2007–08 Iran Pro League

Iran Pro League
Season	2007–08
Relegated	Sanat Naft Shirin Faraz
2009 AFC Champions League	Persepolis Esteghlal Sepahan Saba Battery
Matches played	306
Goals scored	721 (2.36 per match)
Top goalscorer	18 Goals Hadi Asghari Mohsen Khalili Mohsen Khalili
← 2006–07 2008–09 →

The following is the standings of the Iran Pro League's 2007/08 football season. This season was the 7th season since the establishment of the Iran Pro League (Persian Gulf Cup). Saipa FC were defending champions.

1 Teams
- 1.1 Participating in international competitions
2 Final classification
3 Results table
4 Player Statistics
5 See also
6 References

Teams

Team	City	Stadium	Manager	Past Season
Aboomoslem	Mashhad	Samen	Parviz Mazloomi	6th
Bargh	Shiraz	Hafezieh	Mahmoud Yavari	12th
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	Firouz Karimi	4th
Esteghlal	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	Majid Jalali	2nd
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	14th
Mes	Kerman	Shahid Bahonar	Amir Ghalenoei	9th
Pas	Hamedan	Ghods	Vinko Begovic	N/A
Paykan	Tehran	Iran Khodro	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta	7th
Pegah	Rasht	Sardar Jangal	Nader Dastneshan	Qualifier
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	Afshin Ghotbi	3rd
Rah Ahan	Tehran	Rah Ahan	Davoud Mahabadi	16th
Saba Battery	Tehran	Shahid Derakhshan	Yahya Golmohammadi	13th
Saipa	Karaj	Enghelab Karaj	Ali Daei	Champion
Sanat Naft	Abadan	Takhti Abadan	Ahmad Tousi	Qualifier
Sepahan	Esfahan	Naghsh Jahan	Jorvan Vieira	5th
Sepasi	Shiraz	Hafezieh	Gholam Peyrovani	10th
Shirin Faraz	Kermanshah	Azadi Kermanshah	Shahram Mehrpeyma	Qualifier
Zob Ahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	Bijan Zolfagharnasab	8th

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

Team	Name	Nationality
Aboomoslem	Khodadad Azizi
Esteghlal Ahvaz	Firouz Karimi
Esteghlal	Nasser Hejazi
Mes	Farhad Kazemi
Paykan	Samvel Darbinyan
Pegah	Majid Jahanpour
Rah Ahan	Akbar Misaghian
Saba Battery	Mohammad Hossein Ziaei
Sanat Naft	Ebrahim Ghasempour
Sepahan	Luka Bonačić
Shirin Faraz	Marco Octavio
Zob Ahan	Zoran Đorđević

Participating in international competitions

2008 AFC Champions League

Final classification

Last updated May 18, 2008

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1.	Persepolis (C)	34	18	11	5	55	34	+21	59¹	AFC Champions League 2009 Group stage
2.	Sepahan	34	17	10	7	53	38	+15	58²
3.	Saba Battery	34	13	13	8	41	37	+4	52
4.	Aboomoslem	34	14	8	12	37	37	0	50
5.	Pas Hamedan	34	11	16	7	36	28	+8	49
6.	Zob Ahan	34	11	15	8	39	32	+7	48
7.	Paykan	34	12	10	12	41	42	-1	47
8.	Bargh	34	11	14	9	43	47	-4	47
9.	Est. Ahvaz	34	11	13	10	61	51	+10	46
10.	Mes Kerman	34	11	12	11	36	34	+2	45
11.	Saipa	34	12	9	13	33	35	-2	45
12.	Rah Ahan	34	11	11	12	45	40	+5	44
13.	Esteghlal	34	11	10	13	44	44	0	43	AFC Champions League 2009 Group stage (as cup winner)
14.	Fajr Sepasi	34	9	15	10	37	41	-4	42
15.	Pegah Gilan	34	9	11	14	26	35	-10	38
16.	Malavan	34	8	12	14	32	41	-9	36
17.	Sanat Naft (R)	34	9	8	17	37	46	-9	35	Relegation to Azadegan League
18.	Shirin Faraz (R)	34	3	12	19	25	59	-34	21	Relegation to Azadegan League

¹ Persepolis was deducted 6 points issued by Fifa.
² Sepahan was deducted 3 points in issued by Iranian Football Federation.

Champions
Persepolis F.C.

