en List of Persepolis F.C. statistics and records

Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian professional association football club based in Tehran. The club was formed in 1963 and played its first competitive match against Rah Ahan F.C. Persepolis currently plays in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Persepolis is the only club, never to have been relegated from the league. They have also been involved in Asian football, winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

This list encompasses the major honours won by Persepolis and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.

This page details Persepolis Football Club records.

Statistics

Statistics in IPL

Seasons in IPL: 20 (all)
Best position in IPL: First (2001-02), (2007-08), (2016-17), (2017-18), (2018-19), (2019-20), (2020-21), (2022-23)
Worst position in IPL: 12 (2011-12)
Most goals scored in a season: 56 (Azadegan League 1998-99),55 (IPL 2007-08)
Most goals scored in a match: 8 against Pegah F.C. (IPL 2003-04)
Most goals conceded in a match: 4 against Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. (IPL 2007-08), TractorSazi (2011-12)

Statistics in AFC Champions League

Most goals scored in a match: 6 against Al-Shabab (UAE)
Most goals conceded in a match: 5 against Al-Gharafa (2009) (21 April 2009)

Player records

Appearances

Peyrovani, Rahbarifard, Hosseini and Kamyabinia four from six players who have won most league titles with the club.

Most Appearances:341 Ali Parvin
Most League Appearances: Afshin Peyrovani (209)
Most Goalkeeper Appearances: Vahid Ghelich (185)
Youngest first-team player : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
Youngest first-team player in a league match : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
Oldest first-team player : Ali Parvin (41 years and ? days old)
Player who has won most league titles: Kamal Kamyabinia (6 titles), Afshin Peyrovani, Behrouz Rahbarifard, Esmaeil Halali, Jalal Hosseini and Božidar Radošević (5 Titles)

Goalscorers

All-time top scorer: Farshad Pious with 153 goals^[1]^[2]^[3]
First Goalscorer : Nazem Ganjapour
First Goalscorer in Tehran derby: Nazem Ganjapour
Most Goalscorer in Tehran derby: 7 (Safar Iranpak)
Most goals in a season : 26 (Ali Alipour, 2017–18)
Most League goals in a season : 20 (Farshad Pious, 1994–95)
Most goals in a single match at home : 4 goals (Ali Daei, 2003–04)
Most goals in an AFC Champions League match : 3 Emon Zayed (Al-Shabab), Mehdi Taremi (Al Wahda )
Fastest recorded goal : 00:07 Gholamreza Rezaei vs Fajr Sepasi (2012-13 Pro League)
Latest recorded goal : 90+10:24 Vahid Amiri vs Machine Sazi (2019-20 Hazfi Cup)
Youngest goalscorer : Mehdi Mahdavikia against Polyacryl Esfahan F.C. (17 years and 300 days old)

Players statistics

Most appearances

17 January 2025
	Name	Nationality	Position	total
1	Ali parvin	Iran	Midfielder	341
2	Omid Alishah	Iran	Midfielder	276
3	Mohammad Panjali	Iran	Defender	264
4	Hossein Abdi	Iran	Midfielder	261
4	Jalal Hosseini	Iran	Defender	261
6	Afshin Peyrovani	Iran	Defender	255
7	Behrouz Rahbarifar	Iran	Defender	249
8	Vahid Amiri	Iran	Midfielder	248
9	Ali Alipour	Iran	Forward	236
10	Kamal Kamyabinia	Iran	Midfielder	235

Top goalscorers

01 January 2025
	Name	Nationality	Position	Goals
1	Farshad Pious	Iran	Forward	153
2	Ali Parvin	Iran	Midfielder	95
3	Homayoun Behzadi	Iran	Forward	83
4	Ali Alipour	Iran	Forward	81
5	Safar Iranpak	Iran	Forward	74
6	Hossein Kalani	Iran	Forward	71
7	Naser Mohammadkhani	Iran	Forward	59
8	Mehdi Taremi	Iran	Forward	55
9	Karim Bagheri	Iran	Midfielder	43
9	Ali Daei	Iran	Forward	43

Most goals scored in official competitions: 153– Farshad Pious 1985–1988 & 1989–1997.

Most appearances Foreigners

5 February 2025
	Name	Position	total
1	Bashar Resan	Midfielder	104
2	Giorgi Gvelesiani	Defender	87
3	Nilson Corrêa Júnior	Goalkeeper	73
4	Godwin Mensha	Forward	63
5	Tiago Fraga	Midfielder	48
6	Božidar Radošević	Goalkeeper	43
7	Michael Umaña	Defender	42
7	Vakhdat Khanonov	Defender	42
9	Jacques Elong Elong	Midfielder	38
10	Alan Whittle	Forward	34
11	Ivan Petrović	Midfielder	33
12	Shpejtim Arifi	Forward	32
12	Oston Urunov	Midfielder	32
14	Saša Ilić	Goalkeeper	31
	Robert Caha	Defender
	Ibrahima Touré	Forward

Top Foreigners goalscorers

5 February 2025
	Name	Position	Goals
1	Giorgi Gvelesiani	Defender	20
2	Alan Whittle	Forward	16
3	Godwin Mensha	Forward	14
4	Ibrahima Touré	Forward	13
5	Éamon Zayed	Forward	12
6	Oston Urunov	Midfielder	10
7	Shpejtim Arifi	Forward	9
8	Jerry Bengtson	Forward	7
9	Jürgen Locadia	Forward	6
9	Hawar Mulla Mohammed	Midfielder	6
11	Bashar Resan	Midfielder	5
12	Tiago Fraga	Midfielder	4
13	Issa Traoré	Midfielder	3
	Zyad Chaabo	Forward
	Mate Dragičević	Forward
	Cheick Diabaté	Forward

Persepolis top flight top goalscorer

This is the list of Persepolis top league goalscorers in a single season.


	Name	Season	Goals
1	Hossein Kalani	1970–71	7
2	Hossein Kalani	1971–72	11
2	Safar Iranpak	1971–72	11
3	Farshad Pious	1991–92	11
4	Farshad Pious	1994–95	20
5	Ali Daei	2003–04	16
6	Mohsen Khalili	2007–08	18
7	Mehdi Taremi	2015–16	16
8	Mehdi Taremi	2016–17	18
9	Ali Alipour	2017–18	19

Transfers

Record transfer fees

Record transfer fee received:

The club's record sale came in July 2001, when they sold Ali Karimi to Al-Ahli Dubai for a fee of €2.5 million.^{[citation needed]}

€ 2.500.000 from

Al-Ahli Dubai for

Ali Karimi, July 2001^{[citation needed]}

€ 2.250.000 from

Hamburger SV for

Mehdi Mahdavikia 2001^{[citation needed]}

€ 1.250.000 from

Hamburger SV for

Mehdi Mahdavikia, 1999^{[citation needed]}

€ 1.150.000 from

SK Sturm Graz for

Mehrdad Minavand, 1998^{[citation needed]}

€ 950.000^† from

Rubin Kazan for

Alireza Haghighi, January 2012^[4]

€ 550.000^‡ from

Charlton Athletic for

Karim Bagheri, 2000^{[citation needed]}

€ 500.000 from

Al-Shaab for

Mehrzad Madanchi, 2006^{[citation needed]}

^† about $ 1.400.000

^‡ about £ 400,000

World Cup players

The following World Cup players, played at Persepolis at some point during their career. Highlighted players played for Persepolis while playing at the World Cup.

Ali Karimi (Germany 2006)
Ali Daei (Germany 2006)
Vahid Hashemian (Germany 2006)
Hassan Roudbarian (Germany 2006)
Hossein Kaebi (Germany 2006)
Javad Kazemian (Germany 2006)
Mehrzad Madanchi (Germany 2006)
Mohammad Nosrati (Germany 2006)
Franck Atsou (Germany 2006)
Michael Umaña (Brazil 2014)
Rahman Ahmadi (Brazil 2014)
Jalal Hosseini (Brazil 2014)
Reza Haghighi (Brazil 2014)
Karim Ansarifard (Brazil 2014) (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022)
Alireza Haghighi (Brazil 2014)
Hossein Mahini (Brazil 2014)
Mehrdad Pooladi (Brazil 2014)
Alireza Beiranvand (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022)
Vahid Amiri (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022)
Mehdi Taremi (Russia 2018) (2022 Qatar)
Ramin Rezaeian (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022)
Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (Russia 2018)
Mehdi Torabi (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022)
Morteza Pouraliganji (Qatar 2022)
Sadegh Moharrami (Qatar 2022)
Shojae Khalilzadeh (Qatar 2022)
Ahmad Nourollahi (Qatar 2022)

References

^ زندگی نامه فرشاد پیوس Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
^ Farshad Pious
^ ده گلزن برتر تاریخ پرسپولیس Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Ben Somerford (12 January 2012), Official: Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi joins Rubin Kazan, Goal, retrieved 20 November 2019

External links

Club records

[1] زندگی نامه فرشاد پیوس Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Farshad Pious

[3] ده گلزن برتر تاریخ پرسپولیس Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Ben Somerford (12 January 2012), Official: Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi joins Rubin Kazan, Goal, retrieved 20 November 2019

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List of Persepolis F.C. statistics and records