End of season review: 31 footballers, 44 goals, 3rd bronze
News / 29 May 2016 | 20:48149
End of season review: 31 footballers, 44 goals, 3rd bronze

End of the 2015/2016 season review:
 
SC Gabala”s first team hit their 3rd Premier League medal with last 3 seasons. The red-black side of Roman Grigorchuk have battled all the way through from the opener match of the domestic campaign on August 9, 2016 to earn the bronze medal after 285 days.
 
Footballers:
- 31 players came on a pitch for Gabala during the season.
 
- 16 players took their debut match for Gabala, including Oleksiy Antonov, Andrey Popovich, Derlis Meza Colli, Ehtiram Shahverdiyev, Ermin Zec, Facundo Pereyra, Georgi Floresku, Mahammad Mirzabayov, Pavel Pashayev, Rashad Eyyubov, Roman Huseynov, Sergey Zenyov, Vadim Abdullayev, Vaqif Cavadov, Vitali Vernidub and Vojislav Stankovichdir.
 
- Oleksiy Gai came on 35 games to become the player with the most events of the season. He is followed by Oleksiy Antonov (32 games) and Arif Dashdamirov (30 games). Gai played also for 3041 minutes, more than any other footballers.
 
- In total, 15 players turned up at least in 19 games, as 6 footballers came on only one event: David Pietrzkievich, Ehtiram SHahverdiyev, Georgi Floresku, Murad Musayev, Pavel Pashayev and Vadim Abdullayev.
 
- all 30 players include 3 goal keepers: Dmytro Bezotosny, Andrey Popovich and David Pietrzkievich. The latter shown up in 1 match while Popovic and Bezotosny are having, respectively, 8 and 28 match ekhperiences with Gabala.
 
- The other 28 footballers are field players.
 
- Gabala are having 17 locally-based players while there are also 14 overseas footballers in the team.
 
- Some 4 players are naturalized: Arif Dashdamirov, Mahammad Mirzabayov, Pavel Pashayev, Andrey Popovich. The last 2 are from Ukraine as the others are from Russia.
 
- The all 14 overseas players are from 9 countries: Ukraine (4 players), Brazil (3), Romania, Serbia, Argentina, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Paraguay (all with 1 player).
 

FOOTBALLERS

GAMES

MINUTES

GOAL (MIN./

PENALTIES)

 

BOOKINGS

QYELLOW CARDS

Oleksiy Gai

35

3041

10 (4/4)

0

Oleksiy Antonov

32

1858

7

4

0

Arif Dashdamirov

30

2428

1

4

0

Elvin Jamalov

29

2610

0

8

0

Dmytro Bezotosny

28

2437

-16 (2/2)

0

0

Rashad Sadigov

27

2021

1

4

1

Sergei Zenjov

26

1794

2

1

0

Samir Zargarov

26

1519

3

 4

0

Mahammad Mirzabayov

25

1749

0

4

0

Vojislav Stankovich

24

2036

0

6

0

Ermin Zec

23

1502

7

8

0

Urfan Abbasov

21

1484

0

5

0

Rafael Santos

20

1780

2

6

0

Dodo

19

1553

2 (0/1)

1

0

Asif Mammadov

19

1179

2

4

0

Ruslan Abishov

17

1443

0

3

0

Rashad Eyyubov

17

756

1

1

0

Ricardinho

16

1006

0

3

0

Facundo Pereyra

14

692

4

0

0

Vitaliy Vernydub

11

921

0

6

0

Andrey Popovich

8

720

-11

0

0

Gismat Aliyev

6

463

0

0

0

Derlis Meza Colli

4

115

0

0

0

Vagif Javadov

3

159

0

0

0

Roman Huseynov

3

9

0

0

0

Murad Musayev

1

90

0

0

0

David Pietrzkievic

1

83

-1

0

0

Vadim Abdullayev

1

77

0

0

0

George Floresku

1

45

0

0

0

Pavel Pashayev

1

45

0

0

0

Ehtiram Shahverdiyev

1

8

0

0

0

 

Goals:
- 12 players scored for Gabala and Oleksiy Gai stay on top of the list with 10 goals. The list includes: Oleksiy Antonov, Ermin Zec (both with 7), Fakundo Pereyra (4), Samir Zargarov (3), Asif Mammadov, Sergey Zenyov, Dodo, Rafael Santos ( all with 2), Rashad Sadiqov, Rashad Eyyubov and Arif Dashdarmirov (all with 1).
 
