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
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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

Supplier: Start
Sponsor: Mobarakeh Steel Company

Home

Away

Third

Goalkeeper 1

Goalkeeper 2

Players

Updated 20 December 2017.[1][2]

Niazmand

Pourghaz

Siavash

Iranpourian

Aghaei

Kiani (C)

Karimi

Shahbazzadeh

Mehrdad

Sasan

Kiros

starting lineup

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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

In

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

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

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

Pro league

Main article: 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League

League table

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
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

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

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

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Home v Away

Date Round

Home

Score

Away

Location

Sepahan v Naft Abadan

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

Sepidrood v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Paykan

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

Zob Ahan v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Tractor

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

Pars Jam v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Foolad

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

Naft Masjed Soleyman v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Nassaji Mazandaran

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

Esteghlal v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Saipa

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

Sepahan v Persepolis

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

Machine Sazi v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Padideh

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

Esteghlal Khuzestan v Sepahan

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

Naft Abadan v Sepahan

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

Sepahan v Sepidrood

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

Squad statistics

As of 30 August 2018

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Pro League		Hazfi Cup
				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

As of 24 August 2018

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

^1 Exhibition game.

Clean sheets

As of 26 May 2018

Rank	Name	Pro League	Hazfi Cup	Other^1	Total
1	Payam Niazmand	2	0	5	7
2	Shahab Adeli	0	0	0	0
2	Ali Keykhosravi	0	0	0	0
Total		2	0	7	9

^1 Exhibition game.

References

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)".

External links

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