2008–09 Iran Pro League

Persian Gulf Cup

Season	2008–09
Champions	Esteghlal
Relegated	Payam Mashhad Damash Gilan Bargh Shiraz
2010 AFC Champions League	Esteghlal Zob Ahan Mes Kerman Sepahan
Matches played	306
Goals scored	777 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	21 Goals Arash Borhani
Biggest home win	Esteghlal 6-0 Est. Ahvaz
Biggest away win	Rah Ahan 1-5 Esteghlal
Highest scoring	Zob Ahan 6-3 Saipa
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The following is the standings of the Persian Gulf Cup's 2008/09 football season. This season will be the 8th season since the establishment of the Iran Pro League (Persian Gulf Cup). Persepolis are the defending champions.

Teams

Aboomoslem

Mes

Sepasi

Bargh

Sepahan

Zob Ahan

Esteghlal

Foolad

Payam

PAS

Esteghlal

Paykan

Persepolis

Rah Ahan

Saba

Damash Gilan

Malavan

Saipa

Team	City	Venue	Capacity	Head Coach	Team Captain	Past Season
Aboomoslem	Mashhad	Samen	35,000	Ali Hanteh	Saeed Khani	4th
Bargh Shiraz	Shiraz	Hafezieh	20,000	Rasoul Korbekandi	Sattar Zare	7th
Damash Gilan	Rasht	Sardar Jangal	15,000	Stanko Poklepović	Mohammad Reza Mahdavi	15th
Est. Ahvaz	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	30,000	Khodadad Azizi	Afshin Komaei	8th
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	90,000	Amir Ghalenoei	Farhad Majidi	13th
Foolad	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	15,000	Majid Jalali	Ali Badavi	Qualifier
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	8,000	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Masoud Gholamalizad	16th
Mes Kerman	Kerman	Shahid Bahonar	15,000	Parviz Mazloomi	Farzad Hosseinkhani	10th
Moghavemat	Shiraz	Hafezieh	20,000	Gholam Hossein Peyrovani	Mostafa Sabri	14th
Pas Hamedan	Hamedan	Ghods	5,000	Vinko Begovic	Omid Khouraj	5th
Paykan	Qazvin	Shahid Rajaei	5,000	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta	Mohammad Reza Tahmasebi	9th
Payam	Mashhad	Samen	35,000	Kazem Ghiyasiyan	Mehdi Hasheminasab	Qualifier
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	90,000	Nelo Vingada	Karim Bagheri	Champion
Rah Ahan	Rey, Iran	Rah Ahan	15,000	Mehdi Tartar	Ahmad Taghavi	12th
Saba Qom	Qom	Yadegar Emam	15,000	Firouz Karimi	Yahya Golmohammadi	3rd
Saipa	Karaj	Enghelab Karaj	15,000	Mohammad Mayeli Kohan	Ebrahim Sadeghi	11th
Sepahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	25,000	Farhad Kazemi	Moharram Navidkia	2nd
Zob Ahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	25,000	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	Mohammad Salsali	6th

• In October 2008 Pegah Gilan terminated their sports activities due to financial problems. Damash Iranian (Damash Mineral Water Company) owned by Amir Abedini took over their license. New club named Damash Gilan.

Below is the list of coaches who left their teams after the start of the season.

Team	Name	Nationality
Aboomoslem	Hadi Bargizar
Damash Gilan	Bijan Zolfagharnasab
Rah Ahan	Davoud Mahabadi
Saipa	Pierre Littbarski
Sepahan	Engin Firat
Persepolis	Afshin Ghotbi
Payam	Khodadad Azizi
Aboomoslem	Amir Hossein Peyrovani
Sepahan	Hossein Charkhabi
Damash Gilan	Hossein Abdi
Bargh Shiraz	Mohammad Abbasi
Payam	Abbas Chamanyan
Persepolis	Afshin Peyrovani
Est. Ahvaz	Akbar Misaghian
Bargh Shiraz	Farshad Pious
Payam	Majid Hosseinipour
Rah Ahan	Mahmoud Yavari
Paykan	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta
Aboomoslem	Ali Hanteh

