Azerbaijan national football team

Azerbaijan

Nickname(s)	Milli komanda (The National Team)
Association	Azərbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyası (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	Baku Olympic Stadium
FIFA code	AZE
First colours Second colours Third colours
FIFA ranking
Current	111 (18 July 2024)[1]
Highest	73 (July 2014)
Lowest	170 (June 1994)
First international
Unofficial Azerbaijan SSR 4–0 Armenian SSR (Tbilisi, Georgian SSR; December 1926) Official  Georgia 6–3 Azerbaijan  (Tbilisi, Georgia; 17 September 1992)
Biggest win
Azerbaijan 4–0 Liechtenstein  (Baku, Azerbaijan; 5 June 1999)  Azerbaijan 5–1 San Marino  (Baku, Azerbaijan; 4 September 2017)
Biggest defeat
France 10–0 Azerbaijan  (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.