Persepolis FC | Iran National Football Team (Teammelli) since 1941

Top Goal Scorers :

Current Top 5 Scorers

Scorer Name	L	H	A	T
Ali Alipour	10	2	1	13
Serdar Dursun	4	0	0	4
Giorgi Gvelesiani	2	0	2	4
Issa Alekasir	3	0	0	3
Vahid Amiri	3	0	0	3

L: League | H: Hazfi | A: ACL | O: Other | T: Total

All Time Top 5 Scorers

Scorer Name	Goals
Farshad Pious	229
Ali Parvin	153
Ali Alipour	84
Safar Iranpak	74
Hamid Derakhshan	68

Latest Game Report :

Player Name	Out	Goals
04/05/2025 League
Persepolis 0 - 0 Esteghlal Khuzestan
Ali Alipour
Vahid Amiri	46
Farshad Faraji	90
Giorgi Gvelesiani
Hossein Kanaanizadegan
Soroush Rafiei
Oston Urunov	74
Alexis Guendouz
Milad Mohammadi
Serdar Dursun	74
Alireza Enayatzadeh	62
Coach: Ismail Kartal
Substitutes	In	Goals
Farshad Ahmadzadeh	46
Issa Alekasir	74
Morteza Pouraliganji
Saeid Sadeghi
Milad Sarlak
Masoud Rigi
Amir Reza Rafiei
Mohammad Khodabandelou	62
Yaghoob Barajeh	90
Abolfazl Babaei	74

Future Games :

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Nassaji Mazandaran	04/11/2025	Persepolis

Iran Team Results and Stats :

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15.10.2008 at 17:00 Azadi Stadium/Tehran

Attendance: 55000

Iran

2 - 1

North Korea

Referee: A. Al Hilali (OMA), Ali Al Qasimi (OMA), Kh. Al Allan (BHR), M.

World Cup Qualifier-match

Goalscorers

Mehdi Mahdavikia (10)
Javad Nekounam (63)

Jong Tae Se (72)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Mehdi Rahmati
Hadi Aghili
Hossein Kaabi
Jalal Hosseini
Sattar Zare
Javad Nekounam
Masoud Shojaei
Mehdi Mahdavikia
Mojtaba Jabbari
Rasoul Khatibi
Reza Enayati

Vahid Taleblou
Majid Gholamnejad
Pejman Montazeri
Fereydoon Zandi
Maziar Zare
Mehdi Seyyed Salehi
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari

Substitutions

Fereydoon Zandi

Mojtaba Jabbari (77)
Mehdi Seyyed Salehi

Rasoul Khatibi (81)
Maziar Zare

GholamReza Rezaei (91)

Yellow cards

Red cards

None.

Match report

TEHRAN, Goals from skipper Mehdi Mahdavikia and Javad Nekounam allowed Iran to survive a DPR Korea onslaught in the final 20 minutes and seal a 2-1 victory in their World Cup qualifying Group Two clash at the Azadi Stadium.

Mahdavikia headed the hosts into a 10th-minute lead and Nekounam netted a second after 64 minutes before Jong Tae-se reduced the arrears for DPR Korea seven minutes later and spark a late fightback but Iran grimly held on.

Kim Jong-hun was expected to pack his midfield in the hope of coming away with at least a point but the DPR Korea coach was forced into a rethink when they fell behind after 10 minutes.

Mojtaba Jabari delivered a measured cross from the right corner of the box that cut out the visitors’ backline and an unmarked Mahdavikia headed home from six yards.

Keeper Ri Myong-guk was called into action in the 21st minute when Rasoul Khatibi laid the ball off to Nekounam on the edge of the box. The midfielder s drive hit Jabari near the penalty spot and he turned and shot but the DPR Korea parried his effort.

Searching for an equaliser, the visitors began to threaten and the dangerous Hong Yong-jo stole in front of a defender to head narrowly wide on the half-hour mark with keeper Seyed Rahmati flat-footed as Iran went in at the break in the ascendancy.

DPR Korea began the second period in spirited fashion and Hong let fly from 30 yards but his effort flashed inches past the post with Rahmati scrambling across his goal.

Substitute Choe Kum-chol then forced the Iranian keeper into a full-length stop on the hour mark before the hosts claimed a decisive second goal four minutes later thanks to some poor defending from DPR Korea.

Hosein Kaeibi launched a long free-kick into the box and Ri Kwan-chon collided with his keeper with the pair under no pressure. The ball fell to Masoud Shojaei and he sent it back in to the danger area, An Yong-hak s header glanced the cross beyond Ri Myong-guk and Nekounam tapped home at the far post for his 23rd and possibly easiest international goal.

DPR Korea pressed for an instant riposte and Cha Jong-hyok s piledriver from the edge of the box brought an excellent parry out of Rahmati.

However, they did halve the deficit in the 71st minute when Jong outjumped the entire Iran defence to meet Hong s free-kick and his towering header flew beyond Rahmati s despairing dive.

The visitors by now had their tails up and could not believe they were denied an equaliser when Mun In-guk s rocket from the edge of the area arrowed towards the top-corner only for Rahmti to brilliantly tip the ball over the bar.

AFC

Javad Nekounam battling for the ball
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