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Revision as of 08:15, 10 April 2019

Sabah FC
File:Logo sabahfc.png
Full nameSabah Football Club
Founded2017; 7 years ago (2017)
GroundAlinja Arena
Capacity13,000
PresidentMagsud Adigozalov
ManagerElshad Ahmadov
LeagueAzerbaijan Premier League
2017-185th (promoted)
WebsiteClub website

Sabah Football Club - is Azerbaijani professional football club based in Baku. The club performs in Topaz Premier League since the 2018-2019 season. The host games of Sabah FC are held in Alinja Arena in Masazir town.

History

File:"Сабах" в I Дивизионе (2017-2018).jpg
Sabah FC in I Division (2017-2018)

Sabah FC began its activity on the 8th of September 2017. In 2017/18 season the “white-blues” got the 5th place participating in I Azerbaijan Division.

On the 12th of May 2018, it has been decided by the AFFA License Commission to give a license to Sabah Football Club to participate in Azerbaijan Premier League.

The first game of the Sabah FC in Azerbaijan Premier League was played against Keshla Football Club on the 12th of August 2018. Sabah FC defeated Keshla FC 0:1 at the ASK Arena. It also was 1st victory of Sabah FC in Azerbaijan Premier League. Marko Devic, former player of Ukraine national football team scored the only goal of match.


Domestic history

Season League Azerbaijan Cup Top goalscorer Manager Manufacturer Sponsor
Div. Pos. Pl. W D L GS GA P Name League
2017–18 2nd 5th 27 11 7 9 41 33 40 Second Round Arif Asadov Joma
2018–19 1st Quarterfinal Elshad Ahmadov Macron

The logo and colours of the club

The sunshine described on the logo of Sabah incarnates a new day, new hopes and victories. The shield is the expression of the defence perseverance, inviolability of the gate of team. The main colours of Sabah are blue-white. The colours reveal seriousness, purposefulness, confidence, power and strength.

Administration and the Supervisory board

The founder of Sabah Football Club is Yagub Huseynov, the head of Bridge Group of Companies.

There is also supervisory board in the Club. The board consist of 5 members – Firudin Gurbanov (the Deputy Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan), Igor Ponomaryov (the former football player and coach, the Olympic champion of 1988, honored sports master of USSR), Rahman Hajiyev (the head of the “1news.az” website and the “Bakinskiy raboçiy” newspaper), Rauf Khalilov (the entrepreneur), Yagub Huseynov (the entrepreneur).

The head of the Supervisory board is Furudin Gurbanov.

Clothing

The Club uses blue-white colours in its clothing set. The colour of the main clothing of Sabah is blue-white-blue and the colour of reserve is white-blue-white.

The club used Spanish clothing company Joma when it was represented in the I Division. Sabah replaced Joma with an Italian company Macron after getting the licence for Premier League.

Stadium

View of Alinja Arena

Sabah Football Club helds its home matches in the Alinja Arena which is situated in Masazir town. The capacity of the Alinja Arena is 13,000. The matches of Sabah FC which are held in the stadium are watched by 1500-2000 people.

The play ground of the stadium is covered with natural grass. There are, in the stadium dressing rooms, health center, press conference room and rooms for special guest to watch the match.

The Stadium temporarily hosted Premier leagues of Neftchi and Qarabag football clubs in the previous years. Sabah FC is the first club using the Alinja Arena as a main stadium in the highest league. The second highest number of fans of the Azerbaijan Premier League 2018/19 season is recorded in the match between Sabah FC and QarabagFCis stadium. The match that was ended up with a 2:0 score victory of the Agdam representative was watched by 4600 people.

Team

The head coach of Sabah is Elshad Ahmadov. His assistants are Sattar Aliyev and Rovshan Babayev. The goalkeeper coach is Vitali Kovalyov. There are 6 legionaries in Sabah FC, from Ukraine, Brazil, Paraguay and Serbia (Marco Devic, Vanderson Silva, Erik Ramos, Sasha Stamenkovic and Filip Ivanovic).

Tamkin Khalilzade the member of the national team of Azerbaijan.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Azerbaijan AZE Tarlan Ahmadli
4 MF Azerbaijan AZE Tarzin Jahangirov
5 DF Azerbaijan AZE Karim Diniyev (captain)
6 MF Azerbaijan AZE Vadim Abdullayev
7 MF Azerbaijan AZE Rashad Eyyubov
8 MF Azerbaijan AZE Elshan Abdullayev
9 FW Ukraine UKR Marko Dević
10 MF Azerbaijan AZE Javid Imamverdiyev
11 MF Azerbaijan AZE Elgun Nabiyev
13 DF Serbia SRB Filip Ivanović
15 MF Paraguay PAR Éric Ramos
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 MF Azerbaijan AZE Tamkin Khalilzade
19 DF Azerbaijan AZE Magsad Isayev
21 DF Azerbaijan AZE Novruz Mammadov
25 DF Brazil BRA Wanderson
27 FW Azerbaijan AZE Bakhtiyar Soltanov
30 GK Serbia SRB Saša Stamenković
33 MF Azerbaijan AZE Eltun Turabov
42 FW Iran IRN Reza Bigbelo
88 DF Azerbaijan AZE Elchin Asadov
91 MF Azerbaijan AZE Joshgun Diniyev
96 GK Iran IRN Amirhossein Najafi

For recent transfers, see Transfers summer 2018.

Reserve team

Sabah-2 plays in the Azerbaijan First Division from 2018.

Coaching staff

Position Name
Head coach Azerbaijan Elshad Ahmadov
Assistant coach Azerbaijan Sattar Aliyev
The second assistant coach Azerbaijan Rovshan Babayev
Goalkeeping coach Azerbaijan Vitali Kovalyov
Physical Training Coach Serbia Milovan Matijasevic
Reserve team head coach Azerbaijan Vasif Hagverdiyev

Academy

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Victory of "Vatan" Footbal School

“Sabah” FC cooperates with Vatan Specialized Olympic Reserves Children and Youth Football School. Vatan was founded as a Children and Youth Football School in 1967. In its first years, the Vatan Football School was led by the Azerbaijan Football legend Alakbar Mammadov. Since 26th of December 2007, the school is called “Vətən” Specialized Olympic Reserves Children and Youth Football School according to the decision of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

There are 2 campuses of Vatan Football School in Baku. Besides Baku, talented children and adolescents from different regions of Azerbaijan are trained in the football school. The teams consist of the players of Vatan Football School get chances to perform in international football tournaments organized abroad.

The different age groups of the football school perform successfully in matches organized by AFFA. Participating in 2017/18 seasonal championships in 7 age groups (U10, U11, U12, U13, U14, U15 and U16) the Vatan football school renewed its own record getting 3 gold (U11, U12 and U15), 1 silver (U 16), 1 bronze medals.

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