2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League

Persian Gulf Pro League
Season	2014–15
Champions	Sepahan; 5th Pro League title; 5th Iranian title
Relegated	Paykan ; Naft Masjed Soleyman
Champions League	Sepahan ; Tractor Sazi ; Naft Tehran ; Zob Ahan
Matches played	240
Goals scored	536 (2.23 per match)
Top goalscorer	Edinho (20 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Alireza Salimi (16 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Saipa 4–0 Padideh; (19 September 2014)
Biggest away win	Paykan 0–3 Esteghlal; (24 August 2014) ; Rah Ahan 0–3 Zob Ahan; (5 February 2015) ; Rah Ahan 0–3 Tractor Sazi; (12 March 2015) ; Esteghlal 1–4 Tractor Sazi; (10 May 2015)
Highest scoring	Esteghlal Khuzestan 4–4 Esteghlal; (11 December 2014) ; Zob Ahan 5–3 Naft Tehran; (16 April 2015)
Longest winning run	6 matches; Sepahan
Longest unbeaten run	19 matches; Naft Tehran
Longest winless run	18 matches; Paykan
Longest losing run	6 matches; Rah Ahan
Highest attendance	80,000 ; Tractor Sazi – Naft Tehran ; (15 May 2015)
Lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban) ; Naft MIS – Padideh ; (8 August 2014) ; Foolad – Saipa ; (29 August 2014); Sepahan – Est. Khuzestan ; (31 October 2014) ; Malavan – Padideh ; (2 December 2014); Tractor Sazi – Zob Ahan ; (11 December 2014); Persepolis – Foolad ; (11 December 2014) ; Foolad – Padideh ; (11 May 2015) ; Zob Ahan – Malavan ; (11 May 2015)
Total attendance	1,585,978
Average attendance	6,921
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The 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 32nd season of Iran's Football League and 14th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Foolad were the defending champions. The season featured 13 teams from the 2013–14 Persian Gulf Cup and three new teams promoted from the 2013–14 Azadegan League: Padideh as champions, Naft Masjed Soleyman and Paykan. The league started on 1 August and ended on 15 May 2015. Sepahan won the Pro League title for the fifth time in their history (total fifth Iranian title).

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Team	City	Venue	Capacity
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	95,225
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Ghadir Takhti Ahvaz	38,900 15,000
Foolad Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Ghadir	38,900
Gostaresh	Tabriz	Bonyan Dizel	12,000
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	8,000
Naft Masjed Soleyman	Masjed Soleyman	Behnam Mohammadi	8,000
Naft Tehran	Tehran	Takhti Tehran	30,122
Padideh	Mashhad	Samen	35,000
Paykan	Qods	Shahr-e Qods Shahid Dastgerdi	25,000 8,250
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	95,225
Rah Ahan	Tehran	Shahr-e Qods Rah Ahan	25,000 12,000
Saba Qom	Qom	Yadegar Emam	10,610
Saipa	Karaj	Enghelab Karaj	15,000
Sepahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	15,000
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Sahand	66,833
Zob Ahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	15,000

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Esteghlal	Amir Ghalenoei	Reza Enayati	Merooj	Pardisban
Est. Khuzestan	Abdollah Veisi	Mohammad Reza Mahdavi	Uhlsport	INSIG
Foolad	Dragan Skočić	Bakhtiar Rahmani	Uhlsport	Foolad Khuzestan
Gostaresh	Faraz Kamalvand	Meysam Naghizadeh	Kelme	Ata Airlines
Malavan	Firouz Karimi	Maziar Zare	Daei	Steel Azin Iranian
Naft MIS	Behrouz Makvandi	Reza Darvishi	Merooj	NIOC
Naft Tehran	Alireza Mansourian	Alireza Ezzati	Uhlsport	Naft-G
Padideh	Alireza Marzban	Mojtaba Roshangar	Merooj	Padideh Co.
Paykan	Samad Marfavi	Mehdi Rahmati	Merooj	Iran Khodro
Persepolis	Branko Ivanković	Mohammad Nouri	Macron	Behnam Pishro Archived 29 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Rah Ahan	Farhad Kazemi	Ebrahim Karimi	Merooj	Fars Air Qeshm
Saba Qom	Mehdi Tartar	Morteza Kashi	Merooj	Azar Khodro
Saipa	Majid Jalali	Ebrahim Sadeghi	Merooj	SAIPA
Sepahan	Hossein Faraki	Hadi Aghily	Uhlsport	Foolad Mobarakeh
Tractor Sazi	Toni	Mehdi Kiani	Kelme	Hamrah-e Aval
Zob Ahan	Yahya Golmohammadi	Ghasem Hadadifar	Merooj	Xballer

