The Ravan Chronicle
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A first appearance Orkhan Medvedev will want to forget — 5.50
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.50, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sumgayit watching Renat Garayev
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ravan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ravan
Alexei Gorbachev 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
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ravan
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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Qara Sadygov
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ravan promote Qara Ramazanov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Qara Ramazanov 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Araz Abdullayev steps up from the Ravan academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Araz Abdullayev 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Samir Sadygov joins the Ravan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samir Sadygov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Samir Khalilzade gets it from the manager
- Match A bad afternoon for Ravan against Qarabag
- Squad Konstantin Pugachev falls out with a teammate over standards