| Competition: | Persian Gulf Pro League |
| Winners: | Persepolis 3rd Pro League title 10th Iranian title |
| Relegated: | Saba Qom Machine Sazi |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Persepolis Esteghlal Tractor Sazi Zob Ahan |
| Matches: | 240 |
| Total Goals: | 504 |
| League Topscorer: | Mehdi Taremi (18 goals) |
| Best Goalkeeper: | Alireza Beiranvand (17 clean sheets) |
| Biggest Home Win: | Persepolis 4–0 Padideh (19 April 2017) |
| Biggest Away Win: | Foolad 0–3 Persepolis (18 January 2017) Sanat Naft 0–3 Esteghlal (22 January 2017) |
| Highest Scoring: | (15 February 2017) |
| Longest Wins: | 6 matches Persepolis |
| Longest Unbeaten: | 13 matches Persepolis Tractor Sazi |
| Longest Winless: | 19 matches Machine Sazi |
| Longest Losses: | 9 matches Machine Sazi |
| Highest Attendance: | 80,000[1] Persepolis – Padideh (19 April 2017) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 0 (spectator ban) Esteghlal – Naft Tehran[2] (25 July 2016) Est. Khuzestan – Siah Jamegan[3] (24 November 2016) Est. Khuzestan – Foolad[4] (9 December 2016) Tractor Sazi – Sanat Naft[5] (17 January 2017) Esteghlal – Est. Khuzestan[6] (17 January 2017) Sanat Naft – Naft Tehran[7] (3 February 2017) Sanat Naft – Paykan[8] (3 March 2017) |
| Attendance: | 1,884,144 |
| Average Attendance: | 8,086 |
| Prevseason: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason: | 2017–18 |
| Season: | 2016–17 |
The 2016–17 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 34th season of Iran's Football League and 16th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Esteghlal Khuzestan were the defending champions. The season featured 13 teams from the 2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League and three new teams promoted from the 2015–16 Azadegan League: Paykan as champions, Machine Sazi and Sanat Naft. The league started on 25 July 2016 and ended on 4 May 2017. Persepolis won the Pro League title for the third time in their history (total 10th Iranian title).
| Team | City | Venue | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78,116 | |||
| 38,900 | |||
| 38,900 | |||
| 12,000 | |||
| 66,833 | |||
| 30,122 | |||
| 35,000 | |||
| 25,000 | |||
| 78,116 | |||
| 10,610 | |||
| 8,250 | |||
| 10,000[9] | |||
| 75,000 | |||
| 35,000 | |||
| 66,833 | |||
| 15,000 | |||
See main article: List of Iranian Football League managers. 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=250 | Manager | width=200 | Captain | Kit manufacturer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esteghlal | Alireza Mansourian | Mehdi Rahmati |  Li-Ning | |||
| Est. Khuzestan | Sirous Pourmousavi | Mohammad Tayyebi | Start | |||
| Foolad | Naeim Saadavi | Mehrdad Jamaati |  Uhlsport | |||
| Gostaresh | Faraz Kamalvand | Morteza Asadi | Merooj | |||
| Machine Sazi | Farhad Kazemi | Andranik Teymourian | Merooj | |||
| Naft Tehran | Ali Daei | Alireza Ezzati |  Legea | |||
| Padideh | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | Reza Nasehi | Yousef Jame | |||
| Paykan | Rahman Ahmadi | Yousef Jame | ||||
| Persepolis |  Branko Ivanković | Jalal Hosseini |  Joma | |||
| Saba Qom | Samad Marfavi | Reza Enayati | Merooj | |||
| Sanat Naft | Firouz Karimi | Hassan Houri | Merooj | |||
| Saipa | Ebrahim Sadeghi | Givova | ||||
| Sepahan | Zlatko Kranjčar | Ehsan Hajsafi | Uhlsport | |||
| Siah Jamegan | Meysam Hosseini | Merooj | ||||
| Tractor Sazi | Amir Ghalenoei | Mehdi Kiani |  Fitcom | |||
| Zob Ahan | Mojtaba Hosseini | Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Merooj | |||
| width=130 | Team | width=220 | Outgoing head coach | width=150 | Manner of departure | width=100 | Date of vacancy | width=60 | Position in table | width=220 | Incoming head coach | width=100 | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naft Tehran | Alireza Mansourian | Contract expired | Pre-season | Ali Daei | |||||||||
| Foolad | Dragan Skočić | Naeim Saadavi | |||||||||||
| Esteghlal Khuzestan | Abdollah Veisi | Mutual contest | Sirous Pourmousavi | ||||||||||
| Esteghlal | Parviz Mazloumi | Sacked | Alireza Mansourian | ||||||||||
| Saba Qom | Ali Daei | Signed by Naft Tehran | Samad Marfavi | ||||||||||
| Zob Ahan | Yahya Golmohammadi | Resigned | 14th | Mojtaba Hosseini | |||||||||
| Siah Jamegan | Farhad Kazemi | 13th | Khodadad Azizi | ||||||||||
| Machine Sazi | Rasoul Khatibi | 16th | Farhad Kazemi | ||||||||||
| Sanat Naft | Nader Dastneshan | Sacked | 11th | Firouz Karimi | |||||||||
| Siah Jamegan | Khodadad Azizi | Resigned | 15th | Akbar Misaghian | |||||||||
| Sepahan | Abdollah Veisi | Sacked | 7th | Zlatko Kranjčar |
See also: List of foreign footballers in the Persian Gulf Pro League. The number of foreign players is restricted to four per Persian Gulf Pro League team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mehdi Taremi | Persepolis | 18 |
| 2 | Sasan Ansari | Foolad | 16 |
| 3 | Godwin Mensha | Paykan | 15 |
| 4 | Mohammad Ghazi | Naft Tehran | 12 |
| 5 | Hassan Beyt Saeed | Esteghlal Khuzestan | 10 |
 Luciano Pereira | Gostaresh Foolad | ||
| Morteza Tabrizi | Zob Ahan | ||
| 8 | Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Zob Ahan | 9 |
| 9 | Jerry Bengtson | Zob Ahan | 8 |
| Masoud Hassanzadeh | Sepahan | ||
| Player | Club | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Zob Ahan | Sanat Naft | 3–0 (A) | |
| Sasan Ansari | Foolad | Naft Tehran | 4–2 (H) | |
| Morteza Tabrizi | Zob Ahan | Paykan | 3–0 (H) | |
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alireza Beiranvand | Persepolis | 17 |
| 2 | Mohammadreza Akhbari | Tractor Sazi | 11 |
| Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | Zob Ahan | ||
| 4 | Fernando de Jesus | Gostaresh Foulad | 8 |
| 5 | Hamed Lak | Saipa | 7 |
| Mehdi Rahmati | Esteghlal | ||
| 7 | Rahman Ahmadi | Paykan | 6 |
| Vahid Talebloo | Foolad | ||
| Team/Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esteghlal | NC | A | 55,000 | A | 15,000 | A | 35,000 | A | 25,000 | A | 10,000 | A | 55,000 | 6,000 | A | A | NC | A | 7,000 | A | 77,000 | A | 10,500 | A | 25,000 | A | 15,000 | A | A | 25,000 | 27,692 | |
| Esteghlal Khuzestan | A | 10,000 | A | 500 | A | A | 300 | A | 30,000 | A | NC | A | NC | A | 300 | 1,300 | A | 1,500 | A | 500 | 1,000 | A | 300 | A | 1,000 | A | 300 | A | 120 | A | 3,625 | |
| Foolad | 2,000 | A | 2,000 | A | 300 | 300 | A | 980 | A | 25,000 | A | 4,000 | A | 5,800 | A | A | 31,000 | A | 1,300 | A | A | 1,100 | A | 3,500 | A | 3,000 | A | 800 | A | 350 | 5,429 | |
| Gostaresh | 1,200 | A | 4,050 | A | 526 | A | 300 | 110 | A | 3,500 | A | 150 | A | 50 | A | A | 200 | A | 120 | A | 100 | A | A | 100 | A | 4,810 | A | 31 | A | 25 | 1,018 | |
| Machine Sazi | A | 2,050 | A | 5,000 | A | 700 | A | 315 | A | 300 | A | A | 250 | A | 260 | 1,300 | A | 200 | A | 450 | A | 100 | A | 330 | A | 150 | 9,500 | A | 30 | A | 1,396 | |
| Naft Tehran | A | 322 | 200 | A | 1,000 | A | 400 | A | 300 | A | 50 | A | 200 | A | 3,700 | 7,000 | A | A | 200 | A | 150 | A | 17,000 | A | 300 | A | 250 | A | 150 | A | 2,081 | |
| Padideh | A | 3,100 | A | A | 800 | A | 600 | A | 1,000 | A | 150 | A | 19,000 | A | 617 | 850 | A | 270 | 500 | A | 250 | A | 1,200 | A | 1,200 | A | 6,250 | A | 14,000 | A | 3,386 | |
| Paykan | A | 100 | A | 8,360 | A | 500 | A | 3,000 | A | A | 8,750 | A | 700 | A | 1,232 | 750 | A | 4,200 | A | 873 | A | 975 | A | 1,000 | 1,500 | A | 850 | A | 937 | A | 2,248 | |
| Persepolis | A | 50,000 | A | 50,000 | A | 75,000 | A | 16,000 | A | 65,000 | A | 25,000 | A | A | 43,000 | 50,000 | A | 30,000 | A | 78,000 | A | 67,000 | A | 45,000 | A | 45,000 | A | 80,000 | 9,500 | A | 48,567 | |
