They have the unique claim in the football world of being the only team that has not played a ‘home’ game since 1993, when their city of Ağdam in western Azerbaijan (and Imaret stadium) was destroyed by invading Armenians—and remains an occupied ghost town to this day.
They are ‘The Horsemen’ of the Qarabağ-Ağdam Football Club and, if still officially a ‘refugee club’ thanks to the Karabakh War,* in 2014 the QA-FC team managed to rise to the dizzying heights of the ‘Group’ stage of the Europa League, playing against such football giants as Ukraine’s Dnipro, the French Saint-Étienne —and the legendary Inter-Milan of football-obsessed Italy, only to be robbed of a clearly clean, overtime goal by a truly egregious call that would have launched the Horsemen upward and into the ‘Knock-Out’ phase of the European League title, and truly put Qarabağ-Ağdam on the world football map.
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