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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12.10.2001 at 00:00 Tehran/Azadi Stadium

Attendance: 90000

Iran

2 - 1

Iraq

Referee: Young Joo Kim (Korea Republic)

World Cup Qualifier-match

Goalscorers

Mehdi Mahdavikia (27)
Mohammad Ali Karimi (71)

DRAIN Qhatan Chathir (71)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Ebrahim Mirzapour
Afshin Peyrovani
Rahman Rezaei
Alireza Nikbakht Vahedi
Hamed Kavianpour
Javad Nekounam
Karim Bagheri
Mehdi Mahdavikia
Mehrdad Minavand
Mohammad Ali Karimi
Ali Daei

Substitutions

None.

Yellow cards

Red cards

Mehrdad Minavand (30)
Alireza Nikbakht Vahedi (40)

None.

Match report

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP)
Iran defeated bitter rivals Iraq 2-1 here on Friday to take another huge step towards qualifying for next year s World Cup finals.
However, the match was overshadowed when fans celebrations in the streets after the match turned sour as running battles were fought with the police, teargas was fired and dozens of fans were arrested, an AFP correspondent said.
Riot police had earlier clubbed dozens of supporters of all ages after more than 20,000 people gathered in one of Tehran s main squares - Nur Square - to celebrate the team s victory.
The win put Iran back on top of Asian Group A with 15 points, one point ahead of second-placed Saudi Arabia who have also played seven games.
The result now means the sole qualifying spot will be decided on the final day of the competition next Friday when Iran travel to Bahrain while the Saudis are at home to Thailand.
Only the group winners are guaranteed a place in Japan and South Korea while the runners-up must face a play-off with the side finishing second in Group B.
The winners of that match then have to take on the Republic of Ireland, runners-up in European Group Two, if they are to make it to the finals.
It took Iran 27 minutes to take the lead on Friday when Mehdi Mahdavikia, who plays for Bundesliga side SV Hamburg, scored after some good build up by Karim Bagheri and Ali Karimi.
As the 100,000 crowd inside the Azadi Stadium looked for more goals, Iraq, playing in the Iranian capital for the first time in 25 years, refused to buckle under the pressure and early in the second half they equalised.
Qahtan Drain was on hand to score after the home side failed to clear and briefly the visitors dreamed of improving on their miserable record of only having won three of 14 meetings with their neighbours.

But Iran, bidding to reach the finals for the third time, poured forward looking for the vital strike.
Reza Rezaei, Karimi and Ali Daei all went close before they eventually grabbed the winner.

It came 19 minutes from the end when Mahdavikia broke down the right. He cut inside and as Iraq keeper Saeed Jameel tried to close him down, Mahdavikia slotted the ball to Karimi who scored from close range.

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