| Saba Qom | 400 | A | 300 | A | 200 | A | 150 | A | 200 | 120 | A | 7,000 | A | 250 | A | A | 180 | A | 13,000 | A | 1,000 | A | 1,000 | A | A | 7,000 | A | 1,500 | A | 1,500 | 2,187 | |
| Saipa | 16,500 | A | A | 220 | A | 400 | A | 2,300 | A | 455 | A | 1,000 | A | 173 | A | A | 473 | 100 | A | 1,000 | A | 400 | A | 12,000 | A | 300 | A | 680 | A | 500 | 2,433 | |
| Sanat Naft | A | 4,000 | A | 8,000 | A | 8,000 | A | A | 5,000 | A | 5,500 | A | 4,500 | A | 4,000 | 2,050 | A | 10,000 | A | NC | A | 1,800 | NC | A | 6,550 | A | 9,000 | A | 4,000 | A | 5,569 | |
| Sepahan | 2,250 | A | 3,500 | A | 1,200 | A | 11,900 | A | 700 | A | 3,000 | A | 4,000 | A | 38,000 | A | 12,000 | A | 5,000 | A | 3,500 | A | 7,000 | A | 10,000 | A | 10,000 | A | 15,300 | A | 8,490 | |
| Siah Jamegan | 1,600 | A | 1,450 | 2,500 | A | 1,000 | A | 15,700 | A | 1,200 | A | 630 | A | 620 | A | A | 1,000 | A | A | 150 | A | 4,000 | A | 4,000 | A | 1,500 | A | 3,000 | A | 24,000 | 4,157 | |
| Tractor Sazi | 5,000 | A | 7,200 | A | 7,000 | A | 6,900 | A | 5,000 | A | 4,500 | 7,000 | A | 6,000 | A | A | NC | A | 13,000 | A | 6,050 | A | 25,000 | A | 4,050 | A | A | 45,000 | A | 9,000 | 10,764 | |
| Zob Ahan | A | 600 | A | 500 | A | 1,500 | A | 3,000 | A | 700 | A | 300 | A | 12,500 | A | 700 | A | 700 | A | 250 | A | 10,000 | A | 400 | A | 750 | A | 300 | A | 350 | 2,170 | |
| Total | 28,950 | 70,672 | 73,700 | 75,080 | 26,026 | 87,400 | 55,550 | 41,405 | 67,200 | 96,275 | 31,950 | 45,080 | 83,650 | 31,393 | 91,109 | 63,950 | 44,853 | 46,970 | 40,120 | 81,223 | 89,050 | 85,375 | 62,000 | 66,330 | 49,600 | 62,510 | 51,150 | 131,311 | 44,037 | 60,725 | 1,884,144 | |
| Average | 4,136 | 8,834 | 9,213 | 9,385 | 3,253 | 10,925 | 6,944 | 5,176 | 8,400 | 12,034 | 4,564 | 5,635 | 11,950 | 3,924 | 11,389 | 7,994 | 7,476 | 5,871 | 5,015 | 11,603 | 11,131 | 10,672 | 8,857 | 8,291 | 6,200 | 7,814 | 6,394 | 16,414 | 5,505 | 7,591 | 8,086 |
Notes:
Updated to games played on 4 May 2017. Source: Iranleague.ir
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Machine Sazi played their matches against Esteghlal Khuzestan and Gostaresh at Bonyan Dizel
Machine Sazi played their matches against Paykan, Saipa, Sepahan, Tractor Sazi and Zob Ahan at Shahid Bakeri
Saipa played their match against Esteghlal at Azadi
Saipa played their match against Persepolis at Takhti Tehran
Sepahan played their matches against Esteghlal Khuzestan, Padideh, Paykan, Persepolis and Siah Jamegan at Foolad Shahr
Tractor Sazi played their matches against Esteghlal Khuzestan, Foolad, Padideh, Paykan, Persepolis, Saba Qom, Sepahan and Siah Jamegan at Shahid Bakeri
| Rank | Home team | Score | Away team | Attendance | Date | Week | Stadium | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | Persepolis | align=center | 4–0 | Padideh | align=center | 80,000 | 28 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 2 | Persepolis | align=center | 3–0 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 78,000 | 20 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 3 | Esteghlal | align=center | 3–2 | Persepolis | align=center | 77,000 | 21 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 4 | Persepolis | align=center | 0–0 | Esteghlal | align=center | 75,000 | 6 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 5 | Persepolis | align=center | 2–1 | Sepahan | align=center | 67,000 | 22 | Azadi | |
| align=center | 6 | Persepolis | align=center | 1–0 | Sanat Naft | align=center | 65,000 | 10 | Azadi | |
| align=center rowspan="2" | 7 | Esteghlal | align=center | 1–2 | Sanat Naft | align=center | 55,000 | 3 | Azadi | |
| Esteghlal | align=center | 1–2 | Tractor Sazi | align=center | 55,000 | 13 | Azadi | |||
| align=center rowspan="2" | 9 | Persepolis | align=center | 1–1 | Foolad | align=center | 50,000 | 2 | Azadi | |
| Persepolis | align=center | 1–0 | Saba Qom | align=center | 50,000 | 4 | Azadi | |||
