The Keşla 2020–21 season was Keşla's twentieth season in the Azerbaijan Premier League.

Season events

On 8 August, Tarlan Ahmedov left the club after his contract expired, with

Yunis Huseynov Yunis Huseynov ( az, Yunis Hüseynov, born 1 February 1965) is an Azerbaijani football manager and former footballer. He currently manages Keşla FK. Huseynov made 33 appearances for the Azerbaijan national football team, scoring four goals. Ca ...

being appointed as his replacement on 16 August. On 24 January,

resigned as manager, with

Sanan Gurbanov Sanan Gurbanov ( az, Sənan Qurbanov, born 4 August 1980) is a retired Azerbaijani footballer and current manager of Keşla FK. Career Club He was born in Georgia on 4 August 1980. Moving to Baku with his family in his 1st year, Sanan began t ...

being appointed as the clubs new manager on 25 January.

Transfers

On 22 June,

Tural Akhundov Tural Akhundov ( az, Tural Möhsüm oğlu Axundov; born on 1 August 1988 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani football player who plays for Kapaz in the Azerbaijan Premier League. Career Club On 11 June 2018, Akhundov signed one year contract with Ne ...

signed for Keşla from Neftçi. On 24 June, Shahriyar Aliyev joined Keşla from

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. On 30 June,

Javid Imamverdiyev Javid Imamverdiyev ( az, Cavid İmamverdiyev; born 1 August 1990 in Shamkir) is an Azerbaijani footballer who currently plays Keşla as a midfielder. He is also a member of the Azerbaijan national football team and is considered to be one of t ...

signed for Keşla from

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. On 8 July, Keşla announced the signing of Rahman Hajiyev on a season-long loan deal from Neftçi. On 21 July, Turan Valizade also joined Keşla on a season-long loan deal from Neftçi. On 7 August, Keşla announced the signing of

Dmytro Klyots Dmytro Vitaliyovych Klyots ( uk, Дмитро Віталійович Кльоц; born 15 April 1996) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Veres Rivne. Career Klyots is the product of the Veres Rivne and U ...

to a one-year contract, from

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. Two days later, 9 August, Keşla signed Sílvio to a one-year contract from Vllaznia. On 14 August, Keşla announced the signing of Kamal Bayramov on a one-year contract from Sabail, whilst Artur also signed a one-year contract with Keşla on 16 August, having previously been with

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. On 24 August, Keşla announced the signing of

Rail Malikov Rail Malikov ( az, Rail Məlikov; born 18 December 1985) is an Azerbaijani football defender who plays for Keşla. Career Malikov was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the summer of 2012, Malikov left Neftchi Baku for TFF First League side D ...

from

. On 9 September, Keşla announced the signing of Alvaro to a one year loan from

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. On 18 September,

left Keşla to join

. On 18 September, César Meza returned to Keşla on a contract until the end of the season. On 30 November, Keşla announced the departure of Artur by mutual consent and the end if Alvaro's loan deal from

. On 26 December, Keşla signed

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to a one-year contract. On 6 January, Keşla announced the signing of Nijat Gurbanov on a contract until the end of the season. On 12 January, Keşla announced that they had agreed to mutual terminate the contract of

, with Sadio Tounkara signing for Keşla until the end of the season on 13 January. On 28 January,

Rashad Sadiqov Rashad Sadiqov ( az, Rəşad Sadiqov; born 8 October 1983) is an Azerbaijani footballer who plays as a central midfielder, for Keşla and the Azerbaijan national football team. Career Sadiqov signed a two-year contract with Khazar Lankaran in ...

left Keşla after his contract was terminated by mutual consent. On 9 February, Keşla announced that they had signed Eugeniu Cociuc on a free transfer after he'd left

in December 2020.

New contracts

On 4 July,

Stanislav Namașco Stanislav Namașco (born 10 November 1986) is a Moldovan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Moldovan Super Liga club CSF Bălți, and the Moldova national team. Career In the 2007–08 season, he won the Moldovan Championsh ...

signed a new one-year contract with Keşla. On 10 July,

Alexander Christovão Alexandre Domingos Cristóvão M'Futila, best known as Alexander Christovao (born 14 March 1993) is an Angolan footballer who plays as a striker. Club career Born in Landana, he started playing in the Netherlands with lower-league side Be Quick ...

extended his contract with Keşla for an additional year.

Squad

Transfers

In

Loans in

Out

Released

Friendlies

Competitions

Premier League

Results summary

Results by round

Results

League table

Azerbaijan Cup

Final

UEFA Europa League

Qualifying rounds

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

, - , colspan="14", ''Players away on loan:'' , - , colspan="14", ''Players who left Keşla during the season:''

Goal scorers

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

References

External links

Inter Baku at Soccerway.com
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