The 2009–10

Azerbaijan Premier League The Azerbaijan Premier League (), also known as Misli Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Azerbaijan and the highest level of the Azerbaijani football league system. It is contested by twelve ...

was the eighteenth season of top-tier football in

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. It began on 14 August 2009 and finished in May 2010.

FK Baku FC Baku (), founded as Dinamo Baku in 1997, was an Azerbaijani football club based in Baku that had been an amateur club since 2016. Prior to that, Baku played 18 seasons in the Azerbaijan Premier League, winning the championship twice and the N ...

were the defending champions. The league was competed in two stages. The first stage consisted of a regular home-and-away round-robin schedule for a total of 22 matches per team. The competition then split into two halves. However, each team took over to the respective group only records earned against the remaining 5 teams in their second round group. The teams ranked first through sixth played out the championship and the European spots while the bottom six teams had to avoid one of the two relegation places.

Teams

MOIK Baku MOIK Baku is an Azerbaijani football club, based in Baku. MOIK was originally built around the concept of military sports club such as CSKA Moscow, CSKA Sofia. History The club was established under the name OIK (; ) in 1961 as sport society of ...

and Bakili Baku were relegated after finishing the 2008–09 season in the bottom two places. Since the

Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan The Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA; ) is the governing body of football in Azerbaijan. Formed in 1992, it is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory. AFFA is a member o ...

did not grant a Premier League license to any of the teams in the

Azerbaijan First Division The Azerbaijan First League () is the second highest professional division in Azerbaijani professional football. The league is run by AFFA. The winner promotes to Premier Division. History Due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all Azerbai ...

, the league size was reduced to twelve teams.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

First round

League table

Results

Second round

Championship group

Relegation group

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

* ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Scoring

* First goal of the season: ''Oleg Gvelesiani''

own goal An own goal occurs in sports when a player performs actions that result in scoring points for the opposition, such as when a Association football, footballer puts a ball into their own net. In some parts of the world, the term has become a met ...

for

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against Standard Baku (''14 August 2009'') * Fastest goal of the season: 1st minute, ** Allan Lalín for Khazar Lankaran against Standard Baku (''17 October 2009'') **

Jabá Silvino João de Carvalho (born 20 May 1981) commonly known as Jabá, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Career During the summer of 2009, Jabá moved to Azerbaijan Premier League side FC Baku. On 1 Februar ...

for

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against Inter Baku (''4 April 2010'') * Latest goal of the season: 95th minute, ** Tomasz Stolpa for Gabala against Neftchi Baku (''3 April 2010'') * Largest winning margin: 6 goals ** Standard Baku 6–0 Karvan (''9 May 2010'') * Highest scoring game: 7 goals **

1–6 Inter Baku (''18 October 2010'') ** Standard Baku 3–4

(''5 December 2009'') * Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 6 goals ** Standard Baku 6–0 Karvan (''9 May 2010'') **

1–6 Inter Baku (''18 October 2010'') * Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals ** Standard Baku 3–4

(''5 December 2009'')

Clean sheets

* Most

clean sheets In team sports, a shutout ( US) or clean sheet ( UK) is a game in which the losing team fails to score. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball. Shutouts are usually seen as a result of ...

: 17 ** Neftchi Baku * Fewest clean sheets: 5 **

Awards

Monthly awards

References

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