It started on 17 September 2009 with four games of the preliminary round and ended on 22 May 2009 with the Final held at Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku.
FK Karabakh were the defending champions.
Twenty teams competed in this year's competition.
[1] Eight lower division teams qualified for this competition played against each other over two legs and the winners of these legs joined the twelve teams of the Azerbaijan Premier League 2009–10 in the next round.
The four winners from the Quarterfinals matched up in this round.