2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup Explained

Competition:Persian Gulf Cup
Season:2011–12
Winners:Sepahan
4th Pro League title
4th Iranian title
Relegated:Shahin Bushehr
Shahrdari Tabriz
Mes Sarcheshmeh
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Sepahan
Tractor Sazi
Esteghlal
Saba Qom
League Topscorer:Karim Ansarifard (21 goals)
Matches:306
Total Goals:720
Biggest Home Win:Saipa 5–0 Fajr Sepasi
(9 March 2012)
Biggest Away Win:Mes Sarcheshmeh 0–4 Damash
(18 November 2011)
Sanat Naft 0–4 Saipa
(19 December 2011)
Highest Scoring:Malavan 3–4 Sepahan
(7 April 2012)
Highest Attendance:100,000
Persepolis – Esteghlal
(16 September 2011)
Lowest Attendance:0 (spectator ban)
Tractor Sazi – Saba Qom
(2 August 2011)
Malavan – Rah Ahan
(7 August 2011)
Tractor Sazi – Shahin Bushehr
(11 August 2011)
Shahin Bushehr – Tractor Sazi
(15 January 2012)
Damash – Sepahan
(3 February 2012)
Attendance:2,856,000
Average Attendance:9,488
Longest Wins:7 matches
Sepahan
Longest Unbeaten:13 matches
Zob Ahan
Longest Winless:12 matches
Rah Ahan
Longest Losses:4 matches
Mes Sarcheshmeh
Mes Kerman
Prevseason:2010–11
Nextseason:2012–13

The 2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 29th season of Iran's Football League and 11th as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Sepahan were the defending champions. The season featured 15 teams from the 2010–11 Persian Gulf Cup and three new teams promoted from the 2010–11 Azadegan League: Damash as champions, Mes Sarcheshmeh and Fajr Sepasi. The league started on 2 August 2011 and ended on 11 May 2012. Sepahan won the Pro League title for the fourth time in their history (total fourth Iranian title). Saipa's Karim Ansarifard's 21 goals made him the top scorer.

Teams

Stadia and locations

TeamCityVenueCapacity
11,000
95,225
22,000
12,000
Takhti Anzali 8,000
12,000
12,000
8,250
95,225
12,000
10,610
14,000
Takhti Abadan25,000
Foolad Shahr15,000
14,000
66,833
80,451
Foolad Shahr15,000

Personnel and kits

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

width=100Teamwidth=190Managerwidth=190CaptainKit manufacturerwidth=180Shirt sponsorwidth=80Past Season
Damash Mehdi Tartar Reza MahdaviAdidasDamash Shahr BaranPromoted [1]
Esteghlal Parviz Mazloomi Mojtaba JabbariUhlsportCity Bank2nd
Fajr Sepasi Mahmoud Yavari Mehdi RajabzadehMajidHICEPromoted
Foolad Majid Jalali Jalal Kameli MofradUhlsportFoolad Khuzestan Co.6th
Malavan Farhad Pourgholami Babak PourgholamiMajidIran Navy8th
Mes Kerman Ebrahim Ghasempour Farzad HosseinkhaniUhlsportResalat Bank7th
Mes Sarcheshmeh Asghar Sharafi Ali SamerehUhlsportNonePromoted
Naft Tehran Hossein Faraki Hamid Reza FathiUhlsportNational Iranian Oil Company13th
Persepolis Mustafa Denizli Ali KarimiUhlsport4th
Rah Ahan Ali Daei Hossein PashaeiDaeiRefah Bank15th
Saba Qom Abdollah Veisi Sohrab BakhtiarizadehMajidVegal10th
Saipa Mojtaba Taghavi Ebrahim SadeghiUhlsportSAIPA11th
Sanat Naft José Alberto Costa Abbas MerdasiMajidNational Iranian Oil Company9th
Sepahan Zlatko Kranjčar Moharram NavidkiaLottoFoolad Mobarakeh ComplexChampion
Shahin Hamid Derakhshan Vahid TaleblooUhlsportPost Bank14th
Shahrdari Tabriz Ali Asghar Modir Roosta Ebrahim MirzapourMajidCity Bank12th
Tractor Sazi Amir Ghalenoei Morteza AssadiUhlsportHamrah-e-Avval5th
Zob Ahan Mansour Ebrahimzadeh Mohammad SalsaliUhlsportZob Ahan Steel Co. 3rd

