Namig Abdullayev

Central Defender - AZAL U20
29 Jan 2028
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Marked for Namig Abdullayev

7 Edition

The AZAL Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Sep 2026

Amin Ramazanov keeps AZAL in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Namig Abdullayev

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

Match9 Sep 2026

AZAL out of the cup

Sumgayit ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Masimiliano Doda

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Samir Guseynov out for 70 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AZAL will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Samuel Lobato pops up at the right end — 7.77

7.77, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match12 Sep 2026

AZAL get the job done against Inter

A 2‑1 win over Inter, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Tamkin Sheydaev

At 21 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Samuel Lobato 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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The AZAL Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Sep 2026

Namig Abdullayev damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Samir Guseynov out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AZAL will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market7 Sep 2026

Javid Amirguliyev 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

The AZAL board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Match5 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for AZAL

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AZAL are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Kamran Medvedev 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Kapaz take the points off AZAL

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Namig Huseynov's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market7 Sep 2026

The window shut and Kamran Medvedev is still in the building

AZAL spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief