PAS Tehran F.C.

PAS
2006–07	Iran Pro League, 11th
Home colours	Away colours

Pas Tehran Football Club (

multisport Pas Cultural and Sports Club. The club has a long and rich history and has always been associated with Iranian police, receiving most of its funding from that branch. In recent years the football club had shown itself to be a contender, thanks to increased funding and support from the team board. The team played its matches in Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium. On 7 June 2007, Pas Tehran was officially dissolved. Their right to participate in the Persian Gulf Cup was given to a newly formed team called Pas Hamedan

.

History

The birth of Pas

In 1953, a number of police officers along with

football

and limited resources assembled a team including himself and officers from the local police academy in Tehran. They established the Police Academy Cadets team. They had their first practice ever at a football field which belongs to the Tehran police academy. In that same year, they officially announced the establishment of the club and participated in the Championship Games of the Armed Forces. They finished second in the football tournament. Soon after, Captain Sadeghi with the help of Captain Assadolahi becomes responsible for the team's operations, and the club becomes known as Shahrbani F.C.. The team's coach at the time was Bahman Shahidi. On 8 July 1963, Shahrbani F.C. officially registered itself as a sporting club, giving itself its modern-day name, Pas. The club statute was also officially accepted by the club council in 1966. After twelve years of uncertainty, the club was finally ready to begin its work. Pas won the football league championship of Tehran Clubs ahead of Daraii and Shahin in 1966. The Tehran League at the time had 12 teams including the likes of Pas,

Shahin, Daraii, Taj

, Kian, Tehran-Javan, and Ararat. This happened when Shahin drew 2–2 with Daraii in the last match, what is also named as the match of the century in the Iranian football history

Club stadium

At the time of the club's establishment, the stadium complex in Ekbatan (a neighbourhood in Tehran), belonged to the Charity Department. The department made the complex available for ninety-nine-year loan period. Captain Sadeghi accepted the conditions and rented the field for a ninety-nine-year period at a price of 20,000 toman. In 1971 the Ekbatan complex's boundaries were established and the proposal to buy the land was accepted by the club council. Thanks to Captain Sadeghi's love for the club, the club was able to have one of the key elements necessary for professional football. To this day Pas is one of only a number of clubs in Iran, which has its own private stadium and practice fields.

First official match

Pas' first official match took place versus Koroush F.C. in 1964. Pas's starting lineup for this match had the following players: Faramarz Zelli, Hassan Habibi, Mohammad Ranjbar, Heshmat Mohajerani, Rasouli, Yazdanian, Meiarian, Mahmoud Yavari, Homayoun Shahrokhi, Yinehvarzan and Parviz Mirza Hassan. The final result was a 1–1 tie. Some of the above players such as Habibi, Mohajerani, Shahrokhi and Yavari are still involved in Iranian football.

Takht Jamshid Cup

Team players in the 1970s before a league match

The Takht Jamshid Cup, was Iran's first ever nationwide football league and Pas entered the league in its first year of establishment in

Iranian revolution

.

After the revolution

The 1980s were a quiet and difficult time for Iranian football, as the

Asian Club Championship

.

They beat

Iranian Football Federation

didn't even bother to send a representative.

Al-Ansar

.

IPL

Afterwards the club became a mediocre one, finishing in the middle of the table, for most of the following seasons. All that changed again though, when in the

2004–05 season and replaced Jalali with Mustafa Denizli

, but he was not able to make much of a difference. The club was stopped at the quarter-finals stage in the

2005–06 season, but finished second to champions Esteghlal F.C.

Pas did not resign Denizli and bought back Jalali again to lead the team in the

2006–07 season. This experiment failed as Jalali was fired 1 December 2006 due to Pas' poor results 11 games into the season. Previous Pas and national team coach Homayoun Shahrokhinejad was signed to lead the team for the remainder of the season.^[1]

Dissolution

Pas finished 11th in the 2006–07 season. In late May rumors of the dissolution of Pas Tehran's football team began to emerge. It was said that because the city of Tehran has many football teams that have low attendance figures, it would be best for a number of teams to be relocated to other cities. On 9 June 2007, Pas Tehran was officially dissolved. Their right to participate in the Persian Gulf Cup was given to a newly formed team called

Pas Hamedan. The staff and players of the football team were moved to Hamedan in order to form the team. Additionally the multisport Pas Cultural and Sport Club is only participate in amateur and youth sporting events. It is not clear if the management of Pas Sports Club will restart the football team in future years.^[2]

Logo history

Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Pas in various competitions since 1991 until 2007.