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

width=110Teamwidth=195Outgoing head coachwidth=180Manner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tablewidth=195Incoming head coachDate of appointment
Saipa Mayeli KohanContract expired11th (2010–11) Majid Saleh
Sepahan Amir GhalenoeiContract expired1st (2010–11) Luka Bonačić
Tractor Sazi Faraz KamalvandContract expired5th (2010–11) Amir Ghalenoei
Persepolis Ali DaeiContract expired4th (2010–11) Hamid Estili
Shahrdari Hamid DerakhshanSacked12th (2010–11) Miodrag Ješić
Shahin Bushehr Akbar MisaghianSacked14th (2010–11) Hamid Derakhshan
Rah Ahan Mehdi TartarSacked15th (2010–11) Ali Daei

In season

Teamwidth=220Outgoing head coachManner of departureDate of vacancyPosition in tablewidth=220Incoming head coachDate of appointment
Sanat Mes Kerman Samad MarfaviResigned17th Miroslav Blažević
Mes Sarcheshmeh Ahmad SanjariSacked18th Asghar Sharafi
Damash Gilan Mehdi DinvarzadehSacked16th Ebrahim Ghasempour
Shahin BushehrResigned9th Firouz Karimi
Sepahan Isfahan Luka BonacicSacked5th Zlatko Kranjcar
Fajr Sepasi Shiraz Ali KalantariSacked17th Mahmoud Yavari
Sanat Naft Abadan Gholam PeyrovaniResigned13th José Alberto Costa
Persepolis Tehran Hamid EstiliResigned9th Mustafa Denizli
Shahrdari Tabriz Miodrag JešićSacked13th Ali Asghar Modir Roosta
Damash Gilan Ebrahim GhasempourResigned [2] 7th Mehdi Tartar[3]
Shahin Bushehr Firouz KarimiSacked 16th Hamid Derakhshan
Sanat Mes Kerman Miroslav BlaževićSacked 14th Ebrahim Ghasempour
Saipa Majid SalehSacked 10th Mojtaba Taghavi

League table

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

PositionPlayerClubGoals
1 Karim AnsarifardSaipa21
2 Founéké SySanat Naft20
3 Reza EnayatiSaba Qom18
4 Ali KarimiPersepolis11
5 Saeed DaghighiShahrdari Tabriz10
Mojtaba JabbariEsteghlal
Reza NorouziFoolad
Flávio PaixãoTractor Sazi
Mehdi RajabzadehFajr Sepasi
10 Bahador AbdiRah Ahan9
Omid AlishahRah Ahan
Farhad MajidiEsteghlal
Emad Mohammed RidhaSepahan
149 players8
237 players7
307 players6
3713 players5
5016 player4
6624 player3
9045 player2
13592 player1
_13 players 1OG
_technical loses of 3–01
Total goals (Including technical loses)720
Total games306
Average per game
1 Siamak Kouroshi from Naft Tehran 2 owne goals.
Last updated: 16 May 2012
Source: IPL Stats

Cards

width=50Positionwight=200Playerwight=180Clubwidth=40width=40width=40width=40Total
1 Márcio JoséNaft Tehran101011
2 Majid GholamnejadSaipa100010
Hossein KaabiRah Ahan901
Ali SamerehMes Sarcheshmeh820
5 Siavash AkbarpourTractor Sazi9009
Mohammad EbrahimiTractor Sazi900
Amir MohammadiMes Sarcheshmeh900
Andranik TeymourianEsteghlal801
Maziar ZarePersepolis810
108 player ---8
1813 player ---7
3125 player ---6
5646 player ---5
10238 player ---4
14063 player ---3
20360 player ---2
26386 player ---1
Total Cards 1101 34 33 1168
Last updated: 16 May 2012
Source: IPL stats

Matches played

PositionPlayerClubAppearance
1 Abouzar RahimiDamash Gilan33
Mehdi RahmatiEsteghlal
3 Rahman AhmadiSepahan32
Morteza AsadiTractor Sazi
Omid EbrahimiSepahan
Pirouz GhorbaniSaipa
Hanif OmranzadehEsteghlal
Alireza RamezaniMalavan
Last updated: 16 May 2012
Source: IPL stats

