Dmitriy Zubkov

Central Midfielder - AZAL
26 Dec 2026
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Marked for Dmitriy Zubkov

4 Edition

The AZAL Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

Maksim Ismayilov keeps AZAL in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Namig Guseynov, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.67

A mark of 7.67 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market24 Aug 2026

Dmitriy Zubkov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AZAL can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Artur Bogusz 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 AZAL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match22 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for AZAL against Zira

3‑4 to Zira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match22 Aug 2026

7 goals as AZAL and Zira go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between AZAL and Zira, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad24 Aug 2026

César Aponte 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Silvester Shkalla is still paying for one afternoon at AZAL

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Namig Sadygov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The AZAL Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Araz Abdullayev hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AZAL can pretend not to have heard.

Market3 Aug 2026

Rashad Medvedev attracts admirers

The name of Rashad Medvedev has come up in conversations AZAL were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Orkhan Jafarov 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 AZAL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Cavid Medvedev 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Agil Madatov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agil Madatov commits to AZAL for another 1 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Cavid Medvedev knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cavid Medvedev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief