S.C. Damash Gilan

Full name	Damash Guilan Football Club
Nickname(s)	Damashe Shahre Baran
Founded	2008
Ground	Dr. Azodi Stadium
Ground Capacity	11,000
Owner	Ismaeil Hajipour[1]
Chairman	Mohammadmehdi Altafi[2]
Head Coach	Hadi Tabatabaei[3]
League	Football's 2nd Division
2015–16	Azadegan League, 19th (Relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Damash Guilan Football Club^[4] (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال داماش گیلان‎‎) is an Iranian football club based in Rasht, Gilan. They compete in the Azadegan League.^[5]

Damash used to have a Volleyball team Damash Gilan VC.

History

Establishment

Abozar Rasht, Esteghlal Rasht and Pegah

Abozar Rasht fc was founded in 1975 and in 1983 their name changed to Esteghlal Rasht. In 2002 Esteghlal Rasht was relegated from the Persian Gulf Pro League and Pegah Dairy Company bought the club and renamed it Pegah Football Club. The club was promoted back to the Persian Gulf Pro League in 2003, but were relegated in 2005. Pegah was promoted once more in 2007 before being bought by Damash.

Damash Guilan

In October 2008 Arya Investment Company owned by Amir Mansour Arya bought Pegah Guilan sports activities due to financial problems and Damash Iranian chairman Amir Abedini took over their license.

Pro and Azadegan League

After poor result at the beginning of the 2008–09 Iran Pro League season Hossein Abdi and Stanko Poklepović were replaced with Bijan Zolfagharnasab, but that did not help neither and Damash was relegated to Azadegan League and The 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 Guilan captain 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 two weeks before end of the season with Mehdi Dinvarzadeh.

In their first year after promotion, Damash did well, placing 7th in the league. In their second year, Damash struggled at times, failing to make an impact and finished a quiet 11th place. Damash had a disappointing 2013–2014 season, finishing second last, and were relegated to the Azadegan League for the second time in the clubs history.

Jahanbaksh played for Damash

In March 2016, Damash announced that it had stopped all of its activities in the Azadegan League and had transferred the rights of the team to the Guilan Football Organization. The team was promptly renamed Shahre Baran Football Club and was allowed to continue competing in the Azadegan League.

Shahre Baran was relegated to the 2nd Division in 2016 after a poor season in the Azadegan League.

El Gilano

The matches between Malavan Anzali, Damash and Sepidrood F.C. are known as The Derby Of Gilan or El Gilano. This derby is one of Iran's most important and heated derbies. Malavan holds the record for most wins in the derby with 4 over Damash since the start of the Iran Pro League in 2001. Malavan also holds the largest margin of victory as they defeated Damash 3–0 in 2005 and 2013. The derby has a long history of fan violence and fans of Malavan, Damash and Sepidrood have engaged in fights and damaged the stadiums on several occasions. All three teams have been fined by the Iranian FA due to violent behaviour displayed by their fans.

Shahid Azodi Stadium during one of Damash Guilan's match

Stadium

Dr. Azodi Stadium has been the home stadium of Damash Guilan since 2008. It holds up to 11,000, but attendances of up to 15,000 and 20,000 have been reported as well.

Seasons

For details on seasons, see List of S.C. Damash seasons

First-team 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 Reza Mohammadi 2 MF Hossein Gohari 4 DF Behnam Asgharkhani 5 DF Armin Monfared Doust U23 6 MF Mohammad Rostami 7 MF Mohammadreza Almaskhaleh 8 MF Saeid Ghadami 9 MF Hadi Sohrabi (Captain) 10 FW Saeid Mortazavi 12 FW Milad Ghorbanzadeh 13 FW Mohammad Heydari 14 MF Mostafa Hajati 17 FW Mohammad Jafari

No. Position Player 20 DF Mohammad Talebi U21 21 DF Mojtaba Farzampour U23 23 GK Milad Pourgholi U23 26 FW Saeed Talebi U23 27 DF Amirreza Ghamnak U21 28 MF Saleh Norouzpour U23 29 MF Hafez Yaghoubi U21 33 GK Ashkan Tavana 34 MF Soheyl Hasangholi U23 40 FW Hassan Najafi 44 GK Reza Gholampour U23 72 MF Hossein Hejazian 77 FW Hamid Khodabandelou

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2016.

Club managers

Seasons Manager Nationality Oct 2008–Nov 08 Bijan Zolfagharnasab Nov 2008–Jan 09 Hossein Abdi Jan 2009–Apr 09 Stanko Poklepović Jul 2009–Jun 10 Firouz Karimi Jun 2010–Jul 10 Markar Aghajanian Jul 2010–Nov 10 Marijan Pušnik Nov 2010–Dec 10 Afshin Nazemi Dec 2010–Sep 11 Mehdi Dinvarzadeh Sep 2011–Jan 12 Ebrahim Ghasempour

Seasons Manager Nationality Jan 2012–May 12 Mehdi Tartar Jun 2012–Sep 12 Omid Harandi Sep 2012–Mar 13 Hamid Derakhshan Mar 2013–Jan 14 Afshin Nazemi Jan 2014–Sep 14 Ali Nazarmohammadi Sep 2014–2015 Omid Harandi Aug 2015–2016 Majid Jahanpour Aug 2016–May 17 Hadi Tabatabaei

Records

Top goalscorers

Top appearances

Last updated: May 16, 2016.
Bolded players are currently on the Damash squad.

See also

• Hazfi Cup
• 2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup
• Parseh Tehran
• Gahar Zagros

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Damash Guilan FC.

• (in Persian) Official old Website
• (in Persian) Damash Guilan Fan Site
• (in Persian) Damash Guilan Official Website
• (in Persian) Damash Guilan Fan Site
• (in English) Players and Results