2016–17 Persepolis F.C. season

Persepolis

2016–17 season
Chairman	Ali Akbar Taheri
Manager	Branko Ivanković
Stadium	Azadi Stadium
Persian Gulf Pro League	Champions
Hazfi Cup	Round of 32
AFC Champions League	Quarter final
Top goalscorer	League: Mehdi Taremi (18) All: Mehdi Taremi (24)
Highest home attendance	80,000 v Padideh and Tractor Sazi
Lowest home attendance	9,500 vs. Zob Ahan
Average home league attendance	48,567
Home colours Away colours
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The 2016–17 season are the Persepolis's 16th season in the Pro League, and their 31th consecutive season in the top division of Iranian Football. They were also be competing in the Hazfi Cup and AFC Champions League.

Squad

First team squad

No.	Name	Date of Birth (Age)	Nationality	Position (s)	Since	App	Goals	Assist	Ends	Signed from	Transfer fee	Notes
Goalkeepers
1	Alireza Beiranvand	1992-9-21 (age 24)		GK	2016	0	0	0	2018	Naft Tehran	Free
12	Abolfazl Darvishvand	1995-11-18 (age 21)		GK	2016	0	0	0	2021	Rah Ahan	Free	U-21
44	Božidar Radošević	1989-6-4 (age 28)		GK	2016	0	0	0	2018	Debreceni	Free
Defenders
4	Jalal Hosseini	1982-7-3 (age 35)		CB / RB	2016	57	3	2	2017	Naft Tehran	Free
5	Hamed Aghaei	1997-9-27 (age 19)		CB / DM	2016	0	0	0	2019	Shahrdari Ardabil	Free	U-19
13	Hossein Mahini	1986-9-16 (age 30)		RB / LB / CB	2012	63	1	5	2020	Malavan	Free
15	Mohammad Ansari	1991-9-23 (age 25)		LB / CB / DM	2015	24	1	1	2017	Shahrdar Tabriz	Free
17	Sadegh Moharrami	1996-5-1 (age 21)		RM / RW / RB	2016	0	0	0	2018	Malavan	Free	U-21
18	Mohsen Rabiekhah	1993-1-3 (age 29)		DM / CB / LB	2016	0	0	0	2018	Sanat Naft	Free
23	Mohammad Aram Tab	1985-3-7 (age 32)		LB / CB	2016	0	0	0	2018	Saba Qom	Free
27	Ramin Rezaeian	1990-3-21 (age 27)		RB / RM / RW	2015	19	2	1	2017	Rah Ahan	Free
Midfielders
7	Soroush Rafiei	1990-5-24 (age 27)		AM / LW / RW	2017	0	0	0	2019	Tractor	Free
10	Farshad Ahmadzadeh	1992-9-23 (age 24)		AM / LW / RW / SS	2012	19	5	6	2018	Parseh	Free	Academy graduated
11	Kamal Kamyabinia	1989-1-18 (age 28)		CM / AM / RM / LM	2015	24	2	0	2017	Naft Tehran	Free
25	Ehsan Alvanzadeh	1995-01-18 (age 22)		LW / AM / SS	2016	0	0	0	2019	Naft Masjed Soleyman	Free	U-23
37	Hamidreza Taherkhani	1999-3-25 (age 18)		LW / RW / SS	2016	0	0	0	2019	Rah Ahan	Free	U-19 Academy graduated
66	Shahab Karami	1991-4-16 (age 26)		CM / AM	2017	0	2	0	2019	Malavan F.C.	Free
77	Mohsen Mosalman	1991-1-27 (age 26)		AM / LW / RW / CM	2015	26	3	6	2018	Zob Ahan	R2.7 B
Forwards
9	Mehdi Taremi	1992-7-18 (age 25)		CF / AM / SS	2014	51	23	7	2018	Iranjavan	Free
19	Vahid Amiri	1988-4-2 (age 29)		CF / RW / LW / AM	2016	0	0	0	2018	Naft Tehran	Free
28	Reza Karamolachaab	1997-01-12 (age 20)		CF / SS	2016	0	0	0	2021	Mafra	Free	U-21
70	Ali Alipour	1995-10-11 (age 21)		CF / RW / LW	2015	35	7	4	2020	Rah Ahan	Free	U-21
88	Saman Nariman Jahan	1991-10-28 (age 25)		RW / LW/ CF	2017	0	0	0	2019	Machine Sazi	Free
Players left the club during the season
17	Sasan Ansari	1991-11-4 (age 26)		RW / LW / SS	2016	2	0	0	2016	Transferred to Foolad F.C.
6	Antony Golec	1990-5-29 (age 27)		CB / LB	2016	0	0	0	2016	Transferred to FC Bucheon
8	Ahmad Nourollahi	1993-2-2 (age 24)		DM / CM	2014	47	3	2	2017	On loan at Tractor (Conscription Period)
2	Omid Alishah	1992-1-10 (age 25)		LW / RW / LM / RM	2013	68	12	13	2017	On loan at Tractor (Conscription Period)
29	Mohammad Rahmati	1994-12-28 (age 22)		CM / DM	2015	0	0	0	2017	On loan at Machine Sazi
14	Shahab Zahedi	1995-8-18 (age 21)		LW / RW / CF	2014	5	0	0	2017	On loan at Machine Sazi
55	Aref Mohammadalipour	2000-10-1 (age 16)		CB / DM	2016	0	0	0	2017	Demote to Youth Team
22	Oleksiy Polyanskiy	1986-8-12 (age 31)		CB / CM	2016	4	0	0	2017	Released
80	Volodymyr Pryyomov	1986-1-2 (age 31)		CF / SS	2016	10	1	0	2017	Transferred to FC Oleksandriya

