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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. 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.

On 31 October 2008, FK NBC Salyan changed their name to FK Mughan.

Stadia and locations

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

Personnel

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Club chairman
Bakılı Baku	Bakhtiyar Gulamov	Vasif Aliyev	Misir Abilov
FK Baku	Gjoko Hadžievski	Rafael Amirbekov	Hafiz Mammadov
Inter Baku	Valentin Khodukin	Khagani Mammadov	Georgi Nikolov
Karabakh	Gurban Gurbanov	Farhad Veliyev	Abdulbari Goozal
Karvan	vacant	Ilham Yadullayev	Javanshir Shiraliyev
Khazar Lankaran	Igor Ponomarev	Dmitry Kramarenko	Mübariz Mensimov
MOIK Baku	Akif Ibadov	Ismail Mammadov	Safar Abiyev
Mughan	Vladislav Gadyrov	Tarlan Khalilov	Fizuli Aliyev
Neftchi Baku	Boyukaga Agaev	Zaur Tagizade	Akper Hajiyev
Olimpik Baku	Asker Abdullayev	Tarlan Akhmedov	Rasul Rasulov
FK Qäbälä	Ramiz Mammadov	Kanan Karimov	Taleh Heydarov
Simurq Zaqatala	Roman Pokora	Mykhailo Starostyak	Zaur Mammadov
Standard Baku	Rafik Mirzoyev	Huseyn Mahammadov	Emin Babayev
Turan Tovuz	Etimad Gurbanov	Asaf Gadiri	Rashid Maherramov

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Standard Baku	Badri Kvaratskhelia	Resigned	20 April 2009	Rafik Mirzoyev	20 April 2009
Mughan	Nadir Gasymov	Sacked	5 May 2009	Vladislav Gadirov	20 April 2009

League table

1. Karabakh won the 2008–09 Azerbaijan Cup and therefore qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.

Results

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Walter Guglielmone	Inter	17
2	Ivan Tsvetkov	Khazar	15
3	Volodymyr Mazyar	Simurq	11
	Amiran Mujiri	Baku	11
5	Leandro Gomes	Olimpik Baku	10
	Angel Gutierrez	Standard	10
7	Victor Igbekoyi	Qarabağ/Turan	8
	Farzad Hatami	Gabala	8
	Rômulo	Khazar	8
10	Bakhtiyar Soltanov	Baku	7

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Farzad Hatami	Gabala	MOIK	3–0	17 August 2008
Ivan Tsvetkov	Khazar	MOIK	4–0	26 September 2008
Leandro Gomes	Olimpik Baku	Bakılı	4–0	7 March 2009
Bakhtiyar Soltanov	Baku	Bakılı	3–1	21 March 2009
Victor Igbekoi	Turan	Karvan	4–0	12 April 2009
Walter Guglielmone	Inter	MOIK	3–0	12 April 2009
Nariman Äzimov	Olimpik Baku	MOIK	6–1	11 May 2009

• 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

1. “Masalli” will not take part in Premier League
2. Azerbaijani Premier League to be drawn on July 30 Archived 2009-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
3. NBC is renamed
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5. ^ Кварацхелия ушел из Стандарда (in Russian)
6. Еще одна отставка в премьер-лиге (in Russian)
7. Мугань вновь доверили Гадирову (in Russian)
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