List of Iranian football champions explained

Iranian League (1st tier)
Local League (1970–1972) Takht Jamshid Cup (1973 - 1978) Qods League (1989–1990) Azadegan League^[1] (1991 - 2001) Pro League (2001 -)
Founded
1970
Number of Teams
16
Current Champions
Persepolis
Country
Iran
Most successful club
Persepolis (16 times champions)

The Iranian football champions are the winners of the highest league in Iranian football, which since 2001–02 is the Pro League. The title has been contested since 1970, in varying forms of competition. While Persepolis has won a record 16 championship titles.

Champions

Local League (1970–72)

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Winner (number of titles)	width=10%	Runners-up	width=10%	Third-Place	width=24%	Top scorer (club) (goals)
	Taj (1)			Hossein Kalani (Persepolis) (6)
	Persepolis (1)		Taj	Hossein Kalani (Persepolis) (12)

Takht Jamshid Cup (1973–78)

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Winner (number of titles)	width=10%	Runners-up	width=10%	Third-Place	width=24%	Top scorer (club) (goals)
	Persepolis (2)			Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (Taj) Aziz Espandar (Malavan) (15)
	Taj (2)		Homa	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (Taj) (10)
	Persepolis (3)	Homa	Pas Tehran	Nasser Nouraei (Homa) (10)
	Pas Tehran (1)	Persepolis	Shahbaz	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (Shahbaz) (19)
	Pas Tehran (2)	Persepolis	Malavan	Aziz Espandar (Malavan) (16)
	Not completed due to the Iranian Revolution

Qods League (1989–90)

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Winner (number of titles)	width=10%	Runners-up	width=10%	Third-Place	width=24%	Top scorer (club) (goals)
1989–90	Esteghlal^[2] (3)		Malavan	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh (Malavan) (16)

Azadegan League (1991–2001)

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Winner (number of titles)	width=10%	Runners-up	width=10%	Third-Place	width=24%	Top scorer (club) (goals)
	Pas Tehran (3)			Farshad Pious (Persepolis) (11)
	Pas Tehran (4)	Persepolis	Keshavarz–Tractor	Jamshid Shahmohammadi (Keshavarz) (11)
	Saipa (1)	Persepolis	Jonoob Ahvaz	Abbas Simakani (Zob Ahan) (17)
	Saipa (2)	Esteghlal	Keshavarz	Farshad Pious (Persepolis) (20)
	Persepolis (4)		Esteghlal	Mohammad Momeni (Polyacryl) (19)
	Persepolis (5)	Bahman	Sepahan	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta (Bahman) (18)
	Esteghlal (4)		Zob Ahan	Hossein Khatibi (Tractor) (16)
	Persepolis (6)	Esteghlal	Sepahan	Koroush Barmak (Tractor) Abdoljalil Golcheshmeh (Aboomoslem) (14)
	Persepolis (7)	Esteghlal	Fajr Sepasi	Mohanned Mehdi Al-Nadawi (Sanat Naft) (15)
	Esteghlal (5)		Saipa	Reza Sahebi (Zob Ahan) Ali Samereh (Esteghlal) (14)

Iran Pro League (2001 – present)