Apps and goals updated as of 31 December 2015
For more on the reserve and academy squads, see Persepolis Novin, Persepolis Academy, Persepolis Shomal & Persepolis Qaem Shahr.
Source: fc-perspolis.com, FFIRI.IR

Iran Pro League squad

As of 25 June 2016.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Alireza Beiranvand 4 DF Jalal Hosseini (Captain) 5 DF Hamed Aghaei U21 7 MF Soroush Rafiei 9 FW Mehdi Taremi 10 MF Farshad Ahmadzadeh 11 MF Kamal Kamyabinia 12 GK Abolfazl Darvishvand U21 13 DF Hossein Mahini (Vice Captain) 15 DF Mohammad Ansari 17 MF Sadegh Moharrami U23 18 MF Mohsen Rabiekhah

No. Position Player 19 MF Vahid Amiri 23 DF Mohammad Aram Tab 25 MF Ehsan Alvanzadeh U23 28 FW Reza Karamolachaab U21 37 MF Hamidreza Taherkhani U19 44 GK Božidar Radošević 55 DF Aref Mohammadalipour U17 66 MF Shahab Karami 70 FW Ali Alipour U23 77 MF Mohsen Mosalman 88 FW Saman Nariman Jahan

• List of Persepolis squad in Iran Football league Organization^[1]
• [U19 = Under 19 Player | U21 = Under 21 Player | U23 = Under 23 Player]^[2]

Loan list

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

No. Position Player 2 MF Omid Alishah (at Tractor till 5 January 2019) 8 MF Ahmad Nourollahi (at Tractor till 5 January 2019) 14 FW Shahab Zahedi (at Mashin Sazi till 16 May 2017) 29 MF Mohammad Rahmati (at Mashin Sazi till 16 May 2017)

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2016 & List of Iranian football transfers winter 2016–17.
For more on the reserve and academy squads, see Persepolis Novin, Persepolis Academy, Persepolis Shomal & Persepolis Qaem Shahr.

AFC Asian Champions League Squad

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Alireza Beiranvand 3 DF Shoja' Khalilzadeh 4 DF Jalal Hosseini (Captain) 5 DF Hamed Aghaei U21 7 MF Soroush Rafiei 8 MF Ahmad Nourollahi 9 FW Mehdi Taremi 10 MF Farshad Ahmadzadeh 11 MF Kamal Kamyabinia 12 GK Abolfazl Darvishvand U21 13 DF Hossein Mahini (Vice Captain) 14 FW Reza Karamolachaab U21 15 DF Mohammad Ansari 17 MF Sadegh Moharrami U23 18 MF Mohsen Rabiekhah 19 MF Vahid Amiri

No. Position Player 23 DF Mohammad Aram Tab 25 MF Ehsan Alvanzadeh U23 37 MF Hamidreza Taherkhani U19 44 GK Božidar Radošević 66 MF Shahab Karami 69 DF Shayan Mosleh 70 FW Ali Alipour U23 77 MF Mohsen Mosalman 88 FW Saman Nariman Jahan 90 FW Godwin Mensha MF Siamak Nemati MF Bashar RasanU21 DF Ehsan Hosseini U21 MF Saeid Hosseinpour U21 MF Adam Hemati U23 FW Mohammad Amin Asadi U21 DF Shahin AbbasianU23

New Contracts

No	P	Name	Age	Contract length	Contract ends	Date	Source
70	FW	Ali Alipour	20	4 season	2020	16 May 2016
14	FW	Shahab Zahedi	20	5 season	2021	26 May 2016
2	MF	Omid Alishah	24	1 season	2017	14 June 2016
9	FW	Mehdi Taremi	24	2 season	2018	16 July 2016
13	DF	Hossein Mahini	29	3 season	2020	18 July 2016
8	MF	Ahmad Nourollahi	23	2 season	2019	23 July 2016
27	DF	Ramin Rezaeian	26	2 season	2019	5 September 2016

