The Gabala coaching staff are taking restart as a new crew while Ukrainian head coach Roman Grigorchuk will go on with 5 new assistants. Sanan Gurbanov is staying on his previous post with 4 more new specialists. Mykhaylo Savka and Stepan Matveyev will act as assistant coaches. Both from Ukraine, they worked for FC Chornomorets Odesa with Grigorchuk.

Savka was born in 1962 in Ternopol, Ukraine. His spent his last 4 years for FC Chornomorets Odesa as an assistant coach after building up his career as a player with Zvezda (Kirovograd), Prikarpatye (Ivano-Frankovsk), Bukovina (Chernovtsy), Metallurg (Zaporojye), Karpaty (Lvov), Kalush and Slobod of Slovakia. His time as a head coach started by FC Techno-Center Rogatin and Energetyk Burshtyn.

Matveyev joined Chernomorets in 2011 before striking a deal for Gabala. Going more back from his coaching career, he played for MOIK-Borisfen (Kiev), MOIK (Kiev), Prikarpatye (Ivano-Frankovsk), FC Volyn Lutsk, Tysmenytsia, Torpedo (Zaporojye), IOEUGIM-Metallurg (Zaporojye), Chernogora (Ivano-Frankovsk), Borisfen-2 (Borispol) and Avropa (Priluki). He worked for Borisfen-2 (Borispol), Boreks-Borisfen (Borodyanka), Borisfen (Borispol), Metallurg (Donetsk), Knyaja (Schastlivoy), Prikarpatye (Ivano-Frankovsk) as a head coach and for Lvov in a post of assistant coach.

Andrey Glushenko, 41, will coach for Gabala”s goal keepers. He developed his coaching skills by Torpedo (Zaporojye), Zvezda (Kirovograd), Metallurg (Zaporojye) and Ilichevets. Ending his time as a footballer after 2009, Glushenko started as a coach for Metallurg (Zaporojye). He signed a contract for Chernomorets in 2011 and kept going up to joining Gabala.

And Anatoli Korotiya will work for Gabala in a scientific and methodological field as an analyst coach.