Paykan F.C.

The club was established in 1967 by Mahmoud Khayami with financial help from the Iran Khodro factory. The main objective was to promote their factory's products, and improve their reputation. They were able to lure great players such as Ali Parvin, Majid Halvaei and Amir Abedini, and several of the Persepolis players of the time. In 1969 the team became the Tehran City League's champions and the team appeared to have a bright future. The team was dissolved in 1970 after a series of difficulties between the players and management. Most of the players went back to Persepolis.

Paykan still operated without a football team specifically in the 1980s but carried on with basketball, handball, and volleyball teams. Paykan did not have a football team until the year 2000, when they were able to buy Bahman's shares and participate in the top level of Iranian football after 30 years. The team participated in the 2000–01 Azadegan League with Bahman's squad but with a different coach.

Among Iranian football clubs, the team is known to have one of the better organizations in terms of facilities and management. The team had little success and were relegated from the Iran Pro League in the 2004–05 season. They were back in the IPL for the 06–07 season where they finished a respectable 7th and showed their ability to compete at the highest standard.

In 2008 Paykan was moved to Qazvin because the city of Tehran had many football teams with low attendance figures. They started the season well but toward the end their results got worse. The team changed their coach in the last weeks of the 2008–09 season and finished in mid table. Although they finished in the top half of the table in 2009–10 season the club chairman decided to replace Hamid Derakhshan with Mohammad Ahmadzadeh as the head coach. Paykan were relegated in 2010–2011, but the following year they earned their promotion back to the Iran Pro League for the 2012–2013 season.

Paykan moved back to Tehran and started playing in the newly renovated Takhti Stadium. Paykan was relegated to Azadegan League again in April 2013. Before the start of the 2013–14 season Paykan once again relocate and this time to the city of Qods. In the 2013–2014 season Paykan finished 2nd in the Azadegan League, thus giving them a shot at Iran Pro League promotion. Paykan defeated Siah Jamegan 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to play Iran Pro League club Fajr Sepasi in a promotion play-off. The first game in Shiraz ended 0–0 with neither team getting the upper hand. But, in the return leg in Qods, Paykan achieved promotion with a lone goal in the 65th minute. Following the good support from the people of Qods, Paykan announced they will be playing in that city for the 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League season. At the end of the 2014–15 season, Paykan finished 15th and was relegated.

In the 2015–16 Azadegan League season, Paykan finished first and were directly promoted to the Persian Gulf Pro League. In the winter of 2017, after a good first half of the season, Paykan became the first ever Persian Gulf Pro League side to sign an Afghan player, when they signed Afghan national team captain Faysal Shayesteh.

For the 2007/08 season it has been announced that Paykan's official kit sponsor will be ISACO.

• 2008/09: Majid
• 2009/10: Daei
• 2011/12: Umbro[1]

Updated as Dec 21, 2020

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  IRN Amirhossein Jeddi 3 DF  IRN Ehsan Joudaki 4 DF  IRN Milad Sheykh Soleimani 5 DF  IRN Arash Ghaderi U23 6 DF  IRN Nader Mohammadi U25 7 MF  IRN Mohammad Khodabandelou U23 8 MF  IRN Alireza Koushki U21 9 FW  IRN Ebrahim Salehi 11 MF  IRN Hossein Pour Amini 12 GK  IRN Mohammad Deris 13 GK  IRN Meraj Esmaeili U21 14 MF  IRN Mohammad Nouri 17 FW  IRN Amir Roostaei (on loan from Persepolis) 19 FW  IRN Mohammad Amin Darvishi

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 DF  IRN Shahin Taherkhani 23 MF  IRN Moein Abbasian 24 FW  IRN Farzad Hatami 27 GK  IRN Mehdi Amini 29 FW  IRN Ali Dalir U23 33 DF  IRN Mohammad Sattari 44 DF  IRN Saman Fallah U21 60 MF  IRN Majid Eidi 71 FW  IRN Mohammad Ebrahimi U23 77 FW  IRN Reza Jabireh 80 MF  IRN Hossein Heydari U23 88 MF  IRN Esmaeil Babaei 99 GK  IRN Alireza Rezaei U23

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2018–19.

For notable former players, see Category:Paykan F.C. players.