The Sumgayit Courier
Market5 Oct 2026
Aleksa Janković asks to leave Sumgayit
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Sumgayit make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Sumgayit have 3 straight wins of it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
968% of the income goes out in wages at Sumgayit
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Alexandre Ramalingom
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandre Ramalingom, and the manager let it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Rayan Senhadji sends Sumgayit past AZAL
It finished 1‑0, and it was Rayan Senhadji’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sumgayit.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The month belongs to Ilhan Fakili
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Sumgayit have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The armband comes off Ronaldo Vásquez
Sumgayit will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Market5 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Sumgayit
Nelson Seguel arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market5 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at Sumgayit
Diego Tissera arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
In brief
- Market Experience through the door at Sumgayit
- Squad Keffel takes the armband
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Rayan Senhadji