The Azerbaijan First League (Azerbaijani: I Liqa) is the second highest professional division in Azerbaijani professional football. The league is run by AFFA. The winner promotes to Premier Division.

History

Due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all Azerbaijan clubs of the former Soviet Premier Division and Soviet First Division conformed a single Azerbaijan Premier League, which meant that the new second tier of Azerbaijan football would remain regionalized. For the first two seasons three regional groups conformed the second tier, until in 1994 the single table in use today began to be used.

Azerbajdzjan - Divizion 1 är den näst högsta fotbollsligan i Azerbajdzjan. Ligan består av 14 lag som spelar ett dubbelmöte mot varandra. De två bästa lagen kvalificerar sig till Azerbajdzjan Premier League, medan de två sista lagen flyttas ner till Azerbajdzjan Division 2. FC Sabail är den regerande mästaren.