# 2014–15 Azerbaijan First Division

The 2014–15 Azerbaijan First Division is the second-level of football in Azerbaijan. Araz were the defending champions. The season started on 6 September 2014 and there were sixteen teams participating in the league.

## Teams

Araz were promoted to Azerbaijan Premier League, while Ravan Baku relegated to Azerbaijan First Division. In July 2014, it was confirmed that Zira FK will participate in the first division.

### Stadia and locations

    Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
| Team | Location | Stadium | Stadium capacity |
| Ağsu | Agsu | Agsu City Stadium | 3,000 |
| Bakılı | Baku | Zirə Olympic Sport Complex Stadium | 1,500 |
| Energetik | Mingachevir | Yashar Mammadzade Stadium | 5,000 |
| Göyəzən | Qazakh | Qazakh City Stadium | 15,000 |
| Kəpəz | Ganja | Ganja City Stadium | 25,000 |
| Lokomotiv-Bilajary | Baku | FC Baku stadium | 3,000 |
| Mil-Muğan | Imishli | Heydar Aliyev Stadium | 8,500 |
| MOIK | Baku | MOIK Stadium | 3,000 |
| Neftçala | Neftchala | Nariman Narimanov Stadium | 2,000 |
| Qaradağ Lökbatan | Lökbatan | Lökbatan Olympic Sport Complex Stadium | 2,000 |
| Ravan | Baku | Bayil Stadium | 5,000 |
| Şahdağ | Qusar | Şövkət Orduxanov Stadium | 4,000 |
| Şəmkir | Şəmkir | Shamkir City Stadium | 11,500 |
| Şuşa | Shusha | Shafa Stadium | 8,000 |
| Turan | Tovuz | Tovuz City Stadium | 6,800 |
| Zira | Baku | Zirə Olympic Sport Complex Stadium | 1,500 |

### Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| Team | Manager | Team captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Ağsu | Rufat Guliyev | TBD | Umbro | Aqua Vita |
| Bakılı | Rafik Aliyev | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Energetik | Sahib Gojayev | TBD | | |
| Göyəzən | Elxan Muradov | TBD | | |
| Kəpəz | Vidadi Rzayev | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Lokomotiv-Bilajary | İlgar Huseynov | TBD | | |
| Mil-Muğan | Matlab Mammadov | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| MOIK | Namig Adilov | TBD | Kappa | |
| Neftçala | Kamal Guliyev | TBD | Lescon | SOCAR Petroleum |
| Qaradağ Lökbatan | Adil Mahmudov | TBD | Lescon | SOCAR |
| Ravan | Ramil Aliyev | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Şahdağ | Telman Javadov | TBD | TBD | TBD |
| Şəmkir | Ruslan Abbasov | Orxan Məmmədov | TBD | TBD |
| Şuşa | Nadir Gasymov | TBD | TBD | |
| Turan | Badri Kvaratskhelia | Asef Gadiri | TBD | TBD |
| Zira | Bahram Shahguliyev | TBD | Umbro | Kapital Bank |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Şahdağ | Kamran Alibabayev | Resigned | 20 October 2014 | 13th | Telman Javadov | 20 October 2014 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | Neftchala | 30 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 83 | 19 | +64 | 78 | |
| 2 | Ağsu | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 70 | 22 | +48 | 67 | |
| 3 | Ravan Baku (P) | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 70 | 22 | +48 | 67 | Promotion to Azerbaijan Premier League |
| 4 | Qaradağ Lökbatan | 30 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 57 | 25 | +32 | 65 | |
| 5 | Zira (P) | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 61 | 19 | +42 | 63 | Promotion to Azerbaijan Premier League |
| 6 | Turan Tovuz | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 75 | 37 | +38 | 50 | |
| 7 | Şahdağ | 30 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 40 | 29 | +11 | 47 | |
| 8 | Şuşa Qarabağ | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 49 | 31 | +18 | 46 | |
| 9 | Kəpəz (P) | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 38 | Promotion to Azerbaijan Premier League |
| 10 | Bakili | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 46 | 61 | −15 | 34 | |
| 11 | Şəmkir | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 46 | −21 | 32 | |
| 12 | MOIK Baku | 30 | 8 | 5 | 17 | 26 | 60 | −34 | 29 | |
| 13 | Mil-Muğan | 30 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 30 | 65 | −35 | 26 | |
| 14 | Energetik | 30 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 24 | 82 | −58 | 18 | |
| 15 | Göyəzən | 30 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 91 | −76 | 12 | |
| 16 | Lokomotiv-Bilajary | 30 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 10 | 72 | −62 | 10 | |

