2008–09 Persepolis F.C. season

Squad

Iran Pro League

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRN Mehdi Vaezi 2 DF  IRN Masoud Zarei 3 DF  IRN Sepehr Heidari 4 DF  IRN Alireza Mohammad 5 DF  IRN Nabiollah Bagheriha 6 MF  IRN Karim Bagheri (captain) 7 MF  IRN Hossein Badamaki 8 MF  IRN Ali Karimi (Vice-captain) 9 FW  IRN Mohsen Khalili 10 MF  IRN Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 11 MF  IRN Maziar Zare 12 DF  IRN Ziaeddin Niknafs 13 GK  IRN Alireza Haghighi 14 MF  IRN Mojtaba Shiri 15 MF  IRN Mohammad Alavi 16 MF  IRN Mohammad Mansouri

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  SEN Ibrahima Touré 18 MF  IRN Pejman Nouri 19 FW  BRA Paulo Roberto do Carmo 20 MF  IRN Bahador Abdi 21 MF  SRB Ivan Petrović 22 DF  IRN Kamiar Ghanbari 23 GK  IRN Misagh Memarzadeh 24 FW  IRN Hadi Norouzi 26 MF  IRN Hamidreza Aliasgari 28 FW  IRN Farhad Kheirkhah 29 MF  IRN Mehran Farziat 30 GK  IRN Mohsen Eliasi 32 DF  TOG Franck Atsou 33 DF  IRN Rahman Rezaei 44 MF  IRN Amirhossein Ipakchi