Transfers

In

No	P	Name	Age	Moving from	Ends	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Quota	Source
13	RB	Hossein Mahini	29	Malavan	2017	—	Loan return	Summer		[3]
	CB	Hossein Kanaanizadegan	22	Malavan	2017	—	Loan return	Summer		[4]
78	FW	Ali Fatemi	23	Rahahan	2017	—	Loan return	Summer		[5]
1	GK	Alireza Beiranvand	23	Naft Tehran	2018	—	Transfer	Summer	PL	[6]
17	MF	Sasan Ansari	25	Foolad	2018	—	Transfer	Summer	PL	[7]
25	FW	Ehsan Alvanzadeh	21	Naft Masjed Soleyman	2019	—	Transfer	Summer		[8]
4	CB	Jalal Hosseini	34	Naft Tehran	2017	—	Transfer	Summer	PL	[9]
19	FW	Vahid Amiri	28	Naft Tehran	2018	—	Transfer	Summer	PL	[10]
12	GK	Abolfazl Darvishvand	20	Rah Ahan	2021	—	Transfer	Summer		[11]
18	MF	Mohsen Rabiekhah	28	Sanat Naft	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[12]
6	CB	Antony Golec	26	Sheriff Tiraspol	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[13]
5	CB	Hamed Aghaei	18	Shahrdari Ardabil	2019	—	Transfer	Summer		[14]
23	LB	Mohammad Aram Tab	31	Saba Qom	2018	—	Transfer	Summer	PL	[15]
17	MF	Sadegh Moharrami	20	Malavan	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[16]
80	FW	Volodymyr Pryyomov	30	Metalist Kharkiv	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[17]
22	DF	Oleksiy Polyanskyi	30	Shakhtar Donetsk	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[18]
44	GK	Božidar Radošević	27	Debreceni	2018	—	Transfer	Summer		[19]
37	FW	Hamidreza Taherkhani	17	Rahahan	2019	—	Transfer	Summer		[20]
28	FW	Reza Karamolachaab	19	Mafra	2021	—	Transfer	Summer		[21]
55	CB	Aref Mohammadalipour	15	Free Agent	2021	—	Transfer	Winter(during first half season)		[22]
88	LW	Saman Nariman Jahan	25	Machine Sazi	2019	—	Transfer	Winter	PL	[23]
7	AM	Soroush Rafiei	26	Tractor	2019	—	Transfer	Winter	PL	[24]
66	CM	Shahab Karami	25	Malavan	2019	—	Transfer	Winter(during second half season)		[25]

Out

No	P	Name	Age	Moving to	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Source
4	CB	Michael Umaña	33	Municipal Liberia	Free		Summer	[26]
30	GK	Ali Mohsenzadeh	23	Rahahan	Free		Summer	[27]
40	RB	Babak Hatami	29	Gostaresh Foolad	Free		Summer	[28]
18	CM	Mehrdad Kafshgari	29	Padideh	Free		Summer	[29]
12	GK	Morteza Ghadimipour	21	Mashhad	Free		Summer	[30]
14	FW	Jerry Bengtson	29	Zobahan	Free		Summer
6	CB	Mohsen Bengar	36	Tractor	Free		Summer	[31]
20	CB	Alireza Nourmohammadi	34	Mashhad	Free		Summer	[32]
78	FW	Ali Fatemi	23	Saba Qom	Free		Summer	[33]
	CB	Hossein Kanaanizadegan	22	Esteghlal	Transfer	R4 B	Summer
19	MF	Milad Kamandani	21	Padideh	Free		Summer	[34]
44	CB	Amir Abbas Ayenechi	22	Free Agent	Free		Summer	[35]
3	LB	Vahid Heydarieh	23	Free Agent	Free		Summer
16	FW	Reza Khaleghifar	32	Gostaresh Foolad	Free		Summer	[36]
1	GK	Sosha Makani	29	Mjøndalen IF	Free		Summer	[37]
23	CB	Luka Marić	29	FC Dinamo București	Free		Summer
55	GK	Alexander Lobanov	30	Pakhtakor	Free		Summer	[38]
17	FW	Sasan Ansari	25	Foolad	Transfer	R2 B	Summer	[39]
6	CB	Antony Golec	26	FC Bucheon	Free		Winter(during first half season)	[40]
8	CM	Ahmad Nourollahi	23	Tractor	undisclosed	Loan(Conscription Period)	Winter	[41]
2	FW	Omid Alishah	24	Tractor	undisclosed	Loan(Conscription Period)	Winter	[42]
14	FW	Shahab Zahedi	21	Machine Sazi	undisclosed	Loan	Winter	[43]
29	MF	Mohammad Rahmati	22	Machine Sazi	undisclosed	Loan	Winter	[44]
55	CB	Aref Mohammadalipour	15	Demote To Youth Team			Winter(during second half season)	[45]
22	CB	Oleksiy Polyanskiy	30	Released			Winter(during second half season)	[46]
80	FW	Volodymyr Pryyomov	30	FC Oleksandriya	Free	Transfer	Winter(during second half season)	[47]

Technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Branko Ivanković
Assistant coach	Sreten Ćuk
First-team coach	Karim Bagheri
Goalkeeping coach	Igor Panadić
Physical fitness trainer	Marko Stilinovic
Analyzer	Farzad Habibollahi
Doctor	Dr. Alireza Haghighat
Physiotherapist	Meysam Alipour
Team Manager	Mahmoud Khordbin
Media Officer	Pendar Khomarlou

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
PGPL	27 July 2016	4 May 2017	Matchday 1	Winners	7001300000000000000♠30	7001200000000000000♠20	7000600000000000000♠6	7000400000000000000♠4	7001460000000000000♠46	7001140000000000000♠14	+32	07001666700000000000♠66.67
Hazfi Cup	26 October 2016	25 January 2017	Round of 64	Round of 64	7000100000000000000♠1	5000000000000000000♠0	7000100000000000000♠1	5000000000000000000♠0	7000100000000000000♠1	7000100000000000000♠1	+0	005000000000000000000♠0.00
Champions League	21 February 2017	30 May 2017	Group stage	Quarter-finals	7000800000000000000♠8	7000300000000000000♠3	7000400000000000000♠4	7000100000000000000♠1	7001100000000000000♠10	7000800000000000000♠8	+2	07001375000000000000♠37.50
Total					7001390000000000000♠39	7001230000000000000♠23	7001110000000000000♠11	7000500000000000000♠5	7001570000000000000♠57	7001230000000000000♠23	+34	07001589700000000000♠58.97

Last updated: 30 May 2017
Source: Competitions

Persian Gulf Pro League

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persepolis (C)	30	20	6	4	46	14	+32	66	Qualification for the AFC Champions League Group stage[lower-alpha 1]
2	Esteghlal	30	16	9	5	45	27	+18	57	Qualification for the AFC Champions League Play-off round
3	Tractor Sazi	30	15	11	4	38	24	+14	56
4	Zob Ahan	30	12	10	8	39	31	+8	46
5	Sepahan	30	12	9	9	38	34	+4	45
6	Paykan	30	12	8	10	39	38	+1	44
7	Est. Khuzestan	30	10	11	9	36	34	+2	41
8	Gostaresh	30	7	17	6	26	24	+2	38
9	Naft Tehran	30	8	12	10	31	34	−3	36	Qualification for the AFC Champions League Group stage[lower-alpha 1]
10	Foolad	30	7	14	9	30	32	−2	35
11	Padideh	30	8	10	12	28	36	−8	34
12	Sanat Naft	30	8	9	13	24	34	−10	33
13	Saipa	30	7	11	12	20	30	−10	32
14	Siah Jamegan	30	6	12	12	24	35	−11	30
15	Saba Qom (R)	30	6	10	14	22	33	−11	28	Relegation to the Azadegan League
16	Machine Sazi (R)	30	3	7	20	18	45	−27	16

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	20	6	4	46	14	+32	66	12	3	0	27	5	+22	8	3	4	19	9	+10

Last updated: 4 May 2017.
Source: Ipl Stats

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	L
Position	3	4	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Last updated: 4 May 2017.
Source: "Ipl". 
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Hazfi Cup

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

AFC Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HIL	PER	RAY	WAH
1	Al-Hilal	6	3	3	0	10	7	+3	12	Round of 16		—	0–0	2–1	1–0
2	Persepolis	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9			1–1	—	0–0	4–2
3	Al-Rayyan	6	2	1	3	10	13	−3	7			3–4	3–1	—	2–1
4	Al-Wahda	6	1	1	4	12	13	−1	4			2–2	2–3	5–1	—

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly Matches

Pre-season

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

During season

  Win   Draw   Loss

Club

Kit

Supplier: Joma

Home Kit

Away Kit

ACL Home Kit

ACL Away Kit

Source: "Persepolis FC' current kit". 

Sponsorship

See also

• 2016–17 Iran Pro League
• 2016–17 Hazfi Cup

References

External links

• Iran Premier League Statistics
• Persian League
• Persepolis News