Azerbaijani badminton championship
Azerbaijani badminton championships have been held since the 1996/1997 season. In the same year the junior championships and the team competition started .
The championships arose from the USSR championship in badminton . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Azerbaijan , Armenia , Belarus , Estonia , Georgia , Latvia , Lithuania , Moldova , Russia and Ukraine started their own championships within the European Badminton Federation (EBU), while Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan found a new home in the Asian Badminton Federation found.