FC Qarabagh to face Bayer in UEFA Europa League

Azerbaijan's FC Qarabagh will face Germany's Bayer in the UEFA Europa League.

The match will be held on November 26 at the Bay Arena in Germany at 23:00 (Baku time), Azernews reports.

A team of Romanian referees will be in charge of the game, with main Referee Hora?iu Fe?nic.

The UEFA Europa League is an annual football club competition organized since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs.

It is the second-tier competition of European club football, ranking below the UEFA Champions League and above the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Qarabagh was a founding member of the Azerbaijan Premier League in 1992. One season later, it won their first league championship, becoming the first non-Baku-based club to win the Premier League title.

It is one of the two teams in Azerbaijan, along with Neftchi PFK which has participated in all Premier League championships so far.

After beating the Netherlands club Twente in 2014, Qarabagh qualified for the 2014-2015 UEFA Europa League group stage for the first time in its history and became the second Azerbaijani team to reach the European competitions group stage.

In 2017, Qarabagh became the first Azerbaijani club to qualify for the group stages of the UEFA Champions League after beating Danish club Copenhagen and drew in the Group C alongside Chelsea, Atletico Madrid and Roma.