“Neftchi” Sports Club
considers its priority organization of leisure time of oil, gas and chemical
industry workers and the protection of the health of their family members. For
this reason, the club brings them together regularly and organizes competitions
in various sports among those workers.”Neftchi” Sports
Club, for this once, brought together oil workers in the mini-football
tournament, dedicated to December 31 – Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis. It
was the last tournament of the year.The main purpose of
the competition were health protection of oil, gas and chemical industry
workers, organization of their leisure time, as well as, assistance to
large-scale spread of mini-football and grand celebration of Solidarity Day of
World Azerbaijanis.The tournament was
held in the Olympic Training-Sport Complex named after Tofig Ismayilov, in
Surakhani settlement. In the race, which lasted from 14 December to 18, 14
teams were struggling in four groups: “A” group – “Surakhani
Oil” Operation Company, “Gas Export” Department, “Oil and
gas construction” Trust, OGPD named after H.Z. Tagiyev; “B” group – Information
Technology and Communications Department, “Oil and gas research
project” Institute, Gas Storages
Exploitation Division Department, Heydar Aliyev Baku Oil Refinery; “C”
group – Transportation Department, “Absheron Oil” OGPD, “Siyazan-Oil”
OGPD; “D” group – Ecology Department, Experimental Production Enterprise Repair
and Rental of Diving Facilities and Maintenance and Supply Department.As a rule, the teams, which occupying first two places in each subgroup,
would gained qualify for the final stage. From “A” group – “Surakhani Oil”, “Gas Export”
Department; from “B” Group – Information Technology and Communications
Department and Heydar Aliyev
Baku Oil Refinery; from “C” group – Transportation Department and “Siyazan-Oil”
OGPD; from “D” group – Ecology Department and Maintenance and Supply Department
succeeded to it. Among the mentioned enterprises, teams of “Gas
Export” Department, “Surakhani Oil”, Transportation Department and Ecology Department promoted
to the semifinal. At this stage, more powerful teams of “Surakhani
Oil” and “Gas Export” Department won and gained license to the final. In
the fight for third place “Transport” and “Ecology” teams came face to face. On
main time of the game the score was 2:2 and that’s why, 11 meter penalty
strikes were applied. Consequently, “Ecology” won with the score 5:4. And in
the decisive final match, “Gas Export” and “Surakhani Oil” teams
faced. Both teams fought with determination to the end. But “Surakhani Oil” demonstrated
a far superior game from its opponent, team’s players played with more accurate
transfers and all these yielded results, eventually. So that, this team completed
the final race with the score 1:0 in front.So, team of “Surakhani
Oil” Operation Company won the winner title of the mini-football
tournament. “Gas Export” Department was the 2ndplace and
Ecology Department was the 3rdplace.In addition, “Neftchi” Sports Club had also founded prizes on “the best
player”, “the most productive player” and “the best
goalkeeper” nominations. In accordance with winners of the nominations
were Khanoghlan Hasanov (“Surakhani
Oil”), Parviz Aliyev (“Gas Export” Department) and Sardar Ayyubov (Ecology
Department).In the award
ceremony, organized at the end of the tournament, “Neftchi” Sports Club’s
manager of mass physical culture Akif Mammadov made a speech and congratulated
the participants of the race on behalf of head of club administration Sadig
Sadigov, with reference to Solidarity Day of World Azerbaijanis and New Year.
Speaker thanked them for their activeness in the tournament and wished participants
success in their future endeavors. Then, he congratulated the winning teams
with reference to victory.”Neftchi” Sports Club
awarded top three teams with trophies, diplomas and valuable gifts. In
addition, the winners of nominations were awarded diplomas and prizes.