Shamkir Football Club ( az, Şəmkir Futbol Klubu), is an

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

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club based in

Şəmkir Shamkir ( az, Şəmkir), known historically as Annenfeld, is a city in and the capital of Shamkir District in western Azerbaijan, located in the northern foothills of the Lesser Caucasus, on the coast of the Chagirchay River on Tbilisi-Yevlakh h ...

, that currently plays in the

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. The club is one of the most oldest and most successful clubs in Azerbaijan's football history with two

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titles.

History

The club was established in 1954, even though it never participated at any Soviet football league. It was re-established in 1993. Shamkir's most successful years were at the start of the 2000s, after Shahbaz Suleymanov's takeover, club with Agaselim Mirjavadov consecutively won three

titles and reached the final of

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three times. The club also became the first Azerbaijani team to pass qualifying stage of Champions League. In 2005, the club was briefly defunct due to sponsorship reasons but re-established once again on 19 August 2009 after finding sponsors.

Stadium

Shamkir Olympic Sport Complex Stadium Shamkir Olympic Sport Complex Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Shamkir, Azerbaijan.Stadium was opened in 2009. It is currently used mostly for football matches. It serves as a home ground of Shamkir FC Shamkir Football Club ( az, Şəmkir Futb ...

is a

multi-purpose stadium A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...

in Shamkir,

. It is used as a home ground of Shamkir FC since 2010.

Honours

National

: ''Winners (2)'': 1999–00, 2000–01 *

: ''Winners (1)'': 1994–95

League and domestic cup history

UEFA club competition results

*Q = Qualifying

Managers

Managers in modern history

* Afgan Talibov (1997–1998) * Agaselim Mirjavadov (1998–2001) * Gahraman Aliyev (2001–2005) * Faig Jabbarov (2009–2010) * Anar Kalantarov (2010–2013) * Ruslan Abbasov (2013–2015) * Kamran Alibabayev (2015–present)

References

External links

FK Shamkir at PFL.AZ
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