Today, the second leg of the first qualifying round of the 2025/2026 UEFA Europa League season was held.

Offsideplus.az reports that the attention of Azerbaijani football fans is focused on Slovenia. Thus, the only representative of Azerbaijan in this competition, "Sabah", played a principled match against the local "Chelsea" in the aforementioned country.

Our team suffered a defeat in Baku a week ago. Although "Sabah", which scored 3 goals in the second leg, was close to a comeback many times, it could not cope with the opponent and, losing with a total score of 5:6 (First leg - 2:3, second leg - 3:3), stopped the fight in the AL.
Our representative will continue the fight in the II qualifying round of the Conference League.

Europa League, first qualifying round

"Chelsea" (Slovenia) - "SABAH" (AZERBAIJAN) 3:3

Goals: Franko Kovačević, 19. -pen. Damyan Vuklishevich, 49. Nikita Iosifov, 108. - Joy-Lance Mikels, 9. 63. 66.

first game - 3:2

Chief Judge: Drogomir Dragonov (Bulgaria)

"Zdezele" stadium. Celje, Slovenia.