2008–09 Azerbaijan First Division


The 2008–09 Azerbaijan First Division is the second-level of football in Azerbaijan. The season is started on 6 September 2009 with eight teams participating in the league. NBC Salyan were the defending champions.
ABN Bärdä won the league, with Shahdag finishing as runners up. Both teams were due to be promoted to the Azerbaijan Premier League, but due to the AFFA's license policy, neither teams were.

Schedule

Each team played each other four times, twice at home and twice away, with the season started on 6 September 2008 and finished on 16 May 2009. There were no games between 7 December 2008 and 15 February 2009, due to the annual winter break.

Teams

Stadia and locations

TeamLocationVenueCapacity
ABN BärdäBardaBarda City Stadium10,000
Adliyya BakuBakuAdliyya Stadium7,000
EnergetikMingachevirYashar Mammadzade Stadium5,000
GöyazanQazaxQazakh City Stadium3,500
ANSAD-Petrol NeftçalaNeftçalaNariman Narimanov Stadium4,000
Qafqaz UniversityBaku
ShahdagQusarShovkat Ordukhanov Stadium4,000
Spartak GubaQubaQuba City Stadium2,000

League table

Top goalscorers

Last updated: 17 May 2009; Source:
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