2023–24 Persepolis F.C. season

Squad

No.	Name	Date of Birth (Age)	Nationality	Position (s)	Since	App	Goals	Assist	Ends	Signed from	Transfer fee	Notes
1	Alireza Beiranvand	(1992-09-21) 21 September 1992 (age 31)		GK	2022	153	0	0	2025	Royal Antwerp	Free	3rd Captain
22	Amir Reza Rafiei	(2002-04-11) 11 April 2002 (age 22)		GK	2022	0	0	0	2025	Nassaji	Free	U-23
44	Mehrshad Asadi	(2001-10-07) 7 October 2001 (age 22)		GK	2022	0	0	0	2027	Academy	Free	U-23
Defenders
3	Farshad Faraji	(1994-04-07) 7 April 1994 (age 30)		DF	2021	53	1	0	2023	Padideh	Free
4	Ali Nemati	(1995-02-07) 7 February 1995 (age 29)		DF	2021	50	5	3	2024	Padideh	Free
6	Hossein Kanaanizadegan	(1994-03-23) 23 March 1994 (age 30)		DF	2023	69	3	1	2025	Al Ahli	Free
11	Danial Esmaeilifar	(1993-02-26) 26 February 1993 (age 31)		DF	2022	30	3	6	2024	Sepahan	Free
30	Giorgi Gvelesiani	(1991-05-05) 5 May 1991 (age 32)		DF	2022	29	6	0	2024	Sepahan	Free
33	Abdelkarim Hassan	(1993-08-28) 28 August 1993 (age 30)		DF	2024	0	0	0	2025	Al-Jahra	Free
37	Alireza Babaei	(2003-06-22) 22 June 2003 (age 20)		DF	2023	1	0	0	2026	Academy	Free	U-21
66	Vakhdat Khanonov	(2000-07-25) 25 July 2000 (age 23)		DF	2021	19	1	1	2024	Istiklol	€150,000
Midfielders
2	Omid Alishah	(1992-01-10) 10 January 1992 (age 32)		MF	2013	215	18	41	2025	Rah Ahan	Free	Captain
5	Masoud Rigi	(1991-02-22) 22 February 1991 (age 33)		MF	2023	0	0	0	2025	Sepahan	Free
7	Soroush Rafiei	(1990-03-24) 24 March 1990 (age 34)		MF	2022	63	6	5	2024	Sepahan	Free
9	Mehdi Torabi	(1994-09-10) 10 September 1994 (age 29)		MF	2018	127	30	38	2024	Al Arabi	Free
17	Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadi	(2001-01-10) 10 January 2001 (age 23)		MF	2022	1	0	0	2025	Naft MIS	Free	U-23
19	Vahid Amiri	(1988-04-02) 2 April 1988 (age 36)		MF	2016	193	20	31	2024	Trabzonspor	Free	2nd Captain
21	Saeid Sadeghi	(1994-04-25) 25 April 1994 (age 30)		MF	2022	24	6	3	2025	Gol Gohar	Free
27	Mohammad Khodabandelou	(1999-09-07) 7 September 1999 (age 24)		MF	2024	0	0	0	2025	Mes Rafsanjan	€160,000
35	Alireza Enayatzadeh	(2004-04-05) 5 April 2004 (age 20)		MF	2023	0	0	0	2028	Academy	Free	U-21
48	Mohammad Milad Sourgi	(2002-02-11) 11 February 2002 (age 22)		MF	2023	0	0	0	2028	Academy	Free	U-23
70	Oston Urunov	(2000-12-19) 19 December 2000 (age 23)		MF	2024	0	0	0	2025	Navbahor	Free
88	Sina Asadbeigi	(1997-07-17) 17 July 1997 (age 26)		MF	2022	26	2	1	2025	Zob Ahan	Free
Forwards
18	Abolfazl Babaei	(2003-10-22) 22 October 2003 (age 20)		FW	2023	0	0	0	2026	Fajr Sepasi	Free	U-21
29	Alireza Khodadadi	(2002-10-20) 20 October 2002 (age 21)		FW	2022	1	0	0	2027	Academy	Free	U-21
32	Omid Fahmi	(2002-12-08) 8 December 2002 (age 21)		FW	2023	0	0	0	2026	Academy	Free	U-21
72	Issa Alekasir	(1995-08-18) 18 August 1995 (age 28)		FW	2024	51	14	0	2025	Sepahan	Free

