Pre-season preview
News / 6 August 2016 | 17:43147
2016/17 Season Preview:
Gabala are going to face Kapaz, Monday, in the 11th season of the Azerbaijan Premier League at the Dalgha Arena, Baku.
2016/17 Season Preview:
- Gabala took their premier league debut in the 2006/07 season.
- We gained 124 wins in all 306 appearances, following also 77 draws and 107 losses.
- We scored 358 goals and conceded 329.
- Home matches: 154 / including 67 victories, 41 draws and 46 losses. Scored 190, conceded 137.
Points: 242
- Away matches: 154 / 57 wins, 36 draws and 61 losses. Scored 168, conceded 192. Points: 207
| 2006-2007 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17-47 | 20 | 11th place |
| 2007-2008 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 33-36 | 36 | 6th place |
| 2008-2009 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 28-21 | 33 | 5th place |
| 2009-2010 | 32 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 36-36 | 49 | 6th place |
| 2010-2011 | 32 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 31-18 | 51 | 7th place |
| 2011-2012 | 32 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 43-32 | 52 | 5th place |
| 2012-2013 | 32 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 32-40 | 38 | 6th place |
| 2013-2014 | 36 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 48-36 | 61 | 3rd place |
| 2014-2015 | 32 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 46-35 | 54 | 3rd place |
| 2015-2016 | 36 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 44-28 | 59 | 3rd place |
- Gabala are keeping up the 3rd place of the last 3 seasons.
- We finished in the top 6 four times and in the lower for 3 seasons.
- League players: 186
- Dodo came on more games than any other Gabala players: 131 appearances. He is followed by Victor Mendy (112 games) and Urfan Abbasov (107).
- Top 10 players with most league experiences:
Samir Zargarov (95 events), Pavel Dorosev (90), Abdulkader Kamara (88), Lubo Baranin (85), Vurghun Huseynov (65), Rafael Santos (63) and Yannick Kamanan (62).
- Scoring players: 80
- Opponent with own goals: 8
- Top scorer: Victor Mendy (29 goals). He is followed by Dodo (with 23), Yannick Kamanan (16), Deon Burton (15), Oleksiy Gai (14), Daniel Subotic (12), Javid Huseynov, Kanan Karimov (11), Vitaliy Balamestny (11) and Samir Zargarov (10).
- Head coaches: 9. Roman Grigorchuk guided Gabala to the bronze medals in the last 2 season, altogether through 52 games. The Ukrainian skipper goes 2nd after Ramiz Mammadov with 118 match experiences as a head coach. They are followed by Tony Adams from England (with 44), Yuri Semin (with 36) who earned Gabala their first-ever bronze, Fatih Kavlak from Turkey (26), Dorinel Munteanu (13), Faig Jabbarov (8), Luis Aragon (3), Sanan Gurbanov (3).
- Opponent sides: 22
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