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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11.01.2015 at 20:00 Melbourne/Melbourne Rectangular Stadium

Attendance: 17712

Bahrain

0 - 2

Iran

Referee: Benjamin Williams (Australia)

Asian Cup Finals / Group C-match

Goalscorers

None	Ehsan HajSafi (45) Masoud Shojaei (71)

Opening squads

Substitutes

Alireza Haghighi
Jalal Hosseini
Morteza Pouraliganji
Voria Ghafouri
Andranik Teymourian
Ashkan Dejagah
Ehsan HajSafi
Javad Nekounam
Masoud Shojaei
Mehrdad Pouladi
Reza GhoochanNejhad

Alireza Beiranvand
Khosro Heydari
Ramin Rezaeian
Vahid Amiri
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Omid Ebrahimi
Soroush Rafiei
Karim Ansarifard
Sardar Azmoun

Substitutions

Sardar Azmoun

Reza GhoochanNejhad (75)
Alireza Jahanbakhsh

Masoud Shojaei (80)
Soroush Rafiei

Ashkan Dejagah (89)

Yellow cards

Red cards

Ehsan HajSafi (21)

None.

Match report

TeamMelli.com -

ran, seeking to end a 39-year wait for a fourth title, effectively sealed the points in its Group C opener when Masoud Shojaei added a second in the 71st minute to end Bahrain's brave resistance in Melbourne.

Asia's top-ranked side, Iran almost opened the scoring after 20 minutes when the dangerous Ashkan Dejagah forced a smart stop from Sayed Abbas in the Bahrain goal.

But Bahrain had already served notice that the underdogs were not about to simply roll over as its bulldozing Nigerian-born striker Jaycee Okwunwanne blazed just wide during the frenetic early skirmishes.

Sayed Shubbar then squandered a golden opportunity by heading over as Bahrain threatened to capitalise on a sluggish start from Iran.

However, Hajsafi produced a moment of magic with almost the last kick of the first half, expertly trapping a looping clearance with his left foot before instantaneously smashing it past Abbas with the outside of his right boot from just outside the box.

Reza Ghoochannejhad appeared to be incorrectly flagged for offside for a second time when through on goal shortly after the interval, before Okwunwanne almost emulated Hajsafi with a ferocious drive that Iran goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi did brilliantly to keep out.

Tempers flared when Haghighi barged into Faouzi Aaish, Bahrain's waspish playermaker with a menacing-looking mohican who was a thorn in Iran's side the entire game.

But moments later Shojaei popped up to steer a right-foot shot just inside the post from another corner to trigger wild celebrations from a crowd of 17,000.

Iran's Asian Cup drought dates back to 1976, when it won the third of three successive titles.

Earlier, the United Arab Emirates laid down a marker by thrashing Qatar 4-1 to go top of the group on goal difference.

Pictures from the match

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