Azerbaijan women's national football team

Azerbaijan

Nickname(s)	Odlar Yurdu (The Land of Fire)
Association	Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Shamil Haydarov
Captain	Irada Guliyeva
Home stadium	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium Ismet Qaibov Stsdium
FIFA code	AZE
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	NR (25 September 2015)[1]
Highest	58 (December 2009)
Lowest	148 (September 2015)
First international
Romania 4–1 Azerbaijan  (Mogoșoaia, Romania; November 18, 2006)
Biggest win
Macedonia 0–4 Azerbaijan  (Tbilisi, Georgia; May 13, 2009)
Biggest defeat
Sweden 17–0 Azerbaijan  (Gothenburg, Sweden; June 23, 2010)
World Cup
Appearances	0
European Championship
Appearances	0

The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 133rd (no rank) at the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament.^[2] The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium.

History

2000s

In 2005, the AFFA had planned to send a team to the Women's World Cup qualifying, finally, the team withdrew before it started the qualifying tournament. On November 18, 2006 Azerbaijan played its first game against Romania in the city of Mogosoaia for the 2009 Euro qualifiers with a team led by Shamil Haydarov and captained by Kifayat Osmanova, losing 4–1 with its first goal scored by Svetlana Milyukhina, they played two matches later, in which they won against Estonia and lost against Bulgaria, they ended up eliminated from the tournament with 3 points. In 2009, Azerbaijan participated for the first time in a World Cup qualifying in Group 8, with Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden and Wales, where it played three games, one won, one drawn and one lost before the end of the year.

2010s

In 2010, Azerbaijan played five games for the qualifiers, losing them all and being eliminated from the competition with 4 points, a game won, one drawn lost six games, scoring two goals and conceding sixteen. After that campaign, the team did not play to date back and has not scheduled any competition or friendly match. The team not even entered the 2015 World Cup Qualifiers.

World Cup record

World Cup Finals
Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA	GD
1991	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1995	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2003	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2011	Did Not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Did Not Enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	0/7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Farida Babayeva 2 GK Lyubov Tirina 3 DF Nigar İsmayilova 4 DF Svetlana Famenko 5 DF Olga Gaziyeva 6 DF Elena Nabiyeva 7 DF Anastasia Rahmanova 8 DF Olga Safarova 9 DF Natalya Saratovtseva 10 DF Narmina Rzayeva 11 MF Masha Makarova 12 MF Tamara Starovoytova

No. Position Player 13 MF Natalya Kamasheva 14 MF Nargiz Huseynova 15 MF Galina Komarova 16 MF Marina Akayeva 17 FW Anastasiya Zhidkova 18 FW Raisa Davidok 19 FW Lyudmila Kuzniatsova 20 FW Anna Alakbarova 21 FW Inna Boyko 22 FW Ekaterina Nosova 23 FW Elena Shevtsova

Managers

Manager	Azerbaijan career	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost
Haydarov, ShamilShamil Haydarov	2006–present	22	7	4	11

References

1. "Azerbaijan: FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
2. Qadın Futbolu Archived December 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. (Azerbaijani)

External links

• Football Federation of Azerbaijan