2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League Explained

Competition:Persian Gulf Pro League
Season:2014–15
Winners:Sepahan
5th Pro League title
5th Iranian title
Relegated:Paykan
Naft Masjed Soleyman
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Sepahan
Tractor Sazi
Naft Tehran
Zob Ahan
League Topscorer:Edinho (20 goals)
Best Goalkeeper:Alireza Salimi (16 clean sheets)
Matches:240
Total Goals:536
Biggest Home Win:Saipa 4–0 Padideh
(19 September 2014)
Biggest Away Win:Paykan 0–3 Esteghlal
(24 August 2014)
Rah Ahan 0–3 Zob Ahan
(5 February 2015)
Rah Ahan 0–3 Tractor Sazi
(12 March 2015)
Esteghlal 1–4 Tractor Sazi
(10 May 2015)
Highest Scoring:Esteghlal Khuzestan 4–4 Esteghlal
(11 December 2014)
Zob Ahan 5–3 Naft Tehran
(16 April 2015)
Highest Attendance:80,000
Tractor Sazi – Naft Tehran
(15 May 2015)
Lowest Attendance:0 (spectator ban)
Naft MIS – Padideh
(8 August 2014)
Foolad – Saipa
(29 August 2014)
Sepahan – Est. Khuzestan
(31 October 2014)
Malavan – Padideh
(2 December 2014)
Tractor Sazi – Zob Ahan
(11 December 2014)
Persepolis – Foolad
(11 December 2014)
Foolad  – Padideh
(11 May 2015)
Zob Ahan  – Malavan
(11 May 2015)
Attendance:1,585,978
Average Attendance:6,921
Longest Wins:6 matches
Sepahan
Longest Unbeaten:19 matches
Naft Tehran
Longest Winless:18 matches
Paykan
Longest Losses:6 matches
Rah Ahan
Prevseason:2013–14
Nextseason:2015–16

The 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 32nd season of Iran's Football League and 14th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Foolad were the defending champions. The season featured 13 teams from the 2013–14 Persian Gulf Cup and three new teams promoted from the 2013–14 Azadegan League: Padideh as champions, Naft Masjed Soleyman and Paykan. The league started on 1 August and ended on 15 May 2015. Sepahan won the Pro League title for the fifth time in their history (total fifth Iranian title).

Changes

Rules and regulations

The Iranian Football Clubs who participated in 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League were allowed to have up to a maximum of 35 players (including up to maximum 4 non-Iranian players) in their player lists, which categorized in the following groups:[1]

Teams

Stadia and locations

TeamCityVenueCapacity
95,225
38,900
15,000
38,900
12,000
Takhti Anzali 8,000
Naft Masjed Soleyman8,000
30,122
35,000
25,000
8,250
95,225
25,000
12,000
10,610
15,000
Foolad Shahr15,000
66,833
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=250Managerwidth=190CaptainKit manufacturerwidth=180Shirt sponsor
Esteghlal Amir Ghalenoei Reza Enayati MeroojPardisban
Est. Khuzestan Abdollah Veisi Mohammad Reza Mahdavi UhlsportINSIG
Foolad Dragan Skočić Bakhtiar Rahmani UhlsportFoolad Khuzestan
Gostaresh Faraz Kamalvand Meysam Naghizadeh KelmeAta Airlines
Malavan Firouz Karimi Maziar Zare DaeiSteel Azin Iranian
Naft MIS Behrouz Makvandi Reza Darvishi MeroojNIOC
Naft Tehran Alireza Mansourian Alireza Ezzati UhlsportNaft-G
Padideh Alireza Marzban Mojtaba Roshangar MeroojPadideh Co.
Paykan Samad Marfavi Mehdi Rahmati MeroojIran Khodro
Persepolis Branko Ivanković Mohammad Nouri MacronBehnam Pishro
Rah Ahan Farhad Kazemi Ebrahim Karimi MeroojFars Air Qeshm
Saba Qom Mehdi Tartar Morteza Kashi MeroojAzar Khodro
Saipa Majid Jalali Ebrahim Sadeghi MeroojSAIPA
Sepahan Hossein Faraki Hadi Aghily UhlsportFoolad Mobarakeh
Tractor Sazi Toni Mehdi Kiani KelmeHamrah-e Aval
Zob Ahan Yahya Golmohammadi Ghasem Hadadifar MeroojXballer

