Shuvalan FK

AZAL Arena
	UEFA
Location	Shuvalan, Baku, Azerbaijan
Owner	Shuvalan FK
Capacity	3,500
Surface	Artificial
Construction
Broke ground	2009
Opened	10 April 2011
Tenants
	Shuvalan FK

Shuvalan
Full name	Şüvəlan Futbol Klubu
Founded	2005; 20 years ago
Dissolved	2019; 6 years ago
Ground	AZAL Arena
Capacity	3,500
Owner	Jahangir Asgarov
League	Azerbaijan First Division
2018–19	7th
Home colours	Away colours

Shuvalan FK (Azerbaijani: Şüvəlan Futbol Klubu, pronounced [ʃyvæˈlɑn]) was an Azerbaijani football club based in Şüvəlan, Baku. The club was dissolved in 2019.

The club was renamed four times in its short history, becoming Olimpik Baku, Olimpik-Shuvalan Baku, AZAL and Shuvalan. UEFA is still recognizing the club as Olimpik-Shuvalan at European competitions.^[1]

The club is also a member of the European Club Association, an organization that replaced the previous G-14 which consists of major football clubs in Europe.

History

Early years (1996–2006)

The club was established in 1996 as a futsal club under the name of AMMK. It participated in national futsal league from the season 1996–97 until 2003–04.^[2]^[3] AMMK also represented Azerbaijan in UEFA Futsal Cup 2003/04 season.

AMMK became a professional football team in 2004 and joined the Azerbaijan First Division. The first Azerbaijan Premier League season was not much successful for Olimpik Baku. Croatian manager Stjepan Čordaš worked just for a couple of months and was sacked after poor results. His place was taken by Serbian Petar Kurčubić, but he was also unable to achieve good results, and Olimpik Baku finished 12th. At that time, Olimpik was called 'The club from Balkans', as there were a lot of players from Balkan countries such as Marko Mitrović, Srdjan Baljak, Rašo Babić, Saša Kovačević, Tomislav Višević and others.^[4]

Abdullayev years (2006–2009)

In June 2006, Asgar Abdullayev was appointed as a new head coach of Olimpik. He still remains as the most successful manager in the clubs' history. Led by Abdullayev, Olimpik improved its results, ranked 6th in 2007 and 2nd in 2008. Olimpik came very closed to win 2007–08 league title, but the team was beaten by Qarabağ at last round game, although they only had to play a draw.^[5]

Olimpik's debut in European competitions was also not successful, as they were eliminated in the 1st qualifying round of 2008–09 UEFA Cup by Serbian side Vojvodina. Roman Akhalkatsi became the first goalscorer of Olimpik in the European club tournaments.^[6]

2009–2017

In 2009, the club moved from center to Shuvalan settlement and was renamed into Olimpik-Shuvalan PFC.^[7]^[8] In November 2009, Asgar Abdullayev completed his mission and he was changed by former Azerbaijani football star Nazim Suleymanov.^[9] At his debut season, Suleymanov took the team over the Azerbaijan Cup quarter-final for a first time in its history. The club once again was renamed in 2010, this time to AZAL PFC due to sponsorship reasons from airline company Azerbaijan Airlines.^[10]^[11] In September 2010, the club management announced the construction of new AZAL Arena in Shuvalan.

The 2010–11 Azerbaijan Premier League season was a great for AZAL. The team finished 4th and entered UEFA Europa League 2011-12 season. Although the club was renamed into AZAL in 2010, it represented as Olimpik-Shuvalan in UEFA Europa League competitions due to UEFA's sponsorship regulations.^[1] Before the home game against Minsk, Suleymanov said that he would resign in case of defeat.^[12] AZAL lost to Minsk 2–3 in aggregate, and Suleymanov announced his resignation after second match in Minsk.^[13]

