2019–20 Persian Gulf Pro League Explained

Competition:Persian Gulf Pro League
Dates:23 August 2019 – 20 August 2020
Winners:Persepolis
6th Pro League title
13th Iranian title
Relegated:Pars Jonoubi
Shahin Bushehr
Continentalcup1:Champions League
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Persepolis
Esteghlal
Foolad
Tractor
Matches:240
Total Goals:503
League Topscorer:Cheick Diabaté (15 goals)
Best Goalkeeper:Payam Niazmand (15 clean sheets)
Biggest Home Win:Esteghlal 5–0 Sanat Naft
(5 November 2019)
Sepahan 5–0 Shahin
(19 December 2019)
Biggest Away Win:Shahin 0–5 Persepolis
(25 October 2019)
Highest Scoring:Paykan 6–2 Machine Sazi
(20 September 2019)
Longest Wins:Persepolis (7 matches, 2 times)
Longest Unbeaten:Persepolis (16 matches)
Longest Winless:Shahin Bushehr (17 matches)
Longest Losses:Shahin Bushehr (6 matches)
Highest Attendance:80,000
Tractor 2–4 Esteghlal
(1 November 2019)
Lowest Attendance:100
Machine Sazi 4–2 Shahin Bushehr
(26 September 2019)
Attendance:1,320,200
Average Attendance:8,629
Prevseason:2018–19
Nextseason:2020–21
Season:2019–20

The 2019–20 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 37th season of Iran's Football League and 19th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Persepolis are the defending champions and won their record-extending 4th consecutive title and 13th title overall (6th in the Pro League era) on 24 July with four games to spare. The season featured 14 teams from the 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League and two new teams promoted from the 2018–19 Azadegan League: Shahin Bushehr and Gol Gohar Sirjan.

Effects of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the Persian Gulf Pro League temporally suspended all matches from 11 March to 24 June 2020.[1]

Teams

Stadia and locations

TeamLocationStadiumCapacity
EsteghlalTehranAzadi78,116
FooladAhvazFoolad Arena30,655
Gol Gohar SirjanSirjanImam Ali8,000
Machine SaziTabrizQasem Soleimani12,000
Naft Masjed SoleymanMasjed SoleymanBehnam Mohammadi8,000
Nassaji MazandaranQaem ShahrVatani15,000
Pars Jonoubi JamJamTakhti Jam15,000
PaykanShahr-e QodsShahre Qods18,000
PersepolisTehranAzadi78,116
SaipaTehranDastgerdi8,250
Sanat NaftAbadanTakhti Abadan10,000[2]
SepahanIsfahanNaghsh-e-Jahan75,000
Shahin BushehrBushehrShahid Mahdavi15,000
Shahr KhodroMashhadImam Reza27,700
TractorTabrizYadegar-e Emam75,000
Zob AhanFooladshahrFooladshahr15,000

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.

TeamManagerCaptainKit manufacturer
Esteghlal Farhad Majidi Voria Ghafouri Uhlsport
Foolad Javad Nekounam Ayoub Vali Uhlsport
Gol Gohar Majid Jalali Mehran Golzari Merooj
Machine Sazi Human Afazeli Aziz Maeboodi Merooj
Naft MIS Mehdi Tartar Abbas Asgari Merooj
Nassaji Mahmoud Fekri Mohammad Abbaszadeh Merooj
Pars Jonoubi Sirous Pourmousavi Mohammad Nouri Uhlsport
Paykan Abdollah Veisi Ali Hamoudi Yousef Jame
Persepolis Yahya Golmohammadi Jalal Hosseini Uhlsport
Saipa Ebrahim Sadeghi Roozbeh Shahalidoost Start
Sanat Naft Behnam Seraj Hossein Baghlani Merooj
Sepahan Miguel Teixeira (caretaker) Rasoul Navidkia Uhlsport
Shahin Bushehr Mehdi Pashazadeh Milad Saremi Uhlsport
Shahr Khodro Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh Reza Nasehi Uhlsport
Tractor Saket Elhami Masoud Shojaei
Zob Ahan Luka Bonačić Ghasem Haddadifar Talash

