1998–99 Azerbaijan Top League

The 1998–99 Azerbaijan Top League was the eighth season of the Azerbaijan Top League, since their independence from the USSR in August 1991, and was contested by 14 clubs. The season took place between 15 August 1998 and May 1999 and was won by Kapaz with Neftqaz Bakı and Shahdag being relegated to the Azerbaijan First Division as well as Bakili Baku due to financial problems.

Azerbaijan Top League

Season	1998–99
Champions	Kapaz
Relegated	Bakili Baku Neftqaz Bakı Shahdag
Champions League	Kapaz
UEFA Cup	Shamkir Neftchi Baku
Intertoto Cup	Qarabağ
Matches played	230
Goals scored	630 (2.74 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alay Bəhramov (24)
Biggest home win	Neftchi Baku 11-0 Şahdağ
Biggest away win	Şahdağ 0-6 Kəpəz
Highest scoring	Neftchi Baku 11-0 Şahdağ Viləş FK 6-6 Turan Tovuz
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Teams

Stadia and locations

Bakili
Fahlasi
Dinamo
Khazar Sumgayit
MOIK
Neftchi
Neftqaz
Shafa

Kapaz

Qarabağ

Shahdag

Shamkir

Turan Tovuz

Viləş

Location of teams in Azerbaijan Premier League 1998–99

Team	Venue	Capacity
Bakılı Baku	Shafa Stadium (IV field)	8,152
Bakı Fahlasi	Ismat Gayibov Stadium	5,000
Dinamo Baku	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium	29,858
Kapaz	Ganja City Stadium	26,120
Qarabağ	Guzanli Olympic Stadium1	15,000
Khazar Sumgayit
MOIK Baku	Shafa Stadium (IV field)	8,152
Neftchi Baku	Tofik Bakhramov Stadium	29,858
Neftqaz Bakı	Ismat Gayibov Stadium	5,000
Shafa Baku	Shafa Stadium (IV field)	8,152
Shahdag	Shovkat Ordukhanov Stadium	4,000
Shamkir
Turan Tovuz	Tovuz City Stadium	10,000
Viləş Masallı	Anatoliy Banishevskiy Stadium	8,000

¹Qarabağ played their home matches at Surakhani Stadium in Baku before moving to their current stadium on 3 May 2009.^[1]

First round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kapaz	26	18	4	4	77	17	+60	58	Qualification for championship group
2	Qarabağ	26	17	3	6	45	21	+24	54
3	Dinamo Baku	26	16	4	6	46	20	+26	52
4	Neftchi Baku	26	15	7	4	57	18	+39	52
5	Shamkir	26	16	2	8	42	24	+18	50
6	Bakı Fahlasi	26	15	5	6	46	25	+21	50
7	Turan Tovuz	26	14	7	5	42	21	+21	49	Qualification for 7-10 group
8	Viləş Masallı	26	14	4	8	39	25	+14	46
9	Bakili Baku	26	7	7	12	18	33	−15	28
10	MOIK Baku	26	6	8	12	20	29	−9	26
11	Khazar Sumgayit	26	5	1	20	20	70	−50	16	Qualification for relegation group
12	Shafa Baku	26	3	5	18	24	54	−30	14
13	Shahdag	26	2	4	20	20	86	−66	10
14	Neftqaz Bakı	26	2	3	21	15	68	−53	9

Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results

Home \ Away	BFA	BKL	DIN	KAP	KHS	MOI	NEF	NEB	QAR	SHB	ABB	SHA	TUR	MAS
Bakı Fahlasi		1–0	3–0[a]	0–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	7–1	4–2	1–0	3–0[a]	1–0	5–1	1–1
Bakili	1–1		0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–3	1–1	0–0	2–1	3–0[a]	0–2	0–0	1–0
Dinamo Baku	1–0	2–1		1–1	3–0[a]	1–1	1–0	5–1	2–0	2–0	5–0	4–1	0–0	3–0
Kapaz	4–1	3–0[a]	2–0		5–0	3–0	2–0	7–0	3–0	6–0	11–1	1–0	1–1	2–0
Khazar Sumgayit	0–3[a]	3–2	0–3	0–4		0–0	0–4	3–1	0–3	1–3	8–3	3–2	1–2	0–3
MOIK Baku	2–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	2–0		0–4	1–2	0–2	0–0	4–0	1–4	1–2	0–3
Neftçi Baku	2–2	0–0	1–0	1–3	6–0	3–0[a]		1–0	0–0	5–0	11–0	2–0	1–1	2–1
Neftqaz Bakı	0–4	0–3	0–2	1–3	2–0	1–2	0–2		0–1	0–4	1–1	0–2	1–2	2–3
Qarabağ	2–2	2–0	2–1	2–1	5–0	3–1	1–0	4–0		2–0	3–0[a]	1–0	3–1	3–1
Shafa Baku	1–2	1–2	0–3	2–6	0–1	0–0	1–2	4–0	1–4		1–2	0–3	0–2	2–2
Şahdağ	1–2	2–2	0–1	0–6	4–0	0–3[a]	1–4	1–1	0–1	1–1		0–4	1–2	1–3
Şəmkir	3–1	3–0[a]	2–0	2–0	3–0[a]	2–0	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	3–0[a]		2–2	1–0
Turan	0–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	6–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–0[a]	1–1	8–0	3–0		1–0
Viləş FK	1–0	2–0	2–3	3–0	1–0	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–0	3–0	3–0	1–0

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 1998-99
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Walkover.

Second round

Championship group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kapaz (C)	10	8	1	1	17	7	+10	25	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Shamkir	10	5	1	4	10	10	0	16	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Neftchi Baku	10	4	3	3	11	7	+4	15
4	Qarabağ	10	3	3	4	5	8	−3	12	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
5	Bakı Fahlasi	10	2	3	5	5	8	−3	9
6	Dinamo Baku	10	2	1	7	6	14	−8	7

Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BFA	DIN	KAP	NEF	QAR	SHA
Bakı Fahlasi		0–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	1–0
Dinamo Baku	1–0		0–1	1–3	0–0	0–1
Kapaz	1–0	3–1		1–0	3–0	3–1
Neftçi Baku	1–1	1–0	3–0		0–0	1–0
Qarabağ	0–0	3–0	0–2	1–0		1–0
Şəmkir	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–0

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 1998-99
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

7-10 group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Turan Tovuz	6	4	2	0	17	6	+11	14
8	Viləş Masallı	6	2	3	1	16	12	+4	9
9	MOIK Baku	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9
10	Bakili Baku (R)	6	0	0	6	0	16	−16	0	Relegation to Azerbaijan First Division[a]

Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Bakili Baku were relegated due to financial problems

Results

Home \ Away	BKL	MOI	TUR	MAS
Bakili		0–1	0–3[a]	0–3[a]
MOIK Baku	3–0[a]		0–3[a]	2–2
Turan	3–0[a]	0–0		2–0
Viləş FK	3–0[a]	2–2	6–6

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 1998-99
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Walkover.

Relegation group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
11	Shafa Baku	4	3	1	0	12	3	+9	10
12	Khazar Sumgayit	4	1	2	1	9	9	0	5
13	Neftqaz Bakı (R)	4	0	1	3	3	12	−9	1	Relegation to Azerbaijan First Division
14	Shahdag (R)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Team withdrew[a]

Source: Azerbaijan Professional Football league
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Shahdag withdrew after the first round fixtures and as a result were relegated.

Results

Home \ Away	KHS	NEB	SHB	ABB
Khazar Sumgayit		5–0	0–5
Neftqaz Bakı	2–2		1–3
Shafa Baku	2–2	2–0
Şahdağ

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 1998-99
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[2]
1	Alay Bəhramov	Viləş Masallı	24
2	Vadim Vasilyev	Baku Fahlasi	19
3	Vidadi Rzayev	Kapaz	18
4	Həsən Abdullayev	Kapaz	16
	Yalçın Bağırov	Qarabağ	16
6	Leonid Kalfa	Neftchi Baku	15
	Farrukh Ismayilov	Dinamo Baku	15
	Mushfig Huseynov	Qarabağ	15
9	Badri Kvaratskhelia	Shamkir	14
10	Nazim Aliyev	Dinamo Baku	13