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Nickname(s) | Milli komanda (The National Team) | |||
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Association | Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan (AFFA) | |||
Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | |||
Head coach | Fernando Santos | |||
Captain | Emin Mahmudov | |||
Most caps | Rashad Sadygov (111) | |||
Top scorer | Gurban Gurbanov & Emin Mahmudov (14) | |||
Home stadium | Various | |||
FIFA code | AZE | |||
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FIFA ranking | ||||
Current | 117 ![]() | |||
Highest | 73 (July 2014) | |||
Lowest | 170 (June 1994) | |||
First international | ||||
Official![]() ![]() (Tbilisi, Georgia; 17 September 1992) | ||||
Biggest win | ||||
![]() ![]() (Baku, Azerbaijan; 5 June 1999) ![]() ![]() (Baku, Azerbaijan; 4 September 2017) | ||||
Biggest defeat | ||||
![]() ![]() (Auxerre, France; 6 September 1995) |
The Azerbaijan national football team (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan milli futbol komandası) is the national football team of Azerbaijan and is controlled by Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan. It represents Azerbaijan in international football competitions. The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Baku Olympic Stadium, with friendly matches sometimes hosted at club stadiums.
The Azerbaijan national football team has taken part in qualification for each major tournament since Euro 1996, but has never qualified for the finals tournament of any World Cup or European Championships. Despite this, Azerbaijan was the first Caucasus country to host a major tournament, the UEFA Euro 2020, even though the national side was the only host to be eliminated in the first round of qualifying.