Managerial changes

width=130Teamwidth=220Outgoing head coachwidth=155Manner of departurewidth=100Date of vacancywidth=60Position in tablewidth=220Incoming head coachwidth=100Date of appointment
Majid JalaliResignedPre-season Mohammad Reza Mohajeri
Sanat Naft Paulo SérgioSigned with Al-Taawoun Dragan Skočić
Foolad Afshin GhotbiContract expired Javad Nekounam
Tractor Georges Leekens Mustafa Denizli
Pars Jonoubi Jam Mehdi Tartar Faraz Kamalvand
Naft MIS Firouz Karimi Mehdi Tartar
Esteghlal Farhad MajidiEnd of caretaker role Andrea Stramaccioni
Machine Sazi Mohammad Reza MohajeriMutual Consent Rasoul Khatibi
Persepolis Branko IvankovićSigned with Al-Ahli Gabriel Calderón
Gol Gohar Sirjan Vinko BegovićSacked[3] 15th Majid Jalali
Shahin Bushehr Abdollah VeisiResigned[4] 16th Mišo Krstičević[5]
Esteghlal Andrea Stramaccioni[6] 1st Farhad Majidi[7]
Tractor Mustafa DenizliSacked [8] 8th Saket Elhami[9]
Pars Jonoubi Jam Faraz KamalvandResigned[10] 13th Human Afazeli[11]
Zob Ahan Alireza MansourianMutual Consent11th Miodrag Radulović
Machine Sazi Rasoul KhatibiSigned with Aluminium9th Ahad Sheykhlari
Persepolis Gabriel CalderónResigned1st Yahya Golmohammadi
Shahr Khodro Yahya GolmohammadiSigned with Persepolis6th
Paykan Hossein FarakiResigned14th Abdollah Veisi
Sanat Naft Dragan SkočićSigned with Iran national football team6th Behnam Seraj
Nassaji Mohammad Reza MohajeriResigned11th Mahmoud Fekri
Zob Ahan Miodrag RadulovićMutual Consent11th Luka Bonačić
Shahin Bushehr Mišo KrstičevićResigned15th Mehdi Pashazadeh
Machine Sazi Ahad Sheykhlari10th Mohammad Reza Mohajeri
Shahr Khodro Mojtaba Sarasiaei3rd Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
Machine Sazi Mohammad Reza Mohajeri10th Human Afazeli
Pars Jonoubi Jam Human Afazeli13th Sirous Pourmousavi
Sepahan Amir Ghalenoei5th Miguel Teixeira (Caretaker)

1. Cusin became the official co-manager because Sarasiaei did not have AFC A-Licence.[12]

Foreign players

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.

ClubPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Asian PlayerFormer Players
Esteghlal Hrvoje Milić Cheick Diabaté Nikolay Bodurov
Foolad Chimba Moussa Coulibaly Ayanda Patosi Anas Bani Yaseen
Gol Gohar Sirjan Godwin Mensha Jefferson Tavares
Kevin Jansen
Uroš Delić
Machine Sazi Eduardo Mancha Jefferson de Jesus
Naft MIS
Nassaji
Pars Jonoubi Jam Fernando de Jesus Kakhaber Kakashvili
Paykan Aram Ayrapetyan Marko Vukčević
Persepolis Božidar Radošević Anthony Stokes Christian Osaguona Bashar Resan Júnior Brandão
Saipa
Sanat Naft
Sepahan Kiros Giorgi Gvelesiani Vladimir Koman Muhsen Al-Ghassani
Shahin Bushehr Maksime Kvilitaia Luka Gadrani
Shahr Khodro Carlos Chavarría
Myroslav Slavov
Tractor Okacha Hamzaoui Yuri Matias Willyan Mimbela Mazola
Kévin Fortuné
Yukiya Sugita
Zob Ahan Darko Bjedov Ivan Marković Mehdi Khalil Ebiabowei Baker
Macauley Chrisantus

League table

Results

Positions by round

Season statistics

Top scorers

RankPlayerClubGoals
1 Cheick DiabatéEsteghlal15
2 Shahriar MoghanlouPaykan13
3 Ali AlipourPersepolis12
Issa AlekasirSanat Naft
5 Mehdi TorabiPersepolis11
6 Mehdi GhaediEsteghlal10
Amir Arsalan MotahariZob Ahan / Esteghlal
8 Younes ShakeriShahr Khodro / Gol Gohar9
9 Faraz EmamaliPaykan8
Hossein MalekiShahin Bushehr
Mohammad NouriPars Jonoubi
Ahmad Reza ZendehrouhGol Gohar

Hat-tricks

PlayerForAgainstResultDate
Ali AlipourPersepolisShahin Bushehr5–0 (A)
Cheick DiabatéEsteghlalTractor4–2 (A)
Kiros StanlleySepahanShahin Bushehr5–0 (H)

Clean sheets

RankPlayerClubClean sheets
1 Payam NiazmandSepahan17
2 Mohammad Rashid MazaheriTractor14
3 Shahab GordanFoolad13
4 Mehdi RahmatiShahr Khodro12
5 Alireza HaghighiNassaji11
6 Božidar RadoševićPersepolis10
7 Hossein HosseiniEsteghlal7
8 Alireza BeiranvandPersepolis6
Hamed FallahzadehSaipa
Milad FarahaniGol Gohar
Hamed LakMachine Sazi
Sosha MakaniNaft MIS

