Azerbaijan Cup
First Tie: Sunday, December 16, 2018
Return Match: Thursday, December 20, 2018
 
- It’s going to be Gabala’s 14th cup season.
 
- Gabala have come on 59 cup events over the last thirteen seasons after 30 victories, seventeen draws and 12 losses.

- The red-black team scored 101 goals and conceded 51.

- Gabala and Sabah have met only in the Azerbaijan Premier League and the team from capital Baku are going to be the eighteenth opponent side in the cup.

- Since the debut match in the season 2005/2006, Gabala lost three finals (2013/2014, 2016/17, 2017/18) and three semifinals (2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2015/16). We left the contest in the round of 8 for four seasons (2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2014/2015) as we won only three seasons’ round of 16 (2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2009/2010).

- Gabala’s 183 footballers are having cup experience in the past period of the all 59 games. Urfan Abbasov goes ahead of all the red-black players with 23 matches being followed by Samir Zargarov (with 18) and Vojislav Stankovic (16).

- All 101 cup goals were scored by 53 footballers and there is one own goal by an opponent side.

- Gabala’s top cup scorer is Kanan Karimov with seven goals, ahead of Filip Ozobic (with 6) and Vusal Garayev (with 5).