Rah Ahan F.C.

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Rah Ahan
Full name	Rah Ahan Football Club Tehran
Nickname(s)	Locomotive Runners (Persian: لوكوموتيورانان)
Founded	1964
Ground	Rah Ahan Stadium (Capacity 15,000)
Chairman	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard
Manager	Davoud Mahabadi
League	Persian Gulf Cup
2007-08	Persian Gulf Cup, 12th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Rah Ahan Football Club (Persian: راه آهن) is an Iranian football club based in Tehran, Iran. They currently play in the IPL.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Establishment 1.2 Match Fixing Scandal 2 Managers 3 Players 3.1 First-team squad 3.2 Former players 3.3 2008/2009 Transfers 4 Famous players 5 External link 5.1 Official

[edit] History

[edit] Establishment

Rah Ahan was formed in 1964 by Iran's Islamic Republic of Iran Railways and to this day the club still remains in their control. Rah Ahan has a history of supplying players to Esteghlal F.C., however in recent times the number of players being transferred to Esteghlal has dramatically decreased.

[edit] Match Fixing Scandal

The club was promoted to the IPL with much controversy, after numerous allegations of match-fixing, and use of ineligible players. Sanat Naft F.C. launched complaints against the club, and Rah Ahan's presence in the IPL was not certain until the very first day of the 2005-06 season. The courts in Iran at the beginning of the 2006-07 season confirmed that Rah Ahan had been promoted unfairly and that Sanat Naft should have been promoted instead. Sanat Naft F.C. will get automatic qualification to the IPL for the 2007/08 season regardless of their league position.

[edit] Managers

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• Behrouz Tabani
• Firouz Karimi (2004-2006)
• Abbas Razavi ?
• Akbar Misaghian (2006-2008)
• Davoud Mahabadi (2008-Present)

[edit] Players

As of August 20, 2007.

[edit] First-team squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Gevorg Kasparov 2 DF Alireza Mohammad 3 DF Moharram Habibi 4 DF Reza Aghamohammadi 5 DF Ebrahim Karimi 6 DF Alireza Noormohammadi 7 MF Amin Torkashvand 8 MF Majid Noormohammadi 9 MF Mehdi Tartar 10 FW Ahmad Jamshidian 11 FW Hadi Asghari 12 MF Amir Azhari

No. Position Player 14 MF Ahmad Taghavi (captain) 17 MF Mojtaba Ghorbani 18 GK Mehdi Sabeti 19 MF Farzad Hatami 20 MF Hamlet Mkhitaryan 21 MF Hossein Pashaei 24 FW Sohrab Entezari 25 MF Meysam Baoo 27 DF Abouzar Rahimi 33 GK Shahram Mehraban -- FW Alireza Rezaei

[edit] Former players

For details on former players, see Category:Rah Ahan players.

[edit] 2008/2009 Transfers

In: No. Position Player

Out: No. Position Player 2 DF Alireza Mohammad (to Persepolis) 11 FW Ahmad Jamshidian (to Sepahan for 400 million toman)

[edit] Famous players

• Hadi Asghari
• Khodadad Azizi
• Parviz Broumand
• Sohrab Entezari
• Gevorg Kasparov
• Nasser Mohammadkhani
• Farshad Pious

[edit] External link

[edit] Official

• (Persian) Official club website

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