2021–22 Azerbaijan Premier League

Azerbaijan Premier League
Season	2021–22
Dates	14 August 2021 – 22 May 2022
Champions	Qarabağ
Champions League	Qarabağ
Europa Conference League	Neftçi ; Zira ; Gabala
Matches played	108
Goals scored	279 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kady Borges; (12 goals)
Biggest home win	Qarabağ 8–0 Shamakhi; (15 April 2022)
Biggest away win	Sumgayit 0–4 Qarabağ; (7 November 2021); Sumgayit 0–4 Gabala; (27 February 2022)
Highest scoring	Qarabağ 8–0 Shamakhi; (15 April 2022)
Longest winning run	7 matches; Qarabağ
Longest unbeaten run	19 matches; Qarabağ
Longest winless run	15 matches; Sumgayit
Longest losing run	6 matches; Sabail
	← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 15 May 2022.

The 2021–22 Azerbaijan Premier League was the 30th season of the Azerbaijan Premier League, the highest tier football league of Azerbaijan. The season began on 14 August 2021 and finished on 22 May 2022.

Teams

On 6 April 2022, the Azerbaijan Premier League approved the name change of Keşla FK to Shamakhi FK.^[1]

Shamakhi
Neftçi Baku
Sabah

Qarabağ

Locations of the 2020–21 Azerbaijan Premier League teams.
Team in italics is from a zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and is playing its home games in Baku.

Stadia and locations

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Year Established	Location	Venue	Capacity^[2]
Gabala	1995^[3]^[4]	Qabala	Gabala City Stadium	4,500
Shamakhi	1997^[5]	Shamakhi	Shamakhi City Stadium	2,200
Neftchi Baku	1937	Baku	Bakcell Arena	11,000
Qarabağ	1951	Aghdam	Azersun Arena	5,200
Sabah	2017	Absheron	Bank Respublika Arena	13,000
Sabail	2016	Səbail	Bayil Arena	3,200
Sumgayit	2010	Sumqayit	Kapital Bank Arena	1,400
Zira	2014	Zira	Zira Olympic Sport Complex Stadium	1,300

Stadiums

Gabala	Shamakhi	Qarabağ	Neftçi Baku
Gabala City Stadium	Shamakhi City Stadium	Azersun Arena	Bakcell Arena
Capacity: 4,500	Capacity: 2,200	Capacity: 5,200	Capacity: 10,200

Sabah	Sabail	Sumgayit	Zira
Bank Respublika Arena	ASCO Arena	Kapital Bank Arena	Zira Olympic Sport Complex Stadium

Capacity: 13,000	Capacity: 3,200	Capacity: 1,400	Capacity: 1,300

Personnel and kits

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

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Gabala	Fariz Najafov	Elmar Bakhshiyev	Asif Mammadov	Joma	Gilan & Knauf
Shamakhi	Zaur Akhundov	Sanan Gurbanov	Ilkin Qirtimov	Joma	Samaya LTD
Neftçi Baku	Kamran Guliyev	Samir Abbasov	Emin Mahmudov	Nike	Turkish Airlines
Qarabağ	Abdolbari Gozal	Gurban Gurbanov	Maksim Medvedev	Adidas	Azersun
Sabah	Magsud Adigozalov	Murad Musayev	Ruslan Abışov	Nike	Bank Respublika
Sabail	Rashad Abdullayev	Aftandil Hacıyev	Rahid Amirguliyev	Nike	AzTea
Sumgayit	Riad Rafiyev	Alyaksey Baha	Vurğun Hüseynov	Jako	Pasha Insurance^{[broken anchor]}, Azərikimya
Zira	Taleh Nasibov	Rashad Sadygov	Aghabala Ramazanov	Joma	Bakcell, Azfargroup

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Sabah	Ramin Guliyev (Acting Head Coach)	End of role	26 May 2021^[6]	Pre-season	Ramin Guliyev	26 May 2021^[6]
Sabah	Ramin Guliyev	Resigned	21 October 2021^[7]	8th	Murad Musayev	30 October 2021^[8]
Sumgayit	Aykhan Abbasov	Sacked	16 December 2021^[9]	7th	Alyaksey Baha	30 December 2021^[10]

