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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15.10.2000 at 17:05 Beirut/Sport City

Attendance: 10000

Thailand

1 - 1

Iran

Referee: Saad Kameel AlFadhli (Kuwait)

Asian Cup Finals / Group A-match

Goalscorers

PITURATANA Sakesan (12)

Ali Daei (73)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Parviz Boroumand
Behrouz Rahbarifard
Mohammad Reza Mahdavi
Hamed Kavianpour
Hamid Reza Estili
Karim Bagheri
Mehdi Mahdavikia
Mehrdad Minavand
Sattar Hamedani
Ali Daei
Khodadad Azizi

Alireza Emamifar
Mohammad Ali Karimi
Vahid Hashemian

Substitutions

Alireza Emamifar

Hamid Reza Estili (39)
Vahid Hashemian

Mehdi Mahdavikia (57)
Mohammad Ali Karimi

Mehrdad Minavand (62)

Yellow cards

Red cards

Sattar Hamedani (31)
Khodadad Azizi (67)
Behrouz Rahbarifard (91)

None.

Match report

TeamMelli.com
Iran almost became the victims of one of the greatest shocks in Asian Cup history but were saved by the head of Ali Daei as they drew their match with Thailand 1-1 in Beirut’s City Sportive.

Thailand stunned one of the Asian Cup favourites by taking the lead through Sakesan Pituratana after just 12 minutes and only conceded the equalizer 17 minutes from the end.

With most people expecting Thailand to be like lambs to the slaughter after the way they performed in their 2-0 defeat against Iraq, no one was more surprised than the Iranians when the Thais scored in their first genuine attack of the match.

The architect was Sutee Suksomkit who got behind the Iranian defence and drove a cross low and hard towards the edge of the six-yard box. Parviz Boroumand in the Iranian goal got a hand to the ball at full stretch but only pushed it into the path of Sakesan. Sakesan, who was one of four changes to the Thai starting line-up, was left with a simple tap in into an empty net.

Iran immediately pushed forward and Daei was close with a header and was only denied by Surachai Jirasirichote’s cover tackle all within two minutes of the goal. But it seemed that the shock of the goal got to the Iranians and for the rest of the half they were unrecognizable from the team that scored four against Lebanon.

The space that Thailand were finding was at times unbelievable. Sutee exploited it in the 22nd minute only to see his shot strike Hamedani’s chest. An even better opportunity died in it’s infancy when in a 2 v 1 situation the ball was spread wide when Sakesan would have been through on goal if it had been passed to him.

Iran meanwhile resorted more and more on long balls aimed at the head of Daei, and while the Hertha Berlin striker battled manfully he was well marshalled by Surachai Jirasirichote, Chukiat Noosalung and Choketawee Promrut in the Thai defence.

Such was the concern of Iranian coach Jalal Talebi that he brought on Alireza Emamifar for Hamidreza Estili five minutes before half-time.

Needless to say Iran were far better organized and for the first time in the match they started to put some real pressure on the Thai goal, although they still managed to look vulnerable to the counter attack.

In the 60th minute Thai keeper Phansa Meesattam was beaten by Daei’s shot from 10 yards, but Niweat Siriwong had backed onto the far post and cleared off the line. Six minutes later the pressure showed as Phansa dropped a high cross under Daei’s challenge and Choketawee was forced to clear Ali Karimi’s goal-bound shot.

At the other end Sutee twice got himself into shooting positions on the counter-attack, but each time failed to hit the target.

Then in the 74th minute Iran finally drew level. Karimi, a second half substitute for Mehrdad Minavand was fouled midway into the Thai half. Khodadad Azizi whipped the free-kick into the box and Daei showed exactly why he is the current Sanyo Asian Player of the Year by rising above everyone to head into the bottom left hand corner of Phansa’s goal.

Far from this being a signal for Iran to take control of the match, it was the Thais who almost scored the winner. Tananchai Boriban crossed from the right and Sakesan s glancing header only just went the wrong side of the far post.

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