Persian Gulf Cup

Matches

Last updated Apr 26 2009

#	Date	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Goal	Yellow card	Red card	Fans	Ref	Rank in Table
1	2008-Aug-4	Saipa	0-1	Persepolis	Azadi /Tehran	Pejman Nouri 42'	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Pejman Nouri, Ivan Petrović	-	50,000	Hedayat Mombini	3rd
2	2008-Aug-9	Persepolis	3-1	Pas Hamedan	Azadi /Tehran	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 35', Karim Bagheri 74,90'	Karim Bagheri, Maziar Zare	-	dispossessed	Shahin Hajbabaei	2nd
3	2008-Aug-17	Malavan	2-2	Persepolis	Takhti/Anzali	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 57,64'	Alireza Mohammad	-	7,000	Mohsen Ghahremani	3rd
4	2008-Aug-24	Persepolis	2-2	Zob Ahan	Azadi /Tehran	Ibrahima Touré 29', Karim Bagheri 37'	Mojtaba Shiri, Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	-	40,000	Saeed Bakhshizadeh	3rd
5	2008-Aug-29	Foolad	3-2	Persepolis	Takhti/Ahvaz	Paulo Roberto do Carmo 31', Hadi Norouzi 86'	-	-	30,000	Ahmad Salehi	6th
6	2008-Sep-11	Persepolis	0-1	Mes Kerman	Azadi /Tehran	-	Mojtaba Shiri	-	70,000	Masoud Moradi	5th
7	2008-Sep-16	Payam Mashhad	1-2	Persepolis	Samen/Mashhad	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 12', Karim Bagheri 55'	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Mehdi Vaezi	-	40,000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	5th
8	2008-Sep-25	Persepolis	2-0	Damash Gilan	Azadi /Tehran	Karim Bagheri 35', Ibrahima Touré 79'	-	-	95,000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	3rd
9	2008-Oct-3	Persepolis	1-1	Esteghlal	Azadi /Tehran	Ali Karimi 88'	Alireza Mohammad, Maziar Zare, Ivan Petrovic	-	95,000	Saed Kamil	5th
10	2008-Oct-8	Aboomoslem	4-3	Persepolis	Samen/Mashhad	Ali Karimi 40،49,87'	Ali Karimi, Maziar Zare	-	40,000	Khodadad Afsharian	6th
11	2008-Oct-18	Persepolis	3-1	Bargh	Azadi /Tehran	Ali Karimi 24', Karim Bagheri 39', Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 77( P )'	Mojtaba Shiri, Ali Karimi	-	60,000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	5th
12	2008-Oct-26	Persepolis	3-2	Sepahan	Azadi /Tehran	Karim Bagheri 12',Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 45,64'	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Maziar Zare, Sepehr Heydari	-	60,000	Mohsen Torky	4th
13	2008-Oct-30	Moghavemat	1-0	Persepolis	Hafeziye/Shiraz	-	-	-	20,000	Mahmoud Rafei	4th
14	2008-Nov-6	Persepolis	2-2	Saba QOM	Azadi /Tehran	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 19,65'	Karim Bagheri, Ivan Petrovic	-	40,000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	4th
15	2008-Nov-22	Paykan	2-2	Persepolis	Rajaee /Qazvin	Ibrahima Touré 3,51'	Pejman Nouri	-	7,000	Hedayat Mombeini	6th
16	2008-Nov-26	Persepolis	1-0	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Azadi /Tehran	Nabiollah Bagheriha 83'	Ibrahima Touré	-	30,000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	5th
17	2008-Dec-04	Rah Ahan	1-2	Persepolis	Azadi /Tehran	Ibrahima Touré 35', Sepehr Heidari 71'	-	-	40,000	Khodadad Afsharian	4th
18	2008-Dec-09	Persepolis	1-1	Saipa	Azadi /Tehran	Ibrahima Touré 25'	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Maziar Zare, Karim Bagheri	-	60,000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	4th
19	2008-Dec-13	Pas Hamedan	0-3	Persepolis	Ghods /Hamedan	Ibrahima Touré 64,81', Hossein Badamaki 69'	Ali Karimi, Pejman Nouri, Maziar Zare	-	8,000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	3rd
20	2008-Dec-29	Persepolis	0-2	Malavan	Azadi /Tehran	-	-	-	20,000	Alireza Faghani	3rd
21	2009-Jan-3	Zob Ahan	3-1	Persepolis	Foolad Shahr/Fooladshahr	Ibrahima Touré 68( P )'	-	-	15,000	Hedayat Mombeini	4th
22	2009-Jan-16	Persepolis	1-0	Foolad	Azadi /Tehran	Maziar Zare 28( P )'	Ibrahima Touré, Karim Bagheri, Pejman Nouri	Ibrahima Touré (42)	20,000	Mahmoud Rafei	4th
23	2009-Jan-22	Mes Kerman	1-1	Persepolis	Shahid Bahonar /Kerman	Pejman Nouri 28'	Ali Karimi, Maziar Zare	-	15,000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	4th
24	2009-Jan-31	Persepolis	1-0	Payam Mashhad	Azadi/ Tehran	Ivan Petrovic 90+1( P )'	Ali Karimi, Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Ibrahima Touré	Rahman Rezaei (90),Alireza vahedi Nikbakht (90+3)	30,000	Alireza Faghani	3rd
25	2009-Feb-04	Damash Gilan	1-2	Persepolis	Sardar Jangal/ Rasht	Ibrahima Touré 8', Karim Bagheri 62'	Ibrahima Touré	-	15,000	Hedayat Mombini	3rd
26	2009-Feb-13	Esteghlal	1-1	Persepolis	Azadi/ Tehran	Maziar Zare 90+4( P )'	Alireza Haghighi, Rahman Rezaei, Ivan Petrović, Alireza vahedi Nikbakht, Maziar Zare	-	90,000	Mohsen Torky	3rd
27	2009-Feb-17	Persepolis	1-0	Aboomoslem	Azadi/ Tehran	Karim Bagheri 48'	Ivan Petrović, Rahman Rezaei, Alireza Haghighi, Hossein Badamaki	-	20,000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	3rd
28	2009-Feb-21	Bargh	1-1	Persepolis	Hafeziye/Shiraz	Maziar Zare 27( P )'	Karim Bagheri, Ibrahima Touré	-	25,000	Alborz Hajipour	3rd
29	2009-Feb-27	Sepahan	0-0	Persepolis	Foolad Shahr/Fooladshahr	-	Ibrahima Touré, Karim Bagheri, Rahman Rezaei, Hamidreza Ali Asgari	-	25,000	Khodadad Afsharian	3rd
30	2009-Mar-03	Persepolis	1-2	Moghavemat	Azadi/ Tehran	Pejman Nouri 39'	Hamidreza Ali Asgari	-	10,000	Mohsen Ghahremani	4th
31	2009-Apr-03	Saba QOM	2-0	Persepolis	Yadegar Emam/ Qom	-	Karim Bagheri	-	10,000	Mohsen Torky	6th
32	2009-Apr-12	Persepolis	2-1	Paykan	Azadi/ Tehran	Mohsen Khalili 44', Maziar Zare 55( P )'	-	-	15,000	Khodadad Afsharian	5th
33	2009-Apr-16	Esteghlal Ahvaz	2-1	Persepolis	Takhti/Ahvaz	Ibrahima Touré 53'	Bahador Abdi, Ali Karimi	Maziar Zare(86)	10,000	Yadollah Jahanbazi	5th
34	2009-Apr-26	Persepolis	2-0	Rah Ahan	Azadi/Tehran	Mohammad Mansouri 55', Hadi Norouzi 74'	Ivan Petrovic	-	1,000	Navid Mozafari	5th