New Contracts

No	P	Nat.	Name	Age	Contract length	Contract ends	Source
2	MF		Omid Alishah	31	2 season	2025	[1]
30	DF		Giorgi Gvelesiani	32	1 season	2024	[2]
1	GK		Alireza Beiranvand	31	2 season	2025	[3]
21	MF		Saeid Sadeghi	29	2 season	2025	[4]
10	MF		Milad Sarlak	28	1 season	2024	[5]

Transfers

In

Row	No	P	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from	Ends	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Quota	Source
1	17	DF		Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadi	22	Naft MIS	2025		Loan Return	Summer		[6]
2	20	FW		Shahab Zahedi	27	Zorya	2024		Loan	Summer		[7]
3	5	MF		Masoud Rigi	32	Sepahan	2025		Transfer	Summer	PL	[8]
4	6	DF		Hossein Kanaanizadegan	29	Al Ahli	2025		Transfer	Summer		[9]
5	80	MF		Yasin Salmani	21	Sepahan	2025		Transfer	Summer	PL	[10]
6	14	FW		Nabil Bahoui	32	Qatar SC	2024		Transfer	Summer		[11]
7	33	DF		Abdelkarim Hassan	30	Al-Jahra	2025		Transfer	Winter		[12]
8	72	FW		Issa Alekasir	33	Sepahan	2025		Transfer	Winter		[13]
9	70	MF		Oston Urunov	23	Navbahor	2025		Transfer	Winter		[14]
10	27	MF		Mohammad Khodabandelou	24	Mes Rafsanjan	2025	€160,000	Transfer	Winter		[15]
Transfer From Youth
11	35	FW		Alireza Enayatzadeh	19	Academy	2028		Transfer	Summer	-	[16]
12	34	MF		Mohammad Sourgi	21	Academy	2028		Transfer	Summer	-	[17]
13	32	FW		Omid Fahimi	20	Academy	2028		Transfer	Summer	-
14	40	FW		Mobin Ranjbari	20	Oghab Tehran	2026		Transfer	Winter	-	[18]
15	28	MF		Nima Marouf Beigi	21	Oghab Tehran	2026		Transfer	Winter	-	[19]
16	18	FW		Abolfazl Babaei	20	Fajr Sepasi	2026		Transfer	Winter	-	[20]
17		DF		Samir Hoboobati	18	Academy	2026		Transfer	Winter	-	[21]

Out

Row	No	P	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Source
1	25	FW		Cheick Diabaté	35			Transfer	Summer
2	88	MF		Siamak Nemati	28	Tractor		Transfer	Summer	[22]
3	38	DF		Ali Joudaki	22	Pars Jonoubi		Transfer	Summer	[23]
4	15	DF		Abolfazl Soleimani	22	Aluminium Arak		Loan	Summer	[24]
5	11	MF		Kamal Kamyabinia	34	Zob Ahan		Transfer	Summer	[25]
6	91	FW		Leandro Pereira	31	Tochigi		Transfer	Summer	[26]
7	99	GK		Ahmad Gohari	27	Aluminium Arak		Loan	Summer	[27]
8	72	FW		Issa Alekasir	33	Sepahan		Transfer	Summer	[28]
9	16	FW		Mehdi Abdi	24	Tractor		Loan	Summer	[29]
10	77	MF		Mohammad Omri	23	Malavan		Loan	Winter	[30]
11	10	MF		Milad Sarlak	28	Malavan		Loan	Winter	[31]
12	20	FW		Shahab Zahedi	28	Zorya		Transfer	Winter	[32]
13	14	FW		Nabil Bahoui	32			Transfer	Winter	[33]
due to injury
14	8	DF		Morteza Pouraliganji	31				Winter	[34]
15	80	MF		Yasin Salmani	21				Winter	[35]

Technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Osmar Loss[36][37]
First-team coach	Rafael Toledo
Assistant coaches	Jalal Hosseini[38]
Goalkeeping coach	Jose Caetano Mendes
Fitness Coach	Jose Augusto Losada Benítez[39]
Assistant Fitness Coach	Saman Eskandari[40]
Analyzers	Mehrdad Khanban Mohammad Asgari
Doctor	Dr. Alireza Haghighat
Physiotherapist	Ali Aazam
Team Manager	Afshin Peyrovani
Media Officer	Alireza Ashraf