Results table

Last updated March 17, 2008

Home \ Away¹	ABU	BGH	EST	ESA	MLV	MES	PAS	PAY	PEG	PRS	RAH	SAB	SAP	SNA	SEP	FJR	SFZ	ZOB
Aboomoslem		2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	3–1	0–3	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	3–2
Bargh Shiraz	1–0		1–1	1–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–2	3–3	0–0	1–0	0–0
Esteghlal Tehran	1–1	4–2		3–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–4	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–3	0–1	1–1	2–1	1–2
Est. Ahvaz	1–0	2–1	1–2		0–0	2–2	2–2	1–2	3–2	4–1	2–3	4–1	1–2	0–0	3–2	4–1	3–1	1–1
Malavan	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–2		2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	1–2	2–1	2–2	1–1
Sanat Mes	1–1	1–3	1–0	2–1	1–0		2–0	2–3	2–0	0–0	2–1	0–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1
Pas Hamedan	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0		3–2	3–1	1–2	3–2	0–1	1–3	1–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
Paykan	0–0	4–2	3–2	2–0	0–1	1–1	2–1		1–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–3	2–0	2–0
Pegah	0–0	2–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1		1–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–0
Persepolis	3–3	1–1	1–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0		0–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	5–0	2–1
Rah Ahan	2–0	2–2	0–3	2–2	2–1	3–1	0–0	5–0	0–1	2–1		0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	3–0	2–1
Saba Battery	0–1	2–2	0–0	2–2	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–4	2–0		2–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	2–2	1–0
Saipa	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	2–2	1–1		0–2	1–0	1–2	4–2	1–1
Sanat Naft	2–0	1–3	2–1	2–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–1	2–3	0–2	2–3	2–0		2–2	1–2	2–1	1–1
Sepahan	2–1	4–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–2	0–1	1–0		0–0	1–0	2–2
Fajr Sepasi	2–1	0–1	1–2	2–2	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–1	2–0	0–2		2–2	1–4
Shirin Faraz	0–2	2–2	1–3	0–3	2–1	0–3	0–1	0–3	0–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–3	0–1		1–1
Zob Ahan	2–1	2–1	0–1	4–2	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–1

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

18

Mohsen Khalili (Persepolis)
Hadi Asghari (Rah Ahan)

13

Ibrahima Touré (Paykan)

12

10

9

8

Top Goalassistants

8

Mojtaba Jabari (Esteghlal)
Davoud Haghi (Est. Ahvaz)

7

6

Cards

Player				Team
Hossein Pashaei	13	0	0	Rah Ahan
Ali Haghdoost	10	2	0	Aboomoslem
Alou Badra Djakité	11	1	0	Shirin Faraz
Mohsen Bengar	11	0	0	Sepahan
Morteza Kash	10	1	0	Saba Battery
Saber Mirghorbani	11	0	0	Sanat Naft
Abouzar Rahimi	10	1	0	Rah Ahan
Hossein Memar	9	0	1	Paykan
Hanif Omranzadeh	9	0	0	Pas Hamedan
Ivan Petrović	8	0	1	Aboomoslem
Mehrdad Pooladi	8	1	0	Esteghlal

Matches played

34

Mojtaba Shiri (Est. Ahvaz)

References

Iranian Football League

Iranian Football League seasons

Local League	1970–71 • 1971–72

Takht Jamshid Cup	1973–74 • 1974–75 • 1975–76 • 1976–77 • 1977–78 • 1978–79

Azadegan League (Pre 2001)	1989–90 • 1991–92 • 1992–93 • 1993–94 • 1994–95 • 1995–96 • 1996–97 • 1997–98 • 1998–99 • 1999–2000 • 2000–01

IPL	2001–02 • 2002–03 • 2003–04 • 2004–05 • 2005–06 • 2006–07 • 2007–08 • 2008–09 • 2009–10 • 2010–11 • 2011–12

2011–12 Iran Pro League clubs

(18 clubs)	Damash Gilan • Esteghlal • Fajr Sepasi • Foolad • Malavan • Mes Sarcheshmeh • Naft Tehran • Persepolis • Rah Ahan • Saba Qom • Saipa • Sanat Mes • Sanat Naft Abadan • Sepahan • Shahin • Shahrdari Tabriz • Tractor Sazi • Zob Ahan

Competitions involving Iranian clubs

Domestic	IPL • Azadegan League • 2nd Division • 3rd Division • Hazfi Cup • Super Cup

Defunct	Takht Jamshid Cup • Local Leagues • Qods League • 17th of Shahrivar league • Espandi Cup

International	AFC Champions League • Asian Cup Winners Cup (Defunct)

IPL awards

Iran football award winners

See also

All-time League table • Champions • League System • Foreign players • Top Scorers: All-time , Seasons • Winning Managers

Iran Pro League seasons

2001–02 · 2002–03 · 2003–04 · 2004–05 · 2005–06 · 2006–07 · 2007–08 · 2008–09 · 2009–10 · 2010–11 · 2011–12

Football in Iran

League competitions	Pro League · Azadegan League · 2nd Division · 3rd Division

Cup competitions	Hazfi Cup · Super Cup

National teams	Men's · B-team · Women's · U-23 · U-20 · U-17 · U-15 · U-13 · Students

Lists and categories	League system · Champions · Foreign players · List of clubs · List of venues · Top goalscorers(all-time · by season)

Iran Football Federation

2008 in Asian Football (AFC)

Domestic leagues	Australia '07-'08 '08-'09 · Bahrain '07-'08 '08-'09 · Bangladesh '08–'09 · China · Chinese Taipei · Guam '07-'08 '08-'09 · Hong Kong '07-'08 '08-'09 · India '07-'08 '08-'09 · Indonesia '08-'09 · Iran '07-'08 '08-'09 · Iraq '07-'08 '08-'09 · Japan · Jordan '07-'08 '08-'09 · Kuwait '07'-08 '08'-09 · Laos · Lebanon '07'-08 '08'-09 · Malaysia '07-'08 '09 · Oman '07-'08 '08-'09 · Qatar '07-'08 '08-'09 · Saudi Arabia '07-'08 '08-'09 · Singapore · South Korea · Syria '07-'08 '08-'09 · Thailand · Turkmenistan · UAE '07-'08 '08-'09 · Uzbekistan · Vietnam

AFC competitions	AFC Champions League · AFC Cup · AFC President's Cup