Azerbaijan national football team

The Azerbaijan national football team is the selection of the best football players from Azerbaijan.

To date, the team failed to qualify for either a World Cup or a European Football Championship. Although the country is geographically in Asia, the federation is a member of UEFA, which is why the national team participates in the European competitions.

History

Until 1990 Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, which is why Azerbaijani players could only play in the national football team of the USSR.

The Azerbaijani Football Federation was founded in 1992 and entered 1994, the UEFA and FIFA in. Their first competitive game played the Azerbaijani national football team during the qualification for the European Football Championship in 1996 and finished that behind with one point from 10 games in the last place. For security reasons, all home games were played in Trabzon in Turkey.

In qualifying for the FIFA World Cup in 1998 they achieved a surprise 1-0 win against Switzerland, these are the only points were but they were able to bring in this group.

Another surprise they succeeded in qualifying for Euro 2000 with a 1-1 draw against eventual semi-finalists Portugal EM. However, Azerbaijan also brought in those qualifying round only four points and lost 1-2 against Liechtenstein.

In qualifying for the FIFA World Cup 2002 succeeded only the third competitive victory for Azerbaijan, a 2-0 win against Slovakia. This was followed in qualifying for the 2004 European Football Championship, a 2-1 win over Serbia and Montenegro.

However, Azerbaijan is still one of the Football developing countries. The nomination of the Brazilian Carlos Alberto Torres, former world champion of the Football World Cup 1970, the coach did not change this. He has now released again. In November 2005, Şahin Diniyev was appointed as the new coach. He presented a three-year plan to build a new team and set the change of jersey color in blue-red- green ( national colors ) by. In qualifying for the 2008 European Football Championship was again one group Last, but managed a win against Finland ( 1-0). Since April 2008, Berti Vogts new coach of the Azerbaijani team. With the former German national coach they finished in the World Cup qualifiers for 2010, the last place and let Liechtenstein behind. Against Liechtenstein, there was the single win and a draw. A great sensation it was in the last game to cheer. Against the runners, EM semi-finalists and arch-rival Russia was reached in Baku 1:1.

In qualifying for the 2012 European Football Championship, the team succeeded after 1:6 against Germany and 0-3 against Austria on 12 October 2010, a 1-0 win against Turkey. Even with a 1-1 draw against Belgium on 2 September 2011, the team's surprise.

World Cup participations

European Championship participations

Azerbaijan took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992 as part of the USSR and the CIS. In the Soviet national team but Azerbaijani players played no major role. Few Azerbaijani players came to EM inserts, so 1972 Anatoli Banischewski. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union into several independent states of Azerbaijan took first in the qualifiers for Euro 1996 part, but could never qualify and handed it to a maximum of the penultimate place.

International matches against German -speaking teams

Current squad

Most games

Scorer

Sources: Azerbaijan - Record International Players (as of 6 March 2012 ), PLAYERS for Azerbaijan national team