Preparing to the second half of the league season, Gabala have had their first training session in Antalya, Turkey today. The training, under the lead of head coach Yuri Semin, was joined also by new transfers - Ruslan Taghyzadeh and Rafael Santos. After a long off-pitch period with his injury, Rail Malikov also was able to act with the team. Having rehabilitation after the surgery, Sadig Guliyev trained off the squad and is expected to be able to join the team after a week.

Gabala run the day by two exercises focusing on off-ball proceedings before midday. Then they went into the second part of the day with ball exercises. They gave finish to the day with mutual game.