Neftchi, which set serious goals, strengthened its staff. Emile Mpenza , Igor Mitreski, S lavco Georgievski , Bahodir Nasimov , Flavinho, Denis Silva Cruz, Alessandro Viana da Silva as a legionary footballers were involved in the squad.      

Preparations for the season of the flagship were held in Austria and Turkey . As part of the training camp , the "whites and blacks" played a test match against the Istanbul giants Besiktas (1: 1) in Austria , as well as the Romanian clubs Otselul (0: 3) and Universitatea Cluj (0: 1) in Turkey. met with local "Orduspor" (4: 0) , "Kardemir Karbukspor" (1: 0) and "Gaziantep Büyükşehir Belediyespor" (1: 2) .            

"Neftchi" started the championship with a draw with "Garabagh" at home. Nevertheless, 5 consecutive victories , 2 of them big, took the flagship to the top. Dovrələrarası fasiləyədək 19 games, 41 points in total in the winter champion, the team succeeded in qualifying ended after 22 rounds of the fight in the first "six" continued.          

7 games were enough for the championship. Victories over “Baku” (1: 0, 2: 0), “Karabakh” (2: 0), AZAL (2: 1) , with “Khazar Lankaran” (1: 1) and “Inter” (1: 1) after the no-hecələrdən May 1, AZAL 3: 1 beat the coach Arif Asadov 's the end of the 3 rounds before its closest rival 10 points behind championship official. This was the 6th championship of the flagship.