### Results

| Home \ Away | AGU | ZIR | BKL | ENG | ATM | RAV | KAP | LBA | ARZ | MOI | NEF | QAD | ABB | SHA | SHU | TUR |
| Ağsu | | 0–2 | 7–1 | 5–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 5–0 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Zira | 1–1 | | 3–1 | 6–0 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 5–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Bakili | 0–2 | 0–1 | | 7–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–0 | 5–1 | 2–3 | 1–8 |
| Energetik | 0–3 | 0–1 | 3–1 | | 4–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–4 | 0–6 | 2–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| Göyəzən | 0–2 | 0–6 | 0–4 | 3–1 | | 0–4 | 0–3 | 0–4 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–6 | 0–3 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–5 |
| Ravan Baku | 0–1 | 3–1 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | | 4–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 6–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| Kapaz | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–0 | | 3–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Lokomotiv-Bilajary | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | | 3–2 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Mil-Muğan | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–4 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 0–3 |
| MOIK Baku | 1–6 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 0–6 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–4 | | 1–4 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–4 |
| Neftchala | 2–0 | 0–0 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 4–5 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | 4–1 |
| Qaradağ | 3–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 |
| Şahdağ | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 |
| Şəmkir | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–4 | 0–3 |
| Şuşa | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 5–0 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | | 1–0 |
| Turan-T | 1–3 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 6–2 | 0–0 | 4–3 | 4–0 | 6–0 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 3–4 | 5–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | |

## Season statistics
### Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | İlham Allahverdiyev | Qaradağ Lökbatan | 21 |
| 2 | Fərmayıl Əliyev | Neftchala | 16 |
| 3 | Məhəmməd Alıyev | Nefchala | 15 |

### Hat-tricks

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Elxan Məmmədov | Mil-Muğan | Göyəzən | 6–1 | 6 September 2014 |
| Rəşad Piriyev | Göyəzən | Lokomotiv B | 0–4 | 25 September 2014 |
| Morteza Heydari | Şuşa | Göyəzən | 5–0 | 16 October 2014 |
| Akif Tağıyev | Göyəzən | Turan Tovuz | 0–5 | 31 October 2014 |
| Aqşin Sadıqov | Turan Tovuz | Şahdağ | 5–0 | 27 November 2014 |
| Röyal Nəcəfov | MOİK | Bakılı | 3–1 | 28 November 2014 |
| Morteza Heydari | Şuşa | Energetik | 5–0 | 28 November 2014 |
| Zeynal Hacıyev | Şahdağ | Energetik | 4–0 | 8 December 2014 |
| Tuqay Alhüseynli | Turan Tovuz | Göyəzən | 6–2 | 21 February 2015 |
| Əli Bağırov | Rəvan | Bakılı | 5–1 | 16 March 2015 |
| Aslan Hüseynov | Zirə | Energetik | 6–0 | 23 March 2015 |
| Fərmayıl Əliyev | Kəpəz | Neftchala | 1–4 | 28 March 2015 |
| Malik Babayev | Ağsu | Bakılı | 7–1 | 3 April 2015 |
| David Janelidze | Neftchala | Bakılı | 6–0 | 18 April 2015 |
| Samir Babayev | Mil-Muğan | Energetik | 3–1 | 30 April 2015 |
| Aqşin Sadıqov | Bakılı | Turan Tovuz | 1–8 | 15 May 2015 |
| Qalib Əmrahov | Ağsu | Göyəzən | 4–0 | 15 May 2015 |
| Elnur Abdulov | Göyəzən | Zirə | 0–6 | 23 May 2015 |
| Sabir Allahquliyev | Neftchala | Qaradağ Lökbatan | 4–5 | 27 May 2015 |

### Poker

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Rəhman Musayev | Bakılı | Energetik | 7–1 | 19 September 2014 |
| İlham Allahverdiyev | Qaradağ Lökbatan | Göyəzən | 5–0 | 7 March 2015 |

### Penta-trick

| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
| Tuqay Alhüseynli | Turan Tovuz | Energetik | 5–0 | 27 May 2015 |