The Ministry of Youth and Sports has announced the ranking list of Azerbaijani athletes for October 2026.

Seven representatives of Neftchi Sports Club have taken places in the top ten of the new list. Our boxer Saidjamshid Jafarov (350 points), who won the gold medal at the European Championships held in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, has risen to first place.

Olympic judo champion Hidayat Heydarov (270 points) is in third place, weightlifter Isa Rustamov (240 points) is in fifth place, Greco-Roman wrestler Hasrat Jafarov (230 points) is in seventh place, freestyle wrestlers Arsenii Dzhioyev (220 points) and Giorgi Meshvildishvili (210 points) are in eighth and ninth places, respectively, while women’s wrestler Jala Aliyeva (200 points) is in tenth place.