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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24.09.2010 at 19:00 Amman/King Abdollah Stadium

Attendance: 12000

Bahrain

0 - 3

Iran

Referee: Nasser Darwish - Jordan

WAFF Cup / Group A-match

Goalscorers

None	Hadi Aghili (36) Hadi Aghili (38) Mehrdad Oladi (47)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Mehdi Rahmati
Hadi Aghili
Jalal Hosseini
Khosro Heydari
Mohammad Nosrati
Andranik Teymourian
Ehsan HajSafi
Iman Mobali
Milad Zeneyedpour
Pejman Nouri
Mehrdad Oladi

Hanif Omranzadeh
Mohammad Noori
Milad Meydavoudi

Substitutions

Mohammad Noori

Andranik Teymourian (65)
Hanif Omranzadeh

Mohammad Nosrati (76)
Milad Meydavoudi

Pejman Nouri (76)

Yellow cards

Red cards

Pejman Nouri (10)
Mohammad Nosrati (26)
Andranik Teymourian (30)
Ehsan HajSafi (77)

None.

Match report

TemMelli.com -
AMMAN, Jordan - Iran crushed Bahrain in its opening match of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Championship on Friday.

The Iranians beat the Bahrainis 3-0 at the Amman’s King Abdullah Stadium.

A brace form Hadi Aghily in the 36th and 38th minutes helped Afshin Ghotbi’s team to win the first half in the Group A of WAFF. Mehrdad Ouladi scored Iran’s third goal two minutes into the second half.

Iran controlled the first half but their attacks were lacking accuracy and apart from set pieces there were not threatening Bahrains goalkeeper.

It was two of these set pieces that Iran eventually scored late in the first half, both headers from Central defender , Hadi Aghili and both assisted by inch perfect crossing of Eman Mobali.
In the second half it was mostly one way traffic with Bahrin hardly managing to breathe. After Ouladi scored , Iran missed many scoring opportunities which could have significantly changes the final results. Two of the big misses came from Mohammad Nouri , the substitute and a free kick by Mobali which left the Bahraini goalkeeper stranded.

The Persians are scheduled to play Oman on Tuesday.

Iran won the title in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2008 while the Iraq claimed the title in 2002.

“WAFF championship is a good opportunity for us to get ready for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. Some good teams such as Iraq, Bahrain and Jordan will participate in the tournament,” Ghotbi added

“We have achieved good results playing against teams from East Asian teams and we hope to do so with teams from the west of the continent,” he added.

Josef Hickersberger: our loss was not Surprising
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in the post-match press conference Josef Hickersberger Bahrain national coach commented that he was not surprised by the outcome of the game particularly as his team was facing one of the best and strongest teams in Asia which includes in its ranks many of their key and famous players , while our team includes many young players who lack the required expertise in games and competition of this level.

“my players committed a lot of mistakes that have affected the overall performance of the team, despite that , there were the odd satisfactory performances by a few players “ The Austrian coach emphasized, “ the technical level of the game has not lived up to expectation , especially on the level of implementation of the method and style and technical guidance.”

For his part, Bahrain striker Ismail Abdullatif said that he and his colleagues have given all they have got in the game and up to their capabilities and the skill that they possess, but they faced the strength and expertise of Iranian national team, which enters the competition with a complete rosters and is determined to win the title, referring to the non- Equal opportunities between the teams. Abdullatif noted that Bahrain squad was mostly consisting of young players and local league players who are looking for an opportunity to demonstrate their abilities, alluding to the lack of this group to experience games and tournaments, Ismail said: «we tried to contain the power of the Iranian national team, but we were victims of individual mistakes of and technical deficiencies which affected the outcome of the game ».

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