The Khazar Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
$410.0K — a new record at Khazar
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Emin Sadygov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
Kamran Dadashov among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Kamran Dadashov on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Khazar and AZAL.
Match15 Aug 2026
Khazar get the job done against AZAL
A 4‑2 win over AZAL, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Khazar
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Khazar spend $410.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $410.0K for Lucas Rodríguez, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Václav Ondřejka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Emin Jafarov
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Eddy Garayev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Market Orkhan Mammadov steps up from the Khazar academy
- Market Khazar promote Agil Dadashov from within
- Market Khazar promote Cavid Ozobic from within