Azerbaijani national football team

This article describes the Azerbaijani national football team. For the U-21 national team, see Azerbaijani national football team (U-21 men) .

Azerbaijan
Azərbaycan

Association	Azərbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyası
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Nike
Head coach	Gianni De Biasi (since 2020)
captain	Rəşad Sadıqov
Record scorer	Qurban Qurbanov (14)
Record player	Rəşad Sadıqov (111)
Home stadium	Tofiq Bəhramov Stadium
FIFA code	AZE
FIFA rank	114th (1177 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey Third jersey
Balance sheet
239 games 46 wins 65 draws 128 losses
statistics
First international match Georgia 6-3 Azerbaijan ( Gurdschaani , 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 )
(As of November 20, 2018)

The Azerbaijani national football team is the selection of the best football players from Azerbaijan .

The team has not yet been able to qualify for a soccer world championship or a soccer championship . Although the country is geographically in Asia , the association is a member of European UEFA , which is why the national team takes part in European competitions.

history

Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union until the end of 1991 , which is why players from the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic could only play in the national soccer team of the USSR .

The Azerbaijani Football Association was founded in 1992 and joined UEFA and FIFA in 1994 . The Azerbaijani national football team played their first competitive games as part of the qualification for the European Championship in 1996 and ended them with one point from 10 games, knocked out in last place. For security reasons, all home games were played in Trabzon , Turkey .

In qualifying for the 1998 World Cup , they managed a surprising 1-0 win against Switzerland , as these were the only points they could get in this group.

They managed another surprise in qualifying for the 2000 European Championship with a 1-1 draw against the later European Championship semi-finalists Portugal . However, Azerbaijan only scored four points in that qualifying round and lost 2-1 to Liechtenstein .

In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup , Azerbaijan achieved only their third competitive win, a 2-0 win against Slovakia . This was followed by a 2-1 win against Serbia-Montenegro in qualifying for the 2004 European Championship .

Nevertheless, Azerbaijan is still one of the football developing countries. The nomination of the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Torres , former world champion from 1970 , as national coach didn't change that. He's already released again. In November 2005, Şahin Diniyev was appointed the new national coach. He presented a three-year plan to build a new team and pushed through the change of jersey colors to blue-red-green (national colors). In qualifying for the European Championship in 2008 they were again bottom of the group, but they managed to beat Finland (1-0). From April 2008 to October 2014 Berti Vogts was the national coach of the Azerbaijani team. With the former German national coach, they finished penultimate in the 2010 World Cup qualifying and left Liechtenstein behind. Against Liechtenstein there was the only victory and a draw. There was a big sensation in the last game. Against the group runners-up, EM semi-finalists and arch-rivals Russia , they scored 1-1 in Baku .

In qualifying for the 2012 European Championship , the team won a 1-0 win against Turkey on October 12, 2010 after beating Germany 1: 6 and Austria 3-0 . The team was also able to surprise with a 1-1 draw against Belgium on September 2, 2011.

In the 2018 World Cup qualification , Azerbaijan also played against Germany. The win against Norway on matchday two and the 0-0 draw against the Czech Republic made the national team 88th in the FIFA world rankings (October 2016 edition), the best place in the country's history.

World Championship participation

• 1930 to 1994 - Did not participate, was part of the USSR national football team .
• 1998 to 2018 - Not qualified

European Championship participation

Azerbaijan took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992 as part of the USSR and the CIS . Azerbaijani players did not play a major role in the Soviet national team. Only a few Azerbaijani players came to the European Championship, such as Anatoly Banischewski in 1972 . After the dissolution of the Soviet Union into several independent states, Azerbaijan took part in the qualification for the European Championship in 1996 for the first time, but was never able to qualify and at most it was enough for the penultimate group place.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified			In the qualification of Romania and France failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			In the qualifiers again Romania as well as Portugal failed.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			In the qualification against Italy and Wales , which could not qualify either, failed.
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification to Poland and again Portugal failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification against Germany and Turkey , which also failed to qualify, failed.
2016	France	not qualified			In qualifying , Azerbaijan faced Italy , Croatia , Norway , Bulgaria and Malta . Qualification was no longer possible after just 8 games.
2021	Europe	not qualified			In the qualification to Croatia and Wales failed.

