2001–02 Azerbaijan Top League

The 2001–02 Azerbaijan Top League was contested by twelve clubs. In the 2nd round of the Championship, the championship was suspended due to the conflict between the clubs and the AFFA and clubs were not allowed to the European club tournaments.

Azerbaijan Top League

Season	2001–02
Champions	-
Champions League	-
UEFA Cup	-
Top goalscorer	Kanan Karimov Dmitri Kudinov (14)
← 2000–01 2002–03 →

The clubs, which had stopped racing, continued their championship with the initiative of the Organizing Committee. But that part of the history, like the "alternative championship," remained unofficially. Because AFFA, UEFA and FIFA did not recognize these results.

Teams

Stadia and locations

First round

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Shamkir	22	15	5	2	54	14	+40	50	Qualification for championship group
2	Shafa Baku	22	13	5	4	40	13	+27	44
3	Neftçi Baku	22	13	5	4	34	7	+27	44
4	Qarabağ	22	13	1	8	40	26	+14	40
5	Ganja	22	12	2	8	39	31	+8	38
6	Xazar Universitesi Baku	22	11	3	8	33	24	+9	36
7	Turan	22	10	5	7	28	26	+2	35	Qualification for relegation group
8	Araz Naxçivan	22	6	6	10	25	43	−18	24
9	Tefekkur Universitesi Baku	22	6	4	12	23	47	−24	22
10	Sahdag Qusar	22	5	5	12	16	39	−23	20
11	MOIK Baku	22	4	3	15	15	37	−22	15
12	Dinamo Bakili Baku	22	0	4	18	9	49	−40	4

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

Results

Home \ Away	ARA	DBB	GAN	KHU	MOI	NEF	QAR	SHB	ŞAH	SHA	TUR	TUB
Araz Naxçıvan		2–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–2	0–3[a]	2–2	0–0	2–2	0–3[a]
Dinamo Bakili Baku	2–4		2–3	0–3	1–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	1–2
Ganja	4–1	4–2		2–1	4–0	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–3	3–0	2–0
Xazar Universitesi Baku	3–0[a]	2–0	2–0		2–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	2–0	3–2	3–2	3–1
MOIK Baku	4–3	2–0	1–1	1–1		0–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–3
Neftçi Baku	3–0	6–0	2–0	0–0	2–0		1–0	1–1	5–0	0–1	1–0	2–0
Qarabağ	3–0	1–0	3–2	1–2	2–0	1–0		2–1	6–0	1–3	5–2	0–1
Shafa Baku	4–1	0–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	0–1	2–1		3–0	3–2	5–0	4–0
Sahdag Qusar	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	2–0	0–1	0–2	1–0		1–1	1–2	0–0
Şəmkir	3–0[a]	3–0[a]	2–0	2–0	6–0	1–1	5–1	1–0	4–1		1–0	9–0
Turan	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	0–0	0–2	3–0	0–0		1–1
Tefekkur Universitesi Baku	2–2	2–0	2–3	3–1	0–2	0–4	1–2	1–4	0–2	1–1	0–2

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 2001-02
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Walkover.

Second round

Championship group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Shamkir	10	8	2	0	26	6	+20	26
2	Neftçi Baku	10	5	4	1	12	4	+8	19
3	Qarabağ	10	3	2	5	10	18	−8	11
4	Xazar Universitesi Baku	10	2	3	5	17	18	−1	9
5	Ganja	10	2	3	5	12	19	−7	9
6	Shafa Baku	10	1	2	7	1	19	−18	5

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

Results

Home \ Away	GAN	KHU	NEF	QAR	SHB	SHA
Ganja		2–2	1–3	3–0	3–0[a]	0–3[a]
Xazar Universitesi Baku	5–1		0–1	1–1	3–0[a]	2–4
Neftçi Baku	0–0	1–0		2–0	3–0[a]	2–2
Qarabağ	3–3	3–3	1–0		–[b]	0–2
Shafa Baku	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–3[a]		0–3[a]
Şəmkir	4–1	4–1	0–0	3–0	1–0

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 2001-02
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

1. Walkover.
2. The match between Qarabağ and Shafa Baku was rated as a 3–0 defeat for both teams.

Relegation group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
7	MOIK Baku	8	6	1	1	15	6	+9	19
8	Sahdag Qusar	8	6	0	2	18	8	+10	18
9	Turan	8	4	2	2	12	9	+3	14
10	Tefekkur Universitesi Baku	8	2	1	5	9	18	−9	7
11	Dinamo Bakili Baku	8	0	0	8	8	21	−13	0
–	Araz Naxçivan[a]	0	–	–	–	–	–	—	0

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

1. Withdrew

Results

Home \ Away	DBB	MOI	ŞAH	TUR	TUB
Dinamo Bakili Baku		1–2	2–3	0–1	0–3
MOIK Baku	2–0		3–2	3–1	2–1
Sahdag Qusar	3–0	1–0		1–0	1–0
Turan	3–2	0–0	3–2		4–1
Tefekkur Universitesi Baku	4–3	0–3	0–5	0–0

Source: APL: Yüksək dəstə - 2001-02
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Alay Bəhramov	Shamkir	15
2	Kanan Karimov	Kapaz	14
3	Dmitri Kudinov	Qarabağ	13
4	Kamran Nurəhmədov	Shahdag	9
	Zaur Tagizade	Shafa	9
	Vidadi Rzayev	Qarabağ / Shamkir	9
7	İmamyar Süleymanov	Turan Tovuz / Araz	8
8	Gurban Gurbanov	Neftchi	7
	Mahir Əliyev	Hazar Universiteti Baki / Təfəkkür Universiteti	7
	Elmir Xankişiyev	Qarabağ	6