Results by round

Results summary

League standings

Top scorers

Goal scorers

11

• Ibrahima Touré

9

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
• Karim Bagheri

5

• Ali Karimi

4

• Maziar Zare

3

• Pejman Nouri

2

• Hadi Norouzi

1

• Mohsen Khalili
• Hossein Badamaki
• Mohammad Mansouri
• Sepehr Heidari
• Nabiollah Bagheriha
• Paulo Roberto do Carmo
• Ivan Petrović

Assists

9

• Ivan Petrović

6

• Ali Karimi

5

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht

4

• Karim Bagheri

1

• Mohammad Mansouri
• Pejman Nouri
• Alireza Mohammad
• Mojtaba Shiri
• Sepehr Heidari
• Hamidreza Ali Asgari
• Ibrahima Touré
• Paulo Roberto do Carmo

Cards

Player
Maziar Zare	8	0	1
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	7	0	1
Karim Bagheri	7	0	0
Ali Karimi	7	0	0
Ibrahima Toure	6	1	0
Pejman Nouri	6	0	0
Ivan Petrović	6	0	0
Rahman Rezaei	4	1	0
Alireza Mohammad	2	0	0
Mojtaba Shiri	2	0	0
Sepehr Heidari	2	0	0
Alireza Haghighi	2	0	0
Bahador Abdi	1	0	0
Hamidreza Ali Asgari	1	0	0
Mehdi Vaezi	1	0	0
Hossein Badamaki	1	0	0
Paulo Roberto do Carmo	1	0	0

Matches played

28

• Pejman Noori

26

• Sepehr Heidari

Hazfi Cup 2008-09

Round	Date	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Goal	Yellow card	Red card	Fans	Ref
1/16	2008-Nov-30	Sanaye Talaei Semnan	1-3	Persepolis	Takhti /Semnan	Hadi Norouzi 3' Ibrahima Touré 64' Hamidreza Aliasgari 93'	Ziaeddin Niknafs	-	3,000	Hossein Asadi
1/8	2009-Apr-30	Persepolis	1-0	Sepahan	Azadi /Tehran	Maziar Zare 12'	Ibrahima Touré, Maziar Zare, Farhad Kheirkhah, Ali Karimi	-	70,000	Mohsen Torky
1/4	2009-May-10	Pas Hamedan	2-1	Persepolis	Ghods /Hamedan	Bahador Abdi 80'	Mohammad Mansouri	-	8,000	Alireza Faghani

Scorers in Hazfi Cup 2008/09

Last updated Dec 9 2008

Goalscorers

1

• Hadi Norouzi
• Hamidreza Ali Asgari
• Maziar Zare
• Bahador Abdi
• Ibrahima Touré

Goalassistants

1

• Ziaeddin Niknafs
• Mojtaba Shiri
• Ibrahima Touré

Cards

Player
Ziaeddin Niknafs	1	0	0
Mohammad Mansouri	1	0	0
Ali Karimi	1	0	0
Maziar Zare	1	0	0
Farhad Kheirkhah	1	0	0
Ibrahima Touré	1	0	0