- 8 players scored in their debut goal for Gabala: Antonov, Zec, Pereyra, Zenyov, Santos, Sadiqov, Eyyubov and Dashdarmirov.
 
- There are also 2 own goals by Jamil Hajiyev of Sumgayit and Kamil Huseynov of AZAL.
 
- Gabala”s no footballers scored own goal.
 
Penalties:
- 4 penalties of the all 5 against Gabala during the season found our net.
 
- Oleksiy Gai kicked his all 4 penalties in goal while Dodo failed on his only chance.
 
- Gabala”s Dmytro Bezotosny conceded 2 penalties.
 
Bookings:
- Gabala picked up 79 season cards following 78 yellow and 1 red card. Rashad Sadigov was forced off with his red card.
 
- 18 players picked up cards over the season. Elvin Jamalov and Ermin Zec are having 8 cards, more than any other players.
 
- 13 players could stay clear from cards, and the title with most 28 clean games is on Dmytro Bezotosny.
 
Record Streaks:
 
- Longest winning streak - 4 games (5-8th tours).
- Longest winless streak – 6 games (9-14th tours)
- Longest drawing streak – 3 games (12-14th tours)
- Longest streak of no draws – 7 games (2-8th tours)
- Longest losing streak – 3 games (25-27th tours)
- Longest unbeaten streak – 6 games (5-10th and 28-33rd tours).
- Longest scoring streak – 8 games (1-8th tours). Gabala hit their club record scoring in 21 games on the trot.
 
 
- Longest goalless streak – 2 games (9-10-cu and 16-17th tours).
 
- Longest cleansheet streak – 6 games (5-10-cu tours).
 
- Dmytro Bezotosny could stay unbeaten during 8 games up to the 2nd minute of the 11th tour match against Kapaz since he conceded in the opener tour home match against Qarabagh (2:2) in the 83rd minute. He missed only one game over the period where Gabala conceded one. The Ukrainian keeper”s unbeaten run held on for 729 minutes. He goes only behind Pavel Dorosev, who has a clean streak of 952 minutes.
 
- Longest conceding streak – 4 games (11-14th, 16-19th, 24-27th tours ).
 
Crowd:
- All home games were held at the home pitch.
 
- All the 18 home games were viewed by 25,350 viewers.
 
- The biggest crowd gathered at the match against Qarabagh with 4,000 viewers on March 9.
 
- The least number of the viewers were shown with 300 visitors on November 1.
 
- The average number of the viewers is 1408.
 
- All outing matches were viewed by 34,630 people. The average number is 1924.
Facts:
- The oldest player of Gabala is Oleksiy Gai coming on the pitch in his 33rd year and 196th day.
 
- The youngest player is Roman Huseynovdur coming on the pitch in his 17th year and 232nd day.
 
- 7 players of all 31 past their 30th year.
 
- Oleksiy Gai scored in his 33rd year and 196th day to become also the oldest scorer of the team during the season.
 
- The youngest scorer is Rashad Eyyubov making goal in his 23rd year and 93rd day.
 
- Oleksiy Gai is a single player having a scoring streak with 3 goals in a consecutive 3 games of the 5-6th tours.
 
- Gabala held on clear for 19 events with 2 goal keepers: Dmytro Bezotosny (18 games) and Andrey Popovic (1 game).
 