Smaller tournaments

year	position	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1993 ECO Cup	1.	4th	2	1	1	8: 5	5

International matches against German-speaking teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Azerbaijani national soccer team

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	August 31, 1996	Baku	Azerbaijan	1 : 0	Switzerland
2.	October 11, 1997	Zurich	Switzerland	5 : 0	Azerbaijan
3.	October 14, 1998	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	2 : 1	Azerbaijan
4th	June 5, 1999	Baku	Azerbaijan	4 : 0	Liechtenstein
5.	September 8, 2004	Vienna	Austria	2 : 0	Azerbaijan
6th	September 7, 2005	Baku	Azerbaijan	0-0	Austria
7th	September 10, 2008	Baku	Azerbaijan	0-0	Liechtenstein
8th.	August 12, 2009	Baku	Azerbaijan	0: 2	Germany
9.	September 9, 2009	Hanover	Germany	4 : 0	Azerbaijan
10.	October 10, 2009	Vaduz	Liechtenstein	0: 2	Azerbaijan
11.	March 3, 2010	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1: 2	Azerbaijan
12.	September 7, 2010	Cologne	Germany	6 : 1	Azerbaijan
13.	October 8, 2010	Vienna	Austria	3 : 0	Azerbaijan
14th	June 7, 2011	Baku	Azerbaijan	1: 3	Germany
15th	October 7, 2011	Baku	Azerbaijan	1: 4	Austria
16.	February 6, 2013	Dubai	Azerbaijan	1 : 0	Liechtenstein
17th	22th of March 2013	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	0-0	Azerbaijan
18th	June 7, 2013	Baku	Azerbaijan	1: 1	Luxembourg
19th	March 26, 2017	Baku	Azerbaijan	1: 4	Germany
20th	October 8, 2017	Kaiserslautern	Germany	5 : 1	Azerbaijan

Current squad

The following players were in the squad for the UEFA Nations League game against Kosovo on November 20, 2018.

No.	player	society	Date of birth	International matches	International goals	debut	Last use
goal
1	Shahrudin Mahammadaliyev	Qarabağ Agdam	June 12, 1994	000	00	-	-
12	Emil Balayev	Sabail FK	Apr 17, 1994	000	00	-	-
23	Salahat Agayev	Neftçi Baku	0Jan. 4, 1991	010	00	0June 2, 2010	Nov 20, 2018
Defense
3	Urfan Abbasov	FK Qəbələ	Oct 14, 1992	007th	01	09 Mar 2017	Sep 10 2018
4th	Pavlo Pashaiev	FK Oleksandrija	0Jan. 4, 1988	016	00	May 26, 2016	Nov 20, 2018
5	Maksim Medvedev	Qarabağ Agdam	Sep 20 1989	045	03	Oct 10, 2009	Nov 20, 2018
6th	Badavi Hüseynov	Qarabağ Agdam	July 11, 1991	035	00	Nov 14, 2012	Nov 20, 2018
19th	Rahil Mammadov	Qarabağ Agdam	Nov 24, 1995	006th	00	29 May 2018	Nov 17, 2018
21st	Tamkin Khalilzada	FK Qəbələ	0Aug 6, 1993	010	01	04th Sep 2017	Nov 20, 2018
midfield
2	Qara Qarayev	Qarabağ Agdam	Oct 12, 1992	044	00	0Feb. 1, 2013	Nov 20, 2018
7th	Araz Abdullayev	Qarabağ Agdam	Apr 18, 1992	029	03	Oct 11, 2008	Nov 20, 2018
8th	Emin Makhmudov	Neftçi Baku	Apr 27, 1992	008th	01	04th Sep 2016	Oct 11, 2018
13	Dimitrij Nazarov	FC Erzgebirge Aue	0Apr 4, 1990	034	07th	May 28, 2014	Nov 20, 2018
14th	Rahid Amirquliyev	Sabail FK	0Sep 1 1989	050	03	05th Sep 2009	Jan. 30, 2018
15th	Dzhavid Imamverdiyev	Sabah FK	0Jan. 8, 1990	010	01	0Feb. 1, 2013	Oct 14, 2018
17th	Mahir Madatov	Qarabağ Agdam	0July 1, 1997	013	02	09 Mar 2017	Nov 20, 2018
18th	Shahriyar Aliyev	Sumqayıt PFK	Dec 25, 1992	000	00	-	-
20th	Richard	FK Astana	20 Mar 1989	013	02	June 10, 2017	Nov 20, 2018
22nd	Afran Ismayilov	Sumqayıt PFK	0Oct 8, 1988	034	03	0June 3, 2011	Nov 20, 2018
attack
9	Mirabdulla Abassov	Neftçi Baku	Apr 27, 1995	002	00	Nov 17, 2018	Nov 20, 2018
10	Ruslan Qurbanov	Sabail FK	Sep 12 1991	023	01	28 Mar 2015	Nov 20, 2018
11	Ramil Sheydaev	Krylya Sovetov Samara	15th Mar 1996	016	01	04th Sep 2016	Sep 10 2018
16	Rufat Dadashov	Prussia Munster	29 Sep 1991	017th	03	0Feb. 1, 2013	Nov 20, 2018

