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 :

League
Nassaji Mazandaran	04/11/2025	Persepolis

Iran Team Results and Stats :

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17.08.1997 at 00:00 Toronto, Varsity Stadium

Attendance: 15000

Canada

0 - 1

Iran

Referee: Esfandiar Baharmast (USA)

Friendly / Canada Cup-match

Goalscorers

None	Karim Bagheri (pen.) (45)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Ahmadreza Abedzadeh
Afshin Peyrovani
Ali Akbar Ostaadasadi
Mohammad Khakpour
Karim Bagheri
Mehdi Mahdavikia
Mehrdad Minavand
Esmail Halali
Ali Asghar Modir Rousta
Farhad Majidi
Khodadad Azizi

Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
Yahya Golmohammadi
Mohammad Navazi
Ali Mousavi
Hashem Heidari
Mohsen Garoosi

Substitutions

Hashem Heidari

Ali Asghar Modir Rousta (80)
Mohammad Navazi

Esmail Halali (83)

Yellow cards

Red cards

Afshin Peyrovani (36)
Mehdi Mahdavikia (60)

None.

Match report

Teammelli.com - Canada mostly used it s North American players as the more famous players in Europe were allowed to stay with their teams. The Iran team were without their superstar Ali Daei who was not brought over because he would have told the coach how to run the team. The Iran coach was the only person who drew a mixture of boos during the introduction. During the game the fans started to boo Jason DeVos every time he got the ball.

The Canadians were just hanging in in the first half thanks to goalie Paul Dolan. The 2nd half when they changed to a 4-3-3 set up they looked better and the game was very even after that. The Canadians didn not have many substitutes dressed but Iran had ten but with the game being so close looked afraid to bring any in until two were used in the last 10 minutes. Canada used eight starters that they have not used as starters before as the local media announced and this will be very valuable for this Fall run for World Cup 98.

Attendance was announced as 15325. The crowd was mostly made up of Iranian supporters but the organizers must have known that when they first announced Toronto as the game site. I feel the organizers should not have played Iranian folk music over the PA system at halftime instead use the usual Lynx stadium rock jock-jam songs. I came with my friend Rick (from my fan days of the old CSL League North York Rockets) and we watched with some guy from Nigeria who was impressed with Dolan. Being in the last row (25) was not bad at all because I could stand without getting in anyone s way.

Admission to the game allowed people to stay and see the A-League game between Toronto Lynx and Worcester Wildfire. The Lynx players Paul Dolan, Tom Kouzmanis and Paul Stalteri did not play in that game (only American Alexi Lalas would do that kind of thing!). It was announced that it was Lynx player Peyvand Mossavat s birthday and he was born in Tehran Iran and would be a starter but the crowd quickly dwindled to 2500 by the start of that game and down to 1500 by intermission as the Iran fans joined a crowd outside the stadium cheering the departure of the team in a bus.

IR of Iran Selection Team:

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World Cup Qualifier / Group A

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2 - 3

Iran

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World Cup Qualifier / Group A

North Korea

2 - 3

Iran

15.10.2024 20:00

World Cup Qualifier

Qatar

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