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Azerbaijan National Football Team

Head coach: Shakhin Diniyev
Captain: Aslan Karimov
Top scorer: Gurban Gurbanov
FIFA ranking: 109

The Azerbaijan national football team is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan.

In February 2004, Carlos Alberto Torres, captain of the Brazil team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup was appointed its national coach. Despite a poor start, a 0-6 defeat to Israel on February 18, Azerbaijan won their first ever away match, 3-2 against Kazakhstan on April 28. In June 2005, following a 3-0 defeat by Poland, Torres stood down from the position, to be replaced by former Neftchi coach Vagyf Sadygov, his third spell as coach of Azerbaijan. Shakhin Diniyev took over as manager in November 2005.

Because of security issues, the team played all of its home Euro 96 qualifers in Trabzon, Turkey

Azerbaijan Team
No.	NAME	POS	H(M)	W(Kg)	Age
1	Farhad Veliyev	G	-	-	-
12	Jahangir Hasanzade	G	1.90	77	27
23	Rauf Mehdiev	G	-	-	-
-	Aslan Karimov	D	-	-	-
2	Zaur Hashymov	D	-	-	-
3	Elvin Aliyev	D	-	-	-
5	Emin Guliyev	D	1.85	71	30
7	Ramin Guliyev	D	-	-	-
9	Samir Abbasov	D	-	-	-
6	Elmar Bahshiev	M	-	-	-
10	Jeykhun Sultanov	M	-	-	-
16	Alim Gurbanov	M	-	-	-
18	Ilgar Gurbanov	M	-	-	-
19	Emin Imamaliev	M	-	-	-
22	Alkeksandr Chertoganov	M	-	-	-
8	Kenan Kerimov	S	-	-	-
11	Ramazan Abbasov	S	-	-	-
15	Branimir Subashic	S	-	-	-
17	Vugar Nadyrov	S	-	-	-
20	Vagif Javadov	S	-	-	-
21	Khagani Mamedov	S	-	-	-

Group A
	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA	GD	P
Poland	9	6	1	2	15	7	8	19
Serbia	7	4	2	1	10	4	6	14
Portugal	7	4	2	1	15	5	10	14
Finland	8	4	2	2	9	5	4	14
Belgium	8	2	1	5	5	10	-5	7
Armenia	7	2	1	4	3	7	-4	7
Kazakhstan	8	1	3	4	5	11	-6	6
Azerbaijan	8	1	2	5	4	17	-13	5