Emin Amirguliyev

Left Midfielder - AZAL
29 Dec 2026
Tuesday
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Marked for Emin Amirguliyev

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The AZAL Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

AZAL see off Kapaz

Three points for AZAL, 4‑3 the final word against Kapaz in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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
Back issues
2 Edition

The AZAL Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Abbas Hüseynov

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AZAL have done the hard part with Qarabag, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Hacıağa Hacılı turns down AZAL

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Zira keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Cavid Medvedev signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cavid Medvedev and AZAL agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at AZAL

Samir Huseynov 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.

Squad

Words at AZAL training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cavid Medvedev 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rashad Bayramov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Cavid Medvedev knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AZAL, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Samir Huseynov question follows AZAL around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Samir Huseynov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Maksim Bayramov has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at AZAL that is a harder question to answer.

In brief