Gabala are updating their domestic Topaz Premier League records 293 days after the season started on 9 August 2014. The first team were awarded with bronze medals for the second time on the trot last Thursday, 28 May.
Gabalafc.az provides statistics of the season:
30 Footballers of the Season
- 30 footballers played for Gabala during the 2014/2015 season;
- 18 footballers made debut for Gabala, including Adrian Ropotan, Andrei Cristea, Bakhtiyar Soltanov, Aleksandru Benga, Javid Huseynov, Ekigho Ehiosun, Markinyos, Pavol Farkas, Gomes Pinto Yazalde, Ruslan Amircanov, Ruslan Abishov, Dmitri Bezotosny, Aleksey Gai, Ruslan Fomin, Rashad Sadigov, Mikhail Sivakov, Ricardinho and Gismat Aliyev.
- Gabala”s top experienced with 29 matches are Javid Huseynov, Elvin Jamalov and Ekigho Ehiosun. No the other players spent their time on the pitch as much as Huseynov with 2,506 minutes;
- 9 footballers came on at least 17 season games, more than half of the all events;
- 2 footballers came on only 1 match – Vladimir Levin and Gismat Aliyev;
- There were 3 goal keepers – Kamran Aghayev, Dmitri Bezotosny and Anar Nazirov – of all the 30 footballers. The latter appeared in 3 matches as the other two did in 15;
- There are also 27 field footballers of the all;
- 14 domestic footballers played for Gabala as the other 16 are from overseas;
- Ukrainian Vladimir Levin is naturalized to be a part of those local footballers;
- The other 15 are from 8 countries – 4 from Brazil, 3 from Romania and Ukraine, and only one from each Senegal, Belarus, Slovakia, Nigeria and Portugal.
Footballer Game Minute Goal Yellow Red
Javid Huseynov 29 2506 11 7 0
Elvin Jamalov 29 2079 0 9 0
Ekiqo Ehiosun 29 1676 6 4 0
Rafael Santos 28 2492 0 3 0
Ruslan Abıshov 27 2342 4 12 0
Urfan Abbasov 25 2157 1 3 0
Viktor Mendi 25 1835 8 3 0
Baxtiyar Soltanov 21 1568 2 2 0
Aleksey Qay 16 1440 4 2 0
Dodo 16 1304 5 2 0
Ruslan Taghızada 16 963 0 7 1
Kamran Aghayev 15 1350 -20 1 0
Dmitri Bezotosnı 15 1304 -7 0 1
Ruslan Fomin 15 627 0 2 0
Adrian Ropotan 14 1227 0 11 0
Pavol Farkash 13 957 1 4 0
Rashad Sadiqov 13 792 0 2 0
Qomesh Pinto Yazalde 13 432 0 1 0
Markinyos 12 700 1 1 0
Mixail Sivakov 12 462 0 0 0
Rikardinyo 10 819 0 2 0
Sadiq Quliyev 8 370 0 1 0
Andrey Kristea 8 281 0 1 0
Ruslan Amircanov 7 630 0 1 0
Aleksandru Benqa 7 596 0 2 1
Mushfiq Teymurov 5 437 0 1 0
Anar Nazirov 3 226 -8 1 0
Murad Musayev 2 2 0 0 0
Qismat Alıyev 1 34 0 1 0
Vladimir Levin 1 15 0 0 0
Goals
- 10 footballers of could score for Gabala – Javid Huseynov is the top scored with 11 goals ahead of Victor Mendy with 8, Ekigho Ehiosun 6, Dodo 5, Ruslan Abishov and Aleksey Gai both with 4, Bakhtiyar Soltanov 2, Markinyos, Pavol Farkas and Urfan Abbasov each with 1;
- 7 footballers scored in their debut for Gabala –Cavid, Ruslan, Ekiqo, Aleksey, Baxtiyar, Pavol and Markinyos.
- And there are also 3 own goals by Vugar Baybalayev (FC Baku), Namig Alasgarov (Garabagh) and Lasa Kasiradze (AZAL);
- Gabala suffered from their own goal by Ruslan Taghizadeh for Khazar Lankaran;
Penalties
- Javid Huseynov shot all 6 penalties on target during the season;
- Gabala conceded all 5 penalties, including 3 with Kamran Aghayev, as well as one with both Dmitri Bezotosny and Anar Nazirov.
Bookings
- Gabala picked up 93 bookings of the season, including 90 yellows and 3 red cards. Send off players are Ruslan Taghizadeh, Aleksandru Benga and Dmitri Bezotosny.
- 27 players picked up bookings, most with Ruslan Abishov (12), and Adrian Ropotan (11), Elvin Jamalov (9);
- Only 3 players stayed clear with no bookings – Mixail Sivakov, Murad Musayev and Vladimir Levin;
- Mixail Sivakov is staying on top with 12 games, as well as with 462 minutes.
- Ruslan Abishov 3, Adrian Ropotan, Elvin Jamalov 2, Javid Huseynov, Pavol Farkas, Ekigho Ehiosun and Ruslan Taghizadeh picked up only one booking.
Wins, Defeats, Draws
- Longest winning streak includes 8 games from 21st to 28th of the season hitting the record of all the club history;
- Longest winless run includes 5 games of the 9th to 13th matches;
- 2 draws on the trot came out for 3 times during the season.
