbaijan {{Azerbaijan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumgayit FK
Sumqayıt FK (, ) is an Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani professional Association football, football club based in Sumgayit, Sumgait, that plays in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the top tier of Football in Azerbaijan, football in the country. History The club was founded in 2010 as Sumqayıt FK. In May 2011, the team secured their promotion to Azerbaijan Premier League after getting wildcard place instead of defunct FC Absheron, Absheron. After securing promotion to the Premier League, the club based most of their squad on players from Azerbaijan's Azerbaijan national football team U-19, U-19 and Azerbaijan national under-17 football team, U-17 players. In January 2012, the club announced that its old name was being restored. During 2013–14 Azerbaijan Premier League, 2012–13 season, Sumgayit narrowly avoided relegation to the Azerbaijan First Division, First Division by finishing 10th in the league. In the 2017–18 season, they were the only team in the league consisting solely of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamakhi City Stadium
Shamakhi FK (, ) is an Azerbaijani professional association football, football club based in Shamakhi, that currently competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League. The club has won the Premier League title twice. History Early years (1997–2004) The club has been functioning since 1997, initially as an amateur side that shared its name with Khazar University, the first private university in Azerbaijan, which founded the club. In 1999, Khazar University began to play in the Azerbaijan Premier League, finishing eleventh. In subsequent years, Inter finished in 7th place (2000/01 season) and 3rd place (2003–04 season). In the 2003–04 season, the team finished in fourth place, thereby qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup for the first time. In the first round of the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup, they defeated SC Bregenz, Bregenz of Austria 3–0 on a forfeiture in the first leg, and 2–1 in the second leg. In the second round, they played Tampere United of Football in Finland, Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aykhan Abbasov
Aykhan Farzukh oglu Abbasov (; born 25 August 1981) is an Azerbaijani professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach of Shamakhi FK and Azerbaijan national under-21 football team. Career On 27 December 2016, Abbasov was appointed as manager of Zira FK until the end of the 2016–17 season. On 16 December 2021, Abbasov left his role as head coach of Sumgayit Sumqayit (or Sumgait; ; , ) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about away from the capital Baku. The city had a population of 427,000 at the beginning of 2024, making it the second largest city in .... On March 14, 2025, he was appointed as the head coach of the Azerbaijan national U-21 football team, and AFFA signed a two-year contract with him. References External links * Club profil Living people 1981 births Azerbaijani men's footballers Azerbaijan men's under-21 international footballers Qarabağ FK players Footballers from Baku M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamakhi FK
Shamakhi FK (, ) is an Azerbaijani professional football club based in Shamakhi, that currently competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League. The club has won the Premier League title twice. History Early years (1997–2004) The club has been functioning since 1997, initially as an amateur side that shared its name with Khazar University, the first private university in Azerbaijan, which founded the club. In 1999, Khazar University began to play in the Azerbaijan Premier League, finishing eleventh. In subsequent years, Inter finished in 7th place (2000/01 season) and 3rd place (2003–04 season). In the 2003–04 season, the team finished in fourth place, thereby qualifying for the UEFA Intertoto Cup for the first time. In the first round of the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup, they defeated Bregenz of Austria 3–0 on a forfeiture in the first leg, and 2–1 in the second leg. In the second round, they played Tampere United of Finland, losing the first leg 0–3; winning the return leg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Respublika Arena
Bank Respublika Arena, former Alinja Arena, is a multi-use stadium in Masazır settlement of Absheron, Azerbaijan. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 8,600 people and opened in 2014. References See also *List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan This is a list of football stadiums in Azerbaijan, ranked in descending order of Seating capacity, capacity. The minimum capacity is 1,000. Existing stadiums See also *List of European stadiums by capacity *2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup *UEF ... Football venues in Azerbaijan Sports venues in Baku {{Azerbaijan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabah FC (Azerbaijan)
Sabah Football Club () is an Azerbaijani professional football club based in Masazır. The team plays in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the top tier of Azerbaijani football. History Sabah were formed on 8 September 2017, joining the Azerbaijan First Division for the 2017–18 season, in which they finished 5th. After the four teams above them in the league failed or declined promotion, Sabah were granted a license to participate in Azerbaijan Premier League on 12 May 2018. Sabah won their first game 1–0 in the Azerbaijan Premier League, against Keşla, on 12 August 2018, thanks to a Marko Dević goal. Sabah went on to finish their first Premier League season in 7th position, avoiding relegation. On 16 September 2019, Elshad Ahmadov resigned as manager, with Igor Ponomaryov taking over on an interim basis. On 26 November 2019, Sabah announced that Željko Sopić had been appointed manager on an 18-month contract. On 3 July 2020, Sopić resigned as manager. On 10 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azersun Arena
The Azersun Arena or Tofiq Ismayilov Stadium, also referred as Surakhani Stadium () is a football stadium in Yeni Suraxanı, Baku, Azerbaijan, opened in June 2015. The main tenant of the stadium is Qarabağ, who moved from their home at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium when it was completed. Construction The stadium has a capacity of 5,800 viewers and is based in Yeni Suraxanı. The stadium opened in 2015. History Azersun Arena hosted a 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifying round match between Dinamo Minsk and Željezničar. See also * List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan * List of European stadiums by capacity This is a list of the largest stadiums in European countries. Stadiums with a capacity of 30,000 or more are included. They are ordered by their audience capacity. The capacity figures are for each stadium's permanent total seating capacity. C ... References Football venues in Baku Multi-purpose stadiums in Azerbaijan {{Azerbaija ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurban Gurbanov
Gurban Osman oghlu Gurbanov (; born 13 April 1972) is an Azerbaijani football manager and former player who manages Qarabag. He played as a forward. Starting out with local club Kur in 1988, Gurbanov had a decorated 18-year career. He scored 178 goals in 399 league matches. With 14 goals in 68 matches, he is also the Azerbaijan national team's all-time leading goalscorer in international matches. From 2017 to 2018 he was the manager of the Azerbaijan national team. Gurbanov has won a total of 21 trophies, five as a player and 16 as a manager. Playing career He started his career in Kur, and has since played for Mertskhali Ozurgeti, Daşqın Zaqatala, Alazani Gurjaani, Turan Tovuz, Neftchi Baku, Dinamo Stavropol, Baltika Kaliningrad, Fakel Voronezh and Volgar Gazprom. The last club he played for was Inter Baku. In the 1996–97 season, Gurbanov was the leading scorer in the Azerbaijan Premier League for Neftchi with 25 goals. The striker was named Azerbaijan's Play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