Participating in international competitions

2009 AFC Champions League

• Persepolis
• Esteghlal
• Sepahan
• Saba Battery

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Esteghlal (C)	34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	2010 AFC Champions League Group stage 1
2	Zob Ahan	34	19	9	6	58	42	+16	66
3	Sanat Mes	34	17	10	7	54	36	+18	61
4	Sepahan	34	14	14	6	46	34	+12	56
5	Persepolis	34	15	10	9	50	41	+9	55
6	Saba Qom	34	12	17	5	49	36	+13	53
7	Foolad	34	13	11	10	50	41	+9	50
8	Paykan	34	13	8	13	43	42	+1	47
9	Moghavemat	34	11	11	12	33	37	−4	44
10	Saipa	34	10	12	12	43	50	−7	42
11	Rah Ahan	34	11	8	15	36	42	−6	41
12	Pas Hamedan	34	10	10	14	40	47	−7	40
13	Malavan	34	9	13	12	31	43	−12	40
14	Est. Ahvaz	34	10	7	17	37	54	−17	37
15	Aboomoslem	34	8	11	15	34	41	−7	35
16	Payam Mashhad (R)	34	9	8	17	33	52	−19	35	Relegation to Azadegan League
17	Damash (R)	34	6	13	15	40	56	−16	31
18	Bargh Shiraz (R)	34	5	9	20	35	54	−19	24

Updated to games played on 26 April 2009.
Source: http://www.iplstats.com/website08-09/tableoverall.htm
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1. Since Zob Ahab won the 2008–09 Hazfi Cup, the fourth-placed team of the league also qualified for the 2010 AFC Champions League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Champions
Esteghlal F.C.