Scorers in 2008-09 season

Last updated Apr 16 2008

Goalscorers

12

• Ibrahima Touré

9

• Karim Bagheri
• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht

Goalassistants

9

• Ivan Petrović

Asian Champions League 2009

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PRS	SHB	GHA	SHA
1	Persepolis	4	2	1	1	5	6	−1	7	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	3–1	3–1
2	Al-Shabab	4	2	1	1	4	2	+2	7			0–0	—	1–0	5–0
3	Al-Gharafa	4	1	0	3	7	8	−1	3			5–1	1–3	—
4	Sharjah[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew[b]			1–3	0–2	—

Persepolis schedule ACL 2009

Group stage

2009-03-10

15:00

Persepolis	3 – 1	Sharjah FC
A. Karimi 27' A. Vahedi Nikbakht 30' H. Norouzi 34'	(Report)	A. Darweesh 54'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 55,121

Referee: Valentin Kovalenko

2009-03-17

21:00

Al-Shabab	0 – 0	Persepolis
	Report

Choi Myung-Yong

2009-04-08

16:00

Al-Gharafa
Zare 36' (pen.) Touré 45' Nikbakht 48'	Report	Fernandão 69'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 53,204

Referee: Matthew Breeze

2009-04-21

20:00

Al-Gharafa	5 – 1	Persepolis
Araújo 43' 45+2' 81' Nashat Akram 69'	Report	Karimi 76'

Al-Gharafa Stadium, Doha

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

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2009-05-06

19:30

Sharjah	Cancelled	Persepolis

Sharjah

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20 May 2009

17:00

Al-Shabab
Khalili 46'	Report

Minoru Tojo

Round of 16

27 May 2009

17:00

Persepolis	0 – 1	Bunyodkor
	Report	Rivaldo 41' (pen.)

Kim Dong-Jin

Scorers in ACLeague 2009

Goalscorers

2

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
• Ali Karimi

1

• Hadi Norouzi
• Maziar Zare
• Mohsen Khalili
• Ibrahima Touré

Goalassistants

1

• Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
• Mojtaba Shiri
• Alireza Mohammad
• Ibrahima Touré
• Ivan Petrović

Cards

Player
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	3	0	0
Hadi Norouzi	2	0	0
Maziar Zare	2	0	0
Sepehr Heidari	1	0	0
Ali Karimi	1	0	0
Bahador Abdi	1	0	0
Pejman Nouri	1	0	0
Farhad Kheirkhah	1	0	0
Nabiollah Bagheriha	1	0	0
Ivan Petrović	1	0	0
Ibrahima Touré	1	0	0

Friendlies

• 4 September 2008

Persepolis 4-0 Naft Tehran
Pejman Nouri

• 9 November 2008

Persepolis 6-0 Armin Tehran

• 16 November 2008

Persepolis 1-0 Steel Azin

64'

• 24 December 2008

Persepolis 4-2 Sazan Rah Qom
Ivan Petrović 13'
Hadi Norouzi 46'
Farhad Kheirkhah 49'
Ibrahima Touré 80'

• 11 January 2009

Persepolis 8-0 Faraz Shemiran
Ibrahima Touré
Ibrahima Touré
Ibrahima Touré
Ibrahima Touré
Hadi Norouzi
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht

Pre-season

Friendlies in Karegaran Stadium

• Persepolis 2-1 Armin Tehran

Farhad Kheirkhah
Hadi Norouzi

• Persepolis 1-1
  Payam

Pejman Nouri 4'

• Persepolis 1-0
  Sepasi

18'

UAE Camp (Dubai Iranian club)

In the middle of July the club programmed a camp in Spain, but it cancelled. after Ghotbi joined team, the club programmed a camp in Dubai from July 27^[4] to July 31 replacing the Spain camp.^[5] After Persepolis was censured by Iran football medias because of this programming, censurers believed that Dubai hot temperature on July is not suitable for training, but Persepolis officials answered that the camp was so profitable for team.^[6][7] The camp included swimming,^[8] bodybuilding,^[9] players recreation and two friendly matches.

• 29 July 2008^[10]

Persepolis 4-0 Wind Dubai

• 30 July 2008^[11]
  

Persepolis 11-0

Club

Kit

Supplier: Uhlsport
Sponsor(s): Marrybrown

Home Kit

Away Kit

AFC Kit

Source: "Persepolis FC' current kit". Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 9 March 2009.