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Padideh	Akbar Misaghian	Resigned	2 May 2014	Pre-season	Alireza Marzban	7 May 2014
Naft Tehran	Yahya Golmohammadi	Mutual consent	10 May 2014		Alireza Mansourian	1 July 2014
Zob Ahan	Firouz Karimi	End of contract	10 May 2014		Yahya Golmohammadi	10 May 2014
Saipa	Engin Firat	End of contract	13 May 2014		Majid Jalali	13 May 2014
Foolad	Hossein Faraki	Mutual consent	23 May 2014		Dragan Skočić	23 May 2014
Malavan	Dragan Skočić	Signed by Foolad	23 May 2014		Nosrat Irandoost	24 May 2014
Paykan	Farhad Kazemi	Mutual consent	1 July 2014		Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	1 July 2014
Rah Ahan	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	Mutual consent	1 July 2014		Hamid Estili	1 July 2014
Sepahan	Zlatko Kranjčar	Resigned	8 September 2014	4th	Hossein Faraki	9 September 2014
Persepolis	Ali Daei	Sacked	10 September 2014	9th	Hamid Derakhshan	10 September 2014
Gostaresh	Mehdi Tartar		4 October 2014	13th	Faraz Kamalvand	4 October 2014
Malavan	Nosrat Irandoost		8 October 2014	15th	Stevan Mojsilović	8 October 2014
Paykan	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh		25 November 2014	11th	Samad Marfavi	27 November 2014
Saba Qom	Samad Marfavi	Mutual consent	26 November 2014	6th	Mehdi Tartar	5 December 2014
Malavan	Stevan Mojsilović	Sacked	5 December 2014	16th	Firouz Karimi	6 December 2014
Rah Ahan	Hamid Estili	Resigned	2 February 2015	14th	Farhad Kazemi	18 February 2015
Tractor Sazi	Rasoul Khatibi	Sacked	8 February 2015^[2]	5th	Toni	15 February 2015
Persepolis	Hamid Derakhshan	Resigned	5 April 2015	9th	Branko Ivanković	6 April 2015
Malavan	Firouz Karimi	Resigned	23 May 2015	13th, post season	Hamid Estili	16 July 2015
Esteghlal	Amir Ghalenoei	Sacked	18 May 2015	5th, post season	Parviz Mazloumi	21 June 2015

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Former Players
Esteghlal	Hrayr Mkoyan			Karrar Jassim	Rafael Hendrik Helmke
ESteghlal Khuzestan	Lamine Diawara	Moussa Coulibaly	Soumbeïla Diakité
Foolad Khuzestan	Aloys Nong	Mathias Chago	Leonard Mesarić
Gostaresh	Diogo Orlando	Léo Pimenta	Magno		Rodrigo Odriozola
Malavan
Naft Masjed	Maranhão	Georgi Georgiev	Alexandru Pașcenco	Ruslan Melziddinov
Naft Tehran	Ali Ghorbani	Leandro Padovani	Donovan Deekman		David Wirikom
Padideh	Igor Prahić	Milan Jovanović	Zoran Knežević	Bahodir Nasimov
Paykan	Muamer Svraka	Dodô	Jlloyd Samuel	Oybek Kilichev	Mate Eterović
Persepolis	Fernando Gabriel	Tadeu	Michael Umaña		Nilson
Rah Ahan	Igor Nenezić	Martin Kayongo-Mutumba
Saba Qom	Ambuno Achille	Ioseb Chakhvashvili			Marquinho
Saipa
Sepahan	Xhevahir Sukaj	Chimba	Márcio Passos	Fozil Musaev
Tractor Sazi	Célio Santos	Edinho	Issa Ndoye		Ditmar Bicaj Radamés Alaa Abdul-Zahra
Zob Ahan	Hojjat Haghverdi	Carlos	Ali Hamam	Walid Ismail