Position	Staff
Under-23 team coach	Mahmoud Ansari
Youth team coach	Mehdi Ataloo
Under-17 coach	Farzad Ashoubi
Under-14 coach	Hassan Khanmohammadi

Pre-season and friendlies

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Friendlies

Competitions

Overview

Persian Gulf Pro League

Results summary

Results by round

League table

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Persepolis v Esteghlal

14 December 2023 (2023-12-14) 5	Persepolis	1–1	Esteghlal	Tehran
16:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Sadeghi  54' Alishah 77'  78'		Hamedifar  50' Cheshmi  53' Yamga 90+7' (pen.) Hardani  90+8'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 64,000 Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar Man of the Match: Arthur Yamga (Esteghlal)

Malavan v Persepolis

29 October 2023 (2023-10-29) 8	Malavan	0–0	Persepolis	Bandar-e Anzali
16:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Fadakar  28' Akvan  88' Ghazipour  90+5'			Stadium: Sirous Ghayeghran Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Vahid Kazemi Man of the Match: Pouria Pourali (Malavan)

Persepolis v Sanat Naft

2 November 2023 (2023-11-02) 9	Persepolis	2–2	Sanat Naft	Tehran
18:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Omri 57' Alishah  73' Gvelesiani 75' (p.)		Yousif 14' Alboghobeysh  22' Sangargir  25'  45+1' Panahi  70' Mirdouraghi  73' Esmaeilifar 90+5' (o.g)	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ali Safaei Man of the Match: Ali Yousif (Sanat Naft Abadan)

Sepahan v Persepolis

12 November 2023 (2023-11-12) 10	Esfahan
16:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Asadi 70'  90+1' Ghorbani  85' Rezaeian  90+6'		Zahedi  67'  90+7' Sarlak  86'	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar Man of the Match: Reza Asadi (Sepahan)

Persepolis v

Nassaji

28 December 2023 (2023-12-28) 11	Persepolis	1–0	Nassaji	Tehran
IRST (UTC+03:30)	Zahedi 31' Gvelesiani  60' Beiranvand  90+5'		Zamehran  87'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Seyed Reza Mahdavi Man of the Match: Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis)

Persepolis v Havadar

9 December 2023 (2023-12-09) 12	Persepolis	1–0	Havadar	Tehran
15:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Mohebi 21' (.o.g) Nemati  68' Beiranvand  79' Rafiei  90+3'		Mohebi  41' Mansouri  85' Zavoshi  90+6'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Ashkan Khorshidi Man of the Match: Danial Esmaeilifar (Persepolis)

Esteghlal Khuzestan v Persepolis

19 December 2023 (2023-12-19) 13	Esteghlal Khuzestan	2–2	Persepolis	Ahvaz
15:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Aghaeipour 6' 49' Saki  32' Ahmadi  70'		Kanaanizadegan 39' (pen.)  72' Bahoui 68'	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Amir Arab Baraghi Man of the Match: Javad Aghaeipour (Esteghlal Khuzestan)

Persepolis v Shams Azar

24 December 2023 (2023-12-24) 14	Persepolis	2–1	Shams Azar	Tehran
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Giorgi Gvelesiani 45+2' 81' (pen.) Nemati  47'  62' Alishah  87'		Rezaei  39' Sarabadani Goudarzi 47'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Kopal Nazemi Man of the Match: Giorgi Gvelesiani (Persepolis)

Mes Rafsanjan v Persepolis

1 January 2024 (2024-01-01) 15	Mes Rafsanjan	1–1	Persepolis	Rafsanjan
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Bagheri  40' Entezari  41' Chimba 52' (pen.)		Ahmadi  20' Sadeghi  41' Zahedi 42' Alishah  67'	Stadium: Shohadaye Mes Rafsanjan Stadium Attendance: 5*000 Referee: Vahid Kazemi Man of the Match: Mohammad Mehdi Mohebi (Mes Rafsanjan)

Aluminium v Persepolis

15 February 2024 (2024-02-15) 16	Aluminium	1–0	Persepolis	Arak
17:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Amir Noori 75'		Zahedi  46' Kanaanizadegan  90+5'	Stadium: Imam Khomeini Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Bijan Heidari Man of the Match: Amir Nouri (Aluminium)

