FK Qarabağ
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| Full name | Qarabağ Futbol Klubu |
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| Nickname(s) |
Atlılar (The Horsemen) Göy-Ağlar (Blue-Whites) |
| Short name | QFK |
| Founded | 1951 (as a Məhsul) |
| Ground | Azersun Arena, Tofig Bahramov Stadium |
| Capacity | 5800, 31200 |
| President | Tahir Gozal |
| Manager | Gurban Gurbanov |
| League | Azerbaijan Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 1st |
| Website | Club home page |
Atlılar (The Horsemen)
Qarabağ Futbol Klubu, commonly known as Qarabağ [ɡɑɾɑbɑʁ], is an Azerbaijani football club from Agdam, but based in Baku since 1993 due to the Nagorno-Karabakh war, playing in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
Formed in 1951, Qarabağ were founding members of the Azerbaijan Premier League in 1992. A season later they won their first league championship, becoming the first non-Baku based club to win the Azerbaijan Premier League title. Qarabağ is one of the two teams in Azerbaijan, along with Neftçi PFK which has participated in all Azerbaijan Premier League championships so far.
Qarabağ plays its matches at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku, which also serves as the venue for Azerbaijan national football team matches.
In 2014, the club won the Premier League, their first league title for 21 years. Qarabağ have won the Premier league four times and Azerbaijan Cup five times. In the same year, Qarabağ became the second Azerbaijani team to advance to the group stage of a European competition, beating Twente in the play-off round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.
The club was founded in 1951 as Qarabağ after the Aghdam city stadium was built; there then began a serious effort towards the creation of a professional football team. Consequently, FK Qarabağ, then playing under the name of Mehsul took part in the 1966 Azerbaijani championship. In that year the club reached 4th place in the local championship.
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