1995–96 Azerbaijan Top League

The 1995–96 Azerbaijan Top League was the fifth season of the Azerbaijan Top League and was contested by 11 clubs and was the first season were 3 points were awarded for a win. Kəpəz were the defending champions but were unable to keep their title as Neftchi Baku completed a domestic double, winning their second Azerbaijan League title and the Azerbaijan Cup.

Azerbaijan Top League

Season	1995–96
Champions	Neftchi Baku
UEFA Cup	Neftchi Baku Khazri Buzovna
Cup Winners' Cup	Qarabağ
Matches played	170
Top goalscorer	Rovshan Akhmedov Fazil Parvanov (23)
← 1994–95 1996–97 →

Stadia and locations

Fahlasi
Khazri Buzovna
MOIK
Neftchi

Kapaz

Kur Nur

Pambiqci Neftcala

Qarabağ

Shamkir

Turan Tovuz

Viləş Masallı

Location of teams in Azerbaijan Premier League 1995–96

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Bakı Fahlasi	Baku	Ismat Gayibov Stadium	5,000
Kapaz	Ganja	Ganja City Stadium	26,120
Qarabağ	Quzanlı	Guzanli Olympic Complex Stadium	2,000
Khazri Buzovna	Buzovna
Kur-Nur	Mingachevir	Yashar Mammadzade Stadium	5,000
MOIK Baku	Baku
Neftchi Baku	Baku	Tofiq Bahramov Stadium	31,200
Pambiqci Neftcala	Neftçala
Shamkir	Şəmkir	Shamkir City Stadium
Turan Tovuz	Tovuz	Tovuz City Stadium	6,800
Viləş	Masallı	Anatoliy Banishevskiy Stadium	7,500

First round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Khazri Buzovna	20	14	5	1	31	7	+24	47	Qualification for championship group
2	Kapaz	20	13	4	3	74	20	+54	43
3	Turan	20	13	2	5	41	24	+17	41
4	Qarabağ	20	12	4	4	38	15	+23	40
5	Neftçi Baku	20	11	6	3	42	17	+25	39
6	Kur-Nur	20	7	4	9	35	41	−6	25
7	Bakı Fahlasi	20	6	3	11	20	35	−15	21	Qualification for relegation group
8	FK Masallı	20	6	1	13	22	46	−24	19
9	MOIK Baku	20	5	1	14	16	43	−27	16
10	Şəmkir	20	3	4	13	15	39	−24	13
11	Pambiqci Neftcala	20	2	2	16	16	63	−47	8

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

Results

Home \ Away	BFA	KAP	KHB	KNU	MAS	MOI	NEF	PNE	QAR	SHA	TUR
Bakı Fahlasi		1–0	0–2	2–3	1–2	1–0	2–4	2–1	0–2	1–1	0–2
Kapaz	4–1		2–1	7–1	1–1	7–2	0–0	10–1	0–3	8–0	3–3
Khazri Buzovna	3–1	0–0		1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0	3–0	1–1
Kur-Nur	1–1	0–5	0–3		5–0	5–3	0–4	3–1	0–2	1–1	1–2
FK Masallı	5–2	0–4	0–1	0–4		0–2	1–3	0–2	1–1	3–2	2–6
MOIK Baku	1–2	0–4	1–2	1–0	0–2		2–1	1–0	0–3	0–2	1–4
Neftçi Baku	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–0	5–0	5–1		4–1	2–2	1–0	3–1
Pambiqci Neftcala	0–1	2–10	0–1	3–5	0–2	2–0	0–0		0–7	0–0	1–4
Qarabağ	2–0	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	1–1	4–1		2–0	0–3
Şəmkir	1–0	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–3	1–1	1–4	3–0	1–2		0–2
Turan	0–1	0–2	0–3	4–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	0–2	2–1

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə – 1995/96
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second round

Championship group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Neftçi Baku (C)	20	10	6	4	32	20	+12	36	Qualification for UEFA Cup preliminary round
2	Khazri Buzovna	20	8	9	3	22	14	+8	33
3	Kapaz	20	9	5	6	34	21	+13	32
4	Turan	20	9	3	8	26	30	−4	30
5	Qarabağ	20	4	9	7	25	26	−1	21	Qualification for Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round[a]
6	Kur-Nur	20	1	4	15	12	46	−34	7

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

1. Karabakh Agdam qualified for the qualifying round of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as runners up in the 1995–96 Azerbaijan Cup since Neftchi Baku won both the League and the Cup

Results

Home \ Away	KAP	KHB	KNU	NEF	QAR	TUR
Kapaz		0–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	0–1
Khazri Buzovna	0–0		2–1	0–0	2–2	4–1
Kur-Nur	1–0	0–1		1–3	1–1	0–1
Neftçi Baku	2–1	1–0	2–1		2–3	2–2
Qarabağ	1–2	4–0	2–2	1–2		–[a]
Turan	2–1	0–0	3–0[b]	1–3	1–0

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə – 1995/96
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. The match between Qarabağ and Turan was rated as 0–3 loss for both teams because of match-fixing.^[1]
2. Walkover.

Relegation group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	Bakı Fahlasi	16	9	2	5	26	18	+8	29
8	FK Masallı	16	9	1	6	26	29	−3	28
9	Şəmkir	16	7	4	5	31	18	+13	25
10	MOIK Baku	16	6	2	8	14	16	−2	20
11	Pambiqci Neftcala	16	4	1	11	18	34	−16	13

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

Results

Home \ Away	BFA	MAS	MOI	PNE	SHA
Bakı Fahlasi		3–0[a]	2–0	6–3	3–0
FK Masallı	2–1		1–0	3–1	0–0
MOIK Baku	0–0	1–0		3–0	2–0
Pambiqci Neftcala	2–0	4–1	4–1		0–1
Shamkir	0–1	9–2	2–0	8–2

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə – 1995/96
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Walkover.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[2]
1	Fazil Parvanov	Kəpəz	23
	Rovshan Akhmedov	Kəpəz	23
3	Nazim Aliyev	Neftchi Baku/Qarabağ	22
4	Musa Kurbanov	Kur Nur Mingechaur/Turan Tovuz	15
5	Yadigar Süleymanov	Kəpəz	14
6	Samir A. Məmmədov	MOIK Baku/Kur Nur Mingechaur	13
	Mehman İbrahimov	Pambiqci Neftcala	13
	Ələddin Abbasov	Shamkir	13
9	Gurban Gurbanov	Kur Nur Mingechaur/Turan Tovuz	12
10	İlham Məmmədov	Kur Nur Mingechaur/Turan Tovuz/Neftchi Baku	11