| Competition: | Persian Gulf Cup |
| Season: | 2013–14 |
| Winners: | Foolad 2nd Pro League title 2nd Iranian title |
| Relegated: | Fajr Sepasi Damash Mes Kerman |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Foolad Persepolis Naft Tehran Tractor Sazi (Hazfi Cup champions) |
| League Topscorer: | Karim Ansarifard (14 goals) |
| Best Goalkeeper: | Nilson Corrêa Júnior (18 clean sheets) |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 504 |
| Biggest Home Win: | Gostaresh 5–0 Rah Ahan (11 January 2014) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Mes Kerman 0–6 Persepolis (13 December 2013) |
| Highest Scoring: | Fajr Sepasi 2–4 Esteghlal (6 August 2013) Zob Ahan 2–4 Tractor Sazi (6 August 2013) Esteghlal Khuzestan 2–4 Naft Tehran (16 August 2013) Damash 5–1 Zob Ahan (24 October 2013) Mes Kerman 0–6 Persepolis (13 December 2013) Saipa 3–3 Tractor Sazi (11 January 2014) Malavan 4–2 Esteghlal (19 February 2014) |
| Highest Attendance: | 100,000 Esteghlal – Persepolis (6 September 2013) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 0 (spectator ban) Sepahan – Foolad (25 July 2013) Rah Ahan – Saipa (5 December 2013) Foolad – Saba Qom (13 December 2013) |
| Attendance: | 1,815,825 |
| Average Attendance: | 7,631 |
| Longest Wins: | 5 matches Esteghlal Foolad Malavan |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 17 matches Esteghlal |
| Longest Winless: | 15 matches Mes Kerman |
| Longest Losses: | 6 matches Damash |
| Prevseason: | 2012–13 |
| Nextseason: | 2014–15 |
The 2013–14 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 31st season of Iran's Football League and 13th as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Esteghlal were the defending champions. The season featured 14 teams from the 2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup and two new teams promoted from the 2012–13 Azadegan League: Esteghlal Khuzestan and Gostaresh both as champions. The league started on 24 July 2013 and ended on 11 April 2014. Foolad won the Pro League title for the second time in their history (total second Iranian title). Tractor Sazi's Karim Ansarifard's was the top scorer with 14 goals.
2013–14 Iran Pro League were the first season since 2006 that 16 teams participated in the competition. In the previous season, 18 teams participated in the league.
The Iranian football clubs who participate in 2013–14 Iran Pro League were allowed to have up to maximum 38 players (including up to maximum 4 non-Iranian players) in their player lists, which will be categorized in the following groups:[1]
| Team | City | Venue | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11,000 | |||
| 84,412 | |||
| 38,900 15,000 | |||
| 14,000 | |||
| 38,900 | |||
| 66,833 12,000 | |||
| Takhti Anzali | 8,000 | ||
| 15,430 | |||
| 30,122 8,250 | |||
| 84,412 | |||
| 30,122 12,000 | |||
| 10,610 | |||
| 15,000 | |||
| Foolad Shahr | 15,000 | ||
| 66,833 | |||
| Foolad Shahr | 15,000 | ||
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| width=100 | Team | width=200 | Manager | width=190 | Captain | Kit manufacturer | width=180 | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damash | Reza Mahdavi |  Uhlsport | Loushan | |||||
| Esteghlal | Amir Ghalenoei | Mehdi Rahmati | Merooj | Bazar Mobl Iran, Mahan Air | ||||
| Est. Khuzestan | Abdollah Veisi | Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh | Daei | INSIG | ||||
| Fajr | Mahmoud Yavari | Mehrdad Karimian | Merooj | HICE | ||||
| Foolad | Hossein Faraki | Bakhtiar Rahmani | Uhlsport | Foolad Khuzestan | ||||
| Gostaresh | Mehdi Tartar | Meysam Naghizadeh | Uhlsport | Ata Airlines | ||||
| Malavan | Dragan Skočić | Maziar Zare | Uhlsport | Steel Azin Iranian | ||||
| Mes Kerman | Luka Bonačić | Farzad Hosseinkhani | Uhlsport | Resalat Bank | ||||
| Naft Tehran | Yahya Golmohammadi | Alireza Ezzati | Merooj | NIOC | ||||
| Persepolis | Ali Daei | Mohammad Nouri | Uhlsport | Tourism Bank | ||||
| Rah Ahan | Mansour Ebrahimzadeh | Bahador Abdi | Daei | Fars Air Qeshm | ||||
| Saba Qom | Samad Marfavi | Morteza Kashi | Merooj | Hi clean! | ||||
| Saipa | Engin Firat | Ebrahim Sadeghi | Uhlsport | SAIPA | ||||
| Sepahan | Zlatko Kranjčar | Hadi Aghily | Uhlsport | Foolad Mobarakeh | ||||
| Tractor Sazi | Toni | Morteza Assadi | Merooj | Hamrah-e Aval | ||||
| Zob Ahan | Firouz Karimi | Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Merooj | Esfahan Steel |
| width=100 | Team | width=200 | Outgoing head coach | width=150 | Manner of departure | width=110 | Date of vacancy | width=60 | Position in table | width=200 | Incoming head coach | width=110 | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persepolis | Yahya Golmohammadi | End of caretaker spell | Pre-season | Ali Daei | |||||||||
| Saipa | Mojtaba Taghavi | End of contract | Engin Firat | ||||||||||
| Malavan | Mohammad Ahmadzadeh | Sacked | Dragan Skočić | ||||||||||
