2016 Hazfi Cup final explained

Event:2015–16 Hazfi Cup
Team1:Zob Ahan
Team2:Esteghlal
Team1score:1
Team2score:1
Details:Zob Ahan won 5–4 on penalties
Stadium:Khorramshahr Stadium
City:Khorramshahr
Man Of The Match1a:Ghasem Haddadifar
Man Of The Match1b:Kaveh Rezaei
Man Of The Match1btitle:Fans'
Attendance:15,452
Referee:Alireza Faghani
Weather:Partly Cloudy
46°C
21% humidity
Previous:2015
Next:2017

The 2016 Hazfi Cup Final was the 29th final since 1975. The match was an wonderful for both teams to get a chance to clinch a title after a good season. Zob Ahan was the defending champion in the competition, if they won it would their first time in the club history to win any competition back-to-back. Zob Ahan had the lead but Esteghlal equalized it at the second half. There was nothing to separate the two teams in the extra-time, Esteghlal lost to Zob Ahan in penalties. Zob Ahan qualified for the group stage of the 2017 AFC Champions League. Esteghlal also went to the play-offs for AFC Champions League because of their third position at the league.

Format

The tie was contested over one legs, simply to last edition. If the teams could still not be separated, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that).

Pre-match

Match history

This was Zob Ahan's fifth Hazfi final and Esteghlal's ninth appearance in the final match of the tournament. Zob Ahan lastly won the cup in 2002–03, 2008–09 and 2014–15. Their other final appearance was in 2000–01 season where they lost to Fajr Sepasi.

Esteghlal didn't make it to the final of Hazfi Cup for four years, Esteghlal lately won the cup in 1977, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, and 2012, Esteghlal was runners-up four times.

Detalis

Zob Ahan: 4-3-3
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GK 12 Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri
DF 3 Walid Ismail
DF 33 Vahid Mohammadzadeh
DF 4 Hadi Mohammadi
DF 18
MF 8 Ghasem Hadadifar (c)
MF 11
MF 16 Mehdi Mehdipour
FW 23 Danial Esmaeilifar
FW 30 Mehdi Rajabzadeh
FW 9 Kaveh Rezaei
Manager:
Yahya Golmohammadi
Esteghlal: 4-5-1
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GK 1 Mehdi Rahmati (c)
DF 34
DF 5 Hanif Omranzadeh
DF 15 Hrayr Mkoyan
DF 20
MF 3 Mohammad Reza Khorsandnia
MF 6 Omid Ebrahimi
MF 88
MF 8 Yaghoub Karimi
MF 11
FW 77 Behnam Barzay
Manager:
Parviz Mazloumi
Man of the match

Assistant referees


Hassan Zaheri
Javad Sharafi
Fourth official


Match rules:

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of three substitutions

See also