Cavid Mammadov

Striker - Gabala
14 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Cavid Mammadov

11 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ruslan Huseynov

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Khazar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Rashad Khalilzade

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Khazar

Vugar Bayramov 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.

Squad

Diogo Tomás falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Vüqar Mustafayev was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.86. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ahmet Bayindir

At 22 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.

Match

Khazar see off Zira

Three points for Khazar, 1‑0 the final word against Zira in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Loan watch

Cavid Mammadov wants to come home

“I did not go to Gabala to sit and watch. I want to come back to Khazar and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

The terraces

The press cannot get enough of Vüqar Mustafayev

Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ruslan Huseynov

81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Khazar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

No end in sight to Khazar's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Khazar has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Diogo Tomás 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.

Squad

Words at Khazar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vüqar Mustafayev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Khazar cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Match

Khazar come up short against Ravan

Ravan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Bahlul Dadashov 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mahir Ozobic

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch

Cavid Mammadov has seen enough of Gabala

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Khazar, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief