Azerbaijan national futsal team

Azerbaijan

Nickname(s)	Milli (The National Team)
Association	AFFA
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Tino Pérez
Captain	Rizvan Farzaliyev
Most caps	Rizvan Farzaliyev (41)
Top scorer	Vitaliy Borisov (23)
FIFA code	AZE
FIFA ranking	10 [1]
Home colours Away colours
First international
Poland 4–6 Azerbaijan (Netherlands; 23 October 1995)
Biggest win
Kazakhstan 2–14 Azerbaijan (Tbilisi, Georgia; 28 July 2002)
Biggest defeat
Czech Republic 10–2 Azerbaijan (Enschede, Netherlands; 27 October 1995)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2016)
European Championship
Appearances	4 (First in 2010)
Best result	4th place, (2010)

The Azerbaijan national futsal team is the national futsal team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan. It represents Azerbaijan in international futsal competitions such as the FIFA Futsal World Cup and the European Championships. They are ranked 10th in the world, the highest-ranking team from Caucasus in the World Rankings.^[2]

Azerbaijan had never qualified for the FIFA Futsal World Cup until 2016, but they have participated in the last four editions of the European Championship.

History

Recently

Azerbaijan's first appearance at big level came during the 2010 UEFA Futsal Championship. They were unbeaten in qualifying and finished second to Portugal in their group, and only then after conceding a late equalizer against the 2007 semi-finalists.^[3] Alesio has put together a potent blend of naturalized South Americans and local talent like Vitaliy Borisov and the Brazilian coach and much of the Azerbaijan squad are involved with champion club Araz Naxçivan, who in November won through to this spring's four-team UEFA Futsal Cup finals.^[4][5] Despite fourth place, Azerbaijan's finals run was the best showing by debutants since the inaugural UEFA European Futsal Championship 1996 tournament.^[6] Azerbaijan's Biro Jade won Golden Boot award as join top scorer with five goals.^[7][8]

Tournament records

FIFA Futsal World Cup

FIFA World Cup Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GS	GA
Netherlands 1989	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hong Kong 1992	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
Spain 1996	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Guatemala 2000	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chinese Taipei 2004	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Brazil 2008	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Thailand 2012	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Colombia 2016	Qualified	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/8	-	-	-	-	-	-

UEFA European Futsal Championship

UEFA European Futsal Championship Record
Year	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GS	GA
Spain 1996	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Spain 1999	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Russia 2001	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Italy 2003	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Czech Republic 2005	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Portugal 2007	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Hungary 2010	4th place	5	2	2	1	18	13
Croatia 2012	10th place	2	0	0	2	9	13
Belgium 2014	9th place	2	1	0	1	7	13
Serbia 2016	8th place	3	1	0	2	8	14
Slovenia 2018	TBD	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	4/11	12	4	2	6	42	53

Current squad

Squad chosen for the UEFA Futsal Euro 2016.^[9]

0#0	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
12	GK	Rovshan Huseynli	3 April 1991 (aged 24)	11	0	Araz Naxçivan
19	GK	Elnur Zamanov	17 May 1981 (aged 34)	13	0	Neftchi Baku
3	DF	Zeynal Zeynalov	6 December 1979 (aged 36)	14	0	Neftchi Baku
6	DF	Eduardo	14 October 1986 (aged 29)	16	10	Araz Naxçivan
8	DF	Rizvan Farzaliyev	1 September 1979 (aged 36)	40	19	Araz Naxçivan
15	DF	Rafael	26 December 1982 (aged 33)	13	4	Araz Naxçivan
2	FW	Samir Hamzayev	1 August 1989 (aged 26)	5	0	Araz Naxçivan
4	FW	Ramiz Chovdarov	28 July 1990 (aged 25)	11	3	Araz Naxçivan
5	FW	Fineo De Araujo	10 April 1987 (aged 28)	9	5	Araz Naxçivan
9	FW	Augusto	25 February 1980 (aged 35)	11	10	Araz Naxçivan
10	FW	Amadeu	6 March 1990 (aged 25)	12	5	Araz Naxçivan
14	FW	Vitaliy Borisov	5 July 1982 (aged 33)	32	22	Araz Naxçivan
16	FW	Khatai Baghirov	15 August 1987 (aged 28)	5	0	Ekol Baku
18	FW	Sergey Chuykov	4 September 1980 (aged 35)	9	1	MFK Progress

Results and Fixtures

2016

Italy  v  Azerbaijan

3 February 2016 Euro 2016	Italy	3–0	Azerbaijan	Belgrade Arena, Belgrade
21:00	Merlim  20', 21' Giasson  29'	Report		Attendance: 7,021 Referee: Marc Birkett (ENG)

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Azerbaijan  v  Czech Republic

5 February 2016 Euro 2016	Azerbaijan	6–5	Czech Republic	Belgrade Arena, Belgrade
21:00	Farzaliyev  6' Borisov  7' De Araujo  12' Eduardo  20' Augusto  27' Rafael  40'	Report	Záruba  10' Holý  12' Rešetár  16' Novotný  24' Kovács  31'	Attendance: 1,754 Referee: Admir Zahovič (SVN)

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Russia  v  Azerbaijan

9 February 2016 Euro 2016	Russia	6–2	Azerbaijan	Belgrade Arena, Belgrade
18:30	Abramov  7', 26' Romulo  15' Eder Lima  25', 39', 40'	Report	Augusto  8', 29'	Attendance: 5,975 Referee: Pascal Lemal (BEL)

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Netherlands  v  Azerbaijan

22 March 2016 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup play-off	Netherlands	1–5	Azerbaijan	Topsportcentrum, Almere
20:00	El Ghannouti  10'	Report	Amadeu  5', 29' Fineo  13' Augusto  28' Vitaliy Borisov  31'	Referee: Ondřej Černý (Czech Republic), Cédric Pelissier (France)

Managers

• Elman Alakbarov (2008–2009)
• Alesio (2009-2014)
• Tino Perez (2014-present)

See also

• Araz Naxçivan
• Azerbaijan national football team
• Baku United

References

1. Futsal World Ranking
2. Главный тренер футзальной сборной посвятил победу азербайджанскому народу (in Russian). 1news.az. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-22.
3. Azerbaijan’s futsal team to debut in European championship
4. Futsal EURO preview: Group A
5. Czechs fear transformed Azeris
6. Czech Republic turn tables for third place
7. Spain claim third straight futsal title
8. Quartet share adidas Golden Boot
9. "SQUAD – Azerbaijan". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2 February 2016.

External links

• Official website