2008–09 Iran Pro League

Persian Gulf Cup
Season 2008–09
Champions Esteghlal
Relegated Payam Mashhad
Damash Gilan
Bargh Shiraz
2010 AFC Champions League Sepahan
Zob Ahan
Esteghlal
Mes Kerman
Matches played 306
Goals scored 777 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer
21 Goals
Arash Borhani

The following is the standings of the Persian Gulf Cup's 2008/09 football season. This season will be the 8th season since the establishment of the Iran Pro League (Persian Gulf Cup). Persepolis are the defending champions.

Contents

Teams

Team City Venue Capacity Head Coach Team Captain Past Season
Aboomoslem Mashhad Samen 35,000 Ali Hanteh Saeed Khani 4th
Bargh Shiraz Shiraz Hafezieh 20,000 Rasoul Korbekandi Sattar Zare 7th
Damash Gilan Rasht Sardar Jangal 15,000 Stanko Poklepović Mohammad Reza Mahdavi 15th
Est. Ahvaz Ahvaz Takhti Ahvaz 30,000 Khodadad Azizi Afshin Komaei 8th
Esteghlal Tehran Azadi 90,000 Amir Ghalenoei Farhad Majidi 13th
Foolad Ahvaz Takhti Ahvaz 15,000 Majid Jalali Ali Badavi Qualifier
Malavan Anzali Takhti Anzali 20,000 Mohammad Ahmadzadeh Masoud Gholamalizad 16th
Mes Kerman Kerman Shahid Bahonar 15,000 Parviz Mazloomi Farzad Hosseinkhani 10th
Moghavemat Shiraz Hafezieh 20,000 Gholam Hossein Peyrovani Mostafa Sabri 14th
Pas Hamedan Hamedan Ghods 5,000 Vinko Begovic Omid Khouraj 5th
Paykan Qazvin Shahid Rajaei 5,000 Ali Asghar Modir Roosta Mohammad Reza Tahmasebi 9th
Payam Mashhad Samen 35,000 Kazem Ghiyasiyan Mehdi Hasheminasab Qualifier
Persepolis Tehran Azadi 90,000 Nelo Vingada Karim Bagheri Champion
Rah Ahan Rey, Iran Rah Ahan 15,000 Mehdi Tartar Ahmad Taghavi 12th
Saba Qom Qom Yadegar Emam 15,000 Firouz Karimi Yahya Golmohammadi 3rd
Saipa Karaj Enghelab Karaj 15,000 Mohammad Mayeli Kohan Ebrahim Sadeghi 11th
Sepahan Esfahan Foolad Shahr 25,000 Farhad Kazemi Moharram Navidkia 2nd
Zob Ahan Esfahan Foolad Shahr 25,000 Mansour Ebrahimzadeh Mohammad Salsali 6th

Below is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.

Team Name Nationality
Aboomoslem Hadi Bargizar
Damash Gilan Bijan Zolfagharnasab
Rah Ahan Davoud Mahabadi
Saipa Pierre Littbarski
Sepahan Engin Firat
Persepolis Afshin Ghotbi
Payam Khodadad Azizi
Aboomoslem Amir Hossein Peyrovani
Sepahan Hossein Charkhabi
Damash Gilan Hossein Abdi
Bargh Shiraz Mohammad Abbasi
Payam Abbas Chamanyan
Persepolis Afshin Peyrovani
Est. Ahvaz Akbar Misaghian
Bargh Shiraz Farshad Pious
Payam Majid Hosseinipour
Rah Ahan Mahmoud Yavari
Paykan Ali Asghar Modir Roosta
Aboomoslem Ali Hanteh

Participating in international competitions

2009 AFC Champions League

League standings

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Esteghlal Tehran (C) 34 19 9 6 70 34 +36 66 2010 AFC Champions League Group stage 1
2 Zob Ahan 34 19 9 6 58 42 +16 66
3 Sanat Mes 34 17 10 7 54 36 +18 61
4 Sepahan 34 14 14 6 46 34 +12 56
5 Persepolis 34 15 10 9 50 41 +9 55
6 Saba Qom 34 11 18 5 45 34 +11 51
7 Foolad 34 13 11 10 50 41 +9 50
8 Paykan 34 13 8 13 43 42 +1 47
9 Moghavemat 34 11 11 12 33 37 −4 44
10 Saipa 34 10 13 11 40 45 −5 43
11 Rah Ahan 34 11 8 15 36 42 −6 41
12 Malavan 34 9 13 12 31 43 −12 40
13 Pas Hamedan 34 10 9 15 38 46 −8 39
14 Est. Ahvaz 34 10 7 17 36 54 −18 37
15 Aboomoslem 34 8 11 15 35 42 −7 35
16 Payam Mashhad (R) 34 9 8 17 33 52 −19 35 Relegation to the Azadegan League
17 Damash Gilan (R) 34 7 12 15 40 55 −15 33
18 Bargh Shiraz (R) 34 5 9 20 35 53 −18 24

Updated to games played on 26 April 2009
Source: http://www.iplstats.com/website08-09/tableoverall.htm
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
1. Since Zob Ahab won the 2008–09 Hazfi Cup, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the 2010 AFC Champions League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Champions

Esteghlal F.C.

