Goals: Bahlul Mustafazadeh, 17”; Sadig Guliyev, 85” // Javidan Omarli, 69”
Gabala have substitutes hosted the Azerbaijan Reserve League’s opener against Zira today. Huseyngulu Guliyev’s squad opened the scoring in the seventeenth minute with Bahlul Mustafazadeh. This has been registered as his second goal of the season.
After the half-time, the visitors leveled when Javidan Omarli scored in the sixty ninth minute. But it was Gabala pushing hard to taking the victory and they hit the target in the closing minutes as Sadig Guliyev shot the all-important goal to finish in 2:1. He also reached his scoring to two so far the season.
The second successive win left the red-black team extending their points to twenty to sit second at the league table.
| 1 | Qarabagh | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23-11 | 23 |
| 2 | Gabala | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 23-12 | 20 |
| 3 | Neftchi | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14-12 | 19 |
| 4 | Inter | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9-8 | 17 |
| 5 | Zira | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14-12 | 16 |
| 6 | Kapaz | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11-12 | 13 |
| 7 | Sumgayit | 10 | |
