The 2008–09 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 17th 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. Inter Baku were the defending champions, having won the previous season.

Teams

FK Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit and

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 ...

were relegated after finishing the previous season in 13th and 14th place, respectively. They were replaced by the champions of the two groups in 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. ...

, Bakılı Baku and MOIK Baku. On 8 July 2008, FK Masallı withdrew their participation from the league, citing competitional and financial problems as reasons. Although it was unclear as of 21 July if the Azerbaijan Football Federation would be naming a substitute or if the championship would start with just 13 teams, shortly thereafter AFFA named

FK NBC Salyan Mughan FK ( az, Muğan Futbol Klubu) was an Azerbaijani football club, based in Salyan.. The club reached the Azerbaijan Premier League for the first time in 2008–2009. The club was first promoted after FK Masallı withdrew for the 2008/09 se ...

to replace Masallı in top league. On 31 October 2008, FK NBC Salyan changed their name to FK Mughan.

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 ...

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.

Personnel

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

* ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Scoring

* First goal of the season:

Kanan Karimov Kanan Karimov ( az, Kənan Kərimov; born 5 August 1976) is an Azerbaijani football manager and former player. He manages Karvan. Karimov was appointed a manager of the newly reformed Karvan in August 2013. Career statistics Managerial s ...

for Gabala against NBC Salyan (''9 August 2008'') * Fastest goal of the season: 1st minute, **Angel Gutierrez for

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 als ...

against Gabala (''25 October 2008'') **

Farzad Hatami Farzad Hatami ( fa, فرزاد حاتمی; born 3 January 1986) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays for Paykan in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Hatami has played for clubs including Esteghlal and Persepolis. He joined Oxin Alborz in ...

for Gabala against Karvan (''22 March 2009'') * Largest winning margin: 7 goals ** Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (''28 September 2008'') ** Baku 7–0

Turan Tovuz , nickname = ''Boz Qurd'' (Gray Wolf) , founded = as ''Spartak Tovuz'' , ground = Tovuz City Stadium, Tovuz, Azerbaijan , capacity = 6,800 , chrtitle = President , chairman = Nadir Nabiyev , manager = Aykhan Abbasov , league = Azerba ...

(''22 November 2008'') * Highest scoring game: 7 goals ** Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (''28 September 2008'') ** Baku 7–0

(''22 November 2008'') ** MOIK Baku 1–6

Olimpik Baku Shuvalan FK ( az, Şüvəlan Futbol Klubu, ) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Şüvəlan, Baku. The club was renamed four times in its short history becoming Olimpik Baku, Olimpik-Shuvalan Baku, AZAL and Shuvalan. UEFA is still recognizi ...

(''11 May 2009'') * Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals ** Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (''28 September 2008'') ** Baku 7–0

(''22 November 2008'') * Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 2 goals ** Bakılı Baku 3–2 NBC Salyan (''9 November 2008'') **

Khazar Lankaran Khazar Lankaran FK ( tly, Xəzər Lankon Futboli Klub, script=Latn, az, Xəzər Lənkəran Futbol Klubu) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Lankaran that last played in the Azerbaijan Premier League during the 2015–16 season. Since the ...

2–4 Inter Baku (''9 November 2008'') **

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura and A ...

3–2 Karvan (''29 November 2008'') ** MOIK Baku 2–4 Simurq (''1 March 2009'') **

4–2

(''5 April 2009'')

Clean sheets

* Most

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: 19 ** Baku * Fewest clean sheets: 1 ** Bakılı Baku ** MOIK Baku

References

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