2007–08 Azerbaijan Premier League

Azerbaijan Premier League

Season	2007–08
Champions	Inter Baku
Relegated	Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit ABN Bärdä
UEFA Champions League	Inter Baku
UEFA Cup	Olimpik Baku Khazar Lankaran
UEFA Intertoto Cup	Neftchi Baku
Matches played	182
Goals scored	437 (2.4 per match)
Top goalscorer	Khagani Mammadov (19)
Biggest home win	Standard Baku 6-0 ABN Bärdä Masallı 6-0 Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit
Biggest away win	Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit 0-6 Gabala
Highest scoring	Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit 2-6 Neftchi Baku
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The 2007–08 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 16th season of Azerbaijan Premier League, the Azerbaijani professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. Khazar Lankaran were the defending champions, having won the previous season.

Teams

Shahdag Qusar were relegated after finishing the previous season in 13th. Whilist FK Gäncä, who where excluded from the league the previous season, also wouldn't take part in the 2007-08 season. On 13 August 2007 UEFA declared MKT Araz defunct and withdrew their participation from the league.

They were replaced by ABN Bärdä, Masallı and Standard Baku from the Azerbaijan First Division.

Stadia and locations

FK Baku
Gänclärbirliyi
Inter
Neftchi
Olimpik
Standard

ABN Bärdä

Karabakh

Karvan

Khazar Lankaran

FK Masallı

FK Qäbälä

Simurq Zaqatala

Turan Tovuz

Location of teams in Azerbaijan Premier League 2007–08

Team	Venue	Capacity
ABN Bärdä	Barda City Stadium	10,000
FK Baku	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium	29,858
Gabala	Gabala City Stadium	2,000
Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit	Mehdi Huseynzade Stadium	15,350
Inter Baku	Shafa Stadium	8,200
Karabakh	Guzanli Olympic Stadium^1	15,000
Karvan	Yevlakh Stadium	5,000
Khazar Lankaran	Lankaran City Stadium	15,000
FK Masallı	Anatoliy Banishevskiy Stadium	7,500
Neftchi Baku	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium	29,858
Olimpik Baku	Shafa Stadium	8,200
Simurq Zaqatala	Zaqatala City Stadium	4,000
Standard Baku	Shafa Stadium	8,200
Turan Tovuz	Tovuz City Stadium	10,000

¹Karabakh played their home matches at Surakhani Stadium in Baku before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.^[1]

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Manager	Team captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
ABN Bärdä	Faig Jabbarov
Baku	Gjoko Hadžievski
Gabala	Ramiz Mammadov		Erreà
Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit	Sabir Aliyev
Inter Baku	Valentyn Khodukin
Karabakh	Rasim Kara
Karvan	Tabriz Hasanov
Khazar Lankaran	Agaselim Mirjavadov
FK Masallı	Gahraman Aliyev
Neftchi Baku	Anatoliy Demyanenko
Olimpik Baku	Asgar Abdullayev		Umbro	Silk Way Airlines
Simurq	Roman Pokora
Standard Baku	Yunis Huseynov
Turan Tovuz	Salahattin Darvand

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Neftchi Baku	Vlastimil Petržela	Sacked	5 January 2008[2]		Anatoliy Demyanenko	5 January 2008[2]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Inter Baku (C)	26	18	4	4	55	18	+37	58	2008–09 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2	Olimpik Baku	26	17	7	2	29	7	+22	58	2008–09 UEFA Cup First qualifying round
3	Neftchi Baku	26	16	7	3	42	18	+24	55	2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round
4	Khazar Lankaran	26	14	10	2	44	16	+28	52	2008–09 UEFA Cup First qualifying round ^1
5	Qarabağ	26	11	8	7	25	16	+9	41
6	Gabala	26	11	3	12	33	36	−3	36
7	Simurq	26	9	9	8	31	25	+6	36
8	Baku	26	8	11	7	35	26	+9	35
9	Standard Baku	26	8	8	10	36	26	+10	32
10	FK Masallı	26	8	6	12	30	40	−10	30
11	Karvan	26	6	5	15	23	36	−13	23
12	Turan	26	4	6	16	21	49	−28	18
13	Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit	26	4	2	20	21	68	−47	14	Relegation to 2008-09 Azerbaijan First Division
14	ABN Bärdä	26	2	6	18	12	56	−44	12

