Gabala left to Antalya, Turkey, for the second stage of the preparations to the season’s second half. Sanan Gurbanov’s red-black team will keep up the drills by January 27, and they will stay at the Trendi Hotel in Lara. The team will come on four trial matches over the preparation period. The are going to face Germany’s third league team Meppen on January 16. Then they will meet Russia sides Yenisey and Fakel, respectively on January 20 and 24.

They last testing game has been fixed to January 26 against MTK (Hungary).