Azerbaijan national football team

Azerbaijan

Nickname(s)

Azeri

Association

Association of Football
Federations of Azerbaijan

Confederation

UEFA (Europe)

Head coach

Shakhin Diniyev

Most caps

Tarlan Akhmedov (73)

Top scorer

Gurban Gurbanov (12)

Home stadium

Tofik Bakhramov Stadium

FIFA code

AZE

FIFA ranking

115

Highest FIFA ranking

97 (June 1999)

Lowest FIFA ranking

170 (June 1994)

Elo ranking

106

Highest Elo ranking

100 (1993)

Lowest Elo ranking

151 (Feb 2001)





First kit





Second kit

First international

Georgia 6 - 3 Azerbaijan

(Gurjaani, Georgia; September 17, 1992)

Biggest win

Azerbaijan 4 - 0 Liechtenstein

(Baku, Azerbaijan; June 5, 1999)

Biggest defeat

France 10 - 0 Azerbaijan

(Auxerre, France; September 6, 1995)

The Azerbaijan national football team is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan.

In February 2004, Carlos Alberto Torres, captain of the Brazil team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup was appointed its national coach. Despite a poor start, a 0-6 defeat to Israel on February 18, Azerbaijan won their first ever away match, 3-2 against Kazakhstan on April 28. In June 2005, following a 3-0 defeat by Poland, Torres stood down from the position, to be replaced by former Neftchi coach Vagyf Sadygov, his third spell as coach of Azerbaijan. Shakhin Diniyev took over as manager in November 2005.

Because of security issues, the team played all of its home Euro 96 qualifers in Trabzon, Turkey

World Cup record

1930 to 1994 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1998 to 2006 - Did not qualify

European Championship record

1960 to 1992 - Did not enter, was part of USSR
1996 to 2008 - Did not qualify

Current squad

The following players named for Euro 2008 qualifying match against Poland on March 24, 2007.

Caps and goals as of 11 October 2006, included against Belgium.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB/Age	Caps	Goals	Club
1	GK	Farhad Veliyev	November 1, 1980	9	0	FC Inter Baku
2	DF	Zaur Gashimov	October 24, 1981	11	0	FC Inter Baku
3	DF	Ernani Pereira	January 22, 1978	3	0	Orduspor
4	DF	Andre Ladaga	February 19, 1975	5	1	FK Baku
6	MF	Elmar Bakhshiev	August 3, 1980	11	0	FC Inter Baku
11	FW	Leandro Gomes	August 24, 1976	4	0	FK Baku
8	MF	Aslan Kerimov	January 1, 1973	67	0	FK Karabakh
10	MF	Ceyhun Sultanov	June 12, 1979	9	1	FK Khazar Lenkoran
12	GK	Jahangir Hasanzade	August 4, 1979	28	0	FK Karabakh
17	FW	Vügar Nadirov	June 15, 1987	0	0	FK Khazar Lenkoran
18	MF	Ilgar Gurbanov	April 25, 1986	20	1	Sivasspor
19	MF	Emin Imamaliev	August 7, 1980	35	0	FC Inter Baku
20	FW	Vagif Dzavadov	May 25, 1989	7	0	FK Karabakh
22	MF	Aleksandr Chertoganov	February 8, 1980	5	0	PFC Neftchi
9	DF	Samir Abbasov	February 1, 1978	1	0	FK Karabakh
15	FW	Branimir Subašić	July 4, 1982	8	3	PFC Neftchi
5	DF	Sasha Yunisoglu	December 18, 1985	1	0	Dyskobolia Groclin
14	MF	Murad Agakishiev	June 30, 1984	20	0	FK Karabakh
7	DF	Ramin Guliyev	June 22, 1981	6	0	FK Baku