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Persepolis

File:Persepolis Teheran Logo(2012).png
Full name	Perspolis Tehran Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds (سرخپوشان)
Founded	December 1963
Ground	Azadi Stadium West Tehran
Capacity	100,000
Owner	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Chairman	Mohammad Rouyanian
Head Coach	Mustafa Denizli
League	Iran Pro League
2011–12	Iran Pro League, 12th
Website	http://fc-perspolis.com/
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Departments of Persepolis
Football (Men's) Football (Women's) Handball Taekwondo Swimming Weightlifting Futsal (Men's) Futsal (Women's) Volleyball Wheelchair basketball Judo Basketball Wrestling Goalball Chess

Persepolis Football Club (Template:Lang-fa, Template:IPA-fa) is an Iran Pro League professional football club based in Tehran, Iran. Persepolis F.C. was founded in 1963 and has been competing in the first division of Iranian football since 1968. The team has reached legendary status in Iran, having dominated the Iranian league for decades and constantly impressed at Asian level. Persepolis F.C. is the football club of the multisport Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club.

The club has played at its home ground, Azadi Stadium, since 1971. According to AFC, Persepolis is one of the most popular football clubs in Asian Football alongside Al Hilal and Dalian Shide, and they are Iran's best supported club. They contest the Tehran derby, which is regarded as one of the biggest in Asia, with arch rivals Esteghlal, a match that is always closely followed by Iranian football fans.

Persepolis is one of the most successful football clubs in Iran with the most domestic league titles record in Iranian football with 9 titles as well as 5 domestic cup titles. Persepolis has also won an Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

Colours and crest

Persepolis was named after the historical landmark, Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. The club logo incorporates elements from the location.

The first design of Persepolis' crest used the Faravahar, an ancient Persian and Zoroastrian symbol. The Faravahar is a man with falcon wings, each with three feathers. Faravahar looks toward and rises its hand toward Ahura Mazda. This version of the crest only used in early years. After that there was not a crest on the shirt until the 1980s. In the middle of the 1980s the design of the crest changed. This version had two bull heads attached to one body as seen on a column at Apadana. The bull points to a cup. Olympic rings are seen under the cup. The bull is the symbol of productivity in ancient Persia beliefs and Persian Literature and the cup on the top of the column represents the championship. This version was a more detailed version of the current crest. In the 1990s the crest changed again and became more stylized; the Olympic rings were dropped and the cup became more explicit. This version used until 2004; the current crest is simpler still. The Olympic rings return to the crest and the bull of past versions is turned into Homa, another mythological creature and symbol used in the architecture of Persepolis.

One of Persepolis' nicknames is Sorkhpoushan ("The Reds", Template:Lang-fa), stemming from their traditional kit, which is predominantly red. From the foundation of the club, the common home kit includes a red shirt, red (in some seasons black or white) shorts, and red socks. White and black colours are also seen in the kit. In the early 1970s the shorts were black; white shorts were used in the late 1970s, and red shorts became predominant in the 1980s.

In the 2006–2007 season, fans saw the team wear red and white striped shirts. The away kit of the club is commonly with a white background.

Stadium and facilities

When Persepolis F.C. was created, the sport club already had a number of buildings such as gymnasiums, swimming pools, and bowling alleys in the Bowling Abdo Complex. The facility is in the north of Tehran and was renamed Shahid Chamran Bowling after the revolution. There was initially no stadium for the football team. Ali Abdo bought some land in the Ekbatan area of Tehran and constructed a stadium there. At the time it was known as Apadana stadium. Persepolis played only one game at the stadium due to poor organization of the seating and a lack of co-operation with other Iranian clubs. Persepolis only used the stadium as a training ground.

Around the time of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, Abdo had to sell much of the club's property to keep the club functioning due to its poor financial situation and the overall neglect of sport during the 1980s in Iran. Abdo sold Apadana Stadium to Rah Ahan F.C. For 200,000 Tomans in 1974. Apadana Stadium is now called Rah Ahan Stadium. Bowling Abdo burnt down and Abdo returned to the United States. Club properties were confiscated by The Oppressed and Veterans Foundation (Bonyad Mostazafan, Template:Lang-fa).

