FC Persepolis

Persepolis
Basic data
Surname	Persepolis Football Club
Seat	Tehran , Iran
founding	December 1963
Colours	Red White
president	Ali Akbar Taheri
Website	fc-perspolis.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Gabriel Calderón
Venue	Azadi Stadium
Places	78.116
league	Persian Gulf Pro League
2018/19	1st place, master
home Away

The FC Persepolis ( Persian باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس) is an Iranian football club from the capital Tehran .

The Persepolis football club is the best-known and most successful division of the Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club , which covers a wide range of sports from youth to top-level sports in a total of nine departments. Other branches are basketball , bowling , futsal , handball , karate , swimming , taekwondo and volleyball .

With twelve championship titles, Persepolis is currently Iran's record champions. According to surveys by the Asian Football Confederation, the club has the most supporters in Asia. According to an SMS voting for program 90 , Iran's most popular sports program , 61% of Iranian football fans support “the reds” from the capital.

Since September 19, 2006 the football club Sorkhpoushan Delvar Afzar is the reserve team of Persepolis Tehran. Sorkhpoushan plays in the Azadegan League (2nd division).

The club plays its home games at the Azadi Stadium , which officially seats 78,116 spectators.

Arch-rivals are Esteghlal FC , against whom the Tehran derby will be played.

history

The Azadi Stadium before the renovation

In 1963 the Persepolis Sports Club was founded by Ali Abdo. The focus was on basketball , volleyball and bowling , the soccer team only played in the second division. When Shahin FC went bankrupt in 1967 , most players moved to Persepolis. Reinforced in this way, the club quickly established itself among the top teams in Iran and in 1973/1974 they won their first title.

After the Islamic Revolution , several players left the club, whose owners changed several times in the following years. After a number of attempts, the Iranian Ministry of Sports succeeded in 1987 in renaming the club in Pirouzi (in German: victory ), which was not accepted by the supporters or in the wider community (including the media). Since April 2012 the association is officially called Persepolis again.

The team always achieved good results in the top five. In the 1990s, some championship and cup titles could be won. In 1990, the most important international success was achieved by winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup .

In the 2000s, the club was again Iranian champions in the 2001/2002 and 2007/2008 seasons . The club won the national Hazfi Cup in the last two cup rounds in 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.

Club crest

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  in the 70s

successes

National successes

May 17, 2008: Riots after winning the Iranian championship

• Iranian championship

Regional league

Master (1): 1971/1972

Takhte Jamshid Cup

Master (2): 1973/1974, 1975/1976

Runner-up (3): 1974/1975, 1976/1977, 1977/1978

Hevdah-e-Shahrivar League

Master (1): 1988/1989

Qods League

Runner-up (1): 1989/1990

Azadegan League

Master (4): 1995/1996, 1996/1997, 1998/1999, 1999/2000

Runner-up (3): 1992/1993, 1993/1994, 2000/2001

IPL

Champion (2): 2001/2002, 2007/2008 , 2016/2017 , 2017/2018

• Iranian Cup ( Hazfi Cup )

Cup winners (5): 1987/1988, 1990/1991, 1998/1999, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2018/2019

Cup finalist (1): 2005/2006

• Tehran League Cup

Meister (4): 1981/1982, 1985/1986, 1986/1987, 1987/1988

Runner-up (2): 1980/1981, 1982/1983

• Tehran Hazfi Cup

Cup winners (3): 1978/1979, 1981/1982, 1986/1987

Cup finalist (1): 1980/1981

• Tehran Super Cup

Cup winners (1): 1992

Continental successes

• AFC Champions League

Second place (1): 2018

Third place (3): 1996/1997, 1999/2000, 2000/2001

Fourth place (1): 1997/1998

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Master: (1) 1990/1991

Cup finalist (1): 1992/1993

Other successes

• Asian Selection Cup

Tournament winner: 1968

• Vahdat International Cup ( Tehran )

Tournament winner: 1981

• Sharjah Friendship Cup ( Sharjah )

Tournament winner: 1995

As of June 30, 2012

Known players

• Ahmadreza Abedzadeh
• Ebrahim Ashtyani
• Khodadad Azizi
• Karim Bagheri
• Homayoun Behzadi
• Edmond Bezik
• Ali Daei
• Parviz Dehdari
• Hamid Derakhshan
• Jacques Elong Elong
• Alireza Emamifar
• Hamid Reza Estili
• Yahya Golmohammadi
• Esmaeil Hajrahimpour
• Sepehr Heidari
• Safar Iranpak
• Hossein Kaabi
• Hossein Kalani
• Ali Karimi
• Jafar Kashani
• Hamed Kavianpour
• Javad Kazemian
• Mohsen Khalili
• Mohammad Khordbin
• Ali Akbar Kooklan
• Mehdi Mahdavikia
• Mohammad Mayeli Kohan
• Mehrdad Minavand
• Akbar Mohammadi
• Mojtaba Mohammadi
• Nader Mohammadkhani
• Nasser Mohammadkhani
• Nima Nakissa
• Mohammad Panjali
• Ali Parvin
• Afshin Peyrovani
• Farshad Pyus
• Naeem Saadavi
• Mehrab Shahrokhi
• Reza Shahroodi
• Abbas Karegar
• Wahide Ghelich
• Hamid Derakhshan
• Hamid Shirzadegan
• Alireza Nikbakht Vahedi
• Alan Whittle
• Bijan Zolfagharnasab

Trainer

• 1968–1969 Parviz Dehdari
• 1969–1970 Rajab Faramarzi
• 1970-1975 Alan Rogers
• 1975 Homayoun Behzadi-0000
• 1975 Alan Rogers-0000
• 1975-1976 Homayoun Behzadi
• 1976 Buick Vatankhah-0000
• 1976-1977 Ivan Konov
• 1977–1978 Mansour Amir Asefi
• 1978–1978 Mehrab Shahrokhi
• 1980-1987 Ali Parvin
• 1987 Masoud Moeini-0000
• 1987-1993 Ali Parvin
• 1993 Mohammad Panjali-0000
• 1993–1994 Ladislav Begović
• 1994 Hamid Derakhshan-0000
• 1995 Hans-Jürgen Gede-0000
• 1995–1997 Stanko Poklepović
• 1997 Hamid Derakhshan-0000
• 1997–1998 Tomislav Ivić
• 1998–1998 Ivan Matković
• 1998-2003 Ali Parvin
• 2003 Hans-Dieter Schmidt-0000
• 2003-2004 Vinko Begović
• 2004–2005 Rainer Zobel
• 2005-2006 Ali Parvin
• 2006 Arie Haan-0000
• 2006-2007 Mustafa Denizli
• 2007-2008 Afschin Ghotbi
• 2008-2009 Afshin Peyrovani
• 2009 Nelo Vingada-0000
• 2009 Zlatko Kranjčar-0000
• 2009–2011 Ali Daei
• 2011 Hamid Reza Estili-0000
• 2011–2012 Mustafa Denizli
• 2012 Manuel José de Jesus-0000
• 2012– Yahya Golmohammadi0000

Web links

Commons : Persepolis Tehran  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Persepolis FC official website
• Persepolis FC Fan Club (Persian)
• Persepolis News Net (Persian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] (Persian)
2. ^ Iran - List of Champions. Retrieved February 28, 2020 . 
3. ↑ IRIB 3 : Which association do you support? SMS voting: 1,597,118 participants. Final score: Persepolis (61%), Esteghlal (35%), Others (3%), No team (1%). Status: spring 2008.
4. ↑ پایگاه خبری وزارت ورزش و جوانان :: دکتر گودرزی: ورزشگاه آزادی تا پایان مرداادماه آماده می ادود مده می ادود / ن سار عون م دس می ادود / سن تار عون مدس می ادود / سن اون مو ادود / سرتتهر In: news.msy.gov.ir. Retrieved August 1, 2016 . 
5. ↑ How did Persepolis win? (Persian)
6. ↑ Official statement of the association president ( Memento from June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Persian)
7. ↑ AFC Champions League 2018 - Final. Retrieved April 17, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Official site (Persian)
9. ↑ ghermezeteh.com: Honors (Persian)
10. ↑ RSSSF: Iranian Masters (English)
11. ↑ RSSSF: Iranian Cup Winners (English)
12. ↑ Wikipedia: AFC Champions League
13. ↑ RSSSF: Asian Cup Winners' Cup