2011–12 Azerbaijan Cup

2011-12 Azerbaijan Cup

Country	Azerbaijan
Teams	21
Champions	FC Baku
Runners-up	Neftchi Baku
Matches played	26
Goals scored	60 (2.31 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Juninho (3)
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The Azerbaijan Cup 2011–12 is the 20th season of the annual cup competition in Azerbaijan. It started on 26 October 2011 with five games of the Premiliary Round and will end in May 2012 with the Final. FC Inter Baku are the defending champions. Twenty-two teams are scheduled to compete in this year's competition.

The winner of the competition will qualify for the first qualifying round^[1] of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.

Preliminary round

The games were played on 26 October 2011.^[2]

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Şahdag Qusar	4–1	Muğan
Taraggi	0–1	Neftchala
Şuşa	2–3	Qaradağ
Bakili	1–1 (ET 2–1)	Karvan
Lokomotiv-Bilajary	0–2	Sumgayit

First Round

The five winners from the Preliminary Round joined the remaining eleven teams of the 2011-12 Azerbaijan Premier League in this round and played against each other over one game. The games were played on 30 November 2011.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Baku	0 – 0 (p. 3–2)	Ravan
Inter Baku	2 – 0^1	Turan
Simurq	0 – 1	Neftchi Baku
AZAL	2 – 0	Shahdag
Gabala	3 – 0	Neftchala
Qarabağ	3 – 0	Sumgayit
Khazar Lankaran	3 – 0	Qaradağ
Kapaz	2 – 0	Bakili

Notes

• Match Abandoned after Turan refused to restart the game after conceding a disputed goal^[3]

Quarterfinals

The eight winners from the First Round were drawn into four two-legged ties.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Baku	5 − 2	AZAL	3−1	2−1
Gabala	2 − 2 (a)	Qarabağ	2−2	0−0
Inter Baku	4 − 3	Khazar Lankaran	3−2	1−1
Kapaz	2 − 3	Neftchi Baku	1−2	1−1

Semifinals

The four quarterfinal winners were drawn into two two-legged semifinal ties.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Baku	1−1 (5–4 p.)	Qarabağ	0−1	1−0 (a.e.t.)
Inter Baku	0−1	Neftchi Baku	0−0	0−1

Final

The two semifinals winners participated in this stage of the competition.

Baku v Neftchi Baku

17 May 2012 20:00 AZST

Baku	2−0	Neftchi Baku
Koke  8' Juninho  27'	Summary	Denis Silva  60', 82'

Dalga Arena Attendance: 4,300 Referee: Aliyar Ağayev

Scorers

3 goals:

Juninho, Baku

2 goals:

Koke, Baku Serge Djiehoua, Gabala Yuriy Fomenko, Kəpəz

Ceyhun Sultanov, Kəpəz Randall Brenes, Khazar Lankaran Cătălin Doman, Khazar Lankaran

Bahodir Nasimov, Neftchi Baku F. Amirguliyev, Şahdag Qusar Royal Najafov, Şuşa

1 goal:

Gheorghe Boghiu, AZAL Nugzar Kvirtiya, AZAL Shahriyar Rahimov, AZAL Orkhan Safiyaroglu, AZAL Nasibov, Bakili Baku Huseynov, Bakili Baku Deividas Česnauskis, Baku Lucas Mario Horvat, Baku Aleksandar Šolić, Baku Saşa Yunisoğlu, Gabala Dodo, Gabala Victor Mendy, Gabala Nizami Hajiyev, Inter Baku

Ģirts Karlsons, Inter Baku Enyo Krastovchev, Inter Baku Asif Mirili, Inter Baku Bachana Tskhadadze, Inter Baku Samir Zargarov, Inter Baku Hashimov, Karvan lnur Abdullayev, Khazar Lankaran Branimir Subašić, Khazar Lankaran Aliyev, Mughan Rashad Abdullayev, Neftchi Baku Alessandro, Neftchi Baku Javid Imamverdiyev, Neftchi Baku Amrahov, Neftchala

Giorgi Adamia, Qarabağ Rauf Aliyev, Qarabağ Afran Ismayilov, Qarabağ Muarem Muarem, Qarabağ Leonardo Rocha, Qarabağ Bakhtiyar Soltanov, Qarabağ Gadimov, Qaradağ Tagiyev, Qaradağ Alakberov, Qaradağ Tayibov, Shahdag Qusar Samir Abdulov, Sumgayit Kamil Nurahmadov, Sumgayit

References

1. 2012/13 Access list Bert Kassies' Site
2. Preliminary round scores at soccerway.com

External links

• Azerbaijan Cup at soccerway.com