The Khazar Gazette
Match15 Aug 2026
Agil Ismayilov leads the rout of AZAL
4‑1, and Agil Ismayilov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Khazar tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Agil Ismayilov takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Agil Ismayilov provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market17 Aug 2026
Khazar turn down Kapaz for Rufat Abdullayev
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Maccabi Tel Aviv watching Agil Ismayilov
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Khazar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rufat Abdullayev, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Tamkin Ozobic
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Khazar
Eddy Medvedev 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Khazar
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Beka Dartsmelia 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
- Market Khazar promote Samir Mammadov from within
- Market Khazar promote Afran Huseynov from within
- Squad Eddy Mammadov gets it from the manager