2018–19 Sepahan F.C. season

Sepahan
2018–19 season
Chairman	Masoud Tabesh
Manager	Amir Ghalenoei
Stadium	Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium
18th Pro League	TBD
32nd Hazfi Cup	TBD
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →

The 2018–19 season was Sepahan's 18th season in the Pro League, and their 25nd consecutive season in the top division of Iranian Football and 65nd year in existence as a football club. They competed in the Hazfi Cup. Sepahan was captained by Hossein Papi.

Kit information[edit]

Supplier: Start
Sponsor: Mobarakeh Steel Company

Home

Away

Third

Goalkeeper 1

Goalkeeper 2

Players[edit]

Updated 20 December 2017.^[1]^[2]

Niazmand

Pourghaz

Siavash

Iranpourian

Aghaei

Kiani (C)

Karimi

Shahbazzadeh

Mehrdad

Sasan

Kiros

starting lineup

First-team squad[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	IRN	Payam Niazmand
2	DF	IRN	Hassan Jafari
5	DF	IRN	Ezzatollah Pourghaz
6	MF	IRN	Mehdi Kiani (Vice Captain)
7	DF	IRN	Saeid Aghaei ^U25
8	MF	IRN	Rasoul Navidkia (Captain)
9	FW	IRN	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh
10	FW	IRN	Mehrdad Mohammadi
11	MF	IRN	Bakhtiar Rahmani
12	MF	IRN	Reza Dehghani ^U21
14	MF	IRN	Milad Sarlak ^U25
17	MF	IRN	Jalaleddin Alimohammadi
18	FW	IRN	Mohammad Ebrahimi
20	DF	IRN	Mohammad Iranpourian
21	MF	IRN	Mohammad Karimi ^U23
22	GK	IRN	Amir Hossein Nikpour ^U21


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	FW	IRN	Ali Khosravi ^U23
25	FW	IRN	Ali Ghorbani
30	MF	IRN	Mohsen Mosalman
33	DF	IRN	Mohammad Moslemipour ^U23
36	GK	IRN	Ali Keykhosravi ^U21
37	MF	IRN	Mohammadreza Ekhlasi ^U23
38	MF	IRN	Yasin Salmani ^U21
39	MF	IRN	Sepehr Shahin ^U21
44	DF	IRN	Khaled Shafiei
50	GK	IRN	Shahab Adeli ^U23
66	DF	IRN	Mohammadreza Mehdizadeh
70	MF	IRN	Hamed Bahiraei ^U25
77	MF	HUN	Vladimir Koman
78	DF	IRN	Mehdi Rahimi ^U21
88	FW	BRA	Kiros Stanlley
99	DF	IRN	Siavash Yazdani

[U21 = Under 21 year player | U23 = Under 23 year player| U25 = Under 25 year player]

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2018–19.

Loan list[edit]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	GK	IRN	Mehdi Amini ^U23 (at Paykan until June 2019)
—	DF	IRN	Davoud Rajabi ^U23 (at Gol Reyhan Alborz until June 2019)
—	MF	IRN	Mohammad Papi ^U21 (at Naft Masjed Soleyman until June 2019)
—	FW	IRN	Reza Mirzaei ^U23 (at Foolad until June 2019)
—	FW	IRN	Iman Zakizadeh ^U23 (at Gol Reyhan Alborz until June 2019)

Transfers[edit]

In[edit]

No.	Pos	Player	Age	From	Type	Window	Ends
1	Gk	Payam Niazmand	22	Paykan F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
20	DF	Mohammad Iranpourian	32	Tractor Sazi F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
88	FW	Kiros Stanlley Soares Ferraz	29	Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019
50	Gk	Shahab Adeli	21	Naft Tehran F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2021
9	FW	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	28	Qatar SC	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019
44	DF	Khaled Shafiei	30	Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
6	MF	Mehdi Kiani	31	Tractor Sazi F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019
21	MF	Mohammad Karimi	22	F.C. Khooneh be Khooneh	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2021
16	DF	Davoud Rajabi	22	Sepahan S.C. U21	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2021
23	FW	Ali Khosravi	20	Sepahan S.C. U21	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2022
11	MF	Bakhtiar Rahmani	26	Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
77	MF	Vladimir Koman	29	Adanaspor	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020

Updated 26 August 2018.

