Azerbaijan women's national football team explained

Type:	Women
Azerbaijan
Badge:	Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan logo.svg
Badge Size:	130px
Fifa Trigramme:	AZE
Nickname:	Azerbaijani: Odlar Yurdu (The Land of Fire)
Association:	Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
Confederation:	UEFA (Europe)
Coach:	Siyasat Asgarov
Captain:	Aytaj Sharifova
Home Stadium:	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium Ismet Qaibov Stadium
Fifa Max:	58
Fifa Max Date:	December 2009
Fifa Min:	83
Fifa Min Date:	December 2021
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First Game:	4–1 (Mogoșoaia, Romania; 18 November 2006)
Largest Win:	0–4 (Tbilisi, Georgia; 13 May 2009) 4–0 (Baku, Azerbaijan; 20 February 2022)
Largest Loss:	17–0 (Gothenburg, Sweden; 23 June 2010)
Regional Name:	European Championship

The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 79th in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament.^[1] The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium.

History

2000s

In 2005, the AFFA had planned to send a team to the Women's World Cup qualifying, finally, the team withdrew before it started the qualifying tournament. On 18 November 2006 Azerbaijan played its first game against Romania in the city of Mogosoaia for the 2009 Euro qualifiers with a team led by Shamil Haydarov and captained by Kifayat Osmanova, losing 4–1 with its first goal scored by Svetlana Milyukhina, they played two matches later, in which they won against Estonia and lost against Bulgaria, they ended up eliminated from the tournament with 3 points. In 2009, Azerbaijan participated for the first time in a World Cup qualifying in Group 8, with Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden and Wales, where it played three games, one won, one drawn and one lost before the end of the year.

2010s

In 2010, Azerbaijan played five games for the qualifiers, losing them all and being eliminated from the competition with 4 points, a game won, one drawn lost six games, scoring two goals and conceding sixteen. After that campaign, the team did not play to date back and has not scheduled any competition or friendly match. The team not even entered the 2015 World Cup Qualifiers.

Team image

Nicknames

The Azerbaijan women's national football team has been known or nicknamed as the "Azerbaijani: Odlar Yurdu (The Land of Fire)".

Home stadium

Azerbaijan plays their home matches on the Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium and the Ismet Qaibov Stadium.

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

Legend

2024

Azerbaijan Results and Fixtures – Soccerway.com

Head-to-head record

The following table shows Azerbaijan's all-time international record, correct as of 1 June 2018.

Source: Worldfootball

Coaching staff

Current coaching staff

Position	Name	Ref.
Head coach	Siyasat Asgarov
Assistant coach
Goalkeeping coach
Physical coach		-->

Manager history

Manager	Azerbaijan career	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost
Shamil Haydarov	2006–2017	22	7	4	11
<	-- -->Siyasat Asgarov	20??–present	0	0	0	0

Players

See main article: List of Azerbaijan women's international footballers.

Current squad

The following players were part of the squad ahead of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying match against Hungary and Switzerland on the 12 and 16 July 2024, respectively .^[2]

Caps and goals are correct, as of 23 February 2021.

Recent call ups

The following players have been called up to the squad in the past 12 months.

Records