Results table

Last updated April 26, 2009

Home ╲ Away

ABU

BGH

EST

ESA

MLV

MES

PAS

PAY

PYM

DMG

PRS

RAH

SAB

SAP

SEP

FOL

MVT

ZOB

Aboomoslem

1–1

0–2

0–1

2–2

1–1

2–1

1–0

1–1

3–2

4–3

0–0

1–0

0–0

1–2

1–2

1–2

4–0

Bargh Shiraz

2–2

1–4

0–3

3–0

4–1

2–0

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–1

0–1

1–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–2

Esteghlal

2–0

1–1

6–0

3–0

2–1

1–0

3–2

5–0

4–2

1–1

2–1

2–1

1–1

1–1

0–1

5–2

2–0

Est. Ahvaz

1–3

1–0

0–3

3–0

1–0

0–0

2–3

1–0

1–1

2–1

1–1

1–1

3–1

1–3

0–1

1–1

0–2

Malavan

0–0

1–0

2–2

1–0

1–0

2–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–2

0–1

1–1

2–2

1–1

3–0

1–0

1–1

Sanat Mes

3–1

2–1

1–0

4–0

1–0

2–0

4–0

3–3

1–0

1–1

2–1

3–1

1–1

2–1

3–2

2–0

2–2

Pas Hamedan

2–1

1–0

2–4

5–1

0–0

1–1

2–0

1–0

3–3

0–3

1–0

0–0

2–1

0–0

0–0

1–1

2–2

Paykan

2–0

1–0

1–1

1–0

3–1

1–1

1–0

2–0

2–0

2–2

0–1

0–1

0–2

0–1

0–1

2–2

1–2

Payam Mashhad

1–0

1–2

0–1

2–1

2–0

1–2

1–4

1–1

3–2

1–2

2–1

1–1

1–3

2–2

1–2

0–1

1–3

Damash

1–0

3–1

1–0

2–4

2–1

2–2

1–0

1–0

1–1

1–2

2–2

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

Persepolis

1–0

3–1

1–1

1–0

0–2

0–1

3–1

2–1

1–0

2–0

2–0

2–2

1–1

3–2

1–0

1–2

2–2

Rah Ahan

3–0

3–0

1–5

2–2

1–0

0–1

2–1

1–4

0–0

1–0

1–2

1–1

1–2

0–1

2–1

0–0

0–1

Saba Qom

1–0

2–2

3–1

2–0

3–0

1–3

3–1

1–1

0–0

2–2

2–0

1–1

2–0

1–1

1–1

2–0

0–0

Saipa

0–0

2–2

0–2

3–2

2–1

1–1

1–3

0–1

1–2

4–1

0–1

1–0

2–4

1–1

3–2

0–2

1–0

Sepahan

2–1

1–0

2–1

2–1

0–0

1–0

2–2

2–4

3–2

1–1

0–0

2–0

2–0

2–0

2–0

0–0

1–2

Foolad

0–0

3–1

0–0

0–2

0–1

2–2

5–1

2–2

3–0

3–0

3–2

2–3

2–2

1–1

2–2

0–1

4–1

Moghavemat

0–0

0–1

4–1

1–0

2–2

2–0

0–1

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–0

1–3

1–1

0–0

1–0

0–1

0–2

Zob Ahan

0–3

2–1

1–1

1–1

3–0

1–0

2–1

2–0

2–0

2–1

3–1

1–0

2–2

6–3

2–1

2–2

3–1

Source: http://www.iplstats.com/
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Player Statistics

Top Goalscorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Arash Borhani	Esteghlal	20
2	Shpejtim Arifi	Payam	18
3	Igor Castro	Zob Ahan	16
4	Afshin Chavoshi	Damash Gilan	15
5	Emad Mohammed	Sepahan	14
	Fereydoon Fazli	Saba Qom
6	Siavash Akbarpour	Esteghlal	12
	Adriano Alvez	Damash Gilan
	Davoud Haghi	Rah Ahan
8	Iman Haydari	Paykan	11
	Jalal Rafkhaei	Malavan
	Maysam Baou	Aboomoslem
	Ibrahima Touré	Persepolis
	Faraz Fatemi	Mes Kerman
11	Farid Abedi	Bargh Shiraz	10
	Amin Motevaselzadeh	Moghavemat Sepasi
	Issa Traoré	Saipa
	Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	Zob Ahan
	Edinho	Mes Kerman
20	5 players		9
25	6 players		8
31	2 players		7
33	8 players		6
41	18 players		5
58	23 players		4
81	18 players		3
99	26 players		2
125	95 players		1
Own goals			0
Total goals			777

Last updated: 11 April 2009
Source: Iplstats.com

Top Goalassistants

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Esmail Farhadi	Zob Ahan	9
	Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	Zob Ahan
	Ivan Petrović	Persepolis
4	Hassan Ashjari	Zob Ahan	8
	Mohsen Yousefi	Saba Qom
	Fábio Januário	Esteghlal
	Éder Luciano	Mes
7	Mehdi Shiri	Bargh Shiraz	7
	Khosro Heydari	Esteghlal
	Javad Shirzad	Pas Hamedan
12	Ali Karimi	Persepolis	6
	Mohammad Parvin	Saipa
	Mehrdad Karimian	PAS Hamedan
	Seyed Mohammad Hosseini	Zob Ahan

Last updated: 11 April 2009
Source: Iplstats.com

Cards

Player				Team
Mohammad Matouri	10	0	1	Payam Mashhad
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	10	1	0	Zob Ahan
Mohsen Arzani	8	1	0	Payam Mashhad
Alireza Jalili	9	0	0	Payam Mashhad
Morteza Bargizar	9	0	0	Payam Mashhad
Mohammad AghaMohammadi	9	0	0	Est. Ahvaz
Meysam Khosravi	9	0	0	Paykan
Adriano Alvez	9	0	0	Damash Gilan
Mohsen Bengar	7	1	0	Sepahan
Omid Khouraj	5	1	2	PAS Hamedan
Hanif Omranzadeh	7	1	0	PAS Hamedan
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	7	0	1	Persepolis
Maziar Zare	8	0	0	Persepolis

Matches played

33

• Vahid Taleblou (Esteghlal)
• Morteza Ebrahimi (Mes)

Sponsorship

• Referee's Sponsor: GERAD
• Referee's Supplier: Merooj

Team Shirt manufacturers

Team	Kit Manufacturer
Esteghlal	Uhlsport
Persepolis
Rah Ahan
Sepahan
Aboomoslem	Merooj
Esteghlal Ahvaz
Foolad
Mes Kerman
Moghavemat
Paykan
Payam
Damash Gilan
Saba
Zob Ahan
Bargh	Daei SWE
Malavan
PAS Hamedan	Nahangi
Saipa

See also

• Azadegan League 2008-09
• Iran Football's 2nd Division 2008–09
• Iran Football's 3rd Division
• Hazfi Cup 2008-09
• Iranian Super Cup
• Futsal Super League 2008-09

References

• Iran Premier League Statistics
• Persian League
• Soccerway
• Bazikonan