Gabala are at the Antalya training camp in Turkey for their 10th time since 2006. The red-black squad are having training experience also in Austria, Slovenia and England. Now they are tackling with their 6th winter trip to the fraternal country where they met 40 clubs, including 38 foreign teams. The other 2 matches brought our squad against Neftchi.

Altogether, Gabala took time with 53 testing games abroad. Now they are going to give testimony with 6 matches that will repeat the highest number of the last year as other training camps included only 3 to 5 games.

4 rivals are already known with this winter"s trip.

One of them is Konyaspor that Gabala are going to face for the second tie after the goalless game in the summer of 2008. The fixture is the 15th against all Turkish teams at the streak where Gabala are having 7 wins with also 3 draws and 4 losses. Our team possession is well evident also by the 28:11 goal difference. 

There were also Trabzonspor and Genclerbirliyi amongst the rivals.

Gabala are going to face Tobol on 13 January just a week before meeting Semipalatinsk Spartak. The red-black team defeated to Taraz (0:1) and Atyrau (1:2), both from Kazakhstan.

Volga is going to be the 4th Russian rival of Gabala holding on against all the other 3. Our team won one and made 2 draws scoring 4 and allowing 3.