2009–10 Azerbaijan Premier League
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment
Inter Baku Valentin Khodukin Resigned 10 June 2009 Kakhaber Tskhadadze 10 June 2009
Khazar Lankaran Igor Ponomaryov Resigned 11 June 2009 Agaselim Mirjavadov 16 June 2009
Neftchi Baku Boyukaga Aghayev Mutual consent 16 September 2009 Vagif Sadygov 29 September 2009
FK Baku Gjoko Hadžievski Resigned 24 September 2009 Bülent Korkmaz 25 September 2009
FK Standard Sumgayit Valdas Ivanauskas Sacked 21 October 2009 Boyukagha Hajiyev 23 October 2009
Olimpik-Shuvalan Asgar Abdullayev Resigned 23 November 2009 Nazim Suleymanov 23 November 2009
FK Mughan Kemal Alispahić Sacked 1 December 2009 Almir Hurtić 1 December 2009
Neftchi Baku Vagif Sadygov Sacked 21 February 2010 Arif Asadov 25 February 2010
FK Baku Bülent Korkmaz Resigned 22 March 2010 Cüneyt Biçer 3 April 2010
Teams -- Managerial changes
The 2009-10 Azerbaijan Premier League was the eighteenth season of top-tier football in Azerbaijan. It began on 14 August 2009 and finished in May 2010. FK Baku were the defending champions. The league was competed in two stages. The first stage consisted of a regular home-and-away round-robin schedule for a total of 22 matches per team. The competition then split into two halves. However, each team took over to the respective group only records earned against the remaining 5 teams in their second round group. The teams ranked first through sixth played out the championship and the European spots while the bottom six teams had to avoid one of the two relegation places.