In July, club president Vaqif Gasymov invited Elkhan Abdullayev to AZAL and he signed a one-year contract. He started with a brilliance victory over Simurq (3:0), but resigned after 11 games, when AZAL came down to 11th position.^[14] The club sponsors made a decision to replace him by Rafig Mirzayev, Abdullayev's former assistant. Mirzayev started as a caretaker, winning 3 games consecutively and taking the team up to 7th place. In December 2011, Mirzayev signed a half-year contract with AZAL.^[15] In April, after the unsuccessful run, Mirzayev was sacked, and Azerbaijan national football team former manager Vagif Sadygov was appointed as a new head coach.^[16]

It was an ambiguous season for AZAL and its manager. The team won 16 games, scored 57 goals, renewing own records, but for the second time consecutively did not enter Championship Group after Preliminary Round. The management recognized the season as unsuccessful despite the fact that the team has won 9 of the 10 matches in the relegation group.^[17] Brazilian striker Nildo scored 21 goals, showing the best individual record in AZAL's history for the scorers in a single season and became one of the topscorers of the 2012–13 Azerbaijan Premier League.

The summer of 2013, saw more budget cuts and several big names as Nildo, Zouhir Benouahi, Nduka Usim, etc. leaving the club, but this time the main concern for fans was the very future of the club.^[18]

Recent years (2017–)

On 12 May 2017, the club was renamed into Shuvalan FK.^[19]

The club dissolved in 2019.^{[citation needed]}

Domestic league and cup history

Season	Div.	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Domestic Cup	Top scorer	Goals	Manager
2004–05	2nd	1	14	10	3	1	25	9	33	1/16 Finals			Garibov
2005–06	1st	12	26	5	8	13	15	27	23	1/8 Finals	Baljak	3	Čordaš / Kurčubić
2006–07	1st	6	24	11	8	5	28	17	41	1/8 Finals	Mammadov	13	A.Abdullayev
2007–08	1st	2	26	17	7	2	29	7	58	Quarterfinals	Junivan	11	A.Abdullayev
2008–09	1st	6	26	12	8	6	32	18	44	Quarterfinals	Gomes	10	A.Abdullayev
2009–10	1st	7	42	16	13	13	47	29	61	Semi-finals	Doroş	12	A.Abdullayev / Suleymanov
2010–11	1st	4	32	13	10	9	36	28	49	Semi-finals	Juška	10	Suleymanov
2011–12	1st	7	32	12	8	12	44	44	44	Quarterfinals	Benouahi	10	E.Abdullayev / Mirzayev / Sadygov
2012–13	1st	7	32	16	9	7	57	32	57	1/8 Finals	Nildo	21	Sadygov
2013–14	1st	8	36	6	13	17	29	49	31	Second Round	Oluremi	8	Sadygov / Ahmadov
2014–15	1st	6	32	10	9	13	37	42	39	Quarter Final	Mombongo-Dues	13	Ahmadov
2015–16	1st	7	36	13	7	16	26	38	46	Second round	Kvirtia	7	Ahmadov
2016–17	1st	8	28	1	7	20	13	50	10	Quarterfinal	Kvirtia Janelidze	3	Ahmadov
2017–18	2nd	3	27	13	6	8	30	20	45	1/8 finals	Kvirtia	8	Nabiyev

European history

Updated 10 February 2013.

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2008–09	UEFA Cup	Q1		Vojvodina	1–1	0–1	1–2
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Q1		Minsk	1–1	1–2	2–3

Q = Qualifying

Stadium

AZAL Arena is a football stadium in Shuvalan settlement of Baku, Azerbaijan. It is currently used as club's home stadium and holds 3,500 people. The club plans to construct another tribune by increasing stadiums' capacity to 6000 in the upcoming years.

During 2005–2011 years Shuvalan played its home games at Shafa Stadium.