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Winner (number of titles)	width=10%	Runners-up	width=10%	Third-Place	width=24%	Top scorer (club) (goals)
	Persepolis (8)		Foolad	Reza Enayati (Aboomoslem) (17)
	Sepahan (1)		Persepolis	Edmund Bezik (Sepahan) (13)
	Pas Tehran (5)		Foolad	Ali Daei (Persepolis) (16)
	Foolad (1)			Reza Enayati (Esteghlal) (20)
	Esteghlal (6)	Pas Tehran	Saipa	Reza Enayati (Esteghlal) (21)
	Saipa (3)	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Persepolis	Mehdi Rajabzadeh (Zob Ahan) Daniel Olerum (Aboomoslem) (17)
	Persepolis (9)		Saba Battery	Mohsen Khalili (Persepolis) Hadi Asghari (Rah Ahan) (18)
	Esteghlal (7)	Zob Ahan		Arash Borhani (Esteghlal) (21)
	Sepahan (2)	Zob Ahan		Emad Mohammed (Sepahan) (19)
	Sepahan (3)	Esteghlal		Reza Norouzi (Foolad) (24)
	Sepahan (4)	Tractor		Karim Ansarifard (Saipa) (21)
	Esteghlal (8)		Sepahan	Jalal Rafkhaei (Malavan) (19)
	Foolad (2)		Naft Tehran	Karim Ansarifard (Tractor) (14)
	Sepahan (5)		Naft Tehran	Éder Luciano (Tractor) (20)
	Esteghlal Khuzestan (1)			Mehdi Taremi (Persepolis) (16)
	Persepolis (10)			Mehdi Taremi (Persepolis) (18)
2017–18	Persepolis (11)	Zob Ahan	Esteghlal	Ali Alipour (Persepolis) (19)
2018–19	Persepolis (12)	Sepahan	Esteghlal	Kiros Stanlley (Sepahan) Luciano Pereira Mendes (Foolad) (16)
2019–20	Persepolis (13)	Esteghlal	Foolad	Cheick Diabaté (Esteghlal) (15)
2020–21	Persepolis (14)	Sepahan	Esteghlal	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh (Sepahan) (20)
2021–22	Esteghlal (9)	Persepolis	Sepahan	Godwin Mensha (Mes Rafsanjan) (14)
2022–23	Persepolis (15)	Sepahan	Esteghlal	Shahriyar Moghanlou (Sepahan) (13)
2023–24	Persepolis (16)	Esteghlal	Sepahan	Shahriyar Moghanlou (Sepahan) (16)

Bold indicates Double winners – i.e. League and Hazfi Cup winners OR League and Champions League winners
Italic indicates Treble winners – i.e. League, Hazfi Cup and Champions League winners

Asian Club Championship/ AFC Champions League/ AFC Champions League Elite Qualified

Asian Cup Winners' Cup Qualified

AFC Champions League Two Qualified

AFC Challenge League Qualified

Notes

• No national championships were held in 1972–73, between 1979–1988 (due to the Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War), and in 1990–91 (due to fixture congestion with the national team's competitions).

Performances

Clubs

The following table lists the performance of each club describing winners of the Championship.

• source: ^[3]

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning seasons
			1971–72, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2001–02, 2007–08, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24
Esteghlal			1970–71, 1974–75, 1989–90, 1997–98, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2012–13, 2021–22
Pas Tehran			1976–77, 1977–78, 1991–92, 1992–93, 2003–04
Sepahan			2002–03, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2014–15
Saipa
Foolad			2004–05, 2013–14
Esteghlal Khuzestan			2015–16

Total titles won by city

The following table lists the Iranian football champions by city.^[3]

City	Titles	Winning clubs
Tehran		Persepolis (16), Esteghlal (9), Pas Tehran (5), Saipa (2)
Isfahan		Sepahan (5)
Ahvaz		Foolad (2), Esteghlal Khuzestan (1)
Karaj		Saipa (1)

Total titles won by province

The following table lists the Iranian football champions by Province.^[3]

Province	Titles	Winning clubs
Tehran		Persepolis (16), Esteghlal (9), Pas Tehran (5), Saipa (3)
Isfahan		Sepahan (5)
Khuzestan		Foolad (2), Esteghlal Khuzestan (1)

Since 2003 to 2015, Saipa Club had played its games in Karaj (Capital of Alborz Province). but before the formation of the Alborz province in 2010, Karaj was considered part of the Tehran province in Iran's divisions.

See also

• Football in Iran
• Iranian football league system
• Hazfi cup

External links

• List of Champions at RSSSF

Notes and References

1. [Azadegan League]
2. Taj changed its name to Esteghlal in 1979.
3. Web site: رده بندی لیگ ایران (لیگ برتر) . fa . Iranian football champions ranking . hazfi-cup.com . 15 May 2022.