# 2013–14 Simurq PFC season

The Simurq 2013–14 season was Simurq's eighth Azerbaijan Premier League season. They finished 7th in the Premier League and reached the Second Round of the Azerbaijan Cup where they were defeated by Araz. It is Giorgi Chikhradze's second full season as manager.

## Squad

    As of 4 February 2014
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POL | Paweł Kapsa |
| 2 | DF | AZE | Ilkin Qirtimov |
| 3 | DF | AZE | Nduka Usim |
| 4 | DF | BIH | Dilaver Zrnanović |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Anderson do Ó |
| 6 | MF | AZE | Tagim Novruzov |
| 7 | DF | AZE | Ruslan Poladov |
| 8 | MF | KEN | Patrick Osiako |
| 9 | MF | LTU | Mindaugas Kalonas (on loan from Baku) |
| 10 | MF | AZE | Rashad Eyyubov |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Dragan Ćeran |
| 15 | MF | CRO | Stjepan Poljak |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | DF | AZE | Maharram Huseynov |
| 17 | DF | AZE | Rustam Mammadov |
| 18 | DF | AZE | Tural Akhundov |
| 20 | MF | ISR | Idan Weitzman |
| 21 | MF | AZE | Murad Sattarli |
| 22 | FW | MLI | Salif Ballo |
| 26 | MF | BEL | Benjamin Lambot |
| 30 | MF | ROU | Raul Costin |
| 35 | GK | AZE | Amil Agajanov |
| 77 | MF | AZE | Nijat Gurbanov (on loan from Neftchi Baku) |
| 94 | GK | AZE | Rashad Azizli (on loan from Neftchi Baku) |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | POL | Paweł Kapsa (from Olympiakos Nicosia) |
| 6 | MF | AZE | Tagim Novruzov (from AZAL) |
| 8 | MF | KEN | Patrick Osiako (from Hapoel Be'er Sheva) |
| 9 | FW | AZE | Rovshan Amiraslanov (from Gabala) |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Dragan Ćeran (from Maccabi Netanya) |
| 16 | DF | AZE | Maharram Huseynov (from Kəpəz) |
| 18 | DF | AZE | Tural Akhundov (from Ravan Baku) |
| 19 | MF | AZE | Orkhan Safiyaroglu (from AZAL) |
| 20 | MF | ISR | Idan Weitzman (from Bnei Sakhnin) |
| 21 | MF | AZE | Murad Sattarli (on loan from Qarabağ) |
| 22 | FW | MLI | Salif Ballo (from Turan Tovuz) |
| 30 | MF | ROU | Raul Costin (from Vaslui) |
| 35 | GK | AZE | Amil Agajanov (to AZAL) |
| 77 | MF | AZE | Nijat Gurbanov (on loan from Neftchi Baku) |
| 94 | GK | AZE | Rashad Azizli (loan from Neftchi Baku) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | AZE | Dmitriy Kramarenko (Retired) |
| 3 | DF | AZE | Rasim Ramaldanov (to Khazar Lankaran) |
| 5 | DF | AZE | Rustam Abasov (loan return to Inter Baku) |
| 8 | MF | AZE | Garib Ibrahimov (to AZAL) |
| 9 | MF | POL | Marcin Burkhardt (to Miedz Legnica) |
| 10 | FW | CRO | Zdravko Popović (to AEK Athens) |
| 12 | FW | CRO | Tomislav Bušić (to Solin) |
| 13 | DF | AZE | Aleksandr Shemonayev (to AZAL) |
| 18 | FW | AZE | Gafar Gafarov |
| 19 | MF | AZE | Nijat Gurbanov (loan return to Neftchi Baku) |
| 21 | MF | AZE | Murad Sattarli (loan return to Qarabağ) |
| 22 | GK | POL | Dawid Pietrzkiewicz (to Gabala) |
| 24 | MF | AZE | Mehman Mammadov |
| 25 | MF | BIH | Mario Božić (to Panachaiki) |
| 27 | FW | AZE | Bakhtiyar Soltanov (loan return to Qarabağ) |
| 99 | GK | AZE | Eyyub Aliyev (loan return to Neftchi Baku) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | AZE | Nduka Usim (from Tavşanlı Linyitspor) |
| 9 | MF | LTU | Mindaugas Kalonas (loan from Baku) |
| 21 | MF | AZE | Murad Sattarli (from Qarabağ) |
| 26 | MF | BEL | Benjamin Lambot (from Lierse) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | AZE | Rovshan Amiraslanov |
| 19 | MF | AZE | Orkhan Safiyaroglu (to AZAL) |
| 28 | MF | BIH | Nenad Kiso |

