The 2016–17 Azerbaijan Premier League was the 25th season of the

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League (), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Azerbaijan and the highest level of the Azerbaijani football league system. It is contested by twelve ...

, the top tier Azerbaijani professional league for

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clubs, since its establishment in 1992. Qarabağ were the defending champions, having won the previous

season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's axial tilt, tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperat ...

. The season began on 6 August 2016 and concluded on 29 April 2017. On 16 April 2017, Qarabağ defeated

Inter Baku 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 fun ...

3–0 to successfully defend their league title - their fourth league title in a row and fifth overall.

Teams

On 13 June 2016 the Professional Football League of Azerbaijan announced that both

Khazar Lankaran Khazar Lankaran FK () was an Azerbaijani football club based in Lankaran that last played in the Azerbaijan Premier League during the 2015–16 season. Since the summer of 2016 the club has concentrated on youth football. It played in the Aze ...

and

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had been refused licenses to play in the 2016–17 Premier League and that no First Division teams would replace them. On 25 April 2017, Zira were awarded a 3–0 victory over Neftçi Baku after Neftçi Baku fielded 7 foreign players in their 2–2 draw on 23 April 2017. :''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.''

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Stadiums

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Games 1–14

Games 15–28

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Scoring

* First goal of the season: Elvin Badalov for Neftçi Baku against

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(''6 August 2016'') * Fastest goal of the season: 2nd minute, **

Reynaldo Reynaldo is a Spanish given name from the German name Reinhold. Notable people with the name include: * Reynaldo Aguado Montealegre (born 1960), Nicaraguan activist * Reynaldo Aimonetti (born 1943), Argentine footballer * Reynaldo Anderson (born ...

for Qarabağ against

(''9 September 2016'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:2016-17 Azerbaijan Premier League Azerbaijan Premier League seasons 1

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 ...