2008–09 Azerbaijan First Division

Azerbaijan First Division
Season 2008–09
Champions ABN Bärdä
Promoted N/A
Matches played 112
Goals scored 332 (2.96 per match)

The 2008–09 Azerbaijan First Division is the second-level of football in Azerbaijan. The season is started on 6 September 2009 with eight teams participating in the league. NBC Salyan were the defending champions.

ABN Bärdä won the league, with Shahdag finishing as runners up. Both teams were due to be promoted to the Azerbaijan Premier League, but due to the AFFA's license policy, neither teams were.

Schedule

Each team played each other four times, twice at home and twice away, with the season started on 6 September 2008 and finished on 16 May 2009. There were no games between 7 December 2008 and 15 February 2009, due to the annual winter break.

Teams

Adliyya Baku
Qafqaz University FK
Location of teams in Azerbaijan Premier League 2008-09

Stadia and locations

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Team Location Venue Capacity
ABN Bärdä Barda Barda City Stadium 10,000
Adliyya Baku Baku Adliyya Stadium 7,000
Energetik Mingachevir Yashar Mammadzade Stadium 5,000
Göyazan Qazax Qazakh City Stadium 3,500
ANSAD-Petrol Neftçala Neftçala Nariman Narimanov Stadium 4,000
Qafqaz University Baku
Shahdag Qusar Shovkat Ordukhanov Stadium 4,000
Spartak Guba Quba Quba City Stadium 2,000

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 ABN Bärdä (C) 28 15 6 7 46 39+7 51
2 Şahdağ 28 14 9 5 48 29+19 51
3 FK Neftchala 28 15 6 7 50 31+19 51
4 Energetik 28 14 8 6 51 29+22 50
5 Qafqaz University 28 10 7 11 41 43−2 37
6 Adliyya Baku 28 10 5 13 47 45+2 35
7 Göyəzən 28 6 4 18 29 56−27 22
8 Spartak Guba 28 3 5 20 20 69−49 14

Updated to games played on 29 October 2013.
Source: Pfl.az
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Top goalscorers

Last updated: 17 May 2009; Source: www.football-plus.az (in Azerbaijani)

15 goals
14 goals

See also

References

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