The 2007–08 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 16th season of
Azerbaijan Premier League
The Azerbaijan Premier League ( az, Azərbaycan Premyer Liqası) is a professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Azerbaijan football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is conteste ...
, the Azerbaijani professional league for
association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.
Khazar Lankaran were the defending champions, having won the previous
season.
Teams
Shahdag Qusar were relegated after finishing
the previous season in 13th.
FK Gäncä
Kapaz PFK ( az, Kəpəz Peşəkar Futbol Klubu, ), is an Azerbaijani football club based in Ganja, which competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the highest tier of Azerbaijan football. The club was founded as Toxucu in 1959. They have won th ...
, who were excluded from the league the previous season, also wouldn't take part in the 2007-08 season. On 13 August 2007
UEFA declared
MKT Araz defunct and withdrew their participation from the league.
They were replaced by
ABN Bärdä
ABN Barda was an Azerbaijani football club from Barda, Azerbaijan.
History
In 2007, ABN Bärdä became the 14th club in the Azerbaijani top flight following a special ruling by the AFFA. The team is being coached by Ali Guliyev for the 2008/09 ...
,
Masallı and
Standard Baku
FK Standard Sumgayit ( az, Standard Futbol Klubu) was an Azerbaijani football club. They played in the AFFA Supreme League, the top division in Azerbaijani football. Founded in Baku, the club moved to Sumgayit on 12 June 2009, which changed also c ...
from the
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. ...
.
Stadia and locations
1Karabakh played their home matches at
Surakhani Stadium
Tofiq Ismayilov Stadium, also referred as Surakhani Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Suraxanı area of Baku, Azerbaijan. It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the former home stadium of Qarabağ FK. Currently, it is the home s ...
in
Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.
Стадион в Гузанлы одобрен ПФЛ
Personnel and kits
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA
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eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Managerial changes
League table
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers
Hat-tricks
* 4 Player scored 4 goals
References
Azerbaijan - List of final tables (RSSSF)
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Azerbaijan Premier League seasons
Azer
Azer may refer to:
*Azer (name)
* Azer (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a race from a plane of fire in ''Dungeons & Dragons''
*AZER, the reporting mark for the Arizona Eastern Railway, a Class III railroad in the southwestern United States
See also
*Az ...
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