The 2024–25 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 33rd season of the

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 ...

, the highest tier

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league of

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. On April 27, 2025, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Qarabağ secured the championship with four rounds remaining after drawing 1–1 against

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, thus becoming Premier League champions for the 12th time in their history and for the 4th consecutive time. This season is last league participating with 10 teams and expand to 12 teams from 2025–26 season.

Teams

Team changes

Stadia and locations

:''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.''

Stadiums

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under

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eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Each team can use only seven foreign players on the field in each game. ''In italics: Players that are on loan from another APL side.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

League table

Fixtures and results

Clubs play each other four times for a total of 36 matches each.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Attendances

In the 2024/25 season, a total of 275,933 spectators attended the Premier League matches. With 180 games played, the average attendance per match was 1,533. In terms of spectators,

Turan Tovuz Turan Tovuz () is an Azerbaijani football club based in Tovuz. The club won the Azerbaijan championship once, in 1994–1995. The club's home stadium is Tovuz City Stadium. History Founded by Vidadi Ahmedov on 23 February 1992, the club was t ...

had the highest figures, with a total of 78,500 fans attending their matches with an average of 4,361 per game.

Records

In the 2024/25 season,

became the 7th team in the 32-year history of the national championships to not concede a single goal in their first 5 matches. The club's match against Neftçi ended in a 0:0 draw, and they went on to defeat

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, Qarabağ, and Sabail by one unanswered goal each, and Kapaz by three unanswered goals. The last time this record was matched was in the 2016-17 season by Gabala.

's goalkeeper, Ivan Konozalov, became the second foreign goalkeeper in the history of the national championships to keep a clean sheet in the first 5 matches, following Dmytro Bezotosnyi, who achieved this with Gabala in the 2016/17 season. For the second time in 32 years, " Neftçi" failed to win any of their first 5 matches. They ended their matches against "Turan Tovuz" and "

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" in goalless draws, and drew 1:1 with "Sabail" and " Araz-Naxçıvan." The club first experienced this in the 2017/18 season, where they also failed to win in their first 5 matches. That winless streak lasted for 6 games and was only broken in the 7th match. On September 20, during the 7th round match between Qarabağ and Neftçi, Neftçi player

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scored an

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, becoming the author of the season's first own goal. This was the 234th own goal in the history of the national championships and the 25th own goal scored by the club, setting an unfortunate record in the tournament's history. Additionally, with this goal, Qarabağ celebrated its 34th own goal scored by opponents, further extending its record. The derby match between Neftçi and Qarabağ held at

Neftçi Arena Neftçi Arena is a stadium, soccer-specific stadium located in 8th Kilometer, Baku, Azerbaijan. It was opened in 2012 and has a capacity of 10,289 spectators. In 2013 it was renamed to Bakcell Arena. The name of the stadium was changed to Neftçi ...

on February 16, 2025, during 23rd tour, became the most attended game of the 2024/25 Premier League season, drawing 9,355 spectators.

References

External links

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