The 2011–12 Azerbaijan Premier League (known as the Unibank Premyer Liqası for sponsorship reasons) was the twentieth season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992. Neftchi Baku was the defending champions, having won their second Azerbaijani championship the previous season. The twelve teams participating in the league included the ten sides remaining from the 2010–11 season, one promoted club from the

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and a totally new club instead of the defunct First Division champions FC Absheron. The format of the league was the same as in the 2010–11 season. There is only one change in season's regulation as only champion of

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was directly promoted, while runners up of first division played play-off game with the team that finished 11th in

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Teams

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were relegated to the

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after finishing 12th and last, at the end of last season. They were replaced by First Division champions FC Absheron and runners-up Ravan Baku. However, due sponsorship problems Absheron became defunct and replaced by Sumgayit City F.C. On 31 May 2011, it was announced that FK Ganja changed their name to

FC Kəpəz Kapaz PFK (, ), is an Azerbaijani football (soccer), football club based in Ganja, Azerbaijan, Ganja, which competes in the Azerbaijan Premier League, the highest tier of Football in Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan football. The club was founded as Toxucu i ...

. On 18 July 2011,

FK Mughan Mughan FK () 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 season. On 31 October 2008 ...

also ruled out to participate in this season due sponsorship reasons and replaced by Simurq PFC.

Stadia and locations

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

Season events

Inter Baku scandal

On 21 August 2011, Inter Baku -

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 ...

game was suspended during last minutes due referee scandal, therefore game's fate decided after Professional Football League of Azerbaijan's decision. On 23 August 2011, PFL awarded 3-0 technical victory to FK Baku and announced the following punishments were given to Inter Baku's individuals: *Georgi Nikolov, club's chairman: 5 game ban from football and fined 5,000 AZN. * Kakhaber Tskhadadze: fined 1,000 AZN. * Giorgi Lomaia: 2 game ban and fined 2,000 AZN. Furthermore, Inter Baku fined additional 13,000 AZN for breaching security regulations.

Khazar Lankaran and Turan controversy

On 6 August 2011, the Disciplinary Committee of AFFA imposed the punishment on the scandal that took place in two matches. Khazar Lankaran fined 10,000 AZN after club's fans threw alien objects to the court, injuring the head of Inter Baku's coach Kakhaber Tskhadadze. Khazar also must play its next two league home matches in an empty stadium because of its fans' aggressive behavior. AFFA fined Turan Tovuz 26,000 AZN and moved its next two league home matches on a neutral ground for injuring referees, breaking PFL camera as well as for refusing to play at the second half of 2011–12 Azerbaijan Cup. The club's president Musa Suleymanov has been disqualified for five matches and club received technical defeat of 0-3.

First round

League table

Results

Second round

Championship group

The top six teams of the first phase participate in this group, which will decide which team will win the championship. Additionally, teams in this group compete for one

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and two

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spots. The winners will qualify for the Champions League

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, with the runners-up and third place team earning a spot in the Europa League first qualifying round.

Table

Results

Relegation group

The bottom six teams of the first phase will determine the teams to be relegated to the 2012–13

. The bottom team of this group will be directly relegated, while the fifth-placed team will have to compete in relegation/promotion playoffs with the second-placed teams of the

. On April 30, due decision of

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, no clubs from

will be promoted which means all clubs from this season will be remaining in the league.

Table

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

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Hat-tricks

Scoring

* First goal of the season: John Pelu for Ravan Baku against Kəpəz (''6 August 2011'') * Fastest goal of the season: 1st minute, **Shahin Karimov for Kəpəz against

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(''11 September 2011'') ** Dejan Rusič for Khazar Lankaran against Kəpəz (''16 December 2011'') * Latest goal of the season: 90+4 minutes, ** Ramazan Abbasov for Ravan Baku against Simurq (''19 August 2011'') **Akif Taghiyev for Turan Tovuz against Simurq (''25 August 2012'') * Largest winning margin: 6 goals ** Neftchi Baku 7–1

(''11 December 2012'') * Highest scoring game: 9 goals **

6–3

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(''7 March 2012'') * Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals ** Neftchi Baku 7–1

(''11 December 2012'') * Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals **

6–3

(''7 March 2012'')

Clean sheets

* Most

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: 17 ** Inter Baku * Fewest clean sheets: 4 ** Kəpəz

Discipline

* Most yellow cards (club): 82 **

* Most yellow cards (player): 12 **

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( Simurq) * Most red cards (club): 7 ** Inter Baku ** Ravan Baku ** Kəpəz * Most red cards (player): 3 **Tagim Novruzov ( Ravan Baku)

Awards

Monthly awards

Annual awards

References

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