2017–18 Azerbaijan First Division
The 2017–18 Azerbaijan First Division is the second-level of football in Azerbaijan. Turan Tovuz were the defending champions. Teams Sabail was promoted from the 2016–17 season to Azerbaijan Premier League, while Shuvalan relegated to the First Division. On 25 September 2017, it was announced that Bine, Khazar Baku, and Sabah will participate in the First Division. Shamkir, Shahdag, Sharurspor, Energetik, Bakılı, Ravan Baku and Göyazan didn't participate in this season. Personnel and kits Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Table Season statistics Scoring * First goal of the season: Vigar Alibabayev for Mil-Muğan against Khazar Baku. (''3 October 2017'') Top scorers Hat-tricks References External links pfl.azAFFA {{DEFAULTSORT:2017-18 Azerbaijan First Division Azerbaijan First Division seasons Azerbaijan First Division The Azerbaijan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Azerbaijan First Division
The Azerbaijan First Division ( az, Azərbaycan Birinci Divizionu) is the second highest professional division in Azerbaijani professional football (soccer), football. The division is run by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan, AFFA. No teams are promoted to Azerbaijan Premier League, Premier Division. History Due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all Azerbaijan clubs of the former Soviet Top League, Soviet Premier Division and Soviet First League, Soviet First Division conformed a single Azerbaijan Premier League, which meant that the new second tier of Azerbaijan football would remain regionalized. For the first two seasons three regional groups conformed the second tier, until in 1994 the single table in use today began to be used. Competition format The First Division currently consists of 14 teams. All teams play each other two times. Media coverage CBC Sport currently own all the rights to broadcast the season's games on terrestrial TV. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Energetik FK
Energetik FK is an Azerbaijani football club based in Mingachevir. One of the oldest and popular clubs in Azerbaijan. For a moment it participates at Azerbaijan First Division. History The club was established in 1966 and took part in Soviet Second League and Azerbaijan Premier League under the next names like ''Textilshchik'' (1966–70), ''Avtomobilist'' (1980–87), ''Kur'' (1990–93), ''Kur-Nur'' (1993–98). The club re-established to the beginning of 2003–04 season and was named ''Energetik FC'' belonging Mingachevir HPP. Last seasons the club takes part in the second level of Azerbaijan championship and can not make good results. In 2004–05 season Energetik promoted to the Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ... but withdrew because of fin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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MOIK Baku
MOIK Baku is an Azerbaijani football club, based in Baku. MOIK was originally built around the same concept of military sports club as CSKA Moscow, CSKA Sofia. History The club was established under name OIK ( az, Ordu İdman Klubu; en, Sports Club of Army) in 1961 as sport society of Azerbaijani Armed Forces and was funded by USSR Ministry of Defense until 1990 and Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense since 1993. It has never participated at any Soviet football league, just one time has entered Soviet Cup and has been eliminated in preliminary round, but 4 times has won Azerbaijan USSR League and 8 times Azerbaijan USSR Cup. MOIK began to participate at Azerbaijan First Division in 1993, making its Azerbaijan Premier League debut in 1995. The club has won Azerbaijan First Division two times. Its best indicator at Azerbaijan Premier League is the 7th place (2001). To the beginning of 2003–04 season the club changed its name into MOIK ( az, Mərkəzi Ordu İdman Klubu; en, Central ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Heydar Aliyev Stadium
Heydar Aliyev Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Imishli, Azerbaijan. It is named after the former Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Az .... It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Mil-Muğan. The stadium holds 8,500 people and was opened in 2006. Football venues in Azerbaijan {{Azerbaijan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Imishli (city)
Imishli ( az, İmişli) is a city and the capital of the Imishli District of Azerbaijan. History During the Tsardom of Russia, Qaradonlu belonged to the Javad Khan administration. In 1906, the first School of Qaradonlu region was established, with many living-buildings, caravanserais, mills and shops in the area. In August 1930, Qaradonlu was organized in Mil-Mugan as a region. As early as the October Revolution, land-reclamation and irrigation work were made based on the intense irrigated plant-growing. In 1933, Qaradonlu Machine-Tractor Plant was built in the Qaradonlu historical region. As a result of the construction of the railway between Ələt and Yerevan, people moved from the center of the region to suburbs of the railway stations. The population increase produced two-story brick buildings in Qaradonlu and Imishli. The regional capital was moved there and the region became Imishli District. Imishli village also expanded. Government houses were constructed, completel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Inter Arena
