 The club was just entering into a new era, and it had just had their first ever European participation where they lost against, coincidentally, a Serbian side, FK Vojvodina.Soon after Mirko Bunjevčević joined them, the club was renamed for sponsorship reasons into AZAL PFC.During the 2009–10 season AZAL finished 7th in the league, however at beginning of the season a new coach Nazim Suleymanov was appointed and he started a revolution in the club, to which Mirko Bunjevčević much contributed in archiving the 4th place at the end of the 2010–11 Azerbaijan Premier League, as he was a starter in 31 of 32 league matches that season.