Results table

Last updated April 26, 2009

Home \ Away1 ABU BGH EST ESA MLV MES PAS PAY PYM DMG PRS RAH SAB SAP SEP FOL MVT ZOB
Aboomoslem 1–1 0–2 0–1 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–0 1–1 3–2 4–3 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–2 4–0
Bargh Shiraz 2–2 1–4 0–2 3–0 4–1 2–0 1–2 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–2
Esteghlal Tehran 2–0 1–1 6–0 3–0 2–1 1–0 3–2 5–0 4–2 1–1 2–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 5–2 2–0
Est. Ahvaz 1–3 1–0 0–3 3–0 1–0 0–0 2–3 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–3 0–1 1–1 0–2
Malavan 0–0 1–0 2–2 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 0–1 1–1 2–2 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1
Sanat Mes 3–1 2–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 2–0 4–0 3–3 1–0 1–1 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–2
Pas Hamedan 2–1 1–0 2–4 5–1 0–0 1–1 2–0 1–0 2–3 0–3 1–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 2–2
Paykan 2–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 0–1 0–1 0–2 0–1 0–1 2–2 1–2
Payam Mashhad 1–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–2 1–4 1–1 3–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–3 2–2 1–2 0–1 1–3
Damash Gilan 1–0 3–1 1–0 2–4 2–1 2–2 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 2–2 1–2 1–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 2–1
Persepolis 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–2 0–1 3–1 2–1 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 3–2 1–0 1–2 2–2
Rah Ahan 3–0 3–0 1–5 2–2 1–0 0–1 2–1 1–4 0–0 1–0 1–2 1–1 1–2 0–1 2–1 0–0 0–1
Saba Qom 1–0 2–2 3–1 2–0 3–0 1–3 3–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 2–0 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 2–0 0–0
Saipa 0–0 2–2 0–2 3–2 2–1 1–1 1–3 0–1 1–2 4–1 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 3–2 0–2 1–0
Sepahan 2–1 1–0 2–1 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–2 2–4 3–2 1–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–2
Foolad 0–0 3–1 0–0 0–2 0–1 2–2 5–1 2–2 3–0 3–0 3–2 2–3 2–2 1–1 2–2 0–1 4–1
Moghavemat 0–0 0–1 4–1 1–0 2–2 2–0 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–2
Zob Ahan 0–3 2–1 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 6–3 2–1 2–2 3–1

Source: http://www.iplstats.com/
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Player Statistics

Top Goalscorers

Position Player Club Goals
1 Arash Borhani[1][2][3][4][5][6] Esteghlal 21
2 Shpejtim Arifi Payam 18
3 Igor Zob Ahan 16
4 Afshin Chavoshi Damash Gilan 15
5 Emad Mohammed Sepahan 14
Fereydoon Fazli Saba Qom
6 Siavash Akbarpour Esteghlal 12
Adriano Alvez Damash Gilan
Davoud Haghi Rah Ahan
8 Iman Haydari Paykan 11
Jalal Rafkhaei Malavan
Maysam Baou Aboomoslem
Ibrahima Touré Persepolis
Faraz Fatemi Mes Kerman
11 Farid Abedi Bargh Shiraz 10
Amin Motevaselzadeh Moghavemat Sepasi
Issa Traoré Saipa
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari Zob Ahan
Éder Luciano Mes Kerman
20 5 players 9
25 6 players 8
31 2 players 7
33 8 players 6
41 18 players 5
58 23 players 4
81 18 players 3
99 26 players 2
125 95 players 1
Own goals 0
Total goals 777

Last updated: 11 April 2009
Source: Iplstats.com

Top Goalassistants

Position Player Club Goals
1 Esmail Farhadi Zob Ahan 9
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari Zob Ahan
Ivan Petrović Persepolis
4 Hassan Ashjari Zob Ahan 8
Mohsen Yousefi Saba Qom
Fábio Januário Esteghlal
Éder Luciano Mes
7 Mehdi Shiri Bargh Shiraz 7
Khosro Heydari Esteghlal
Javad Shirzad Pas Hamedan
12 Ali Karimi Persepolis 6
Mohammad Parvin Saipa
Mehrdad Karimian PAS Hamedan
Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Zob Ahan

Last updated: 11 April 2009
Source: Iplstats.com

Cards

Player Team
Mohammad Matouri 10 0 1 Payam Mashhad
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari 10 1 0 Zob Ahan
Mohsen Arzani 8 1 0 Payam Mashhad
Alireza Jalili 9 0 0 Payam Mashhad
Morteza Bargizar 9 0 0 Payam Mashhad
Mohammad AghaMohammadi 9 0 0 Est. Ahvaz
Meysam Khosravi 9 0 0 Paykan
Adriano Alvez 9 0 0 Damash Gilan
Mohsen Bengar 7 1 0 Sepahan
Omid Khouraj 5 1 2 PAS Hamedan
Hanif Omranzadeh 7 1 0 PAS Hamedan
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 7 0 1 Persepolis
Maziar Zare 8 0 0 Persepolis

Matches played

33

Sponsorship

Team Shirt manufacturers

Team Kit Manufacturer
Esteghlal Uhlsport
Persepolis
Rah Ahan
Sepahan
Aboomoslem Merooj
Esteghlal Ahvaz
Foolad
Mes Kerman
Moghavemat
Paykan
Payam
Damash Gilan
Saba
Zob Ahan
Bargh Daei SWE
Malavan
PAS Hamedan Nahangi
Saipa

See also

References

  1. ^ رحيمي مقدم: آرش برهاني گل اول استقلال را نزد
  2. ^ Season: IPL2008-2009 Week: 10
  3. ^ Profile of Arash Borhani - IPL 2008-2009
  4. ^ Video of the goal
  5. ^ Iranian Premier League Stats: 2008-2009 Season
  6. ^ Arash Borhani has 12 Goals in 1/2 season: http://ffiri.ir/html/images/lig8/5.jpg