Crest and colours

1996–04
2005–09
2009–10

Shuvalan changed the crest five times during its short history. Between 1996 and 2004 years the crest was the same of AMMK's organisation logo. In 2005, as soon as AMMK was renamed into Olimpik Baku the logo was also modified. New logo was the form of circular blue shield with the Olympic flame in the middle.

In 2009, it was designed a new version of the crest with a white and blue stripes, and remained for a next season, however the club became AZAL PFK. Last logo seems like the older logo, but in the center of traditional blue circular shield is drawn an airliner^[20]

In 2017, AZAL was renamed into Shuvalan the logo was also modified.

Shirt sponsors and kit manufacturers

Since its foundation Shuvalan's traditional home kit is completely blue. For the guest games the team usually wears an all white kit, except 2007–08 season, when Shuvalan has worn red-black striped jersey, black shorts and red socks. For the last three years the club's kits are manufactured by Umbro and sponsored by Silk Way Airlines. Shuvalan's new kit manufacturer is Joma.

Years	Manufacturer	Sponsor
2008–2009	Umbro	Silk Way Airlines
2009–2010	Adidas
2010–2016	Umbro
2016–present	Joma

Players

Records

Club

Best position in Azerbaijan Premier League: 2nd (2007–08 season)^[21]
Worst position in Azerbaijan Premier League: 12th(2005–06 season)^[22]
First competitive match in Azerbaijan competition: v. Adliyya Baku, Azerbaijan First Division 2004–05 season, 9 October 2004 (draw 0–0).
First competitive match in European competition: v. FK Vojvodina, UEFA Cup 2008–09 season, 17 July 2008 (lost 0–1).

Individual

Lists of the players with the most caps and top goalscorers for Shuvalan.(players in bold signifies current Shuvalan player):

Top goalscorers

As of Match played 13 February 2016

	Name	Years	League	Azerbaijan Cup	CBC Sport Cup	Europe	Total
1	Nugzar Kvirtia	2009–2012, 2015-2018	24 (171)	2 (15)	1 (3)	0 (2)	26 (191)
2	Zouhir Benouahi	2010–2013	24 (76)	1 (7)	0 (0)	0 (2)	25 (85)
3	Victor Igbekoyi	2009–2015	23 (156)	0 (15)	0 (0)	1 (2)	24 (173)
4	Nlido	2012–2013	21 (32)	0 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	21 (33)
5	Junivan	2007–2009, 2010	17 (55)	0 (?)	0 (0)	0 (0)	17 (?)
6	Freddy Mombongo-Dues	2014–2015	13 (28)	1 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	14 (31)
7	Khagani Mammadov	2006–2007	13 (23)	1 (?)	0 (0)	0 (0)	14 (?)
7	Anatolie Doroș	2008–2009	12 (28)	2 (?)	0 (0)	0 (0)	14 (?)
8	Jon Oluremi	2012–2014	12 (41)	0 (1)	0 (0)	0 (0)	12 (42)
9	Gvidas Juška	2010–2011	10 (31)	1 (4)	0 (0)	0 (0)	11 (35)

Most appearances

As of Match played 13 February 2016

	Name	Years	League	Azerbaijan Cup	CBC Sport Cup	Europe	Total
1	Nduka Usim	2004–2013	208 (5)	? (0)	0 (0)	4 (0)	212+ (5)
2	Nugzar Kvirtia	2009–2012, 2015-2018	171 (24)	15 (2)	1 (3)	2 (0)	191 (26)
3	Victor Igbekoyi	2009–2015	156 (23)	15 (0)	0 (0)	2 (1)	173 (24)
4	Agil Nabiyev	2006–2012	125 (0)	? (1)	0 (0)	4 (0)	129+ (1)
5	Dragan Mandic	2007–2011	107 (1)	? (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	107+ (1)
6	Jahangir Hasanzade	2009–2014	89 (0)	9 (0)	0 (0)	2 (0)	100 (0)
7	Branislav Arsenijević	2011–2014	88 (6)	5 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	93 (6)
8	Oskars Kļava	2012–2015	86 (3)	5 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	91 (3)
9	Zouhir Benouahi	2010–2013	75 (24)	7 (1)	0 (0)	2 (0)	85 (25)
10	Tarlan Ahmadov	2006–2009	72 (1)	? (0)	0 (0)	2 (0)	74+ (1)

Notable managers

Information correct as of match played 28 April 2017. Only competitive matches are counted.