## Competitions
### Azerbaijan Premier League
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 18 May 2014. Source: Soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 |
| Ground | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H |
| Result | W | D | L | L | W | W | D | D | D | L | D | L | D | W | D | L | W | W | L | L | L | W | D | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | W | L | D | L | D | D |
| Position | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 5 | Baku | 36 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 53 | 43 | +10 | 57 |
| 6 | Khazar Lankaran | 36 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 44 | 49 | −5 | 49 |
| 7 | Simurq | 36 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 35 | 28 | +7 | 46 |
| 8 | AZAL | 36 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 49 | −20 | 31 |
| 9 | Sumgayit | 36 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 27 | 61 | −34 | 25 |

### Azerbaijan Cup
## Squad statistics

    As of Match played 17 May 2014

### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | Premier League | Premier League | Azerbaijan Cup | Azerbaijan Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | DF | POL | Paweł Kapsa | 33 | 0 | 32+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | AZE | Ilkin Qirtimov | 29 | 0 | 28+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | BIH | Dilaver Zrnanović | 21 | 0 | 19+1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Anderson do Ó | 33 | 1 | 31+1 | 1 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | AZE | Tagim Novruzov | 11 | 0 | 5+5 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | AZE | Ruslan Poladov | 31 | 1 | 25+6 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | KEN | Patrick Osiako | 25 | 1 | 19+6 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | LTU | Mindaugas Kalonas | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | AZE | Rashad Eyyubov | 32 | 5 | 28+3 | 3 | 1+0 | 2 |
| 11 | FW | SRB | Dragan Ćeran | 32 | 13 | 27+4 | 13 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | CRO | Stjepan Poljak | 36 | 7 | 33+2 | 7 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 16 | DF | AZE | Maharram Huseynov | 14 | 0 | 4+9 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | AZE | Rustam Mammadov | 1 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | AZE | Tural Akhundov | 33 | 0 | 32+0 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | ISR | Idan Weitzman | 25 | 1 | 23+1 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | AZE | Murad Sattarli | 14 | 0 | 6+8 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | MLI | Salif Ballo | 26 | 1 | 10+15 | 1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | BEL | Benjamin Lambot | 15 | 0 | 15+0 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | ROU | Raul Costin | 30 | 3 | 16+14 | 3 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 35 | GK | AZE | Amil Agajanov | 4 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 55 | MF | AZE | İlqar Hüseynov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | AZE | Nijat Gurbanov | 28 | 2 | 19+9 | 2 | 0+0 | 0 |
| Players who appeared for Simurq no longer at the club: ||||||||||
| 9 | FW | AZE | Rovshan Amiraslanov | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | AZE | Orkhan Safiyaroglu | 8 | 1 | 3+5 | 1 | 0+0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | BIH | Nenad Kiso | 18 | 0 | 14+3 | 0 | 1+0 | 0 |

### Goal scorers

| Place | Position | Number | Name | Premier League | Azerbaijan Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | 11 | Dragan Ćeran | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | MF | 15 | Stjepan Poljak | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | MF | 10 | Rashad Eyyubov | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | MF | 30 | Raul Costin | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | MF | 77 | Nijat Gurbanov | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | MF | 18 | Orkhan Safiyaroglu | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | MF | 8 | Patrick Osiako | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | 7 | Ruslan Poladov | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | MF | 20 | Idan Weitzman | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | FW | 22 | Salif Ballo | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | 5 | Anderson do Ó | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | | | Own Goal | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | TOTALS | 32 | 2 | 34 |

### Disciplinary record

| Number | Position | Name | Premier League | Premier League | Azerbaijan Cup | Azerbaijan Cup | Total | Total |
| 1 | GK | Paweł Kapsa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Ilkin Qirtimov | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
| 4 | DF | Dilaver Zrnanović | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | Anderson do Ó | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | Ruslan Poladov | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Patrick Osiako | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Rashad Eyyubov | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 11 | FW | Dragan Ćeran | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | MF | Stjepan Poljak | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | DF | Tural Akhundov | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | Idan Weitzman | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 21 | MF | Murad Sattarli | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | Salif Ballo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Benjamin Lambot | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 30 | MF | Raul Costin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 77 | MF | Nijat Gurbanov | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| | | TOTALS | 83 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 87 | 6 |