The Qarabag Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
Orlando Mareco breaks a bone — 101 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 2026
Tomáš Vaclík asks to leave Qarabag
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bruno Langa keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Qarabag may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Abdellah Zoubir, 35, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Qarabag — 7.90
1 for Bəhlul Mustafazadə, marked 7.90, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market30 Nov 2026
Qarabag may not be able to give Kady Borges what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Kady Borges wants continental football; whether Qarabag can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tomáš Vaclík wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Qarabag know it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Qarabag
Kady Borges was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nothing got past Kady Borges
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
- Match Abdellah Zoubir sends Qarabag past Kapaz
- Loan watch Abiodun Toheeb wants to come home
- Player ratings Nothing got past Matheus Silva