| Naft Tehran | Mansour Ebrahimzadeh | Mutual consent | Yahya Golmohammadi | ||||||||||
| Rah Ahan | Ali Daei | Signed by Persepolis | Mansour Ebrahimzadeh | ||||||||||
| Fajr Sepasi | Mahmoud Yavari | Resigned | Gholam Peyrovani | ||||||||||
| Saba Qom | Samad Marfavi | End of contract | Mohammad Mayeli Kohan | ||||||||||
| Mes Kerman | Luka Bonačić | Sacked | Mahmoud Yavari | ||||||||||
| Zob Ahan | Farhad Kazemi | End of contract | Luka Bonačić |
| width=100 | Team | width=200 | Outgoing head coach | width=150 | Manner of departure | width=110 | Date of vacancy | width=60 | Position in table | width=200 | Incoming head coach | width=110 | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fajr Sepasi |  Gholam Peyrovani | Resigned | 15th | Mahmoud Yavari | |||||||||
| Mes Kerman | Mahmoud Yavari | 16th | Parviz Mazloomi | ||||||||||
| Saba Qom | Mohammad Mayeli Kohan | Sacked | 12th | Samad Marfavi | |||||||||
| Zob Ahan | Luka Bonačić | Mutual consent | 14th | Mojtaba Taghavi | |||||||||
| Gostaresh | Rasoul Khatibi | Resigned | 11th | Mehdi Tartar | |||||||||
| Tractor Sazi | Majid Jalali | Sacked | 6th | Toni | |||||||||
| Mes Kerman | Parviz Mazloomi | Resigned | 16th | Luka Bonačić | |||||||||
| Damash | Afshin Nazemi | Sacked | 12th | Ali Nazarmohammadi | |||||||||
| Zob Ahan | Mojtaba Taghavi | 15th | Firouz Karimi | ||||||||||
| Tractor Sazi | Toni | Mutual consent | 6th, post-season | Rasoul Khatibi | |||||||||
Fajr Sepasi as 14th-placed team faced play-off winner of 2013–14 Azadegan League, Paykan in a two-legged play-off.
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Paykan won 1–0 on aggregate and promoted to the next season of Iran Pro League, Fajr Sepasi also relegated to the Azadegan League.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karim Ansarifard | Tractor Sazi | 14 |
| 2 | Reza Enayati | Saba Qom | 13 |
| 3 | Mehrdad Bayrami | Gostaresh | 12 |
| 4 | Mehdi Daghagheleh | Malavan | 11 |
| Reza Norouzi | Naft Tehran | ||
| 5 |  Chimba | Foolad | 9 |
| Jalal Rafkhaei | Malavan | ||
| Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Zob Ahan | ||
| Sajjad Shahbazzadeh | Saipa | ||
| 8 | Edinho | Mes Kerman | 8 |
| Amin Motevaselzadeh | Damash Gilan | ||
| Mehdi Sharifi | Sepahan | ||
| 10 | Mohammad Ghazi | Esteghlal | 7 |
| Farid Karimi | Saba Qom | ||
| Total goals (Including technical loses) | 504 | ||
| Total games | 239 | ||
| Average per game | |||
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets | width=70 | Goals conceded | width=70 | Match played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nilson | Persepolis | 18 | 15 | 30 | ||
| 2 | Rahman Ahmadi | Sepahan | 15 | 16 | 27 | ||
| 3 | Mehdi Rahmati | Esteghlal | 14 | 25 | 30 | ||
| 4 | Sosha Makani | Foolad | 13 | 14 | 20 | ||
| 5 | Alireza Beiranvand | Naft Tehran | 12 | 12 | 21 | ||
| 6 | Hamed Fallahzadeh | Rah Ahan | 11 | 23 | 22 | ||
| 7 | Mohammad Bagher Sadeghi | Saipa | 9 | 30 | 26 | ||
| 8 | Mohsen Foroozan | Gostaresh Foolad | 8 | 30 | 25 | ||
Goalkeeper: Nilson Corrêa Júnior (Persepolis)
Defence: Vahid Amiri (Naft), Jalal Hosseini (Persepolis), Hanif Omranzadeh (Esteghlal), Ali Hamoudi (Sepahan)
Midfield: Bakhtiar Rahmani (Foolad), Andranik Teymourian (Esteghlal), Amir Hossein Feshangchi (Malavan), Payam Sadeghian (Perspolis), Esmaeil Sharifat (Foolad)
Attack: Karim Ansarifard (Tractor Sazi)
Andranik Teymourian was awarded as the best player of the season among Payam Sadeghian became second. Mohammad Abbaszadeh was also awarded as the best young player of the season.
Hossein Faraki was awarded as the best coach of the season.
| Rank | Home team | Score | Away team | Attendance | Date | Week | Stadium | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | Esteghlal | align=center | 0–0 | Persepolis | align=center | 100,000 | 8 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 2 | Persepolis | align=center | 0–0 | Esteghlal | align=center | 95,000 | 23 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 3 | Esteghlal | align=center | 1–2 | Sepahan | align=center | 65,000 | 2 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 4 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 1–1 | Esteghlal | align=center | 62,000 | 15 | Sahand | |
| align=center rowspan="3" | 5 | Persepolis | align=center | 1–0 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 50,000 | 1 | Azadi | |
| Tractor Sazi | align=center | 0–0 | Mes Kerman | align=center | 50,000 | 5 | Sahand | |||
| Esteghlal | align=center | 1–3 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 50,000 | 30 | Azadi | |||
| align=center | 8 | Foolad | align=center | 0–1 | Esteghlal | align=center | 49,500 | 29 | Ghadir | |
| align=center rowspan="2" | 9 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 2–2 | Foolad | align=center | 45,000 | 13 | Sahand | |
| Tractor Sazi | align=center | 1–0 | Persepolis | align=center | 45,000 | 16 | Sahand | |||
