Tovuz · Azerbaijan

Turan Tovuz

Boz Qurd · “The Grey Wolf”

Founded 1992 · Tovuz, western Azerbaijan

Champions 1993-94
3rd in 2025/26

Turan Tovuz play at Tovuz City Stadium, capacity 6,500, are coached by Kurban Berdiyev and stand 4th in the 2026/27 Misli Premyer Liqası on 11 points from 6 matches. Founded in 1992 in Tovuz. 22 registered players.

Updated 17 Sept 2026

2026/27 season

MİSLİ PREMYER LİQASI

League position

4th

Played 6

Points

3 won
2 drawn
1 lost

Registered players

for 2026/27

Ground capacity

6,500

Seats

Recent form

Drew
Lost
Won
Drew
Won

Most recent last

Home ground

Tovuz City Stadium

Tovuz

6,500Capacity

TOVUZ picked out in the main stand

Head coach

Kurban Berdiyev

Management

President Ehtiram Quliyev

Squad

Registered players, 2026/27

Club colours

Red & white

Last season2025/26

3rd of 12

59 points

Honours

1League title

1First Division title

—Cups

League: 1993-94
Cup: None — never reached a final

Squad 2026/27 — 22 players

Squad taken from the Professional Football League's registration list for this club. Shirt numbers can change during a transfer window.

History

Founded on 23 February 1992 by Vidadi Ahmadov and billed as the first professional Azerbaijani club of the independence era. It won the championship in only its second season, 1993-94. Decline set in from 1997 and relegation followed in 2012-13 after twenty consecutive top-flight years; the club briefly played as "Turan-T", then disappeared from the league lists entirely.

The current legal entity was established on 1 August 2015 — a genuine gap and reconstitution. It won the First Division in 2016-17, received its Premier League licence on 25 May 2022, and has been in the top flight since. In 2024/25 it finished second; in 2025/26, third. A district of roughly 150,000 people is now consistently beating Baku-funded rivals.

In Europe

One prior European entry, in 1994-95 as champions. Third place in 2025/26 earned a 2026/27 Conference League berth — but in early June 2026 UEFA excluded the club under Article 4.01(g), citing a December 2019 AFFA disciplinary ruling that handed lifetime bans to seven then-Turan Tovuz players in a 28-person match-fixing case. The club rejected the ruling and announced an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Reporting on the final outcome remains contradictory.

Stories & legends

A famous manager in a small-town job

Kurban Berdyev won two Russian titles with Rubin Kazan and beat Barcelona at the Camp Nou in 2009. Since June 2024 he has managed a provincial Azerbaijani club near the Georgian border — one of the more incongruous appointments in European football.

The past catching up

The 2019 match-fixing bans landed on a club with different owners and a completely different squad seven years later, costing a European place won on merit. It dominated Azerbaijani sports media through mid-2026.

From nothing to third

The club effectively ceased to exist around 2014-15 and had to be re-established from scratch in 2015. Ten years later it finished second, then third, in the national championship.