Managerial changes

width=100Teamwidth=200Outgoing head coachwidth=150Manner of departurewidth=110Date of vacancywidth=60Position in tablewidth=200Incoming head coachwidth=110Date of appointment
Padideh Akbar MisaghianResignedPre-season Alireza Marzban
Naft Tehran Yahya GolmohammadiMutual consent Alireza Mansourian
Zob Ahan Firouz KarimiEnd of contract Yahya Golmohammadi
Saipa Engin Firat Majid Jalali
Foolad Hossein FarakiMutual consent Dragan Skočić
Malavan Dragan SkočićSigned by Foolad Nosrat Irandoost
Paykan Farhad KazemiMutual consent Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
Rah Ahan Mansour Ebrahimzadeh Hamid Estili
Sepahan Zlatko KranjčarResigned4th Hossein Faraki
Persepolis Ali DaeiSacked9th Hamid Derakhshan
Gostaresh Mehdi Tartar13th Faraz Kamalvand
Malavan Nosrat Irandoost15th Stevan Mojsilović
Paykan Mansour Ebrahimzadeh11th Samad Marfavi
Saba Qom Samad MarfaviMutual consent6th Mehdi Tartar
Malavan Stevan MojsilovićSacked16th Firouz Karimi
Rah Ahan Hamid EstiliResigned14th Farhad Kazemi
Tractor Sazi Rasoul KhatibiSacked[2] 5th Toni
Persepolis Hamid DerakhshanResigned9th Branko Ivanković
Malavan Firouz KarimiResigned13th, post season Hamid Estili
Esteghlal Amir GhalenoeiSacked5th, post season Parviz Mazloumi

Foreign Players

ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Asian PlayerFormer Players
Esteghlal Hrayr Mkoyan Karrar Jassim Rafael
Hendrik Helmke
ESteghlal Khuzestan Lamine Diawara Moussa Coulibaly Soumbeïla Diakité
Foolad Khuzestan Aloys Nong Mathias Chago Leonard Mesarić
Gostaresh Diogo Orlando Léo Pimenta Magno Rodrigo Odriozola
Malavan
Naft Masjed Maranhão Georgi Georgiev Alexandru Pașcenco Ruslan Melziddinov
Naft Tehran Ali Ghorbani Leandro Padovani Donovan Deekman David Wirikom
Padideh Igor Prahić Milan Jovanović Zoran Knežević Bahodir Nasimov
Paykan Muamer Svraka Dodô Jlloyd Samuel Oybek Kilichev Mate Eterović
Persepolis Fernando Gabriel Tadeu Michael Umaña Nilson
Rah Ahan Igor Nenezić Martin Kayongo-Mutumba
Saba Qom Ambuno Achille Ioseb Chakhvashvili Marquinho
Saipa
Sepahan Xhevahir Sukaj Chimba Márcio Passos Fozil Musaev
Tractor Sazi Célio Santos Edinho Issa Ndoye Ditmar Bicaj
Radamés
Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Zob Ahan Hojjat Haghverdi Carlos Ali Hamam Walid Ismail

League table

Relegation play-off

Esteghlal Khuzestan as 14th-placed team will faced Play-off winner of 2014–15 Azadegan League, Mes Kerman in a two-legged Play-off.----Esteghlal Khuzestan won 3–0 on aggregate and retained its place in the next edition of the Persian Gulf Pro League

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 EdinhoTractor Sazi20
2 Sajjad ShahbazzadehEsteghlal12
Mehdi SharifiSepahan
4 Luciano PereiraSepahan11
5 Jaber AnsariGostaresh Foolad9
Omid EbrahimiEsteghlal
Reza EnayatiEsteghlal
Masoud HassanzadehZob Ahan
Mohammad Reza KhalatbariSepahan
Amir Arsalan MotahariNaft Tehran
Saman Nariman JahanTractor Sazi
Aloys NongFoolad
Ramin RezaeianRah Ahan
Last updated: 15 May 2015
Source: Soccerway.com

Hat-tricks

PlayerClubAgainstResultDate
Mohammad Reza KhalatbariSepahanGostaresh4–1
Kaveh RezaeiZob AhanNaft Tehran5–3
Saman Nariman JahanTractor SaziEsteghlal4–1

Clean sheets

PositionPlayerClubClean sheets
1 Alireza SalimiFoolad16
2 Mehrdad TahmasbiSaba Qom10
3 Alireza BeiranvandNaft Tehran9
Hamed FallahzadehSaipa
Mohsen ForouzanEsteghlal
Mohammad-Rashid MazaheriZob Ahan
Mehdi RahmatiPaykan
Mojtaba RoshangarPadideh
9 Hamed LakTractor Sazi8
10 Shahab GordanSepahan5
Sosha MakaniPersepolis
Davoud Noushi SoufianiGostaresh
13 Rahman AhmadiSepahan4
Parviz KarimiEsteghlal Khuzestan
Iman SadeghiMalavan
Last Update: 15 May 2015

Scoring

Awards

Team of the Season

Goalkeeper: Alireza Beiranvand (Naft Tehran)
Defence: Ramin Rezaian (Rah Ahan), Leandro Padovani (Naft Tehran), Leonard Mesarić (Foolad), Vouria Ghafouri (Sepahan)
Midfield: Ghasem Haddadifar (Zob Ahan), Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Andranik Teymourian (Esteghlal/Tractor Sazi)
Attack: Sajjad Shahbazzadeh (Esteghlal), Edinho (Tractor Sazi), Mehdi Taremi (Perspolis)

Player of the Season

Ghasem Haddadifar was awarded as the best player of the season among Andranik Teymourian became second. Amir Arsalan Motahari was also awarded as the best young player of the season.