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sepahan (C)	30	17	8	5	46	27	+19	59	Qualification for the 2016 AFC Champions League group stage
2	Tractor Sazi	30	17	7	6	58	34	+24	58	Qualification for the 2016 AFC Champions League group stage
3	Naft Tehran	30	16	10	4	45	28	+17	58	Qualification for the 2016 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
4	Zob Ahan	30	14	10	6	46	26	+20	52	Qualification for the 2016 AFC Champions League Group stage^[a]
5	Foolad	30	15	7	8	33	24	+9	52
6	Esteghlal	30	13	8	9	40	34	+6	47
7	Saipa	30	11	8	11	36	34	+2	41
8	Persepolis	30	9	9	12	31	35	−4	36
9	Saba Qom	30	8	10	12	25	34	−9	34
10	Padideh	30	6	15	9	23	25	−2	33
11	Gostaresh	30	6	13	11	30	39	−9	31
12	Rah Ahan	30	8	7	15	27	48	−21	31
13	Malavan	30	6	12	12	26	34	−8	30
14	Est. Khuzestan (O)	30	4	15	11	35	46	−11	27	Qualification to relegation play-offs
15	Paykan (R)	30	4	14	12	16	29	−13	26	Relegation to 2015–16 Azadegan League
16	Naft Masjed Soleyman (R)	30	3	13	14	19	39	−20	22	Relegation to 2015–16 Azadegan League

2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League

Changes

Rules and regulations

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Results

Positions by round

Clubs season-progress

Relegation play-off

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Scoring

Awards

Team of the Season

Player of the Season

Other awards

Attendance

Average home attendance

Attendance by round

Highest attendances

See also

References

External links

Wikiwand - on

Home \ Away	EST	ESK	FOL	GOS	MLV	NFT	NAF	PAD	PAY	PRS	RAH	SAB	SAP	SEP	TRK	ZOB
Esteghlal		1–0	0–1	3–0	3–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–2	2–1	1–4	1–1
Est. Khuzestan	4–4		0–3	1–1	1–3	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1
Foolad	2–1	1–0		1–0	1–0	2–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–1	3–2	0–2
Gostaresh	0–0	2–2	3–1		3–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	2–3	0–2	1–3	3–2
Malavan	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–1		1–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–1	3–0	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–0	1–3
Naft Masjed Soleyman	0–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–2		0–2	0–3	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–3	1–2	1–1
Naft Tehran	2–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–0	1–0		1–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	0–0
Padideh	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	1–2		1–2	0–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0
Paykan	0–3	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–0		0–1	2–3	0–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	1–3
Persepolis	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0		2–2	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–3	1–0
Rah Ahan	1–2	2–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–2		2–2	2–1	1–0	0–3	0–3
Saba Qom	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	0–0	0–2	1–0		1–0	2–0	2–3	2–1
Saipa	0–1	3–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	4–0	1–1	2–2	1–2	3–0		2–2	0–1	1–0
Sepahan	3–1	3–2	1–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–1	2–0		2–1	1–1
Tractor Sazi	2–2	3–0	2–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	3–3	1–3	1–2	1–0	4–1	4–2	2–1	1–1		2–1
Zob Ahan	2–1	2–1	0–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	5–3	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	4–1	1–1	0–0

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Tractor Sazi	384,828	80,000	0	27,488	+26.9%^†
2	Esteghlal	246,000	67,000	2,000	16,400	−17.0%^†
3	Persepolis	220,746	70,000	0	15,768	−46.5%^†
4	Padideh	155,400	35,000	250	10,360	n/a^†
5	Foolad	87,200	25,000	0	6,708	−25.8%^†
6	Naft MIS	85,900	8,000	0	6,136	n/a^†
7	Sepahan	81,570	15,000	0	5,826	+21.4%^†
8	Malavan	63,721	8,500	0	4,552	+2.7%^†
9	Paykan	51,450	10,330	100	3,430	n/a^†
10	Est. Khuzestan	40,331	10,500	87	2,689	−31.9%^†
11	Saipa	38,726	15,000	200	2,582	+8.8%^†
12	Gostaresh	30,231	15,000	195	2,015	−30.5%^†
13	Naft Tehran	28,900	12,000	120	1,927	−16.6%^†
14	Zob Ahan	26,650	7,500	0	1,904	−33.1%^†
15	Rah Ahan	23,856	8,000	100	1,590	−4.4%^†
16	Saba Qom	20,469	10,000	100	1,365	−50.2%^†
	League total	1,585,978	80,000	0	6,921	−9.3%^†

