Club: Persepolis Tehran Football Club
City: Tehran
Founded: 1963

Official website: www.fc-perspolis.com

Stadium: Azadi (Capacity : 100,000)

Owner: National Sports Organization

President: Habib Kashani

Coach: Ali Daei

About club:

Perspolis Football Club Tehran, Iran. Among all the Iranian teams Persepolis has had the most impressive record of titles. According to the AFC, Perspolis is the most famous and popular football clubs in Asia. Only Dalian Shide and Al-Hilal have similar support in Asia.

Major Honours:

8 Iran Pro League championships: 1974, 1976, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 20002, 2008
3 Hazfi Cups: 1987, 1991, 1999
6 Tehran Provincial League Championships: 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
3Tehran Hazfi Cups: 1979, 1982, 1987
1 AFC Asian Cup Winners Cups: 1991

*The honours listed above are considered to be the club’s major titles and, as such, are not intended to be a full list of achievements.

Legendary players

Hamid Jasemian (1967-1970), Buyuk Vatankhah (1967-1974), Homayoun Behzadi (1967-1974), Jafar Kashani (1967-1974), Ebrahim Ashtiani (1967-1976), Ali Parvin (1970-1988), Mohammad Panjali (1976-1994), Farshad Pious (1985-1988), Mojtaba Moharrami (1988-1997), Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (1994-2000), Afshin Peyrovani (1993-2004), Ali Daei (1994-1996, 2003-2004), Karim Bagheri (1996-1997, 2002-)

First-team squad:

1-Alireza Haghighi(GK)

2-Alireza Mohammad(DF)

3-Sepehr Heidari(DF)

4-Mojtaba Shiri(DF)

5-Sékou Berthé(DF)

6-Karim Bagheri(MF)

8-Shpejtim Arifi(FW)

9-Maziar Zare(MF)

10-Gholamreza Rezaei(FW)

11-Hossein Badamaki(MF)

12-Kamran Tajari(DF)

13-Sheys Rezaei(DF)

14-Mohammad Nouri(MF)

15-Saman Aghazamani(MF)

16-Mohammad Mansouri(MF)

17-Jalal Akbari(DF)

18-Ebrahim Shakouri(DF)

20-Alireza Noormohammadi(DF)

21-Vahid Hashemian(FW)

22-Mohammad Mehdi Elhaei(MF)

23-Amir Hossein Feshangchi(MF)

24-Hadi Norouzi(FW)

25-Mehdi Shiri(MF)

26-Hamidreza Ali Asgari(MF)

27-Tiago Alves Fraga(MF)

30-Mojtaba Zarei(FW)

31-Benyamin Mahmoudian(GK)

33-Masoud Dastani(GK)

34-Rouhollah Seifollahi(FW)

36-Rahman Ahmadi(GK)

37-Ali Ebrahimi(DF)

40-Saeid Hallafi(FW)

*References:

Fifa.com

Wikipedia.org

Perspolisnews.com

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