OUT[edit]

No.	Pos	Player	Age	To	Type	Window	Ends
14	FW	Masoud Hassanzadeh	27	Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C.	Transfer	Summer
20	FW	Mehdi Sharifi	25	Persepolis F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
21	MF	Mahmoud Ghaed Rahmati	26	Naft Masjed Soleyman F.C.	Transfer	Summer
77	FW	Reza Mirzaei	22	Foolad F.C.	Loan	Summer	30.06.2019
27	Gk	Mehdi Amini	22	Paykan F.C.	Loan	Summer	30.06.2019
14	MF	Ali Karimi	24	Esteghlal F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019
16	MF	Edon Hasani	24	KF Tirana	Transfer	Summer	2019
11	FW	Marwan Hussein	27	Al-Zawra'a SC	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2020
15	FW	Saber Didehvar	22	Naft va Gaz Gachsaran F.C.	Transfer	Summer
55	DF	Aref Gholami	21	Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C.	Transfer	Summer
66	DF	Mohammad Ali Ahmadi	35	Retired		Summer
35	Gk	Mehdi Sedghian	22	Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht F.C.	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019
91	Gk	Ibrahim Alma	26	Al-Wahda	Transfer	Summer	30.06.2019

Updated 26 August 2018.

Current managerial staff[edit]

Position	Name
Manager	Amir Ghalenoei
First team coach	Miguel Teixeira
Assistant coaches	Ghasem Zaghinejad Saeed Alhoei Jalal Omidian
Goalkeepers coach	Rui Tavares
Fitness trainer	Bayaz Pourmami
Doctor	Mohammad Rashadi
Doctor assistant	Asghar Majidikia
Physiotherapist	Ali Khorami
Masseurs	Hossein Afshardoost Majid Fazlollahi Hamed Bateni
Administrative manager	Reza Fatahi
Executive manager	Reza Fatahi

Matches[edit]

Pro league[edit]

League table[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persepolis (C)	30	16	13	1	36	14	+22	61	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League group stage
2	Sepahan	30	15	13	2	46	20	+26	58	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League group stage
3	Esteghlal	30	16	9	5	40	13	+27	57	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-offs
4	Padideh	30	16	8	6	32	16	+16	56
5	Tractor Sazi	30	14	10	6	42	25	+17	52

Source: IPL Table
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.^[3]
(C) Champions

Results summary[edit]


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
17	9	8	0	31	12	+19	35	5	4	0	16	6	+10	4	4	0	15	6	+9

Last updated: 10 FEB 2019.
Source: [1]

Results by round[edit]

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
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H
Result	D	W	D	W	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	D	D	W	D	D	W
Position	10	2	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2018. Source: flashscores.co.uk
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches[edit]

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Date Round

Home

Score

Away

Location

27 July 2018 1	Sepahan	0–0	Naft Abadan	Isfahan
20:45 UTC+03:30	Pourghaz 42' Aghaei 71' Mehrdad 80' Bakhtiar 87'	Report		Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 0 Referee: Reza Mahdavi

3 August 2018 2	Sepidrood	1–6	Sepahan	Rasht
20:45 UTC+03:30		Report	Shahbazzadeh 7', 54' Sasan 23' , 27' Mehrdad 39' Mehrdad 60' Iranpourian 65'	Stadium: Azodi Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Mohammad Hossein Zahedi Far

12 August 2018 3	Sepahan	0–0	Paykan	Isfahan
20:45 UTC+03:30	Kiani 22' Iranpourian 55' Mehrdad 67'	Report	Hamoudi 19'	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ali Safaei