Record player

As of November 20, 2018

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period
01.	Rəşad Sadıqov	111	3	Defense	2001-2017
02.	Aslan Kərimov	80	0	midfield	1994-2008
03.	Kamran Agayev	79	0	goal	2008–
04th	Mahir Şükürov	76	4th	Defense	2004-2014
05.	Mahmud Qurbanov	75	1	midfield	1992-2008
	Tərlan Əhmədov	75	0	Defense	1992-2005
07th	Qurban Qurbanov	68	14th	attack	1992-2005
08th.	Emin Agayev	65	1	Defense	1992-2005
09.	Vüqar Nadirov	61	4th	attack	2004-2015
10.	Rahid Əmirquliyev	60	3	midfield	2007–

Source: eu-football.info

Record goal scorers

As of November 20, 2018

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period
01.	Qurban Qurbanov	14th	68	0.21	1992-2005
02.	Vaqif Cavadov	9	58	0.16	2006-2014
03.	Dimitrij Nazarov	8th	37	0.22	2014–
04th	Elvin Məmmədov	7th	37	0.19	2008-2017
	Branimir Subašić	7th	40	0.18	2007-2013
	Up Əliyev	7th	47	0.15	2010–

Source: eu-football.info

Trainer

•  Əhməd Ələsgərov (1992)
•  Ələkbər Məmmədov (1993)
•  Ağasəlim Mircavadov (1994)
•  Kazbek Tuayev (1994)
•  Ağasəlim Mircavadov (1994–1995)
• Kazbek Tuayev (1995–1996)
• Vaqif Sadıqov (1997–1998)
• Əhməd Ələsgərov (1999)
•  Əsgər Abdullayev (2000, interim trainer)
•  İqor Ponomaryov (2001-2002)
• Kazbek Tuayev (2002)
• Əsgər Abdullayev (2002–2003)
• Carlos Alberto (2004-2005)
• Vaqif Sadıqov (2005)
•  Şahin Diniyev (2006-2007)
•  Gjoko Hadžievski (2007-2008)
•  Nazim Süleymanov (2008, interim trainer)
• Berti Vogts (2008-2014)
•  Mahmud Qurbanov (2014, interim trainer)
• Robert Prosinečki (2014-2018)
• Qurban Qurbanov (2018)
• Nikola Jurčević (2018-2019)
• Gianni De Biasi (since 2020)

Source: eu-football.info

Web links

Commons : Azerbaijani National Soccer Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• AFFA website (Azerbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyası )
• All international matches of Azerbaijan
• Information on the Azerbaijani national team at fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
• Information on de.uefa.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ New FIFA world rankings in October 2016 ** Germany in 2nd place fussballnationalmannschaft.net, October 20, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2016 . 
3. ↑ https://www.transfermarkt.de/kosovo_aserbaidschan/aufstellung/spielbericht/2994213
4. ↑ Players by appearances (caps) ( English ) European football database. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
5. ↑ Players by goals scored ( English ) European football database. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
6. ↑ Managers ( English ) European football database. Retrieved January 22, 2019.