The Kapaz Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Alessio Curci
Kapaz asked and Neftchi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rashad Amirguliyev joins the Kapaz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rashad Amirguliyev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Rufat Bayramov joins the Kapaz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rufat Bayramov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Afran Medvedev joins the Kapaz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Afran Medvedev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kapaz promote Rashad Ozobic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rashad 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kapaz
Elcan Əbilov 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kapaz try to borrow Afran Nazarov
Inter have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
A reunion for Rauf Hüseynli
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Gabala in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ümid Səmədov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ümid Səmədov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead Kapaz travel to Gabala
- Squad Questions about Fərid Kələntərov on the training pitch