12 August 2018 4	Zob Ahan	1 – 2	Sepahan	Isfahan
20:15 UTC+03:30	Bou Hamdan 9' Fakhreddini 54' Sadeghi 57' Haddadifar 66' Niknafs 64' Mosalman 69' Hosseini 71'	Report	Mehrdad 9' Mehrdad 25' Pourghaz 27' Ansari 56'	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Referee: Vahid Kazemi Assistant referee: Hassan Yousefi، Ghahreman Najafi Fourth official:Javad Mohammadi Esmaeil Safiri

24 August 2018 5	Sepahan	2 – 2	Tractor	Isfahan
20:00 UTC+03:30	Shahbazzadeh 35' Kiani 65' Pourghaz 89'		Stokes 73' Esmaeilifar 90'	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar Assistant referee: Reza Sokhandan، Mohammad Rahi Fourth official:Reza Mahdavi Alireza Kahouri

30 August 2018 6	Pars Jam	2 – 2	Sepahan	Jam
20:00 UTC+03:30	Mirjavan 2' Seifollahi, 45+1' (pen.) Seifollahi 50' Salehi 59'	Report	Iranpourian 27' Jafari 87' Yazdani 90+4' Kiros 90+5'	Stadium: Takhti Referee: Reza Mahdavi Assistant referee: Amir Reza Ashour Mahani، Ahad Soltani Fourth official:Rouhollah Sharifi Mohammad Javad Taghi Pour

21 September 2018 7	Sepahan	3 – 1	Foolad	Isfahan
19:30 UTC+03:30	Kiros 18' (pen.) Aghaei 23' Ansari 66' Pourghaz 70' Players: Niazmand، Iranpourian، Aghaei، Pourghaz، Shafiei، Kiani، Mehrdad، Kiros، Ansari Hamed Bahiraei 46'Sarlak Koman 85'Karimi		Chimba 43' Lopes 91'	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Bijan Heidari Assistant referee: Mehdi Alvandi، Mohammad ali Pour motaghi Fourth official:Reza Mahdavi

27 September 2018 8	Naft Masjed Soleyman	0 – 2	Sepahan	Masjed Soleyman
20:30 UTC+03:30		Report	Kiros 20' Kiros 28', 76.' Koman 43' Kiani 59'	Stadium: Behnam Mohammadi Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Hassan Akrami Assistant referee: Babak Abasgholi، Ali Akbar Aziempour Fourth official:Rouhollah Sharifi

19 October 2018 9	Sepahan	3 – 2	Nassaji Mazandaran	Isfahan
16:45 UTC+03:30	Kiros 15' Pourghaz 20' Karimi 63'Aghaei Ansari 72'Papi Koman 78'Yazdani Shahbazzadeh 83' Kiros 90+6' (pen.)	Report	Ashouri 10' Mamashli 38' Jafari 49' Ashouri 58' Shojaei 81' Faraji 90+2'	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Referee: Koupal Nazemi Assistant referee: Arman Asaadi، Mohammad Zoraghi Fourth official:Ali Mirghafari

26 October 2018 10	Esteghlal	0 – 1	Sepahan	Tehran
16:45 UTC+03:30	Ali Karimi (footballer, born 1994)Karimi 17'Neumayr Bagheri 36' Ghaedi 46'Esmaeili Tabrizi 67'Alhaji Gero	Report	Mehrdad 25' Mehrdad 45'Sasan Karimi 45'Yazdani Kiani 71' Pourghaz 77' Kiros 81' Koman 90'Bakhtiar	Stadium: Azadi Attendance: 35,000 Referee: Reza Kermanshahi Assistant referee:Sajad Touri، Yaghoub Sokhandan Fourth official:Reza Mahdavi

9 November 2018 11	Sepahan	3 – 0	Saipa	Isfahan
16:30 UTC+03:30	Kiros 14' Shafiei 17' Sasan 45' Bakhtiar 68'Karimi Kiros 78' Bahiraei 80' Sasan 85'Jalal Koman 90'Rahimi	Report	Aliyari 62'	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Alireza Faghani Assistant referee: Ali Mirzabeigi، Hassan Yousefi Fourth official::Amir ArabAraghi

