The AZAL Courier
Match28 Nov 2026
Maksim Bayramov drives the AZAL comeback
2 behind and going nowhere, until Maksim Bayramov decided otherwise. Kapaz had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Renat Bayramov, 18, steals the show — 8.09
Marked 8.09 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AZAL
Cavid Medvedev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match28 Nov 2026
AZAL see off Kapaz
Three points for AZAL, 4‑3 the final word against Kapaz in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
One of their own: Tamkin Garayev
He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Maksim Bayramov at his very best
Marked 8.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AZAL.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
One of those days for Namig Huseynov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Emin Amirguliyev signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emin Amirguliyev and AZAL agree another 1 years.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at AZAL training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rashad Guseynov 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Cavid Medvedev
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Rashad Sadygov