Gabala are going to give a start to their 12th season experience in the Azerbaijan Premier League this Saturday.
Did you know this about Gabala?
- Roman Grigorchuk’s team gained one silverware and three bronze medals in 336 matches of all the eleven seasons.
- They made their way all through 138 victories, also following 87 draws and 111 losses.
- The red-black squad hit 406 goals also conceded 350 in 168 games both at home and away events.
- Gabala took 78 home wins following 44 draws and 46 losses. The goal difference is 217-144.
- There are also 60 away victories together with 43 draws and 65 defeats scoring 189 goals conceding 206.
- Gabala are having 501 points altogether including 278 from home events and 223 in away.
Season 2006/07
| 2006/07 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17-47 | 20 | 11th Place |
| 2007/08 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 33-36 | 36 | V6th Place |
| 2008/09 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 28-21 | 33 | 10th place |
| 2009/10 | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 36-36 | 49 | 6th Place |
| 2010/11 | 32 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 31-18 | 51 | 7th Place |
| 2011/12 | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 43-32 | 52 | 5th Place |
| 2012/13 | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 32-40 | 38 | 6th Place |
| 2013/14 | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 48-36 | 61 | 3rd Place |
| 2014/15 | 32 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 46-35 | 54 | 3rd Place |
| 2015/16 | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 44-28 | 59 | 3rd Place |
| 2016/17 | 28 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 46-21 | 52 | 2nd Place
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- We gained four medals in last four seasons after ending in top six for four times.
- 198 footballers played for Gabala during eleven seasons. The list is going to hit 200 after two more debutants.
- The top record belongs to Dodo with 131 matches. Urfan Abbasov (with 122) and Victor Mendy (with 112) also came on more than 100 events.
- The top ten players appeared most include also Samir Zargarov (95), Pavel Doroşev (90), Abdulkader Kamara (88), Lubo Baranin (85), Rafael Santos and Elvin Jamalov (both 72), Dmytro Bezotosniy (70).
- Gabala’s all goals were scored by 88 footballers and there are three more opponent players scoring own goals.
- Victor Mendy is still staying on top with 29 goals being followed by Dodo with 23 and Yannick Kamanan with 16. In the list, there are also Deon Burton, Daniel Subotic (both with 15), Oleksiy Gai (14), Javid Huseynov, Kanan Karimov, Vytaliy Balamestny and Filip Ozobic (each with 11).
- Nine head coach guided Gabalain all the eleven seasons.
- Ukrainian Roman Grigorchuk guided Gabala to three medals in last three seasons in 80 appearances. He is going second in the record path of appearances after Ramiz Mammadov with 118 matches. They are followed by English Tony Adams (with 44 games), Russian Yuri Semin (with 36) who earned the team first medal, Turkish Fatih Kavlak (with 26), Romanian Dorinel Munteanu (with 13). Faig Jabbarov and Luis Aragon also managed the team both with eight experiences while Sanan Gurbanov appeared only in three games as a coach.
- Gabala faced 22 opponents in the all eleven seasons.
