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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23.07.2011 at 19:30 Tehran/Azadi Stadium

Attendance: 15000

Iran

4 - 0

Maldives

Referee: Chaiya Alee MAHAPAB (THA)

World Cup Qualifier / Preliminary Round-match

Goalscorers

Karim Ansarifard (4)
Karim Ansarifard (61)
Mohammad Ali Karimi (67)
Saeid Daghighi (88)

None

Opening squads

Substitutes

Mehdi Rahmati
Hadi Aghili
Jalal Hosseini
Khosro Heydari
Ghasem Haddadifar
Maziar Zare
Mehrdad Pouladi
Mohammad Ali Karimi
Hadi Nowroozi
Karim Ansarifard
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari

Ehsan HajSafi
Mohammad Ghazi Najafabadi
Saeid Daghighi

Substitutions

Mohammad Ghazi Najafabadi

Maziar Zare (60)
Ehsan HajSafi

Mehrdad Pouladi (61)
Saeid Daghighi

Hadi Nowroozi (82)

Yellow cards

Red cards

Karim Ansarifard (4)
Maziar Zare (42)
Mohammad Ali Karimi (76)

None.

Match report

TeamMelli.com -

Iran has defeated Maldives in the first leg of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification match. Team Melli got off to a good start and was the superior side right from the first whistle and dominated possession marking this superiority with an early goal. Maldives where not jolted by this goal and improved heir performance for the rest of the first half.

Team Melli scored from the first serious attack. Mohammad Reza Khalatbary crossed the ball into the penalty area after beating Ashad Ali and Umair and Ansarifard scored from inside the six yard box after the Maldive defenders missed the ball. Keeper Imran also came out to save the ball, but Ansarifard was quick to tap the ball.

In the 13th minute, Zare crossed into the penalty area but Ansarifard failed to control the ball and keeper Imran saved the ball.

In the 14th minute, Hadi Aghili headed from a corner. He was given the opportunity to head freely inside the penalty area and it went over the cross bar.

Five minutes later, Ansarifard again got the chance to shoot after Khalatbary beat Fasir inside the penalty area, but his shot flew over the cross bar.

In 33rd minute, Jalal Hosseini crossed into the penalty and Ansarifard headed the ball, but it missed the target.

In the 34th minute, Maldives created the first chance. Umair passed the ball from a free kick to Ashfaaq who controlled the ball outside the penalty area, but his shot was well wide off the target.

In the 44th minute, Maldives again got a great chance to equalize. Ashfaaq got the ball near the middle of the pitch and dribbled into the penalty area and gave a through pass to Assad Ali. But his shot was far too weak to bother Rahmati.

In the second half, Imran was forced to make a superb save when Mohammad Reza Khalatbari headed freely inside the penalty area.

A minute later Imran was forced to make another save when Khalatbari dribbled inside the penalty and took the shot. Imran punched it away for a corner kick.

In the 55th minute, Ashfaaq got a chance. He dribbled inside the penalty area and took a shot, but his shot was off target.

Karim Ansarifard again scored in the 61st minute. Aghili supplied a good ball into the box and Ashad Ali tried to clear it but it hits Ansarifard shin and rebounds back to the goal line where Maldive's Umair cleared the ball , but it was judged that the ball already crossed the goal line.

Karimi increased the lead for Iran from a superb header inside the penalty area. He was unmarked inside the penalty area. Norouzi crossed the ball.

In the 76th minute, Ashfaaq got another chance. Shamveel passed the ball to Ashfaaq outside the penalty area, but his shot went off the target.

Iran scored their fourth goal in the 86th minute. Ansarifard skillfully passed his marker and crossed a perfect ball into the box where substitute Saeid Dhaghighi Masouleh comfortably shot from the far post. Keeper Imran did not have any chance to stop it.

It was a tale of two contrasting performance for Team Melli. A very good start and a quick goal , followed by a lethargic and poor performance. Then a above average second half that yielded three goal but could have been much more.

Team Melli missed their Captain Javad Nekounam because the Spanish Club Osasuna has refused to release him for this FIFA World Cup match in a violation of the regulations.

Karim Ansarifard first Goal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvzorSM0XE&feature=related%20#t=00m25s

Karim Ansarifard second goal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvzorSM0XE&feature=related%20#t=05m33s

Ali Karimi Goal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvzorSM0XE&feature=related%20#t=06m23s

Saeed Daghighi Goal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvzorSM0XE&feature=related%20#t=08m52s

Pictures from the match

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