Orkhan Nazarov

Goalkeeper - Ravan
11 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Orkhan Nazarov

14 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Araz Ismayilov out for 89 days

89 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Dimitrij Ismayilov asks to leave Ravan

“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.

Match

The wait goes on for Ravan

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Orkhan Nazarov keeps Ravan in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Ravan leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match

Ravan cannot find the net

4 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Ravan

Danilo Ruiz Díaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Sumgayit take the points off Ravan

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Semih Topcu 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Ravan

Beaten 0‑3 by Neftchi, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Agil Mammadov asks to leave Ravan

“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.

Squad

6 saves: Orkhan Nazarov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Ravan baulk at the price for Sessi D'Almeida

Neftchi wanted more than $890.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Kapaz tell Ravan: Fərid Nəbiyev is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

Ravan bid $63.0K for Murad Məmmədov

The offer went to Neftchi this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Emin Nadirov 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 Ravan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Ravan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mahir Medvedev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Inter join the queue for Cavid Abdullayev

Add another name to the list: Inter have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cavid Abdullayev. The answer from Ravan has not changed — yet.

In brief