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Azerbaijan women's national football team

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Head coach
  
Shamil Haydarov

FIFA code
  
AZE

Location
  
Azerbaijan

Captain
  
Irada Guliyeva

Current
  
NR (25 September 2015)

Confederation
  
UEFA

Azerbaijan women's national football team

Nickname(s)
  
Odlar Yurdu (The Land of Fire)

Home stadium
  
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium Ismet Qaibov Stsdium

Association
  
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 133rd (no rank) at the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament. The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium.

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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 November 18, 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.

World Cup record

*Draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

References

Azerbaijan women's national football team Wikipedia