Foreign players

Each team can use only six foreign players on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Player 9	Player 10	Player 11	Player 12	Player 13	Player 14	Left during the season
Gabala	Isnik Alimi	Patrick	Ruan	Raphael Alemão	Christophe Atangana	Omar Hani	Stefan Vukčević	Fernán López	Yaovi Akakpo
Shamakhi	Aldair Neto	Franco Flores	Felipe Santos	Merab Gigauri	Sadio Tounkara	Stanislav Namașco	Nathan Oduwa								Anatole Abang Mijuško Bojović Oumar Goudiaby John Kamara
Neftçi	Tiago Bezerra	Ramon Machado	Guilherme Pato	Ivan Brkić	Yusuf Lawal	César Meza	Hugo Basto	Azer Aliyev	Mamadou Mbodj	Vojislav Stanković					Jorge Correa Romain Basque Mamadou Kane Sabir Bougrine Harramiz
Qarabağ	Kady	Leandro Andrade	Patrick Andrade	Kevin Medina	Abdellah Zoubir	Luka Gugeshashvili	Marko Vešović	Ibrahima Wadji	Jaime Romero						Gaspar Panadero
Sabah	Alyaksandr Nyachayew	Bojan Letić	Christian	Higor Gabriel	Lucas Rangel	Špiro Peričić	Mikheil Ergemlidze	Joy-Lance Mickels	Tiemoko Fofana	Julio Rodríguez	Juan Cámara	Cristian Ceballos	Zurab Ochihava	Oleksiy Kashchuk	Petar Škuletić Saša Stamenković
Sabail	Jurgen Goxha	Jamal Arago	Domantas Šimkus	Nicolas Rajsel
Sumgayit	Dzhamaldin Khodzhaniyazov	Ilnur Valiev													Saeid Bagherpasand
Zira	Loris Brogno	Filipe Pachtmann	Hamidou Keyta	Davit Volkovi	Dimitrios Chantakias	Bryan Alceus	Mo Hamdaoui	Nemanja Anđelković	Ahmed Isaiah						Welves Gjorgi Stoilov

In bold: Players that capped for their national team.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Qarabağ (C)	28	21	6	1	72	13	+59	69	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Neftçi Baku	28	15	5	8	42	31	+11	50	Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Zira	28	13	8	7	33	27	+6	47
4	Gabala	28	12	9	7	38	34	+4	45
5	Sabah	28	12	5	11	42	34	+8	41
6	Sumgayit	28	5	7	16	22	46	−24	22^[a]
7	Shamakhi	28	5	7	16	25	49	−24	22^[a]
8	Sabail	28	4	3	21	17	57	−40	15

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored (only if two teams); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored.^[11]
(C) Champions
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: Sumgayit 7, Shamakhi 4.

Fixtures and results

Clubs played each other four times for a total of 28 matches each.

Matches 1–14

Home \ Away	GAB	NEF	QAR	SAB	SEB	SHA	SUM	ZIR
Gabala		1–1	0–0	1–3	5–0	2–1	2–1	1–1
Neftçi Baku	2–2		1–2	1–2	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–1
Qarabağ	2–0	4–0		5–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Sabah	0–2	1–2	1–2		0–1	2–1	3–0	3–3
Sabail	0–2	1–3	3–1	0–3		1–2	1–0	1–2
Shamakhi	2–3	3–2	1–1	2–0	2–2		0–2	0–2
Sumgayit	0–0	1–1	0–4	2–0	2–0	1–3		0–3
Zira	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	1–0

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Matches 15–28

Home \ Away	GAB	NEF	QAR	SAB	SEB	SHA	SUM	ZIR
Gabala		1–0	0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0
Neftçi Baku	4–0		1–2	1–0	2–0	3–1	2–1	0–1
Qarabağ	5–1	4–1		1–1	5–1	8–0	5–0	0–0
Sabah	3–0	0–1	0–1		1–0	5–1	2–2	3–1
Sabail	3–0	0–1	0–3	0–2		0–3	1–1	0–1
Shamakhi	0–1	1–2	0–0	0–1	0–0		1–1	0–1
Sumgayit	0–4	0–2	0–3	0–3	5–0	2–0		0–1
Zira	0–3	1–1	0–3	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0

