The Azerbaijan national futsal team is the national

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team of

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and is controlled by the

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. It represents Azerbaijan in international futsal competitions such as the

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and the

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. They are ranked 13th in the world, the highest-ranking team from

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in the World Rankings. They are also ranked 7th in Europe on 10 August 2021. Azerbaijan had never qualified for the

until

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, but they have participated in the last five editions of the European Championship.

History

Recently

Azerbaijan's first appearance at the big level came during the

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. They were unbeaten in qualifying and finished second to

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in their group, and only then after conceding a late equalizer against the 2007 semi-finalists. Alesio has put together a potent blend of naturalized South Americans and local talent like Vitaliy Borisov and the Brazilian coach and much of the Azerbaijan squad are involved with champion club Araz Naxçivan, who in November won through to this spring's four-team UEFA Futsal Cup finals. Despite finishing in fourth place, Azerbaijan's finals run was the best showing by a debutant since the inaugural UEFA Futsal Championship tournament. Azerbaijan's

Biro Jade Nilson Machado dos Santos (born 24 January 1973), commonly known as Biro Jade, was a Brazil born, Azerbaijani futsal player who plays for Araz Naxçivan Araz Naxçıvan is a futsal club based in Nakhchivan City, Azerbaijan. The club is very ...

won the Golden Boot award as joint top scorer with five goals.

Tournament records

FIFA Futsal World Cup

UEFA European Futsal Championship

Minor tournament

this table consist of only senior A team Results (not include Youth and club match results) * Source: *https://web.archive.org/web/20161117212236/http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=720 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100118022640/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=7807 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100118020423/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=8305 *https://web.archive.org/web/20090206223856/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=10230 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100106044728/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=12027

*https://web.archive.org/web/20161108195643/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=18825 *https://web.archive.org/web/20161117211959/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=18981

All time general statistics record/Overview of results

* As a 15 Nov 2016 * Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20161116194204/http://www.futsalplanet.com/matches/index.asp

Players

Current squad

The following players were called up to the squad for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (UEFA)#Group 6, UEFA 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification matches against

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and

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on 7 and 11 October 2022, respectively.
Head coach: Alesio

Recent call-ups

The following players have also been called up to the squad within the last 12 months. ^COV Player withdrew from the squad due to contracting COVID-19.
^INJ Player withdrew from the squad due to an injury.
^PRE Preliminary squad.
^RET Retired from international futsal.

Results and Fixtures

2016

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Managers

* Elman Alakbarov (2008–2009) * Alesio (2009-2014) * Tino Perez (2014-2016) * Miltinho (2016-2017) *

(2017-2018) * Alesio (2018-''present'')

References

*Minor tournament Source: *https://web.archive.org/web/20161117212236/http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=720 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100118022640/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=7807 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100118020423/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=8305 *https://web.archive.org/web/20090206223856/http://futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=10230 *https://web.archive.org/web/20100106044728/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=12027

*https://web.archive.org/web/20161108195643/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=18825 *https://web.archive.org/web/20161117211959/http://www.futsalplanet.com/agenda/agenda-01.asp?id=18981

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Azerbaijan National Futsal Team Azerbaijan national futsal team, European national futsal teams

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