Azerbaijan national football team
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.
| Nickname(s) | Milli komanda (The National Team) | |||
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| Association | Azərbaycan Futbol Federasiyaları Assosiasiyası (AFFA) | |||
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) | |||
| Head coach | Arif Asadov (caretaker) | |||
| Captain | Emin Mahmudov | |||
| Most caps | Rashad Sadygov (111) | |||
| Top scorer | Gurban Gurbanov (14) | |||
| Home stadium | Baku Olympic Stadium | |||
| FIFA code | AZE | |||
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| FIFA ranking | ||||
| Current | 112 1 (4 April 2024) | |||
| Highest | 73 (July 2014) | |||
| Lowest | 170 (June 1994) | |||
| First international | ||||
| Unofficial Georgia 6–3 Azerbaijan (Gurjaani, 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 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.