It started on 17 September 2008 with two games of Preliminary Round and ended on 23 May 2009 with the Final held at Tofik Bakhramov Stadium in Baku.
[1] Khazar Lenkoran were the defending champions.
Eighteen teams compete in this year's competition.
Four lower division teams, qualified for this competition due to unknown reasons, played out two participants who would join the fourteen teams of the Azerbaijan Premier League in the next round.
[2] The two winners from the preliminary round joined fourteen Premier League teams in this round.