The Khazar Gazette
Match15 Aug 2026
Khazar tear AZAL apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against AZAL, and it could have been more.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nicola Martinelli scores twice — 8.81
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Khazar say no — this time
The offer from Sumgayit for Javid Huseynov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Javid Huseynov
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Maksim Bayramov 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 Khazar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nicola Martinelli 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 Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Khazar
4 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Khazar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vüqar Mustafayev 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Khazar promote Samir Garayev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samir Garayev 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.
In brief
- Market Khazar promote Kamran Ozobic from within
- Squad Beka Dartsmelia has outgrown this division
- Squad 9 new faces, and Khazar are still learning each other