Pre-Match Stats: Sabah
Gabala vs. Sabah
Azerbaijan Cup
Round of 8 / First Tie
Date: Sunday, December 15, 2019
Kick-off: 3:00 pm. AZT
Venue: Gabala City Stadium
Return Match: December 19
- It’s going to be Gabala’s 15th cup season start after all 64 matches ever.
- The red-black team are having 34 victories, 17 draws and 13 losses.
- We scored 106 cup goals and conceded 53.
- Gabala made cup debut in the season of 2005/2006 and won the contest only in 2018/2019. We lost 3 final matches (2013/2014, 2016/17, 2017/2018), following also 3 semifinal (2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2015/16) losses.
- Gabala left the tournament in the round of 8 in 4 seasons (2010/2011, 2011/2012, 2012/2013, 2014/2015). We stopped also in the round of 16 in 2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2009/2010.
- 190 footballers came on for Gabala in the all 64 matches. Urfan Abbasov appeared 28 times that is more than any other Gabala footballers. He’s being followed by Vojislav Stankovic (with 21), Javid Huseynov (19), Samir Zargarov (18), Elvin Jamalov (18), Dmytro Bezotosniy (17) and Asif Mammadov (15).
- All the 106 cup goals were scored by 55 players. There are also 2 own goals. The top scorer is Kanan Karimov with 7 goals being followed by Filip Ozobic (6) and Vusal Garayev (5). Victor Mendy, Ibrahim Huseynov, Daniel Subotic, Oleksiy Gai and Bagaliy Dabo scored four goals for each.
- It was Sabah Gabala faced last season in the round of 8. Then the red-black side won both back-to-back matches with 1:0.
- In the home game, opponent Filip Ivanovic scored own goal that was all-important on the show as James Ademiyi shot in the winner goal for the away in Baku.