Shamkir Football Club () is an

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

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club based in

Şəmkir Shamkir (), known historically as Annenfeld, is a city in and the capital of Shamkir District in western Azerbaijan, located in the northern foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, on the coast of the Chagirchay River on Tbilisi-Yevlakh highway, about ...

, that currently plays in the

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. The club is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Azerbaijan's football history with two

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titles.

History

The club was established in 1954, even though it never participated in any Soviet football league. It was re-established in 1993. Shamkir's most successful years were at the start of the 2000s, after Shahbaz Suleymanov's takeover, the club with

Agaselim Mirjavadov Aghasalim Seyidahmed oglu Mirjavadov (, ) (born 11 April 1947, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is a soccer coach of Khazar Lankaran. Achievements *Azerbaijan Premier League **Winner: 5 **Runner-up: *Azerbaijan Cup **Winner: * CIS Cup **Winner: 2 (2 ...

consecutively won three

titles and reached the final of

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three times. The club also became the first Azerbaijani team to pass the qualifying stage of Champions League. In 2005, the club was briefly defunct due to sponsorship reasons but re-established once again on 19 August 2009 after finding sponsors.

Stadium

Shamkir Olympic Sport Complex Stadium is a

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Shamkir Shamkir may refer to: * Shamkir (city), a city in Azerbaijan *Shamkir District Shamkir District () is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the north-west of the country and belongs to t ...

. It is used as a home ground of Shamkir FC since 2010.

Honours

National

: ''Winners (2)'': 1999–00, 2000–01 *

: ''Winners (1)'': 1994–95

League and domestic cup history

UEFA club competition results

*Q = Qualifying

Managers

Managers in modern history

* Afgan Talybov (1997–1998) *

(1998–2001) * Gahraman Aliyev (2001–2005) * Faig Jabbarov (2009–2011) * Anar Kalantarov (2011–2013) * Ruslan Abbasov (2013–2015) * Kamran Alibabayev (2015–2016) * Gahraman Aliyev (2016–2017) * Badri Kvaratskhelia (2017)

Notes

References

External links

FK Shamkir at PFL.AZ
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