The champions
Since creation of “Neftchi Sports Club” till now not only in our republic, in late USSR, even Europe and world many famous athletes have been raised. These athletes continuously represented competently our country in international competitions and returned homeland with medals. In sport world special famous soccer playersAnatoli Banishevski, Alakbar Mammadov, legendary volleyball player İnna Riskal, well-known wrestler Arif Niftullayev, swordsman Suleyman Nabiyev, Boxer Aghajan Abiyev, tennis player Sergei Likhachev, track and field athlete Farziyya Ismailova are club’s products. Whether in late USSR times, or even during gained independent years club representers have been written glorious pages into Azerbaijan’s athletic history. In the history of Olympic Games in Azerbaijan’s high achievements “Neftchi Sports Club’s athletes have great role. In different times winners of competitions athlete Yuri Konovalov, pentathlete Victor Mineyev, volleyball players İnna Riscal and Vera Lantratova, freestyle wrestlers Namig Abdullayev, Toghrul Askarov, Greco-Roman wrestlers Farid Mansurov, Rovshan Bayramov, Vitali Rahimov, judoists Elnur Mammadli, Movlud Miraliyev, boxer Vugar Alakbarov, bullet shooter İrada Ashumova, winners and awardees of Summer Youth Olympic Games, Greco-Roman wrestlers Murad Bazarov, Elman Mukhtarov, Jabbar Najafov, freestyle wrestler İgbal Hajizadeh, judoists Natig Gurbanli, Leyla Aliyeva, taekwondoist Said Guliyev, weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, boxer Salman Alizadeh, athlete Nazim Babayev, The Heroes of Paralympic Games Gunduz İsmayılov, İlham Zakiyev, Oleg Panyutin, Zeyniddin Billalov, Yuri Gornak, Aleksandr Polishuk, Elena Taranova, Olukhan Musayev, Vugar Mehdiyev, Tofig Mammadov, Karim Sardarov, Rza Osmanov, Ramin İbrahimov, Afag Sultanova, Vladimir Zayets, Huseyn Hasanov, Elchin Muradov