2006–07 Azerbaijan Top League

Azerbaijan Top League
Season 2006–07
Champions Khazar Lenkoran
Relegated FK Gäncä
Sahdag Qusar
UEFA Champions League Khazar Lenkoran
UEFA Cup Neftchi Baku
MKT Araz
UEFA Intertoto Cup FK Baku
Matches played 144
Goals scored 246 (1.71 per match)
Top goalscorer Zaur Ramazanov
(20 goals)

Azerbaijan Premier League 2007–08 was the fifteenth season of top-tier football in Azerbaijan. The season started with 14 teams, but ended with 13 after FK Gäncä were excluded. FK Baku were the defending champions with the season began on 5 August 2006 and ended on 23 May 2007. At the end of the season the league was dissolved and replaced by the Azerbaijan Premier League.

Teams

MOIK Baku and Göyazan Qazax were relegated after finishing the previous season in 13th and 14th place. They were replaced by Gilan Qäbälä and Simurq Zaqatala from the Azerbaijan First Division.

Stadia and locations

Team Venue Capacity
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
Kapaz Ganja City Stadium 26,120
Karabakh Guzanli Olympic Stadium1 15,000
Karvan Yevlakh Stadium 5,000
Khazar Lankaran Lankaran City Stadium 15,000
MKT Araz Heydar Aliyev Stadium 8,500
Neftchi Baku Tofik Bakhramov Stadium 29,858
Olimpik Baku Shafa Stadium 8,200
Shahdag Qusar Shovkat Ordukhanov Stadium 5,000
Simurq Zaqatala Zaqatala City Stadium 4,000
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]

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Khazar Lankaran 24 17 5 2 50 16 +34 56 2007–08 UEFA Champions League First qualifying round
2 Neftçi Baku 24 17 3 4 47 15 +32 54 UEFA Cup 2007–08 First qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
3 Baku 24 14 6 4 25 10 +15 48
4 Inter Baku 24 13 6 5 36 12 +24 45
5 FK MKT-Araz 24 12 5 7 23 18 +5 41 UEFA Cup 2007–08 First qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
6 Olimpik Baku 24 11 8 5 28 17 +11 41
7 Karvan 24 10 5 9 36 30 +6 35
8 Qarabağ 24 6 9 9 20 27 7 27
9 Simurq 24 6 7 11 27 33 6 25
10 Turan 24 5 5 14 24 38 14 20
11 Gabala 24 4 4 16 17 47 30 16
12 Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit 24 3 3 18 16 54 38 12
13 Şahdağ 24 1 8 15 15 47 32 11 Relegation to 2007-08 Azerbaijan First Division
14 Ganja 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Team excluded[lower-alpha 2]
Updated to match(es) played on 5 May 2013. Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Notes:
  1. 1 2 MKT-Araz qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup as winner of the 2004–05 Azerbaijan Cup.
  2. FK Gäncä were excluded from the league due to financial problems.

Results

Home \ Away[1] ABB SSQ BAKGABGANGASINTKARKHANEFOLIQARSIMTUR
FK MKT-Araz 10 20 41 51 02 10 02 11 00 10 11 10
Şahdağ 00 00 01 30 15 02 15 11 00 00 13 12
Baku 10 31 10 30 20 20 00 01 10 00 32 20
Gabala 01 00 01 20 00 14 03 14 03 02 12 10
Ganja
Gänclärbirliyi Sumqayit 00 11 01 01 04 10 03 01 11 03 42 20
Inter Baku 01 21 01 20 41 11 00 01 00 10 20 10
Karvan 01 31 12 33 32 11 21 01 10 20 30 21
Khazar Lankaran 41 31 10 40 31 00 31 21 32 20 11 00
Neftçi Baku 30 50 10 41 61 01 31 10 30 00 10 42
Olimpik Baku 10 31 00 31 20 10 10 12 21 00 30 10
Qarabağ 10 31 11 32 10 01 11 14 02 11 11 11
Simurq 01 30 00 31 10 12 11 01 01 22 30 00
Turan 01 11 01 00 41 17 24 23 21 01 31 31

Source: RSSF
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 goalscorers

Rank Player Club Goals[2]
1 Azerbaijan Zaur Ramazanov Khazar Lankaran 20
2 Azerbaijan Khagani Mammadov Olimpik-Shuvalan 13
3 Georgia (country) Georgi Adamia Neftchi Baku 10
Azerbaijan Samir Aliyev Inter Baku/Neftchi Baku 10
Ivory Coast Yacouba Bamba Karvan 10
6 Nigeria Viktor Ibekoyi Turan Tovuz 9
Azerbaijan Nadir Nabiev Neftchi Baku 9
Azerbaijan Ramin Nasibov Simurq 9
9 Moldova Anatolie Doroș MKT Araz 8

Hat-tricks

[3]

PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Azerbaijan Samir MusayevQarabağŞahdağ3–110 August 2006
Azerbaijan Samir AliyevInter BakuGänclärbirliyi Sumqayit4–122 October 2006
Azerbaijan Khagani MammadovOlimpik-ShuvalanŞahdağ3–113 December 2006
Ukraine Volodymyr MazyarSimurqQarabağ3–012 May 2007
Azerbaijan Zaur RamazanovKhazar LankaranTuran Tovuz3–212 May 2006

References

  1. Стадион в Гузанлы одобрен ПФЛ (in Russian)
  2. "Top 10 goal scorers" (PDF). pfl.az. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
  3. "Azerbaijan 2006/07". rsssf.com. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
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