Year	Division	Position	Hazfi Cup	AFC
1991–92	Azadegan League	1st		did not qualify
1992–93	Azadegan League	1st	Not Held	Champion
1993–94	Azadegan League	5th		First round
1994–95	Azadegan League	6th		did not qualify
1995–96	Azadegan League	4th
1996–97	Azadegan League	4th
1997–98	Azadegan League	2nd	Not Held
1998–99	Azadegan League	5th	Semifinal
1999–00	Azadegan League	7th	Quarterfinal
2000–01	Azadegan League	6th
2001–02	Iran Pro League	4th	1/8 Final
2002–03	Iran Pro League	2nd	Semi-final
2003–04	Iran Pro League	1st	Quarterfinal
2004–05	Iran Pro League	6th	Quarterfinal	Quarterfinal
2005–06	Iran Pro League	2nd	1/8 Final	did not qualify
2006–07	Iran Pro League	11th	1/8 Final	did not qualify

Honours

Pas players celebrating their first league championship in 1967

Domestic

Iranian Football League
: (5)
- 1976–77, 1977–78, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2003–04
Iran Football Championship Cup: (3)
- 1965, 1967, 1968
Tehran Province League: (1)
- 1966–67

Continental

AFC Champions League:

Winners (1): 1992–93

Intercontinental

Afro-Asian Club Championship: (1)
- Runner-up: 1993

Invitational

IFA Shield (IFA):^{[note 1]} 1970: Runners-up^[3]^[4]
DCM Trophy: 1991^[5]

Club chairmen

Ferydoon Sadeghi (1963–1980)
Karim Mallahi (1980–1990)
Nasser Shafagh (1990–2000)
Mostafa Ajorloo (2000–2006)
Hashem Ghiasi (2006–2007)

Club managers

Managerial history

Mehdi Asadollahi (1963–1972)
Hassan Habibi (1972–1978)
Homayoun Shahrokhi
(1978–1980)
Mehdi Monajati (1980–1989)
Firouz Karimi (1989–1993)
Mehdi Monajati (1993)
Ebrahim Ghasempour (1993–1996)
Firouz Karimi (1996–1997)
Ebrahim Ghasempour (1997)
Bijan Zolfagharnasab (1997–1999)
Mahmoud Yavari (1999)
Ebrahim Ghasempour (1999–2000)
Hossein Faraki (2000)
Farhad Kazemi (2000–2001)
Firouz Karimi (2001)
Homayoun Shahrokhinejad
(2001–2003)
Majid Jalali (2003–2004)
Mustafa Denizli (2004–2006)
Majid Jalali (2006)
Homayoun Shahrokhinejad
(2006–2007)

Notes

^ در جلسه معارفه كادرفني جديد پاس (in Persian). IPNA. Retrieved 2 December 2006.^{[dead link]}
^ تيم فوتبال بزرگسالان پاس رسما به همدان انتقال يافت؛ (in Persian). ISNA. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.
^ Somnath Sengupta (1 August 2011). "The Glorious History of IFA Shield". The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ Chaudhuri, Arunava. "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield:". indianfootball.de. Indian Football Network. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
^ Raunak, Majumdar (31 May 2019). "The DCM Trophy- Oldest Indian Tournament with International Exposure". chaseyoursport.com. Chase Your Sport. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

Footnotes

^ Fourth oldest club cup, organized by the Indian Association and played between Indian clubs and other invited ones.

References

تاريخچه باشگاه پاس. Official Club Website (in Persian). Archived from the original on 20 August 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2006.

External links

(in Persian) Official Website
(in Persian) Official Sport Newscast
(in Persian) Pas-e-Javan Sport Newspaper
(in Persian) Pas-e-Ghavamin

Achievements
Preceded by Al-Hilal	Champions of Asia 1992–93	Succeeded by Thai Farmers Bank

[1] در جلسه معارفه كادرفني جديد پاس (in Persian). IPNA. Retrieved 2 December 2006.^{[dead link]}

[2] تيم فوتبال بزرگسالان پاس رسما به همدان انتقال يافت؛ (in Persian). ISNA. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.

[4] Somnath Sengupta (1 August 2011). "The Glorious History of IFA Shield". The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.

[5] Chaudhuri, Arunava. "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield:". indianfootball.de. Indian Football Network. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

[6] Raunak, Majumdar (31 May 2019). "The DCM Trophy- Oldest Indian Tournament with International Exposure". chaseyoursport.com. Chase Your Sport. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2021.

[3] Fourth oldest club cup, organized by the Indian Association and played between Indian clubs and other invited ones.

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v t e Iranian football league champions
15 titles	Persepolis 1971–72, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23
9 titles	Esteghlal 1970–71, 1974–75, 1989–90, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2021–22
5 titles	Pas Tehran 1976–77, 1977–78, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2003–04 Sepahan 2002–03, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15
3 titles	Saipa 1993–94, 1994–95, 2006–07
2 titles	Foolad 2004–05, 2013–14
1 title	Esteghlal Khuzestan 2015–16