9 December 2018 12	Sepahan	1 – 1	Persepolis	Isfahan
16:10 UTC+03:30	Yazdani 37' Bahiraei 46'Shafiei Mehrdad 54'Sasan Pourghaz 74' Koman 82'Bakhtiar Kiros 71' 90'	Report	Alishah 84'Asadi Alipour 89' (pen.) Kamyabinia 90' Asadi 90+4'Rabiekhah	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Alireza Faghani Assistant referee: Reza Sokhandan، MohammadReza Mansouri Fourth official:Reza Adel

23 November 2018 13	Machine Sazi	1 – 1	Sepahan	Tabriz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Khorram Hosseini 36' Aziz Maeboodi 39' 45'	Report	Aghaei 15' Kiros 39' Aghaei 46'Mehrdad Bakhtiar 53'Iranpourian Jafari 77'Jalal Yazdani 84' Koman 87' Shafiei 93'	Stadium: Bonyan Diesel Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Yaser Hamrang Assistant referee: Ali Dodangeh، Ali Akbar Azimpour Fourth official:Mehdi Marjanzadeh

30 November 2018 14	Sepahan	1 – 0	Padideh	Isfahan
15:15 UTC+03:30	Mehrdad 27' Mehrdad 27' Karimi 46'Bahiraei Sasan 60' Sasan 64'Jalal Koman 81'Bakhtiar Iranpourian 90+4'	Report	Moradmand 59'	Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 45,000^[4] Referee: Mohammad Reza Akbarian Assistant referee: Mehdi Alvandi، Mohammad Reza Modir Rousta Fourth official:Reza Adel

15 December 2018 15	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1 – 1	Sepahan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Kalantari 33' Meysam Shahmakvand 33' Meysam Karimi 36' (pen.) Meysam Karimi 77' Delfi 86'		Sasan 27' Aghaei 47'Shafiei Sasan 64' Jafari 67'Iranpourian Koman 81'Dehghani Pourghaz 90'	Stadium: Ghadir Attendance: 700 Referee: Saeid Rahimi Moghadam Assistant referee: Arman Asaadi، Hadi Tousi Fourth official:Rouhollah Sharifi

5 February 2019 16	Naft Abadan	0 – 0	Sepahan	Abadan
16:00 UTC+03:30			Bakhtiar 60'Bahiraei Mehrdad 62'Jalal Koman 84'Karimi	Stadium: Takhti Referee: Koupal Nazemi Assistant referee: Mohammad Reza Mansouri، Jalil Sharani Fourth official

10 February 2019 17	Sepahan	3 – 0	Sepidrood	Isfahan
17:15 UTC+03:30	Mosalman 45'Mehrdad Ghorbani 50' Mehrdad 57' Ghorbani 59'Bahiraei Kiros 87' Aghaei 88'Mehdizadeh			Stadium: Naghsh-e Jahan Attendance: 0 Referee: Mehdi MarjanZadeh Assistant referee: Ali Akbar Azimpour، Mohammad Hashemi Nasab, Rouhollah Sharifi, Hossein Zamani Fourth official:Farhad Moraveji

Statistics[edit]

Squad statistics[edit]