Before the construction of Azadi Stadium in 1971, Persepolis played its matches at Amjadieh (Shahid Shiroudi) Stadium. They have played almost all of their home games at Azadi Stadium, except for the 2002–03 season, when they played all but two of their home matches at Tehran's Takhti Stadium while renovations were taking place at Azadi.

In mid 2006 Persepolis considered buying Shahre Ghods Stadium, but the deal fell through due to Persepolis' poor financial situation and the long distance between the city center and the stadium. The only property the club currently has is its club headquarters, built on land given to the club by the IRIFF.

The youth clubs of Persepolis train and play their matches at Derafshifar Stadium. In July 2008 the club used Karegaran Stadium for first-team training.

Supporters and rivalries

Persepolis is one of the highest supported teams in Iranian football. It is said in unofficial counts that the club has over 30 million fans. The club is based in Tehran and is popular in all parts of country. Persepolis also has a fan base in Afghanistan and Persian Gulf countries.

Rivalries

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Persepolis is one side of Iran's most important football match which is called The Sorkhabi derby.

The rivalry between Persepolis and Esteghlal was derived from the previous significant derby between Shahin and Taj.

After the departure of Shahin players to Persepolis, the club became too popular and its arch-rival Taj (meaning "crown" in Persian) was the royal team supported by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza. As the two biggest and most successful clubs in Iran, nowadays the rivalry continues on an annual basis with both teams often challenging each other for the championship. In each transfer season, both clubs try to attract rival team players.

Another Persepolis rival is Sepahan, the club based in Esfahan. Both clubs were dependent upon Shahin; one hired most of the Shahin players in its early years and the other was the branch of Shahin F.C. in Esfahan. The rivalry renewed in the early 2000s (decade), when Esfahan rose in Iran football. Sepahan and Zob Ahan became strong, replacing Tehran popular teams in the 2002–2003 season. Both of Iran's important football competitions, IPL and the Hazfi Cup, were won by Esfahan teams that season. Persepolis also had a derby against the now dissolved club, Pas Tehran.

Players

First-team squad

See also: Persepolis F.C. season 2012–13

Bold players are National players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRN Shahab Gordan 2 DF  IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia 4 DF  IRN Jalal Hosseini 6 DF  IRN Mohsen Bengar 7 MF  IRN Hamidreza Aliasgari 9 MF  IRN Mohammad Ghazi 10 FW  IRN Gholamreza Rezaei 12 FW  LBY Eamon Zayed 13 DF  IRN Hossein Mahini

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  IRN Mohammad Nouri 16 DF  IRN Mehrdad Pouladi 17 FW  IRN Javad Kazemian 20 DF  IRN Alireza Noormohammadi 22 DF  IRN Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh 23 MF  IRN Amir Hossein Feshangchi 24 FW  IRN Hadi Norouzi 28 DF  IRN Hossein Kanaani 40 MF  IRN Afshin Esmaeilzadeh

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2012.
For more on the reserve and academy squads, see Persepolis Reserves and Academy.

Notable players

For notable players see List of Persepolis F.C. players.
For details on former players see Category:Persepolis F.C. players.

Club captains

#	Name	Nat	Career in Persepolis	Captaincy	Shirt Num
1	Hamid Jasemian		1967–70	1967–70	5
2	Buyuk Vatankhah		1967–74	1971–72	6
3	Homayoun Behzadi		1967–74	1972–74	10
4	Jafar Kashani		1967–74	1974	4
5	Ebrahim Ashtiani		1967–76	1974–75	2
6	Ali Parvin		1970–88	1975–88	7
7	Mohammad Panjali		1976–94	1988–92	5
8	Farshad Pious		1985–88 1989–98	1992–96	17
9	Mojtaba Moharrami		1988–97	1996	8
10	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh		1994-00	1996-00	1
11	Afshin Peyrovani		1993-04	2000–03	5
12	Ali Daei		1994–96 2003–04	2003–04	10
13	Karim Bagheri		1996–97 2002–10	2004–10	6
14	Alireza Haghighi		2000–12	2010–11	1
14	Sepehr Heidari		2007–11	2011	3
15	Ali Karimi		1998–01 2008–09 2011–	2011–	8

Managers

Notable managers

The table below shows Persepolis managers that have won noteworthy titles or had a great impact on the team. For a more detailed and chronological list of Persepolis managers from 1964 onwards with their trophies, see List of Persepolis F.C. managers. For List of the statistics of the IPL managars see Statistics of Persepolis F.C. managers in IPL

