S.C. Damash

S.C. Damash
داماش گیلان
Full name Damash Gilan Football Club
Founded 11 October 2008
Ground Dr. Azodi Stadium, Rasht
(Capacity: 20,000)
Owner Amir Mansour Arya
Chairman Amir Abedini
Head Coach Mehdi Tartar
League Iran Pro League
2010-11 Azadegan League Group 1, 1st (promoted)
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

Sports Club Damash Gilan (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال داماش گیلان) is an Iranian football club based in Rasht, Gilan. They compete in the Iran Pro League.[1] Damash Football Club is owend by mineral water company Damash Iranian.

Damash Gilan also has a Volleyball team Damash Gilan VC. They currently compete in the Iranian Volleyball Super League.

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History

In October 2008 Arya Investment Company bought Pegah F.C. sports activities due to financial problems. Damash Iranian owned by Amir Abedini took over their license. After poor result at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season Hossein Abdi and Stanko Poklepović were replaced with Bijan Zolfagharnasab, but that did not help neither and Damash was relegated to Azadegan League. Club lost many key players to Pro league teams including Afshin Chavoshi, Mohammad Reza Mahdavi, Adriano Alves. for 2009–10 season Amir Abedini hired Firouz Karimi who was banned to work in Pro league for one season and brought many players that were working with him in the past to the club. In following season Damash made it to the promotion playoffs but they were eliminated in the playoff game against Sanat Naft and missed out on promotion. For 2010-2011 season damash signed with former key players Afshin Chavoshi & Mohammadreza Mahdavi and also a Slovenian coach Marijan Pušnik but after only 4 weeks and getting poor result with team he was replaced by his assistant and former Pegah Gilan capitan Afshin Nazemi. Despite getting good result with team Nazemi once again was replaced by Mehdi Dinvarzadeh. On April 22, 2011 Damash was able to secure its promotion to IPL even 2 weeks before end of the season.

Seasons

Year Division Position Hazfi Cup
2008–09 IPL 17th Third round
2009–10 Div 1 2nd 1/8 Final
2010–11 Div 1 1st 1/8 Final
2011–12 IPL 1/4 Final

First-team squad

As of July 19, 2011[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Milad Farahani
3 DF Ali Hosseini
4 MF Abbas Aghaei
5 DF Orestes
6 MF Jahangir Asgari
7 MF Milad Zeneyedpour
8 DF Alireza Nazifkar
9 FW Mohammad Gholami
10 FW Afshin Chavoshi (1st Vice Captain)
11 MF Mohammad Reza Mahdavi (Captain)
12 MF Mostafa Haajati
13 MF Mohammad Abshak
14 MF Magno
No. Position Player
15 MF Behnam Afsheh
19 FW Farzad Mohammadi
20 DF Mohamad Mokhtari
21 DF Abouzar Rahimi
22 GK Mohammad Mohammadi
23 GK Behnam Laayeghifar
24 MF Mohammad Karimi
25 DF Milad Nosrati
27 MF Hossein Ebrahimi
28 MF Afshin Esmaeilzadeh
29 DF Hadi Mohammadi
30 MF Alireza Jahanbakhsh

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2011–12.

Club managers

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See also