Club managers

Position	Name	Nat
Head coach	Nelo Vingada
First team coach	Arnaldo Carvalho
First team coach	Naim Sadavi
Fitness coach	Parviz Komasi
Goalkeeping coach	Ahmadreza Abedzadeh
Director	Mahmoud Khordbin
Team doctor	Dr. Farid Zarineh

Club officials

Position	Name
President	Abbas Ansarifard
Director	Mahmoud Khordbin
Academy President	Fereydoun Moeini
Media Officer & International Committee President	Morteza Hosseinzadeh Zarabi
Financial Officer	Ali Akbar Ashouri
Juridical Officer	Mostafa Shokripour
Cultural Officer	Hojat'ol eslam Seyyed Mohammad Kohnegi
Chairman & Spokesman of board of Directors	Majid Farrokhzadi
Ground (capacity and dimensions)	Azadi Stadium (90,000 / 100 x 60 m)

Technical Committee members
Homayoun Behzadi
Hamid Jasemian
Hossein Kalani
Majid Farrokhzadi
Afshin Peyrovani
Fereydoun Moeini

Disciplinarian Committee members
Ali Mohadesi

Board of Directions
Abbas Ansarifard
Mohammad Hossein Nejadfallah
Majid Farrokhzadi
Mohammad Akhoundi
Hossein Hedayati

Munition Team
Ghasem Abdolsamadi
Asghar Norouzali
Davoud Kashani

Captains

1. Karim Bagheri
2. Ali Karimi
3. Pejman Nouri

Squad changes during 2008/09 season

In

No.	Position	Player	Age	Fee	Moving from	League	Transfer Window	Ref
16	MF	Mohammad Mansouri	24	180 Million Toman	Aboomoslem	Iran Pro League		[12]
4	DF	Alireza Mohammad	26	150 Million Toman	Rah Ahan	Iran Pro League		[13]
14	DF	Mojtaba Shiri	28	200 Million Toman	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Iran Pro League
17	FW	Ibrahima Touré	22	360 Million Toman	Paykan	Iran Pro League		[14]
21	MF	Ivan Petrović	28	280 Million Toman	Aboomoslem	Iran Pro League		[15]
23	GK	Misagh Memarzadeh	25	180 Million Toman	Saipa	Iran Pro League		[16]
15	MF	Mohammad Alavi	26	200 Million Toman	Pas Hamedan	Iran Pro League		[17]
32	DF	Franck Atsou	29	?	Aboomoslem	Iran Pro League		[18]
11	MF	Maziar Zare	23	300 Million Toman	Malavan	Iran Pro League		[19]
24	FW	Hadi Norouzi	23	100 Million Toman	Damash	Azadegan League
19	FW	Paulo Roberto do Carmo	23	350,000 USD ($)	Centro Esportivo Nova Esperança	Campeonato Brasileiro Série C
8	MF	Ali Karimi	29	310,000 USD ($)	Qatar SC	Qatari League		[20][21]
33	DF	Rahman Rezaei	33	200 Million Toman	Livorno	Serie A

Out

No.	Position	Player	Age	Moving to	League	Transfer Window
30	GK	Farshid Karimi	32	Pegah	Iran Pro League
12	DF	Hossein Kaebi	22	Saipa	Iran Pro League
27	MF	Abbas Aghaei	30	Saipa	Iran Pro League
22	GK	Hassan Roudbarian[22]	30	Paykan	Iran Pro League
11	FW	Faraz Fatemi	30	Mes	Iran Pro League
17	MF	Farzad Ashoubi	28	Mes	Iran Pro League
4	MF	Mohammadreza Mamani	26	Pas H.	Iran Pro League
13	DF	Sheys Rezaei	24	Saba	Iran Pro League
16	MF	Jorge Aranda	23	Free Agent	-
24	FW	Mate Dragičević	28	DAC Dunajská Streda	Slovak First League
14	FW	Ehsan Khorsandi	23	Aboumoslem	Iran Pro League
20	DF	Mohammad Nosrati	26	Al-Nasr	UAE League
25	MF	Jacques Elong Elong	23	Sepahan	Iran Pro League
19	FW	Paulo Roberto do Carmo *	23	Kowsar F.C.	Azadegan League

^* He was fired from the club

References