Qara Mammadov

Goalkeeper - Ravan U20
3 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Qara Mammadov

57 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Qara Mammadov

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

Match

Ravan let it slip despite Rufat Mammadov

Rufat Mammadov had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Sumgayit were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad

A fracture rules Renat Khalilzade out for 59 days

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

Player ratings

Rufat Mammadov scores twice — 8.85

Two goals and a mark of 8.85 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Renat Madatov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Renat Madatov commits to Ravan for another 3 years.

Squad

Can Tokoz 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.

Loan watch

Renat Nadirov has seen enough of Gabala

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ravan, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Honours even between Ravan and Sumgayit

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Cavid Abdullayev 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
56 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Qara Mammadov

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

Squad

Real improvement from Oleksii Plichko at Ravan

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oleksii Plichko is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravan

Can Tokoz was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Rufat Huseynov 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.

Match

Ravan hit back inside 2 minutes

Neftchi held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Ravan answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Market

The Cavid Nazarov conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Lokomotivi will make the call about Cavid Nazarov this week. Ravan have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Ravan and Neftchi take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Can Tokoz

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Araz Sadygov talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ravan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

55 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Qara Mammadov

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

Squad

Can Tokoz 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ravan

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Ravan come up short against Qarabag

Qarabag left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Agil Garayev steps up from the Ravan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Agil Garayev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Ravan promote Rufat Ozobic from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rufat Ozobic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Qara Bayramov joins the Ravan first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Qara Bayramov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Araz Ismayilov steps up from the Ravan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Araz Ismayilov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Words at Ravan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rufat Mammadov 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