Shuvalan FK

Early years (1996–2006)

The club was established in 1996 as a futsal club under the name of AMMK. It participated in national futsal league from the season 1996–97 until 2003–04. AMMK also represented Azerbaijan in UEFA Futsal Cup 2003/04 season. AMMK became a professional football team in 2004 and joined the Azerbaijan First Division. The first Azerbaijan Premier League season was not much successful for Olimpik Baku. Croatian manager Stjepan Čordaš worked just for a couple of months and was sacked after poor results. His place was taken by Serbian Petar Kurčubić, but he was also unable to achieve good results, and Olimpik Baku finished 12th. At that time, Olimpik was called 'The club from Balkans', as there were a lot of players from Balkan countries such as Marko Mitrović, Srdjan Baljak, Rašo Babić, Saša Kovačević, Tomislav Višević and others.

Abdullayev years (2006–2009)

In June 2006, Asgar Abdullayev was appointed as the new head coach of Olimpik. He still remains as the most successful manager in the club's history. Led by Abdullayev, Olimpik improved its results, ranked 6th in 2007 and 2nd in 2008. Olimpik came very close to winning the 2007–08 league title, but the team was beaten by Qarabağ in the last round game, although they only needed to play a draw to win. Olimpik's debut in European competitions was also not successful, as they were eliminated in the 1st qualifying round of 2008–09 UEFA Cup by Serbian side Vojvodina. Roman Akhalkatsi became…