Name	Nat.	From	To	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	%W	Notes
Shakir Garibov	Azerbaijan	June 2004	May 2005	16	10	3	3	0	0	062.50
Stjepan Čordaš	Croatia	June 2005	Aug 2005	4	1	1	2	0	0	025.00
Jamaladdin Aliyev (Interim)	Azerbaijan	June 2004	May 2005	1	0	1	0	0	0	000.00
Petar Kurčubić	Serbia	Aug 2005	May 2006	26	7	7	12	0	0	026.92
Asgar Abdullayev	Azerbaijan	June 2006	Nov 2009	105	52	30	23	0	0	049.52
Nazim Suleymanov	Azerbaijan	23 Nov 2009	7 July 2011	64	24	22	18	0	0	037.50	^[23]
Elkhan Abdullayev (Interim)	Azerbaijan	June 2011	Oct 2011	11	2	4	5	0	0	018.18
Rafig Mirzayev	Azerbaijan	Nov 2011	April 2012	18	9	1	8	0	0	050.00
Vagif Sadygov	Azerbaijan	6 April 2012	15 March 2014	63	23	19	21	0	0	036.51	^[24]
Shakir Garibov	Azerbaijan	16 March 2014	17 March 2014	1	0	0	1	0	0	000.00
Tarlan Ahmadov	Azerbaijan	18 March 2014	3 May 2017	113	26	29	58	88	148	023.01	^[25]
Agil Nabiyev	Azerbaijan	10 June 2017

Notes:

P – Total of played matches W – Won matches D – Drawn matches L – Lost matches GS – Goal scored GA – Goals against
%W – Percentage of matches won

Nationality is indicated by the corresponding FIFA country code(s).

Presidential history

Shuvalan was founded by former futsal player, currently FIFA licensed Football agent Kamil Mammadov. In 2005, he sold the club to Silk Way Airlines. Since the Shuvalan FK has had just two presidents: former general officer Rasul Rasulov and the club's former vice-president Vaqif Gasymov. At the end of 2011, after Gasymov's resign Silk Way Airlines company chairman Zaur Akhundov became the Shuvalan FK new president.

Name	Years
Kamil Mammadov	1996–2006
Rasul Rasulov	2006–2009
Vaqif Gasymov	2009–2012
Zaur Akhundov	2012–2017