- Longest run with no draws includes 12 events from 17th to 28th games;
- Longest losing streak goes through 3 games from 21st to 32nd of the season;
- Longest unbeaten streak goes through 12 games from 21st to 32nd of the season. And this run is still going on;
- Longest scoring run – 13 games (20th to 32nd matches). This record is still going on;
- Longest goalless run – 2 games (2 times);
- Longest run with no scoring, no conceding – 2 games (2 times);
- Longest run of conceding goals – 6 games (6th to 11th games).
Crowd
- All the 11 home matches were held in Gabala for 27,100 viewers;
- Most crowd, 3,700, appeared in the match against Garabagh held on 2nd May;
- Least crowd was registered with 300 viewers for the game against Sumgayit on 8 March;
- The average number of the home crowd consisted of 1,694 viewers;
- all the outing events were viewed by 16,350 with average number of 1022;
- The away match against Simurg held on 15 September appears to be having most viewers with 2,500.
- The least crowd in included 200 in the away against AZAL 20 November.
Facts
- Mendy appeared to be the oldest player and scorer coming on the pitch in his 33rd year, 5th month and 5th day.
- The youngest is Gismat Aliyev in his appearing in his 18th year, 7th month and 3rd day;
- 7 players of all 30 were over 30 year age.
- The youngest scorer is Urfan Abbasov in his 22nd year, 4th month and 7th day;
- Javid Huseynov could score in 3 matches on the trot staying on top ahead of Aleksey Gai.
- Gabala could keep up their net clear in 11 matches, 8 with Dmitri Bezotosny and 3 with Kamran Aghayev.
- Gabala were introduced by 4 captains – Kamran Aghayev with 15, Ruslan Abishov – 14, Javid Huseynov with 2, Victor Mendy – 1;
- Gabala were introduced by 3 head coaches;
- With Dorinel Munteanu, the red-black side came on 13 matches to gain 14 points after 3 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats. The goal difference is 15-21.
- for 3 events, Sanan Gurbanov was the skipper when the squad earned 5 points in the unbeaten streak of 1 win and 2 draws scoring 4 and conceding 3;
- Roman Grigorchuk joined Gabala as the head coach in the 2nd half of the season and guided the team to 3rd place after 16 games – 11 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. The aggregate goal is 27-11;
- There was no unbeaten team for Gabala over the season.
- 8 referees guided Gabala”s events – Aliyar Aghayev, Rahim Hasanov - 6, Elvin Asgarov – 5, Omar Pashayev, Ingilab Mammadov – 4, Fariz Yusifov, Vusal Aliyev – 3, Rauf Jabbarov – 1.
- Gabala registered 4 doubles with Victor Mendy, Ekigho Ehiosun, Javid Huseynov and Dodo;
- Gabala gained high-scoring wins 2 times – 4:0 over AZAL and Baku;
- the red-black side suffered from high scoring loss for 2 times, with 0:4 to Inter and 0:3 to Khazar Lankaran;
- Finishing 3rd of the season, Gabala could repeat the record of bronze medals for the 2nd time after taking the 3rd place of the 2013/2014 season;
- Gabala scored 46 goals in 32 league games updating their average goals for each events with 1,44 beating the 1,34 of the 2011/2012 season, when they scored 43 in 32 matches.
- It was the most successful season of Gabala taking 9 wins, scoring 23 and earning 30 points;
- Scoring 11, Javid Huseynov appeared to be the 2nd scoring most in a season. He is behind only Daniel Subotic scoring 12 for the last season;
- It was the first season Gabala could earn more points in away matches than home events. The red-black side gained 24 points from 6 victories, 6 draws and 4 defeats. The goals difference is 23-17. And the 30 away points were gained by 9 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats where they could score 23 conceeding 18;
All Premier League Matches of the
2014/15 season:
10.08.2014 Inter (Baku) - Gabala 4:0
23.08.2014 Baku - Gabala 0:2
30.08.2014 Gabala - AZAL (Baku) 1:2
13.09.2014 Simurg (Zagatala) - Gabala 1:2
21.09.2014 Gabala - Neftchi 0:0
28.09.2014 Gabala - Khazar Lankaran 1:1
17.10.2014 Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala 2:0
24.10.2014 Gabala - Sumgayit 3:1
02.11.2014 Gabala - Baku 1:1
20.11.2014 AZAL (Baku) - Gabala 3:3
23.11.2014 Gabala - Simurg (Zagatala) 2:3
29.11.2014 Neftchi (Baku) - Gabala 0:0
07.12.2014 Khazar Lankaran - Gabala 3:0
14.12.2014 Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) 2:1
18.12.2014 Sumgayit - Gabala 1:1
21.12.2014 Gabala - Inter (Baku) 1:1
01.02.2015 Baku - Gabala 0:2
06.02.2015 Gabala - AZAL (Baku) 0:1
10.02.2015 Simurg (Zagatala) - Gabala 2:0
15.02.2015 Gabala - Neftchi (Baku) 1:3
19.02.2015 Gabala - Khazar Lankaran 3:1
28.02.2015 Garabagh (Aghdam) - Gabala 0:1
08.03.2015 Gabala - Sumgayit 2:0
18.03.2015 Inter (Baku) - Gabala 1:2
05.04.2015 AZAL (Baku) - Gabala 0:4
09.04.2015 Gabala - Simurg (Zagatala) 1:0
17.04.2015 Neftchi (Baku) - Gabala 1:3
25.04.2015 Khazar Lankaran - Gabala 0:1
02.05.2015 Gabala - Garabagh (Aghdam) 1:1
08.05.2015 Sumgayit - Gabala 0:2
16.05.2015 Gabala - Inter (Baku) 1:1
28.05.2015 Gabala - Baku 3:0