ASK Arena ( az, ASK Arena), formerly Inter Arena and Shafa Stadium is an all-seater football stadium located in Baku . The stadium was built on the site of Termist stadium in 2001 and has a capacity of 8,125 spectators. The stadium surrounded by practice fields, administration buildings and four-star hotel. Background ASK Arena was built by AFFA in 2001. The first match played was a 2001–02 UEFA Cup first qualifying round between Shafa Baku and Olimija Ljubljana where the match ended 0–4. The first goal scored by Dušan Kosič. The stadium was one of the venues for the group stages of the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. A Group A match were played there. In July 2014, it was announced that stadium will change its name to Inter-Arena after Keşla FK Shamakhi FK ( az, Şamaxı Futbol Klubu, ) 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 Leag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Khazar Raion
The Khazar raion ( az, Xəzər rayonu) is one of the 12 rayonlar in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 170,400. Name Before being renamed by the decision of the Parliament of Azerbaijan on May 11, 2010, the raion was called Azizbekov (Azerbaijani: Əzizbəyov) after Meshadi Azizbekov. Municipalities The raion contains the municipalities of Binə, , Çilov-Neft Daşları,[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bine Stadium
Bine Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Bine settlement of Baku, Azerbaijan. It is the home stadium of Bine FK. The stadium holds 600 people and opened in 2012. Events The stadium was used as a training ground during 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. References See also *List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan This is a list of football stadiums in Azerbaijan, ranked in descending order of capacity. See also *List of European stadiums by capacity *2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup *UEFA Euro 2020 References {{Sport in Azerbaijan * Azerbaijan ... Football venues in Azerbaijan Sports venues in Baku {{Azerbaijan-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Binə, Baku
Binə (also, Bina Staraya and Biny Selo) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 26,395. It is the nearest urban area to Baku Airport Heydar Aliyev International Airport ( az, Heydar Aliyev adına Beynəlxalq Hava Limanı) (IATA: GYD, ICAO: UBBB) is one of the seven international airports serving Azerbaijan. Formerly, it was called Bina International Airport after a suburb of ... and was once home to one of the biggest markets in the country till that was moved to a location at the southernmost edge of Baku, near Lökbatan. The new market retains the name Binə Bazaar despite its lost geographical relevance. References * Populated places in Baku {{Baku-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Agsu City Stadium
Aksu or Aqsu ( Turkic: "white water") may refer to: People * Aksu Hanttu (born 1979), Finnish musician, record producer and sound engineer * Aksu (surname) Places Armenia * Akhsu, Armenia Azerbaijan * Agsu Rayon, a district of Azerbaijan ** Agsu (city), a city in the district *** Ağsu FK, a football club based in the city China * Aksu Prefecture, a prefecture in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China ** Aksu, Xinjiang, the capital of Aksu Prefecture Iran * Aqsu, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province * Aq Su Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Golestan Province Kazakhstan * Aksu, Kazakhstan, a city in Pavlodar Province of Kazakhstan * Aksu, Almaty, a village in Almaty Province of Kazakhstan * Aksu District, Almaty Province, a district of Almaty Province * Aksu Canyon, a canyon in the Tian Shan mountain range Kyrgyzstan * See Ak-Suu (other) Turkey * Aksu, Antalya, a municipal town in southwestern Turkey, in the district and province of Anta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Agsu (city)
Agsu ( az, Ağsu) is a city in and capital of the Agsu District of Azerbaijan. History Abbasgulu Bakikhanov noted that Nadir Shah issued an order for resettlement of the inhabitants of Shamakhi to new laid down city on the bank of Agsu river, in 1735. At present, the name of Agsu city (which is the centre of Agsu district) is shown as New Shamakhi in some sources. It is related with resettlement of the inhabitants of Shamakhi to Agsu city. Since that time, historic Shamakhi has been called Old Shamakhi, Agsu – New Shamakhi. The name of the city existing in the 18th century was frequently shown as Agsu deriving from "Agsuchay". "Ruined city" – ruins of the Agsu city of the memory of the 18th century is located in the north of Agsu city. S. Bronevski noted that the city was fenced with fortress walls, with a trench dug outside them. The castle had quadrangle and round towers. The lower parts of the houses consisted of basements and the upper parts of the dwellings tumbled d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ağsu FK
Ağsu FK ( az, Ağsu Futbol Klubu, ) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Agsu. The club is currently participating in the Azerbaijan First Division. History The club was established in 2012 and immediately joined Azerbaijan First Division. On 18 May 2013, the club sealed promotion to Azerbaijan Premier League after winning first division. However, due to the decision of the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan about licensing, the club did not get promoted to the Premier league. Stadium Agsu's home ground is Agsu City Stadium, which has a capacity of 3,000. Achievements *Azerbaijan First Division : ''Winners (1)'': 2012–13 League and domestic cup history Current squad '' ''(captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, e ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |