Stadiums of Azerbaijan

Hosted the 2019 UEFA Europa League final — Chelsea 4-1 Arsenal in front of 51,370. It also staged four UEFA Euro 2020 matches including a quarter-final, the 2015 European Games, and COP29…

Named in 1993 after Tofiq Bahramov — the linesman who signalled that Geoff Hurst's shot had crossed the line in the 1966 World Cup final, making it the first stadium in the world named…

Kəpəz

In 2015-16, playing in the second tier, Kəpəz averaged nearly 15,000 here — almost triple the next-best club in Azerbaijan — and in February 2016 set the all-time Premier League attendance…

The city stadium of Xankəndi, opened in 1956 and rebuilt as an all-seater holding around 15,000. It was refurbished in 2023. It is now the home of Xankəndi FK, founded in 2024, who won the…

Known locally as Fırtınalar meydanı — the Arena of Storms. UEFA approved it for full internationals on 17 July 2009, and Azerbaijan played Finland here on 5 September 2009. It also staged…

The largest ground in the Nakhchivan.

Neftçi

Neftçi Arena is a football stadium in Baku’s Nizami district, opened on 14 September 2012. It has a capacity of about 11,000 spectators and is the home stadium of Neftçi PFK. It was…

Sumqayıt

Named for the Azerbaijani Soviet partisan hero Mehdi Hüseynzadə, and fully reconstructed between 2020 and 2023 by presidential decree — 22 sectors across 6.8 hectares with 650 parking…

Sabah

The stadium predates its tenant by three years — it opened in October 2014 as Alinja Arena, named after the castle in Nakhchivan, and Sabah FK did not exist until September 2017. In July…

İmişli

Opened in 2006 for MKT-Araz, a club that folded a year later. The ground outlived two clubs and got a third: İmişli FK, founded in 2022. But it is licensed only to First Division standard…

Şəfa

Built by AFFA in 2001 and originally named Şəfa Stadium — it is still widely called that, and the very first match played here was Şəfa against NK Olimpija Ljubljana in the UEFA Cup, the…

Araz-Naxçıvan

Opened jointly by Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini on 6 June 2011 — a FIFA president and a UEFA president cutting the ribbon on a suburban ground seating around 6,500. It is the centrepiece…

Turan Tovuz

A Soviet-era small-town ground near the Georgian border that has survived into the modern Premier League — and which in 2024/25 and 2025/26 hosted a side coached by Kurban Berdyev, who once…

Qarabağ

Purpose-built for Qarabağ FK. Qarabağ played at the Imarat Stadium in Agdam until 1993, when the town was invaded by Armenains and the ground destroyed by shelling; they used the Guzanli…

Inaugurated in 2007 for Karvan FK, a club that reached the Azerbaijan Cup final in 2006 and then dissolved. It found a second life as one of the two grounds — with Tovuz — that housed Kəpəz…

Qəbələ

Gabala have essentially never played European football at home. During their landmark 2015-16 Europa League group stage they hosted PAOK, Krasnodar and Borussia Dortmund at the Bakcell…

Cut into the hillside below the Bayıl slope, with the houses of old Baku stacked directly above the far stand — one of the most distinctive backdrops in Azerbaijani football. Owned and run…

Opened on 10 April 2011 with AZAL PFK beating FK Baku 1-0, the Belarusian striker Gennady Bliznyuk scoring the first goal on the ground. UEFA had approved it for international matches two…

Şamaxı

Shamakhi City Stadium (Şamaxı Şəhər Stadionu) is a football stadium in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan, and the home ground of Shamakhi FK. It was officially opened on 1 November 2021 and has a…

Zirə

The smallest home ground of any regular Azerbaijan Premier League club — and the Brazil national team trained here in September 2012.

Built by AFFA and opened on 13 September 2012, as a training venue for the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and afterwards a First Division ground. It has an artificial surface, referee and…