References

^ ^a ^b "АЗАЛ заявит на Лигу Европы игрока сборной Албании". Retrieved 29 June 2011.
^ Futsalplanet
^ Futsalplanet
^ "Marko Mitroviç: "Çox şadam ki, Azərbaycanda futbol oynamışam"". Rekord.az. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
^ Главный тренер футбольного клуба «Олимпик»: «До сих пор не могу понять, как мы упустили чемпионство» (in Russian)
^ Азербайджанский "Олимпик" уступил "Войводине" (in Russian)
^ “Olimpik” club to be renamed Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ ФК "Олимпик" переименован (in Russian) Archived 7 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Nazim Süleymanov "Olimpik-Şüvəlan" futbol klubunun baş məşqçisi oldu". Azeroo.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
^ "Olimpik-Şüvəlan" adını dəyişib, AZAL oldu (in Azerbaijani)
^ АЗАЛ в премьер-лиге (in Russian)
^ "Nazim Süleymanov: "AZAL "Minsk"i keçə bilməsə, istefaya getməyə hazıram"". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
^ "Nazim Suleymanov AZAL-ın baş məşqçiliyindən istefa verdi". Retrieved 8 July 2011.
^ "Elxan Abdullyev: "AZAL-da bəzi "viruslar" var"". Retrieved 2 November 2011.
^ "AZAL-a yeni baş məşqçi təyin edildi". Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ "AZAL-ın yeni baş məşqçisi Vaqif Sadıqov oldu". Retrieved 6 April 2012.
^ "AZAL PFK". Soccerway.
^ Вагиф САДЫХОВ: Бюджет АЗАЛ урезан на 2,5 раза, но цели не изменятся. Day.az (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2013.
^ "AZAL futbol klubu "Şüvəlan" adı altında fəaliyyətini davam etdirəcək" (in Azerbaijani). 12 May 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
^ AZAL-ın yeni loqosu hazırlandı (in Azerbaijani)
^ "Azerbaijan 2007–08". Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.
^ "Azerbaijan 2005–06". Archived from the original on 16 October 2013.
^ "Sadiqlik nümunəsi: Usim Nduka". Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ Amiraslanov, Telman. Вагиф Садыхов: «Справедливым исходом матча был бы ничейный результат». 1news.az (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
^ "Tərlan Əhmədov rəsmən AZAL-da". 1news.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.

External links

Official website (archived)
AZAL PFC at PFL.az

[extratime.az-1] "АЗАЛ заявит на Лигу Европы игрока сборной Албании". Retrieved 29 June 2011.

[2] Futsalplanet

[3] Futsalplanet

[4] "Marko Mitroviç: "Çox şadam ki, Azərbaycanda futbol oynamışam"". Rekord.az. Retrieved 17 November 2012.

[5] Главный тренер футбольного клуба «Олимпик»: «До сих пор не могу понять, как мы упустили чемпионство» (in Russian)

[6] Азербайджанский "Олимпик" уступил "Войводине" (in Russian)

[7] “Olimpik” club to be renamed Archived 25 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

[8] ФК "Олимпик" переименован (in Russian) Archived 7 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[9] "Nazim Süleymanov "Olimpik-Şüvəlan" futbol klubunun baş məşqçisi oldu". Azeroo.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2012.

[10] "Olimpik-Şüvəlan" adını dəyişib, AZAL oldu (in Azerbaijani)

[11] АЗАЛ в премьер-лиге (in Russian)

[12] "Nazim Süleymanov: "AZAL "Minsk"i keçə bilməsə, istefaya getməyə hazıram"". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2011.

[13] "Nazim Suleymanov AZAL-ın baş məşqçiliyindən istefa verdi". Retrieved 8 July 2011.

[14] "Elxan Abdullyev: "AZAL-da bəzi "viruslar" var"". Retrieved 2 November 2011.

[15] "AZAL-a yeni baş məşqçi təyin edildi". Retrieved 29 December 2011.

[16] "AZAL-ın yeni baş məşqçisi Vaqif Sadıqov oldu". Retrieved 6 April 2012.

[17] "AZAL PFK". Soccerway.

[18] Вагиф САДЫХОВ: Бюджет АЗАЛ урезан на 2,5 раза, но цели не изменятся. Day.az (in Russian). Retrieved 21 June 2013.

[19] "AZAL futbol klubu "Şüvəlan" adı altında fəaliyyətini davam etdirəcək" (in Azerbaijani). 12 May 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.

[crest-20] AZAL-ın yeni loqosu hazırlandı (in Azerbaijani)

[21] "Azerbaijan 2007–08". Archived from the original on 6 March 2014.

[22] "Azerbaijan 2005–06". Archived from the original on 16 October 2013.

[23] "Sadiqlik nümunəsi: Usim Nduka". Retrieved 19 July 2011.

[24] Amiraslanov, Telman. Вагиф Садыхов: «Справедливым исходом матча был бы ничейный результат». 1news.az (in Russian). Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2014.

[25] "Tərlan Əhmədov rəsmən AZAL-da". 1news.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.

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