Sport24.az
"Sabah" will play its first game in the 2025/26 season of European cups today. According to Sport24.az, the "owls" will host Slovenia's "Çelye" in the first leg of the first qualifying round of the Europa League.
The match, which will be held at the "Bank Respublika Arena", will start at 20:00. A team of referees from Kazakhstan will manage the meeting.
The return match between these teams will take place on July 17 in Slovenia.
The team that is superior in the sum of two matches will face the winner of the AEK (Cyprus) - "Partizan" (Serbia) pair in the 2nd round. The losing team will continue its way in the Conference League and will face the winner of the "Birkirkara" (Malta) - "Petrocub" (Moldova) pair.
Europa League
I qualifying round, first game
July 10
20:00. "Sabah" (Azerbaijan) - "Çelye" (Slovenia) 2:1 (First half)
Goal: Pavol Şafranko, 3 (1:0), Franko Kovaçeviç, 7 (1:1), Pavol Şafranko, 18 - pen.
"Sabah": 92. Stas Pokatilov, 80. Akim Zedadka, 40. İqor Noqeyra, 3. Stiv Solvet, 5. Rəhman Daşdəmirov, 13. İvan Lepinitsa, 6. Abdullah Xaybullayev, 10. Anatoli Nuriyev, 88. Xəyal Əliyev, 20. Coy-Lens Mikels, 18. Pavol Safranko (k)
Head coach: Valdas Dambrauskas
"Çelye": 21. Simon Sluqa, 23. Jan Karniçnik (k), 6. Artemiyus Tutişkinas, 3. Damyan Vuklişeviç, 2. Xuanxo Nyeto, 8. Mario Kvesiç, 19. Mark Zabukovnik, 11. Milot Avdili, 10. Daniel Şturm, 20. Nikita İosifov, 9. Franko Kovaçeviç
Head coach: Albert Riera
Referees: Daniyar Sakhi, Samat Tergeussizov, Sergey Klachyo, Saken Baiymbet (Kazakhstan)
Masazir. "Bank Respublika Arena"