Persepolis v Tractor

21 February 2024 (2024-02-21) 17	Persepolis	2–0	Tractor	Tehran
17:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Rafiei  25' Alekasir 57' Torabi 59' Beiranvand  90+5'		Khalilzadeh  32' Nemati  78'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Vahid Kazemi Man of the Match: Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis)

Zob Ahan v Persepolis

28 February 2024 (2024-02-28) 18	Esfahan
17:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Rezaei  44' Yousefi  45' Azarbad  53' Eslami  70' Kamyabinia  90+5' Mosleh  90+7'		Gvelesiani 9' (pen.) Nemati  50' Hassan  90+6'	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Stadium Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Ali Safaei Man of the Match: Mohsen Forouzan (Zob Ahan)

Persepolis v Foolad

8 March 2024 (2024-03-08) 19	Persepolis	4–2	Foolad	Tehran
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Urunov 35' Kanaanizadegan  44' 68' (pen.) Alekasir 54' Torabi 74'		Colibaly 11' Abdelkarim 42' (o.g.) Bou Hamdan  63' Najjarian  65'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Seyed Reza Mahdavi Man of the Match: Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis)

Esteghlal v Persepolis

13 March 2024 (2024-03-13) 20	Esteghlal	0–0	Persepolis	Tehran
20:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Rezavand  40' Hamedifar  50'		Rafiei  45+5'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 55,000 Referee: Vahid Kazemi Man of the Match: Ali Nemati (Persepolis)

Persepolis v Paykan

17 March 2024 (2024-03-17) 21	Persepolis	2–0	Paykan	Tehran
18:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Kanaanizadegan  21' 38' (pen.), 53'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Referee: Kopal Nazemi

Gol Gohar v Persepolis

7 April 2024 (2024-04-07) 22	Gol Gohar	0–1	Persepolis	Sirjan
19:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Fallah  85'		Urunov 28'	Stadium: Shahid Soleimani Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar

Persepolis v Malavan

12 April 2024 (2024-04-12) 23	Persepolis	1–0	Malavan	Tehran
20:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Alekasir 49' Rafiei  90+4'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Referee: Payam Heidari

Sanat Naft v Persepolis

18 April 2024 (2024-04-18) 24	Abadan
19:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)			Esmaeilifar 8' Gvelesiani  46' Alekasir 66' Kanaanizadegan 71' (pen.)	Stadium: Takhti Abadan Referee: AliAsghar Momeni

Persepolis v Sepahan

1 May 2024 (2024-05-01) 25	Persepolis	0–0	Sepahan	Tehran
19:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Alekasir  63' Alishah  82'		Ahmadzadeh  58'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Bijan Heidari

Score overview

  Win   Draw   Loss

Hazfi Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

2023–24 AFC Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NSR	PRS	DUH	IST
1	Al Nassr	6	4	2	0	13	7	+6	14	Advance to round of 16		—	0–0	4–3	3–1
2	Persepolis	6	2	2	2	5	5	0	8			0–2	—	1–2	2–0
3	Al-Duhail	6	2	1	3	9	9	0	7			2–3	0–1	—	2–0
4	Istiklol	6	0	3	3	3	9	−6	3			1–1	1–1	0–0	—

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Persepolis v Al Nassr

19 September 2023 (2023-09-19) 1	Persepolis	0 – 2	Al Nassr	Tehran
	Sarlak  18'  52' Rigi  55'		Brozović  45+2' Esmaeilifar 62' (o.g.) Qassem 72'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 0 Referee: Ilgiz Tantashev (Uzbekistan) Man of the Match: Mohammad Qassem (Al Nassr)

Al-Duhail v Persepolis

3 October 2023 (2023-10-03) 2	Al-Duhail	0 – 1	Persepolis	Doha
	Almoez Ali  78' Aymen  90+1'		Alishah 63'	Stadium: Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura (Japan) Man of the Match: Omid Alishah (Persepolis)

Persepolis v Istiklol

24 October 2023 (2023-10-24) 3	Persepolis	2 – 0	Istiklol	Tehran
	Sadeghi 44', 73' Rafiei  45' Gvelesiani  63'		Sebai	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 36,450 Referee: Mohannad Ghasem Man of the Match: Saeid Sadeghi (Persepolis)

Istiklol v Persepolis

6 November 2023 (2023-11-06) 4	Istiklol	1 – 1	Persepolis	Dushanbe
	Dzhalilov  18' Kurbonov  43' Davlatmir  65' Sebai 74'		Gvelesiani  8' Torabi 29'	Stadium: Pamir Stadium Referee: Ahmed Al Ali Man of the Match: Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis)