Updated to games played on July 29, 2008.
Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Khazar Lankaran qualified for the first qualifiying round of the 1st qualifying round of the UEFA Cup as winners of the 2007–08 Azerbaijan Cup.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away

ABB

BAK

GAB

GAS

INT

KAR

KHA

MAS

NEF

OLI

QAR

SIM

STA

TUR

ABN Bärdä

0–4

1–2

2–0

1–4

2–0

0–4

1–2

0–2

1–1

0–3

1–1

0–1

0–0

Baku

0–0

3–0

3–1

0–1

3–3

2–2

2–1

5–1

0–1

0–0

1–1

0–1

2–2

Gabala

2–0

2–0

2–2

2–1

1–0

1–1

1–1

2–3

0–1

1–2

1–0

1–0

2–1

Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit

4–0

0–2

0–6

0–3

3–1

1–2

1–0

2–6

0–1

0–1

0–3

1–5

1–1

Inter Baku

4–0

1–0

4–0

3–0

3–1

2–2

3–0

0–0

2–0

1–0

2–0

1–1

3–1

Karvan

2–0

0–1

1–2

1–2

0–3

0–1

0–1

0–1

0–1

0–0

1–1

1–1

1–0

Khazar Lankaran

0–0

0–0

2–1

5–0

3–1

0–0

4–1

0–1

0–0

2–0

2–1

2–2

2–0

FK Masallı

1–1

2–0

1–0

6–0

0–3

4–1

0–3

0–2

1–2

1–0

1–1

1–1

3–1

Neftchi Baku

3–0

3–2

2–0

2–0

2–0

2–1

0–1

4–1

0–0

0–0

2–1

3–1

1–2

Olimpik Baku

1–0

3–0

2–0

1–0

1–0

2–0

0–0

3–1

0–0

0–1

1–0

1–0

3–0

Qarabağ

3–1

1–1

2–1

3–1

0–1

0–1

2–0

1–1

0–0

0–1

2–0

1–0

0–0

Simurq

3–1

0–0

2–0

3–0

3–4

0–1

1–1

1–0

0–0

0–0

1–0

1–0

3–0

Standard Baku

6–0

1–1

0–1

3–1

1–2

1–2

0–1

4–1

1–1

0–0

0–1

3–0

1–1

Turan

3–0

0–2

4–2

2–0

0–4

1–5

0–4

0–0

0–1

1–3

0–2

1–2

0–2

Source: soccerway.com
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[3]
1	Khagani Mammadov	Inter	19
2	Branimir Subašić	Neftchi	14
3	Walter Guglielmone	Inter	11
	Junivan	Olimpik-Shuvalan	11
	Zaur Ramazanov	Khazar	11
6	Vladimir Mazyar	Simurq	10
7	Roman Akhalkatsi	Karvan	9
	Georgi Adamia	Neftchi	9
9	Vitali Balamestny	Gabala	8
	Leo Rocha	Standard Baku	8

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Branimir Subašić	Neftchi	Gänclärbirliyi	6–2	18 August 2007[4]
Roman Akhalkatsi	Karvan	Turan	5–1	1 September 2007[5]
Khagani Mammadov	Inter	Turan	4–0	10 November 2007[6]
Vitali Balamestny^4	Gabala	Gänclärbirliyi	0–6	11 November 2007[7]
Anatolie Doroș	Standard	Gänclärbirliyi	5–1	1 December 2007[8]
Nadir Nabiyev	Khazar	Gänclärbirliyi	5–0	29 March 2008[9]

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

References

1. Стадион в Гузанлы одобрен ПФЛ (Russian)
2. "Demyanenko returns with Neftchi". UEFA. 5 January 2008. Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
3. "Top Goalscorers" (PDF). pfl.az. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
4. "Gänclärbirliyi 2-6 Neftchi". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
5. "Turan 1-5 Karvan". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
6. "Turan 0-4 Inter". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
7. "Gänclärbirliyi 0-6 Gabala". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
8. "Gänclärbirliyi 1-5 Standard". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
9. "Khazar Lankaran 5-0 Gänclärbirliyi". futbol24.com. Retrieved 7 January 2014.

• Azerbaijan - List of final tables (RSSSF)