Scoring

Attendances

Attendances by round

Team/Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930Average
EsteghlalA20000A57000ANA15000A20000AA65000A1000015000P9000ACN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A26375
Foolad6000A5000A4000AA2000A25000A1000A1000AAPA3000AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A5875
Gol Gohar5000A3000A5000A5000A4000A3500A3000A5000A3000A4000AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A4050
Machine Sazi4000A700A100A100200A600A100A2000AA500A100AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A840
Naft MSJ1000A5000ANA3000A30004000A6000A2000AA5000A3000AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A3556
NassajiA6000A8000A70008000A4000A15000A8000A70007000A6000A3000N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A7182
Pars JamA3000A50003000A1000A2000A3000A500A30006000A700AAN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A2720
Paykan300AA200A100A300A200A6000A10000AA300100A300N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A1780
Persepolis25000A12000A20000ANA16000A800040000A30000AA40000A57000N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A27556
SaipaA500500A6000A2000A200A200A200A8000300AA400AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A1830
Sanat NaftA5000A6000A1500A5000AA12000A3000A700012000A8000A5000N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A6350
SepahanA25000A10000A15000A20000A30000A45000AA100007000A10000AXN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A19111
Shahin Bushehr7000A2000AA2000A10000A5000A2000A3000AA3000A10006000N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A4100
Shahr KhodroA7000A15000A23000A3500A8000A2000A7000A5000A2500ACN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A8111
TractorA50000A17000A25000AA80000A20000A4000A200010000A7000A4000N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A21900
Zob Ahan2000A3000A5000A1000A500A500A50002000AA500A2000AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A2150
Total503001165003120011820043100736002010056000109700928006220010210088700570005200062300N/A433007050019300N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A71422
Average62881456339001477561571051428717000137131160077751276311088712565007788N/A541388133860N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A8737

Notes:
Updated to games played on 23 February 2020. Source: http://www.iplstats.com/matchlistrounds.htm
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
A=Away
N=Spectator Ban
C=No spectator due to CoronaVirus prevention
X=Not played

Highest attendances

RankHome teamScoreAway teamAttendanceDateWeekStadium
align=center 1 Tractor align=center 2 - 4Esteghlal align=center 80000 9 Yadegar-e Emam Stadium
align=center 2 Esteghlal align=center 1 - 0Shahr Khodro align=center 65000 13 Azadi Stadium
3 Esteghlal align=center 0 - 1Persepolis align=center 57000 4 Azadi Stadium
Persepolis align=center 2 - 2Esteghlal align=center 57000 19Azadi Stadium
align=center 5 Tractor align=center 1 - 0Persepolis align=center 50000 2 Yadegar-e Emam Stadium
align=center 6 Sepahan align=center 2 - 2Esteghlal align=center 45000 12 Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium
7 Persepolis align=center 1 - 0Nassaji align=center 40000 12 Azadi Stadium
Persepolis align=center 2 - 0Tractor align=center 40000 17 Azadi Stadium
9 Sepahan align=center 2 - 0Tractor align=center 30000 10 Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium
Persepolis align=center 2 - 1Gol Gohar align=center 30000 14 Azadi Stadium
Notes:
Updated to games played on 7 February 2020. Source: http://www.iplstats.com/

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Iranian Premier League amid Corona crisis: Foolad F.C defeats Machine Sazi . iranpress.com . 30 June 2020 .
  2. Web site: 10 درصد ورزشگاه آبادان در اختیار استقلالی‌ها .
  3. Web site: بگوویچ از هدایت گل‌گهر برکنار شد.
  4. Web site: کریمیان جانشین ویسی تا انتخاب سرمربی جدید.
  5. Web site: توافق نهایی با سرمربی جدید شاهین شهرداری‌بوشهر.
  6. Web site: قرارداد استراماچونی و استقلال فسخ شد.
  7. Web site: فرهاد مجیدی سرمربی استقلال شد. 2 January 2020 .
  8. Web site: Tractor Parts Company with Mustafa Denizli .
  9. Web site: ابقای الهامی در تراکتور قطعی شد/ ادامه کار سهرابی به‌عنوان سرپرست .
  10. Web site: کمالوند از پارس جنوبی جم جدا شد . 14 December 2019 .
  11. Web site: هومن افاضلی سرمربی تیم پارس جنوبی شد .
  12. https://www.varzesh3.com/news/1661963/سرخابی-سابق-و-یک-ایتالیایی-در-کادر-مربیان-شهرخودرو سرخابی سابق و یک ایتالیایی در کادر فنی در کادر شهرخودرو

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