Araz-Naxçıvan PFK () is an Azerbaijani professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

club based in Nakchivan. The club played in the Azerbaijan Premier League again in 2014–15 after being promoted at the end of the 2013–14 season. The club played 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 ...

from 2022 to 2023 season. In 2023, Araz Nakhcivan was champion of Azerbaijan First Division, and promoted to the Azerbaijani Premier League.

History

The club was created in 1967 and as of 1968, it participated in

Soviet First League The Soviet First League in football () was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футболу)''. History of Soviet football championships. Volume 1 ...

. The club stopped its activity after collapse of

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. In 2001, the team was formed again and took part in 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 ...

. However year later, due to financial difficulties the team again ceased to exist. The club was re-established on 23 May 2013 and immediately joined Azerbaijan First Division. In its first season, Araz sent Simurq crashing out of the

Azerbaijan Cup The Azerbaijan Cup () is a major association football competition in Azerbaijan. In its original form, it started in 1936, when Azerbaijan was a republic of the Soviet Union and it was not disputed by Azerbaijani teams in the Soviet league pyramid ...

. In May 2014, the club earned promotion to

after winning the division in same season. In September 2014, Araz became linked to a

match fixing In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging, hippodroming, or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, v ...

scandal, the result of which saw the key players leaving the club and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic government officials intervening. On 3 November 2014, Araz-Naxçıvan announced their withdrawal from the league due constant biased referee decisions, with the officially announcing their withdrawal on 17 November 2014. The club competed in the Azerbaijan First Division. In 2023, Araz Nakhcivan was champion of Azerbaijan First Division, and promoted to the Azerbaijani Premier League 2023–2024.

Stadium

Araz's home ground was Nakhchivan City Stadium, which has a capacity of 12,000. For the stadium's first game, the announced attendance was 4,000.

League and domestic cup history

European history

;Notes * 1QR: First qualifying round * 2QR: Second qualifying round * 3QR: Third qualifying round * POR: Play-off round

Supporters

Supporters of Araz were drawn from all over the

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (, ) is a landlocked country, landlocked Enclave and exclave, exclave of the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers Official portal of Nakhchivan Autonomous RepublicNakhchivan Autonomous Republi ...

and beyond Azerbaijan. The club's main two supporting groups were Ultra Araz and Nagshijahan AAK.

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Notable managers

''Information correct as of match played 2 November 2014. Only competitive matches are counted. *Notes: P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against
%W – Percentage of matches won Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).

Honours

**Winners (2): 2013–14,

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

References

External links

Araz-Naxçıvan PFK
at PFL {{DEFAULTSORT:Araz PFK Football clubs in Azerbaijan 1967 establishments in Azerbaijan Association football clubs established in 1967