Hat-tricks

PlayerFor !Against Result Date
Persepolis Sanat Naft Abadan
Malavan Zob Ahan
Naft Tehran Malavan
Esteghlal Shahin Bushehr
Foolad Naft Tehran
Sanat Naft Persepolis
Persepolis Esteghlal
Saipa Fajr Sepasi
Sepahan Rah Ahan
Rah Ahan Persepolis
Persepolis Rah Ahan

Fastest hat-trick of the season

Éamon Zayed for Persepolis against Esteghlal, 9 minutes (2 February 2012)

Scoring

Awards

Monthly awards

MonthManager of the MonthPlayer of the Month
ManagerClubPlayerClub
August Abdollah VeisiSaba Qom Karim AnsarifardSaipa
September Hossein FarakiNaft Tehran Iman MousaviNaft Tehran
October Parviz MazloomiEsteghlal Ivan PetrovićShahin Bushehr
November Ebrahim GhasempourDamash Gilan Omid AlishahRah Ahan
December Majid SalehSaipa Founéké SySanat Naft
January Zlatko KranjčarSepahan Jlloyd SamuelEsteghlal
February Mustafa DenizliPersepolis Reza EnayatiSaba Qom
March Amir GhalenoeiTractor Sazi Bruno CorreaSepahan
April Zlatko KranjčarSepahan Flávio PaixãoTractor Sazi

Annual awards

Team of the Season

Goalkeeper: Rahman Ahmadi (Sepahan)
Defence: Ehsan Hajsafi (Tractor Sazi), Pejman Montazeri (Esteghlal), Jalal Hosseini (Sepahan), Hossein Mahini (Zob Ahan)
Midfield: Ali Karimi (Persepolis), Omid Ebrahimi (Sepahan), Mojtaba Jabbari (Esteghlal), Flávio Paixão (Tractor Sazi)
Attack: Founéké Sy (Sanat Naft), Karim Ansarifard (Saipa)

Player of the Season

Goal.com selected Farhad Majidi as the best player of the first half of the season and Ali Karimi as the best player of the second half. Karim Ansarifard and Omid Alishah also won the best young players of the tournament.

Attendances

Highest attendances

RankHome teamScoreAway teamAttendanceDateWeekStadium
align=center 1 Persepolis align=center 0–2Esteghlal align=center 100,000 7 Azadi
align=center 2 Esteghlal align=center 2–3Tractor Sazi align=center 85,000 6 Azadi
align=center rowspan="3" 3 Tractor Sazi align=center 0–2Esteghlal align=center 80,000 23 Sahand
Esteghlal align=center 2–3Persepolis align=center 80,000 24 Azadi
Tractor Sazi align=center 0–0Fajr Sepasi align=center 80,000 29 Sahand
align=center 6 Esteghlal align=center 2–0Fajr Sepasi align=center 75,000 4 Azadi
align=center rowspan="2" 7 Esteghlal align=center 1–0Damash align=center 70,000 2 Azadi
Persepolis align=center 1–2Shahrdari Tabriz align=center 70,000 3 Azadi
align=center 9 Persepolis align=center 1–1Malavan align=center 65,000 1 Azadi
align=center 10 Persepolis align=center 3–1Sanat Naft align=center 60,000 5 Azadi
Notes:
Updated to games played on 11 May 2012. Source: iplstats.com

See also

Team season articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Moghavemat Sepasi promoted to IPL . 28 July 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402071919/http://www.persianfootball.com/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3584:moghavemat-sepasi-promoted-to-ipl&catid=14:ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup&Itemid=180 . 2 April 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Ghasempour resigns as Damash coach . 28 December 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120204231134/http://www.tehrantimes.com/sports/93981-ghasempour-resigns-as-damash-coach . 4 February 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: Mehdi Tartar appointed as Damash coach . 31 December 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120516020537/http://www.tehrantimes.com/sports/94065-mehdi-tartar-appointed-as-damash-coach- . 16 May 2012 . dead . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Fastest goal of IPL 11th . 25 November 2011 . 16 June 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120616094715/http://www.irna.ir/News/30580221/%D9%BE%DA%98%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B5%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%82%D9%85-%D8%B3%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B9-%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86-%DA%AF%D9%84-%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%AF-%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%AF%D9%87%D9%85-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%AB%D9%85%D8%B1-%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7/ . dead .