The 2008–09 Azerbaijan Premier League is the 17th season of Azerbaijan Premier League, the Azerbaijani professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. Inter Baku were the defending champions, having won the previous season.
Teams FK Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit and ABN Bärdä were relegated after finishing the previous season in 13th and 14th place, respectively. They were replaced by the champions of the two groups in the Azerbaijan First Division, Bakılı Baku and MOIK Baku.
On 8 July 2008, FK Masallı withdrew their participation from the league, citing competitional and financial problems as reasons.“Masalli” will not take part in Premier League Although it was unclear as of 21 July if the Azerbaijan Football Federation would be naming a substitute or if the championship would start with just 13 teams, shortly thereafter AFFA named FK NBC Salyan to replace Masallı in top league.Azerbaijani Premier League to be drawn on July 30
On 31 October 2008, FK NBC Salyan changed their name to FK Mughan.NBC is renamed
Stadia and locations
TeamVenueCapacityBakılı BakuShafa Stadium8,150FK BakuTofik Bakhramov Stadium29,858Inter BakuShafa Stadium8,150KarabakhGuzanli Olympic Stadium12,000KarvanYevlakh Stadium5,000Khazar LankaranLankaran City Stadium15,000MOIK BakuMOIK Stadium1,000MughanSalyany Olympic Sport Complex Stadium3,000Neftchi BakuTofik Bakhramov Stadium29,858Olimpik BakuShafa Stadium8,150FK QäbäläGabala City Stadium2,000Simurq ZaqatalaZaqatala City Stadium3,000Standard BakuShafa Stadium8,150Turan TovuzTovuz City Stadium6,000
1Karabakh played their home matches at Surakhani Stadium in Baku before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.Стадион в Гузанлы одобрен ПФЛ
Personnel TeamHead coachTeam captainClub chairmanBakılı Baku Bakhtiyar Gulamov Vasif AliyevMisir AbilovFK Baku Gjoko Hadžievski Rafael AmirbekovHafiz MammadovInter Baku Valentin Khodukin Khagani MammadovGeorgi NikolovKarabakh Gurban Gurbanov Farhad VeliyevAbdulbari GoozalKarvanvacant Ilham YadullayevJavanshir ShiraliyevKhazar Lankaran Igor Ponomarev Dmitry KramarenkoMübariz MensimovMOIK Baku Akif Ibadov Ismail MammadovSafar AbiyevMughan Vladislav Gadyrov Tarlan KhalilovFizuli AliyevNeftchi Baku Boyukaga Agaev Zaur TagizadeAkper HajiyevOlimpik Baku Asker Abdullayev Tarlan AkhmedovRasul RasulovFK Qäbälä Ramiz Mammadov Kanan KarimovTaleh HeydarovSimurq Zaqatala Roman Pokora Mykhailo StarostyakZaur MammadovStandard Baku Rafik Mirzoyev Huseyn MahammadovEmin BabayevTuran Tovuz Etimad Gurbanov Asaf GadiriRashid Maherramov
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointmentStandard Baku Badri KvaratskheliaResigned20 April 2009Кварацхелия ушел из Стандарда Rafik Mirzoyev20 April 2009Mughan Nadir GasymovSacked5 May 2009Еще одна отставка в премьер-лиге Vladislav Gadirov20 April 2009Мугань вновь доверили Гадирову
League table
Results
Season statistics
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals 1 Walter GuglielmoneInter172 Ivan TsvetkovKhazar 153 Volodymyr MazyarSimurq 11 Amiran MujiriBaku115 Leandro GomesOlimpik Baku10 Angel GutierrezStandard107 Victor IgbekoyiQarabağ/Turan8 Farzad HatamiGabala8 RômuloKhazar810 Bakhtiyar SoltanovBaku7
Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Farzad Hatami Gabala MOIK 3–0 Ivan Tsvetkov4 Khazar MOIK 4–0 Leandro Gomes Olimpik Baku Bakılı 4–0 Bakhtiyar Soltanov Baku Bakılı 3–1 Victor Igbekoi Turan Karvan 4–0 Walter Guglielmone Inter MOIK 3–0 Nariman Äzimov Olimpik Baku MOIK 6–1 4 Player scored 4 goals
Scoring First goal of the season: Kanan Karimov for Gabala against NBC Salyan (9 August 2008) Fastest goal of the season: 1st minute, Angel Gutierrez for Standard Baku against Gabala (25 October 2008) Farzad Hatami for Gabala against Karvan (22 March 2009) Largest winning margin: 7 goals Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (28 September 2008) Baku 7–0 Turan Tovuz (22 November 2008) Highest scoring game: 7 goals Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (28 September 2008) Baku 7–0 Turan Tovuz (22 November 2008) MOIK Baku 1–6 Olimpik Baku (11 May 2009) Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 7 goals Bakılı Baku 0–7 Baku (28 September 2008) Baku 7–0 Turan Tovuz (22 November 2008) Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 2 goals Bakılı Baku 3–2 NBC Salyan (9 November 2008) Khazar Lankaran 2–4 Inter Baku (9 November 2008) Karabakh 3–2 Karvan (29 November 2008) MOIK Baku 2–4 Simurq (1 March 2009) Karabakh 4–2 Turan Tovuz (5 April 2009)
Clean sheets Most clean sheets: 19 Baku Fewest clean sheets: 1 Bakılı Baku MOIK Baku
References