Gabala are going to come on the return match against Panathinaikos (Greece) within the play-off of the UEFA EL Thursday, 27 August. After the goalless draw in Baku, the red-black side will be pushing hard to hit the tally to the group stage in the Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens. The match is registered to be the 10th Eurocup experience, all in UEFA EL, for Gabala after their first-leg game in the 2014/15 season. In their first season, the re-black squad turn up on 2 events before playing in all the other 7 during the present season.

From all the 9 games, Gabala earned 3 victories sharing 2 draws and defeating 4 times through 7 goals and conceding 9.

Gabala”s all EL goals were scored by Javid Huseynov with 3, Sergei Zenjov with 2, Aleksey Antonov and Asif Mammadov both with 1. Dodo and Rafael Santos are the players appearing on all the 9 games, more than any other footballers for the club. But the latter will miss the return match on his punishment.

UEFA European League, Play-off, Return Match
Panathinaikos (Greece) – Gabala
Date: Thursday, 27 August
Kick-off: 11:00 P.M. AZST
Referee: Ivan Krujilak (Slovakia)
Linesmen: Tomas Somolani, Tomas Mokos (both from Slovakia)
Additional assistant referee: Peter Kralovic (Slovakia)
Referee inspector: Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain)
UEFA member: Wolfgang Richter (Austria)
Venue: Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium, Athens.
First match – 0:0