Other awards

Hossein Faraki was awarded as the best coach of the season.Mehdi Taremi won the best striker award.

Attendance

Attendance by round

Team/Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930Average
EsteghlalA12,000A9,000A15,000AA17,000A10,000A18,000A67,0002,000A10,000A6,000A5,00017,000A12,000A11,000A35,000A16,400
Esteghlal Khuzestan110A1,000A214A87A1,500A1502,150A170AA6,000A10,500A200A250A6,000AA6,000A6,0002,689
FooladA11,000A3,000ANCA2,500A2,000AA2,500A2,0006,500A4,000A25,000A2,500A14,000A6,0006,200ANCA6,708
GostareshA1,500A195AA250A750A500A15,000A200265A450A5003,500A1,000A370A4,751A1,000A2,015
MalavanA1,987A8,000A3,000A2,000A1,334A1,800A2,500ANCA6,000A2,500A6,100A5,000A8,500A8,000A7,0004,552
Naft MISANCAA4,500A6,500A5,500A6,500A6,000A5,0007,000A5,9005,000A5,000A8,000A8,000A6,000A7,000A6,136
Naft TehranA300A800A220A12,000AA120A330A5,0007,000A140A300A200A190300A1,000A1,000A1,927
Padideh10,500A4,50012,500A8,000A22,000A10,000A35,000A5,600AA650AA30,000A250A3,000A1,400A10,000A2,00010,360
PaykanA370700A10,000A350A250A100A10,330A150400AA2,200A6,500A3,000A4,100A10,000A3,000A3,430
Persepolis18,000A15,000A7,000A35,00011,000A13,246A4,500A4,000AANCA8,000A5,000AA5,000A20,000A5,000A70,00015,768
Rah Ahan8,000A600A500A500A6,000400A371A150AA100A200A100A3,700AA1,235A1,000A1,0001,590
Saba Qom215AA150A10,000A250A100A150A130AA200170A1,004A200A400A500A6,000A1,0001,365
Saipa1,000A226A800A500A500A3,500A300A15,000A200A6,500A450A450A300A8,000A1,000A2,582
Sepahan8,000A13,000A5,000A2,200A2,000A13,500ANC1,700AA1,300A2,170A7,200A1,800A3,200A5,500AA15,0005,826
Tractor Sazi20,000A14,000A8,00010,400A12,000A51,500A12,700A65,000AANCA15,000AA30,178A15,000A35,050A16,000A80,00027,488
Zob AhanA1,500A700A4,800A700A7,500A1,000AA600400A4,000A750A800A600A1,300A2,000NCA1,904
Total65,82528,65749,02634,34536,01451,42045,38762,45033,50086,08034,37056,77152,46079,25094,95023,5658,45030,66049,57066,05427,95045,22835,20043,19034,72073,98552,45154,00048,000182,0001,585,978
Average8,2284,0936,1284,2934,5027,3465,6737,8064,18810,7604,2967,0967,4949,90611,8693,3661,4083,8336,1968,2573,4945,6544,4005,3994,2849,2486,5566,7508,00022,7506,921

Notes:
Updated to games played on 15 May 2015. Source: Iranleague.ir
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Gostaresh played their match against Tractor Sazi at Sahand
Paykan played their matches against Esteghlal and Persepolis at Takhti Tehran
Rah Ahan played their matches against Esteghlal and Persepolis at Takhti Tehran

Highest attendances

RankHome teamScoreAway teamAttendanceDateWeekStadium
align=center 1 Tractor Sazi align=center 3–3Naft Tehran align=center 80,000 30 Sahand
align=center 2 Persepolis align=center 1–0Esteghlal align=center 70,000 30 Azadi
align=center 3 Esteghlal align=center 1–2Persepolis align=center 67,000 15 Azadi
align=center 4 Tractor Sazi align=center 2–2Esteghlal align=center 65,000 14 Sahand
align=center 5 Tractor Sazi align=center 1–1Sepahan align=center 51,500 10 Sahand
align=center 6 Tractor Sazi align=center 2–1Saipa align=center 35,050 26 Sahand
align=center rowspan="3" 7 Persepolis align=center 1–3Tractor Sazi align=center 35,000 7 Azadi
Padideh align=center 0–1Persepolis align=center 35,000 12 Samen
Esteghlal align=center 1–4Tractor Sazi align=center 35,000 29 Azadi
align=center 10 Tractor Sazi align=center 1–0Persepolis align=center 30,178 22 Sahand
Notes:
Updated to games played on 15 May 2015. Source: Iranleague.ir

See also

External links

Notes and References

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