Sunday, Gabala are going to face Garabagh, the top team of the Topaz Premier League, in the 4th tour of the championship. The home fixture will be the 25th tie against the opponents that are of the sides we met most. Garabagh are just behind Baku that Gabala faced most ever- 27 times. 

Gabala are having 20 league experiences and 4 cup matches against the team from Aghdam. All the cup games ended with draw, including 2 back-to-backs where only away goals helped step into next stage. Gabala were the side leaving the cup competition earlier during the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons.

It almost makes symmetry for all the ties of the sides as the pair share 11 draws with 8 wins in the favor of our rivals as we have only 5 victories. Both teams met 6 times for each of the last 2 seasons. After gaining victory at the first leg of the last season, Gabala run with the winless streak of the further 5 matches against Garabagh. The red-black squad will be pushing on to break their goalless line of the last 3 ties.  

For all these matches 3 kind of results were gained for most: 0:0, 1:1 and 2:1 for both sides with 5 times. 

The fixture is going to be the 13th home match of Gabala against Garabagh after our 3 wins with 5 draws and 4 losses to the visiting rivals. The goal difference in Gabala make up 13:15 with the lead on Garabagh.

And 48 goals were scored by both teams in total for Garabagh with 27 and Gabala with 21. Another symmetry makes up with 15 players for each teams scoring goals. The most productive player of all ties is Kanana Karimov amongst 29 players as he is also the one being capitalized for both teams scoring 3 for Gabala and 2 for Garabagh.

Totally 5 footballers scored 3 for one team, for Garabagh with 3 players - Kanan, Aslan Karimov and Rauf Aliyev, which are no longer opponents to the red-black squad. But with Gabala, in contrary, 2 players -- Victor Mendy and Luis Paulo Hilario -- may extend their 3 goals against Garabagh. Our 2 footballers scored against Garabagh as the opponents have 6 such footballers scoring against Gabala. It was registered only 2 doubles in all the last 24 games for Gabala with Igor Melnik and Garabagh with Reinaldo Silva.

2006/07. Premier League

20.08.2006. Gilan (Gabala) - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 0:2

Kanan Karimov, 29, Vasif Hagverdiyev, 88

2006/07. Premier League

22.02.2007. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gilan (Gabala) - 3:2

Vagif Javadov, 20, Kanan Karimov, 24, Aslan Karimov, 60 – Vasif Aliyev, 76, Samir Zargarov, 81

2007/08. Premier League.

 

06.10.2007. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:2

Bokungu Fiston, 61 - Aslan Karimov, 13, Goga Bepaya, 52

2007/08. Premier League

13.04.2008. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 2:1

Kanan Karimov, 8, Aslan Karimov, 56 - Vladimir Taranu, 80

2008/09. Premier League

20.09.2008. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:2 

Kanan Karimov, 78 - Emin Imamaliyev, 31, Vagif Javadov, 85

2008/09. Premier League

15.03.2009. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 0:0

2009/10. Premier League

23.09.2009. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 0:0

2009/10. Premier League

06.12.2009. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:1

Tomash Stolpa, 52 (p.) - Rashad Sadigov, 78

2009/10. Premier League

21.03.2010. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 3:1

Paulino Lopes Tavares, 49; Igor Melnik, 73; 84 - Georgi Adamiya, 43

2009/10. Premier League

24.04.2010. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:1

Rauf Aliyev, 10 - Kanan Karimov, 18 (p.)

2010/11. Premier League

25.09.2010. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 2:1

Deon Barton, 57; Branimir Subasic, 72 - Emin Imamaliyev, 83

2010/11. Premier League

13.02.2011. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 3:0

Rauf Aliyev, 15; Georgi Adamiya, 63; Afran Ismayılov, 75

2011/12. Premier League

27.08.2011. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 0:1

Victor Mendy, 37

2011/12. Premier League

21.12.2011. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 0:0

2011/12. Azerbaijan Cup

14.03.2012. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 2:2

Victor Mendy, 41; Luiz Paulo Hilario, 65 - Rauf Aliyev, 46; Muarem Muarem, 90

2011/12. Premier League

18.03.2012. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:1

Ilgar Gurbanov, 90+1 - Victor Mendy, 16

2011/12. Azerbaijan Cup

28.03.2012. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 0:0

 

2011/12. Premier League

14.04.2012. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:0

Yannick Kamanan, 70

2012/13. Premier League

31.10.2012. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:2

Muarem Muarem, 59 - Rashad Abdullayev, 32; Luis Paulo Hilario, 34

2012/13. Premier League

10.02.2013. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:1

Luka Zinko, 41 - Richard Almeyda, 55 (p.)

2012/13. Azerbaijan Cup

27.02.2013. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 1:1

Luis Paulo Hilario, 33 - Vugar Nadirov, 56

2012/13. Azerbaijan Cup

07.03.2013. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 0:0

2012/13. Premier League

30.03.2013. Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:0

Richard Almeida, 39

2012/13. Premier League

28.04.2013. Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) - 0:2

Reinaldo Silva, 69; 77