Name	Nat	Period	Trophies
Parviz Dehdari		1967–69	Hazfi Cup:1969 Runner-up
Alan Rogers		1971–76	Iran local league: 1971 Winner Takht Jamshid Cup: 1973–74 Winner – 1974–75 Runner-up
Buyuk Vatankhah		1976	Takht Jamshid Cup: 1975–76 Winner
Ali Parvin		1982–93 1998–03 2005–06	Iran Pro League: 2001–02 Winner Azadegan League: 1998–99, 1999–00 Winners – 1992–93, 2000–01 Runners-up 17th of Shahrivar league: 1989 Winner Qods League: 1990 Runner-up Tehran provincial league: 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988 Winners – 1981, 1983 Runner-up Tehran Hazfi Cup: 1982, 1987 Winners – 1981 Runner-up Hazfi Cup: 1987, 1991, 1998–99 Winners Asian Cup Winners Cup: 1991 Winner – 1993 Runner-up
Stanko Poklepović		1994–97	Azadegan League: 1995–96, 1996–97 Winners
Mustafa Denizli		2006–07 2011–	Hazfi Cup: 2005–06 Runner-up
Afshin Ghotbi		2007–08	Iran Pro League: 2007–08 Winner
Ali Daei		2009–11	Hazfi Cup: 2009–10, 2010–11 Winner

Honours

National titles

• Iranian Football League (Record)

Winners (9): 1971–72 1973–74, 1975–76, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08

Runners-Up (7): 1974–75, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1993–94, 2000–01

• Hazfi Cup

Winners (5): 1987–88, 1990–91, 1998–99, 2009–10, 2010–11

Runners-Up (1): 2005–06

• Espandi Cup

Winner: 1979

• Tehran provincial league

Winners (7): 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991

• Tehran Super Cup

Winner : 1992

• Tehran Hazfi Cup

Winners (4): 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987

Asian titles

• Asian Cup Winners Cup

Winner: 1991*

Runner-Up: 1993

(* First ever winners)

Unofficial titles

• Vahdat International Cup

Winner: 1982

• Sharjah Friendship Cup

Winner: 1995

• Velayat International Cup

Winner: 2011

Other Achievements

• IFFHS continental Clubs of the 20th century : 4th Place

• Iranian Team of the year

2007–08

• Best Team Month Football Asia

February 1998

Individual honours

Asian Young Footballer of the Year

The following player have won the Asian Young Footballer of the Year award while playing for Persepolis:

• 1997 – Mehdi Mahdavikia

IFFHS' World's Best Goal Scorers of the Year

The following players were worlds best International Goalscorer (national + Club) while playing for Persepolis:

• 1996 – Ali Daei (22 goals)
• 2004 – Ali Daei (17 goals)
• 1997 – Karim Bagheri Second (20 goals)

Asian Footballer of the Year

The following players have won the Asian Footballer of the Year award after playing for Persepolis:

• 1999 – Ali Daei
• 2003 – Mehdi Mahdavikia
• 2004 – Ali Karimi

The following players were in contention for the Asian Footballer of the Year while playing for Persepolis:

• 1990 – Farshad Pious Runner-up
• 1996 – Ali Daei Runner-up
• 1997 – Khodadad Azizi Runner-up
• 1997 – Karim Bagheri Second Runner-up

Iran World Cup captains

The following players were captains of the Iranian National team at the World Cup while playing for Persepolis:

• 1978 – Ali Parvin
• 1998 – Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh

The following players were captains of the Iranian National team at the World Cup after playing for Persepolis:

• 2006 – Ali Daei

AFC Asian Cup MVP Award

The following player have won the AFC Asian Cup MVP Award award while playing for Persepolis:

• 1996 – Khodadad Azizi

Sponsorship

Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

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External links

Official

• Template:Fa icon Template:En icon Official club website
• Template:En icon Persepolis Results and Stats
• Template:En icon FIFA page

News

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• Template:En icon Goal.com page
• Template:En icon Soccerway Page
• Template:En icon worldfootball Page
• Template:En icon Footballdatabase Page
• Template:Fa icon Parsfootball Page

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