- 4 captains lead Gabala: Dodo – 18, Rashad Sadiqov – 11, Oleksiy Gai – 6, Urfan Abbasov – 1.
 
- Gabala ended in 8 types of results during the season: 1:0 (11 times), 2:1 (6), 2:0, 1:1 and 0:0 (all with 4), 2:2 and 3:0 (both with 3), 6:0 (one time).
 
- 9 referees managed Gabala”s matches: Rahim Hasanov - 10, Omar Pashayev - 5, Aliyar Aghayev, Fariz Yusifov, Rauf Cabbarov, Ravan Hamzazada - 4, Elvin Asgarov – 3, İnqilab Mammadov, Orkhan Mammadov – 1.
 
- There was no poker and hat-trick in league matches of the red-black side.
 
- Ermin Zec and Facundo Pereyra scored their one doubles.
 
- Gabala took 3 high-scoring victories beating Ravan and Zira in 3:0, as well as Khazar Lankaran 6:0.
 
- Gabala lost in a high scoring just one time in match against Kapaz – 0:3.
 
- Gabala scored 44 in the all 36 appearances with average productivity of 1.2 goals. Conceding 28, the red-black squad conceded 0,78 goals in every game.
 
- Gabala hit their most successful season of away games following 10 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses, 22 goals, and conceding 15 to earn 33 points.
 
- This is Gabala”s 2nd consecutive season earning more points in away matches than away events. The team gained 26 points at home matches including 6 wins, 8 draws, 4 losses and leading on goal difference of 22-13.
 
All Azerbaijan Premier League Games:
2015/16 season
10.08.2015. Gabala - Qarabagh (Aghdam) - 2:2
15.08.2015. AZAL (Baku) - Gabala - 0:2
23.08.2015. Gabala - Kapaz (Ganja) - 1:0
12.09.2015. İnter (Baku) - Gabala - 2:1
21.09.2015. Gabala - Sumgayit - 1:0
25.09.2015. Ravan (Baku) - Gabala - 0:3
04.10.2015. Gabala - Khazar Lankaran - 6:0
17.10.2015. Neftchi (Baku) - Gabala - 0:1
25.10.2015. Gabala - Zira (Baku) - 0:0
28.10.2015. Gabala - AZAL (Baku) - 0:0
01.11.2015. Gabala - Kapaz (Ganja) - 1:2
09.11.2015. Gabala - İnter (Baku) - 1:1
21.11.2015. Sumgayit - Gabala - 2:2
30.11.2015. Gabala - Ravan (Baku) - 1:1
06.12.2015. Khazar Lankaran - Gabala - 0:1
13.12.2015. Gabala - Neftchi (Baku) - 0:1
16.12.2015. Zira - Gabala - 1:0
19.12.2015. Qarabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 1:1
30.01.2016. Kapaz (Ganja) - Gabala - 3:0
07.02.2016. Inter (Baku) - Gabala - 0:1
14.02.2016. Gabala - Sumgayit - 1:0
21.02.2016. Ravan (Baku) - Gabala - 0:1
27.02.2016. Gabala - Khazar Lankaran - 0:0
05.03.2016. Neftchi (Baku) - Gabala - 1:2
13.03.2016. Gabala - Zira (Baku) - 1:2
19.03.2016. Gabala - Qarabagh (Aghdam) - 1:2
30.03.2016. AZAL (Baku) - Gabala - 2:1
03.04.2016. Gabala - İnter (Baku) - 0:0
09.04.2016. Sumgayit - Gabala - 1:1
15.04.2016. Gabala - Ravan (Baku) - 2:0
23.04.2016. Khazar Lankaran - Gabala - 0:1
01.05.2016. Gabala - Neftchi (Baku) - 2:2
07.05.2016. Zira - Gabala - 0:3
11.05.2016. Qarabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala - 2:0
15.05.2016. Gabala - AZAL (Baku) - 2:0
20.05.2016. Kapaz (Ganja) - Gabala - 0:1