Team/Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Average
Esteghlal	A	12,000	A	9,000	A	15,000	A	A	17,000	A	10,000	A	18,000	A	67,000	2,000	A	10,000	A	6,000	A	5,000	17,000	A	12,000	A	11,000	A	35,000	A	16,400
Esteghlal Khuzestan	110	A	1,000	A	214	A	87	A	1,500	A	150	2,150	A	170	A	A	6,000	A	10,500	A	200	A	250	A	6,000	A	A	6,000	A	6,000	2,689
Foolad	A	11,000	A	3,000	A	NC	A	2,500	A	2,000	A	A	2,500	A	2,000	6,500	A	4,000	A	25,000	A	2,500	A	14,000	A	6,000	6,200	A	NC	A	6,708
Gostaresh	A	1,500	A	195	A	A	250	A	750	A	500	A	15,000	A	200	265	A	450	A	500	3,500	A	1,000	A	370	A	4,751	A	1,000	A	2,015
Malavan	A	1,987	A	8,000	A	3,000	A	2,000	A	1,334	A	1,800	A	2,500	A	NC	A	6,000	A	2,500	A	6,100	A	5,000	A	8,500	A	8,000	A	7,000	4,552
Naft MIS	A	NC	A	A	4,500	A	6,500	A	5,500	A	6,500	A	6,000	A	5,000	7,000	A	5,900	5,000	A	5,000	A	8,000	A	8,000	A	6,000	A	7,000	A	6,136
Naft Tehran	A	300	A	800	A	220	A	12,000	A	A	120	A	330	A	5,000	7,000	A	140	A	300	A	200	A	190	300	A	1,000	A	1,000	A	1,927
Padideh	10,500	A	4,500	12,500	A	8,000	A	22,000	A	10,000	A	35,000	A	5,600	A	A	650	A	A	30,000	A	250	A	3,000	A	1,400	A	10,000	A	2,000	10,360
Paykan	A	370	700	A	10,000	A	350	A	250	A	100	A	10,330	A	150	400	A	A	2,200	A	6,500	A	3,000	A	4,100	A	10,000	A	3,000	A	3,430
Persepolis	18,000	A	15,000	A	7,000	A	35,000	11,000	A	13,246	A	4,500	A	4,000	A	A	NC	A	8,000	A	5,000	A	A	5,000	A	20,000	A	5,000	A	70,000	15,768
Rah Ahan	8,000	A	600	A	500	A	500	A	6,000	400	A	371	A	150	A	A	100	A	200	A	100	A	3,700	A	A	1,235	A	1,000	A	1,000	1,590
Saba Qom	215	A	A	150	A	10,000	A	250	A	100	A	150	A	130	A	A	200	170	A	1,004	A	200	A	400	A	500	A	6,000	A	1,000	1,365
Saipa	1,000	A	226	A	800	A	500	A	500	A	3,500	A	300	A	15,000	A	200	A	6,500	A	450	A	450	A	300	A	8,000	A	1,000	A	2,582
Sepahan	8,000	A	13,000	A	5,000	A	2,200	A	2,000	A	13,500	A	NC	1,700	A	A	1,300	A	2,170	A	7,200	A	1,800	A	3,200	A	5,500	A	A	15,000	5,826
Tractor Sazi	20,000	A	14,000	A	8,000	10,400	A	12,000	A	51,500	A	12,700	A	65,000	A	A	NC	A	15,000	A	A	30,178	A	15,000	A	35,050	A	16,000	A	80,000	27,488
Zob Ahan	A	1,500	A	700	A	4,800	A	700	A	7,500	A	1,000	A	A	600	400	A	4,000	A	750	A	800	A	600	A	1,300	A	2,000	NC	A	1,904
Total	65,825	28,657	49,026	34,345	36,014	51,420	45,387	62,450	33,500	86,080	34,370	56,771	52,460	79,250	94,950	23,565	8,450	30,660	49,570	66,054	27,950	45,228	35,200	43,190	34,720	73,985	52,451	54,000	48,000	182,000	1,585,978
Average	8,228	4,093	6,128	4,293	4,502	7,346	5,673	7,806	4,188	10,760	4,296	7,096	7,494	9,906	11,869	3,366	1,408	3,833	6,196	8,257	3,494	5,654	4,400	5,399	4,284	9,248	6,556	6,750	8,000	22,750	6,921