As of 30 August 2018

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Pro League		Hazfi Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	IRN	Payam Niazmand	6	0	6	0	0	0
2	DF	IRN	Hassan Jafari	1	0	1	0	0	0
3	FW	IRN	Sasan Ansari	6	2	6	2	0	0
5	DF	IRN	Ezzatollah Pourghaz	6	2	6	2	0	0
6	MF	IRN	Mehdi Kiani	6	0	6	0	0	0
7	DF	IRN	Saeid Aghaei	6	0	6	0	0	0
8	MF	IRN	Rasoul Navidkia	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	IRN	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	6	3	6	3	0	0
10	FW	IRN	Mehrdad Mohammadi	6	2	6	2	0	0
11	MF	IRN	Bakhtiar Rahmani	4	0	4	0	0	0
12	MF	IRN	Reza Dehghani	2	0	2	0	0	0
14	MF	IRN	Milad Sarlak	1	0	1	0	0	0
15	DF	IRN	Davoud Rajabi	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF	IRN	Jalaleddin Alimohammadi	1	0	1	0	0	0
20	DF	IRN	Mohammad Iranpourian	6	1	6	1	0	0
21	MF	IRN	Mohammad Karimi	5	0	5	0	0	0
23	FW	IRN	Ali Khosravi	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	GK	IRN	Ali Keykhosravi	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	IRN	Iman Zakizadeh	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	DF	IRN	Khaled Shafiei	2	0	2	0	0	0
47	MF	IRN	Hossein Papi	3	0	3	0	0	0
50	GK	IRN	Shahab Adeli	0	0	0	0	0	0
70	MF	IRN	Hamed Bahiraei	0	0	0	0	0	0
77	MF	HUN	Vladimir Koman	1	0	1	0	0	0
78	DF	IRN	Mehdi Rahimi	0	0	0	0	0	0
88	FW	BRA	Kiros Stanlley	6	1	6	1	0	0
99	DF	IRN	Siavash Yazdani	6	0	6	0	0	0

Goals[edit]

As of 24 August 2018

Rank	Player	Position	Pro League	Other¹	Total
1	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	FW	3	3	6
2	Sasan Ansari	FW	2	0	2
3	Mehrdad Mohammadi	FW	2	4	6
4	Ezzatollah Pourghaz	DF	2	0	2
5	Kiros Stanlley	FW	0	2	2
6	Jalaleddin Alimohammadi	MF	0	2	2
7	Mohammad Iranpourian	DF	1	0	1
8	Hassan Jafari	DF	0	1	1
Own goals			0	0	0
Total			10	12	22

¹ Exhibition game.

Clean sheets[edit]

As of 26 May 2018

Rank	Name	Pro League	Other¹	Total
1	Payam Niazmand	2	5	7
2	Shahab Adeli	0	0	0
2	Ali Keykhosravi	0	0	0
Total		2	7	9

¹ Exhibition game.

References[edit]

^ "Sepahan 2013–14 squad". Archived from the original on 2018-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-04.
^ Sepahan 2013–14 squad Archived 10 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine
^ "PERSIAN GULF PRO LEAGUE/2019 - Season rules". Scoresway.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
^ "محاصره 45 هزار نفری پدیده لیگ (عکس)".

External links[edit]

(in English) Club Official Website
(in English) The Club page in Soccerway.com
(in English) The Club page in Persianleague.com

[1] "Sepahan 2013–14 squad". Archived from the original on 2018-08-10. Retrieved 2018-08-04.

[2] Sepahan 2013–14 squad Archived 10 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "PERSIAN GULF PRO LEAGUE/2019 - Season rules". Scoresway.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

[4] "محاصره 45 هزار نفری پدیده لیگ (عکس)".

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v t e 2018–19 in Iranian football
« 2017–18 2019–20 »
League competitions	Iran Pro League Azadegan League Iran Football's 2nd Division Iran Football's 3rd Division Khuzestan Premier League
Cup competitions	Hazfi Cup Final
Transfers	Summer 2018 Winter 2018–19 Summer 2019
Asian competitions	2018 AFC Champions League 2019 AFC Champions League
Related to national team	2018 FIFA World Cup 2019 AFC Asian Cup
Club seasons
Iran Pro League	Esteghlal Est. Khuzestan Foolad Gostaresh Naft Masjed Soleyman Nassaji Padideh Pars Jonoubi Paykan Persepolis Saipa Sanat Naft Sepahan Sepidrood Tractor Sazi Zob Ahan

v t e Sepahan Sports Club
Football team Reserve team Managers Players
Home stadiums	Takhti Stadium (1953–1982) 22nd Bahman Stadium (1982–2003) Naghsh-e-Jahan Stadium (2003–2007, 2016–) Foolad Shahr Stadium (2007–2016)
Rivalries	Naghsh-e-Jahan Derby (vs Zob Ahan) vs Esteghlal vs Persepolis
Other teams	Sepahan B Handball team (Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan) Futsal team