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Azerbaijan

UEFA. Played 314 since 24 Jul 1979: won 63, drawn 81, lost 170. Elo 1397, ranked 148 in the world; peak 1554 in 2023.

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Results and fixtures

Squad

The following players were called up for the friendly match against Tajikistan on 23 September 2026 and the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League D matches against Lithuania (twice) and Liechtenstein from 27 September to 4 October 2026.

Players
30
Average age
27.1
Caps between them
616
Most from one club
Neftçi (6)

Where they play

22 at home · 8 abroad in 8 other countries

  • Azerbaijan 22
  • Hungary 1
  • Israel 1
  • Kosovo 1
  • Poland 1
  • Romania 1
  • South Korea 1
  • Turkey 1
  • Ukraine 1

Average club rating 1447 (ClubElo; 25 of 30 players' clubs rated, mainly European). Highest-rated club: Raków Częstochowa, ranked 432 by ClubElo.

No.PlayerAgeCapsGoals
Goalkeepers
1Emil BalayevNeftçi32180
12Aydın BayramovZira3030
23Ravan MirzammadovSabah2100
Defenders
3Rüfat AbbasovNeftçi2150
5Anton KryvotsyukDaejeon Hana Citizen(South Korea)28481
7Toral BayramovBursaspor(Turkey)25455
14Elvin BadalovNeftçi31210
15Murad KhachayevNeftçi2840
18Cəlal HüseynovPetrolul Ploiești(Romania)23110
19Tellur MutallimovSabah31120
Badavi GuseynovQarabağ35831
Rahil MammadovTuran Tovuz30290
Rahman DashdamirovSabah27111
Midfielders
2Edqar AdilkhanovŞamaxı2120
4Oruc MammadovŞamaxı2200
6Abdulakh KhaybulayevSabah25110
8Emin MahmudovNeftçi346516
11Aykhan GuseynovZira2750
13Emil SafarovNeftçi24100
16Rufat AbdullazadeKiryat Shmona(Israel)2530
20Aleksey IsayevSabah30351
21Ragim SadykhovTuran Tovuz30141
22Anatoliy NuriyevKisvárda(Hungary)30181
Ceyhun NuriyevAraz-Naxçıvan24140
Mustafa AhmadzadaAraz-Naxçıvan2310
Farid YusifliShafa Baku2410
17Vusal IsgandarliMalisheva(Kosovo)31101
Forwards
9Musa QurbanlıQarabağ24264
10Mahir EmreliRaków Częstochowa(Poland)29647
Renat DadaşovBukovyna Chernivtsi(Ukraine)27477

Squad, caps and goals from Wikipedia: Azerbaijan national football team (CC BY-SA); page last edited 24 Oct 2026. Read daily.

Nations League chances: Group D2

TeamPromoted to CPts
Azerbaijan100%7.5
Lithuania100%6.7
Liechtenstein100%1.6

League D: every team moves up to League C as the competition shrinks to three leagues from 2028/29.

The rest of the league phase played out 10,000 times with FixtureShark’s model (IP1, built on Elo ratings). Ties split by goal difference and goals scored, not head-to-head.

Tournament history

Furthest round reached, finals tournaments and Nations League only (qualifiers are not shown).

Rating over time

120014001600197920032026Peak 1552 (2023)
Rating at the end of each year it played.

Head to head

Against

Azerbaijan v Estonia: played 12, won 2, drawn 6, lost 4; goals 9–12. First met 16 Feb 1996, last 16 Nov 2024.

Record by competition

Azerbaijan by competition
Friendly132394152
UEFA Euro qualification7681157
FIFA World Cup qualification7271649
UEFA Nations League2771010
FIFA Series4220
Malta International Tournament3012

Top scorers

  1. Emin Mahmudov 8
  2. Dimitrij Nazarov 6
  3. Ramil Sheydayev 6
  4. Gurban Gurbanov 5
  5. Vagif Javadov 5
  6. Renat Dadaşov 4
  7. Nazim Suleymanov 3
  8. Zaur Tagizade 3
  9. Farrukh Ismayilov 3
  10. Rashad Sadygov 3

Goals in games whose scorers are recorded in the source (most competitive games, not every friendly), so totals can be lower than official records.

Shoot-outs count as draws in records and ratings. Results: martj42/international_results (CC0), men’s full internationals since 1872. Rounds and groups: openfootball (CC0). Fixtures: fixturedownload.com.