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By Laman Ismayilova

The Azerbaijani national under-23 football team will start its Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games campaign against Cameroon on May 8.

Azerbaijan will face Saudi Arabia on May 11. The footballers will play against Morocco on May 15.

The matches will be played at Bayil Arena.

Earlier, the Azerbaijan Islamic Solidarity Games Operations Committee (AISGOC) has announced the eight teams that will compete for gold in the Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games football competition.

Azerbaijan will be joined by teams from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine and Algeria. Each squad will be made up of under-23 players, with teams also able to field a maximum of three over-age players.

The competition will comprise 16 matches in total, which will take place at four venues across Baku – Bayil Arena, Dalga Arena, Tofiq Bahramov Stadium and Azal Arena.

The Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games is an exciting multi-sport event uniting the Islamic world, which will take place from 12 – 22 May 2017.

Athletes from Islamic countries around the world will be representing their nations over 10 days of competition across 20 different sports which include 23 disciplines (Athletics and Para Athletics, Aquatics – Diving, Aquatics – Swimming, Aquatics – Water Polo, Basketball 3x3, Football, Gymnastics – Artistic, Gymnastics – Rhythmic, Wushu, Table Tennis, Handball, Judo and Blind Judo, Wrestling – Greco, Wrestling – Freestyle, Shooting, Tennis, Volleyball, Boxing, Zurkhaneh, Karate, Taekwondo and Weightlifting) in 16 modern competition venues in Baku.

Azerbaijan’s capital city Baku was awarded the Games at the General Assembly of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) in Jeddah in July 2013.

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