Source: soccerway.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 15 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Joy-Lance Mickels	Sabah	11
	Davit Volkovi	Zira
	Kady	Qarabağ
	Filip Ozobić	Qarabağ
	Ibrahima Wadji	Qarabağ
6	Tiago Bezerra	Neftçi	10
7	Abdellah Zoubir	Qarabağ	8
	Isnik Alimi	Gabala
	Musa Gurbanli	Qarabağ
10	Ramil Sheydayev	Qarabağ	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Davit Volkovi	Zira	Sabah	3-3 (A)	6 November 2021	^[12]

Clean sheets

As of matches played 15 May 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Nijat Mehbaliyev	Gabala	11
2	Mehdi Jannatov	Zira	10
2	Şahruddin Mahammadaliyev	Qarabağ	10
4	Ivan Brkić	Neftçi	5
5	Salahat Aghayev	Sabah	4
	Stanislav Namașco	Shamakhi
	Aydin Bayramov	Sumgayit
8	Kamran Ibrahimov	Neftçi	3
	Emil Balayev	Qarabağ
	Yusif İmanov	Sabah

References

^ "Peşəkar Futbol Liqasının məlumatı". pfl.az (in Azerbaijani). Azerbaijan Premier League. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
^ Azərbaycan Peşəkar Liqası (in Azerbaijani)
^ "Qəbələ – 10". gabalafc.az (in Azerbaijani). Gabala FK. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
^ Establishment of SC Qabala Archived 23 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Arts, Sports & Events". Official Khazar University website. 2006. Archived from the original on 27 March 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
^ ^a ^b "BAŞ MƏŞQÇİMİZ RAMİN QULİYEVLƏ YENİ MÜQAVİLƏ BAĞLADIQ". sabahfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
^ "RAMİN QULİYEVLƏ YOLLAR AYRILDI". sabahfc.az (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC (Azerbaijan). 21 October 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
^ "MURAD MUSAYEV "SABAH"IN BAŞ MƏŞQÇİSİ TƏYİN EDİLDİ". sabahfc.az (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC (Azerbaijan). 30 October 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
^ "Baş məşqçi Ayxan Abbasovla müqaviləyə xitam verilib". sfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sumgayit FK. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
^ "Aleksey Baqa "Sumqayıt" FK-nın baş məşqçisi təyin olunub". sfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sumgayit FK. 30 December 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ "Premyer Liqa: Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^ "Sabah 3-3 Zira". soccerway.com/. Soccerway. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

External links

UEFA

[table_hth_SHA0.25714885921085-11] Head-to-head points: Sumgayit 7, Shamakhi 4.

[Shamakhi_Name_Change-1] "Peşəkar Futbol Liqasının məlumatı". pfl.az (in Azerbaijani). Azerbaijan Premier League. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

[2] Azərbaycan Peşəkar Liqası (in Azerbaijani)

[Gabala_10-3] "Qəbələ – 10". gabalafc.az (in Azerbaijani). Gabala FK. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

[4] Establishment of SC Qabala Archived 23 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[khazar-5] "Arts, Sports & Events". Official Khazar University website. 2006. Archived from the original on 27 March 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2008.

[Ramin_Guliyev-6] "BAŞ MƏŞQÇİMİZ RAMİN QULİYEVLƏ YENİ MÜQAVİLƏ BAĞLADIQ". sabahfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC. 26 May 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.

[7] "RAMİN QULİYEVLƏ YOLLAR AYRILDI". sabahfc.az (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC (Azerbaijan). 21 October 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.

[8] "MURAD MUSAYEV "SABAH"IN BAŞ MƏŞQÇİSİ TƏYİN EDİLDİ". sabahfc.az (in Azerbaijani). Sabah FC (Azerbaijan). 30 October 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2022.

[9] "Baş məşqçi Ayxan Abbasovla müqaviləyə xitam verilib". sfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sumgayit FK. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.

[10] "Aleksey Baqa "Sumqayıt" FK-nın baş məşqçisi təyin olunub". sfc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Sumgayit FK. 30 December 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.

[12] "Premyer Liqa: Season rules". Scoresway. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[13] "Sabah 3-3 Zira". soccerway.com/. Soccerway. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.

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