Al Nassr v Persepolis

27 November 2023 (2023-11-27) 5	Al Nassr	0 – 0	Persepolis	Riyadh
	Brozovic  59'		Zahedi  43' Alishah  44' Rafiei  45+4'	Stadium: KSU Stadium Referee: Ma Ning

Persepolis v Al-Duhail

11 December 2023 (2023-12-11) 6	Persepolis	1 – 2	Al-Duhail	Tehran
	Zahedi 7' Sarlak  26' Gvelesiani  90+6'		Muntari 9' Mohammad  43' Musa  48' Aymen  82' Olunga 83' Zakaria  88'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Kimura Hiroyuki

Statistics

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	PGPL	Hazfi Cup	ACL	Total
1	FW		20	Shahab Zahedi	6	0	1	7
	FW		72	Issa Alekasir	4	3	0	7
2	DF		30	Giorgi Gvelesiani	5	0	0	5
	DF		6	Hossein Kanaanizadegan	5	0	0	5
3	MF		9	Mehdi Torabi	2	1	1	4
4	MF		70	Oston Urunov	2	1	0	3
	MF		21	Saeid Sadeghi	1	0	2	3
5	MF		2	Omid Alishah	1	0	1	2
	MF		11	Danial Esmaeilifar	1	1	0	2
6	DF		4	Ali Nemati	1	0	0	1
	DF		8	Morteza Pouraliganji	1	0	0	1
	MF		88	Sina Asadbeigi	0	1	0	1
	MF		80	Yasin Salmani	1	0	0	1
	MF		77	Mohammad Omri	1	0	0	1
	FW		14	Nabil Bahoui	1	0	0	1
	Own goal				1	0	0	1
Total					33	7	5	45
Last updated: 26 April 2024

Assists

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	PGPL	Hazfi Cup	ACL	Total
1	MF		9	Mehdi Torabi	5	1	0	6
2	DF		11	Danial Esmaeilifar	5	0	0	5
	MF		2	Omid Alishah	5	0	0	5
3	MF		7	Soroush Rafiei	3	0	1	4
4	MF		5	Masoud Rigi	1	0	1	2
	FW		20	Shahab Zahedi	1	0	1	2
5	DF		6	Hossein Kanaanizadegan	1	0	0	1
	MF		19	Vahid Amiri	1	0	0	1
	DF		33	Abdelkarim Hassan	0	1	0	1
	MF		70	Oston Urunov	0	1	0	1
	MF		48	Mohammad Milad Sourgi	0	1	0	1
	MF		88	Sina Asadbeigi	0	1	0	1
Total					22	5	3	30
Last updated: 26 April 2024

Goalkeeping

				PGPL			Hazfi Cup			ACL			Total
Rank	No	N	Name	M	GA	CS	M	GA	CS	M	GA	CS	M	GA	CS
1	1		Alireza Beiranvand	21	13	11	1	0	1	6	5	3	28	18	15
2	22		Amir Reza Rafiei	4	0	4	1	4	0	0	0	0	5	4	4
Total				25	13	15	2	4	1	6	5	3	33	22	19
Last updated: 1 May 2024

Injury records

Injuries During The Season

Number	Position	Nation	Name	Injuri	From	Until	Days
29	FW		Alireza Khodadadi	Cruciate Ligament Injury	Aug 4 , 2023	Nov 4 ,2023	92
35	MF		Alireza Enayatzadeh	Cruciate Ligament Rupture	Aug 14 , 2023	Feb 14 ,2024	184
1	GK		Alireza Beiranvand	Leg Injury	Sep 7 , 2023	Sep 18 ,2023	11
14	FW		Nabil Bahoui	Cold	Sep 15 , 2023	Sep 30 ,2023	15
9	MF		Mehdi Torabi	Foot Injury	Sep 19 , 2023	Oct 3 ,2023	14
19	MF		Vahid Amiri	Leg Injury	Sep 19 , 2023	Oct 10 ,2023	21
Last updated: 22 September 2023

Club

Kit

Supplier: Merooj

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Sponsorship

sponsors: Irancell^[42]

References

External links

• Iran Premier League Statistics
• Persian League
• Persepolis News
• varzesh3