Azerbaijan women's national football team
| Nickname(s) |
Odlar Yurdu (The Land of Fire) |
|---|---|
| Association | Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan |
| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Shamil Haydarov |
| Captain | Irada Guliyeva |
| Home stadium |
Tofik Bakhramov Stadium Ismet Qaibov Stadium |
| FIFA code | AZE |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 63  65 (24 March 2017)
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| Highest | 58 (December 2009) |
| Lowest | 148 (September 2015) |
| First international | |
 Romania 4–1 Azerbaijan  (Mogoșoaia, Romania; November 18, 2006) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Macedonia 0–4 Azerbaijan (Tbilisi, Georgia; May 13, 2009) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Sweden 17–0 Azerbaijan (Gothenburg, Sweden; June 23, 2010) |
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The Azerbaijan women's national football team represents Azerbaijan in international women's football. They are currently 63rd in the FIFA Women's World Rankings. Azerbaijan has never qualified for any international tournament. The majority of Azerbaijan's home matches are held at the national stadium, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium.
In 2005, the AFFA had planned to send a team to the Women's World Cup qualifying, finally, the team withdrew before it started the qualifying tournament. On November 18, 2006 Azerbaijan played its first game against Romania in the city of Mogosoaia for the 2009 Euro qualifiers with a team led by Shamil Haydarov and captained by Kifayat Osmanova, losing 4–1 with its first goal scored by Svetlana Milyukhina, they played two matches later, in which they won against Estonia and lost against Bulgaria, they ended up eliminated from the tournament with 3 points. In 2009, Azerbaijan participated for the first time in a World Cup qualifying in Group 8, with Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden and Wales, where it played three games, one won, one drawn and one lost before the end of the year.
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