Persepolis F.C. statistics and records
Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian professional association football club based in Tehran. The club was formed in 1963, and played its first competitive match against Rah Ahan F.C. Persepolis currently plays in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Persepolis is the only club, never to have been relegated from the league. They have also been involved in Asian football, winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Persepolis and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.
This page details Persepolis Football Club records.
Statistics
Statistics in IPL
- Seasons in IPL: 18 (all)
- Best position in IPL: First (2001-02), (2007-08), (2016-17), (2017-18) ,(2018-19),
- Worst position in IPL: 12 (2011-12)
- Most goals scored in a season: 56 (Azadegan League 1998-99),55 (IPL 2007-08)
- Most goals scored in a match: 8 against Pegah F.C. (IPL 2003-04)
- Most goals conceded in a match: 4 against Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. (IPL 2007-08), TractorSazi (2011-12)
Statistics in AFC Champions League
- Most goals scored in a match: 6 against Al-Shabab (UAE)
- Most goals conceded in a match: 5 against Al-Gharafa (2009) (21 April 2009)
Player records
Appearances
- Most Appearances:341 Ali Parvin
- Most League Appearances: Afshin Peyrovani (209)
- Most Goalkeeper Appearances: Vahid Ghelich (185)
- Youngest first-team player : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
- Youngest first-team player in a league match : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
- Oldest first-team player : Ali Parvin (41 years and ? days old)
- Player who has won most league titles: Afshin Peyrovani, Behrouz Rahbarifard and Esmaeil Halali (5 Titles)
Goalscorers
- All-time top scorer: Farshad Pious with 153 goals[1][2][3]
- First Goalscorer : Nazem Ganjapour
- First Goalscorer in Tehran derby: Nazem Ganjapour
- Most Goalscorer in Tehran derby: 7 (Safar Iranpak)
- Most goals in a season : 26 ('Ali Alipour', 2017-18)
- Most League goals in a season : 20 (Farshad Pious, 1994–95)
- Most goals in a single match at home : 4 goals (Ali Daei ,2003-04)
- Most goals in an AFC Champions League match : 3 Emon Zayed (Al-Shabab), Mehdi Taremi (Al Wahda )
- Fastest recorded goal : 00:07 Gholamreza Rezaei vs Fajr Sepasi (2012-13 Pro League)
- Latest recorded goal : 90+10:24 Vahid Amiri vs Machine Sazi (2019-20 Hazfi Cup)
- Youngest goalscorer : Mehdi Mahdavikia against Polyacryl Esfahan F.C. (17 years and 300 days old)
Players statistics
Most appearances
Name | Nationality | Position | total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ali parvin | Iran | Midfielder | 341 |
2 | Mohammad Panjali | Iran | Defender | 264 |
3 | Hossein Abdi | Iran | Midfielder | 261 |
4 | Afshin Peyrovani | Iran | Defender | 255 |
5 | Behrouz Rahbarifar | Iran | Defender | 249 |
6 | Farshad Pious | Iran | Forward | 223 |
7 | Mohammad Mayeli Kohan | Iran | Midfielder | 218 |
8 | Karim Bagheri | Iran | Midfielder | 214 |
9 | Jalal Hosseini | Iran | Defender | 211 |
10 | Ali Alipour | Iran | Forward | 211 |
11 | Hadi Norouzi | Iran | Forward | 201 |
12 | Hamid Derakhshan | Iran | Forward | 198 |
Top goalscorers
Name | Nationality | Position | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Farshad Pious | Iran | Forward | 153 |
2 | Ali Parvin | Iran | Midfielder | 95 |
3 | Homayoun Behzadi | Iran | Forward | 83 |
4 | Safar Iranpak | Iran | Forward | 74 |
5 | Ali Alipour | Iran | Forward | 72 |
6 | Hossein Kalani | Iran | Forward | 71 |
7 | Naser Mohammadkhani | Iran | Forward | 59 |
8 | Mehdi Taremi | Iran | Forward | 55 |
9 | Karim Bagheri | Iran | Midfielder | 43 |
Ali Daei | Iran | Forward | ||
11 | Mohammad Nouri | Iran | Midfielder | 42 |
12 | Mojtaba Moharrami | Iran | Defender | 41 |
13 | Mahmoud Khordbin | Iran | Forward | 40 |
14 | Edmond Bezik | Iran | Forward | 40 |
15 | Ali Karimi | Iran | Midfielder | 38 |
Most goals scored in official competitions: 153– Farshad Pious 1985–1988 & 1989–1997.
Most appearances Foreigners
Name | Nationality | Position | total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bashar Resan | Midfielder | 104 | |
2 | Nilson Corrêa Júnior | Goalkeeper | 73 | |
3 | Godwin Mensha | Forward | 62 | |
4 | Tiago Fraga | Midfielder | 48 | |
5 | Michael Umaña | Defender | 42 | |
6 | Jacques Elong Elong | Midfielder | 38 | |
7 | Božidar Radošević | Goalkeeper | 37 | |
8 | Alan Whittle | Forward | 34 | |
9 | Ivan Petrović | Midfielder | 33 | |
10 | Shpejtim Arifi | Forward | 32 | |
11 | Saša Ilić | Goalkeeper | 31 | |
Robert Caha | Defender | |||
Ibrahima Touré | Forward |
Top Foreigners goalscorers
Name | Nationality | Position | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Alan Whittle | Forward | 16 | |
2 | Godwin Mensha | Forward | 14 | |
3 | Ibrahima Touré | Forward | 13 | |
4 | Éamon Zayed | Forward | 12 | |
5 | Shpejtim Arifi | Forward | 9 | |
6 | Jerry Bengtson | Forward | 7 | |
7 | Hawar Mulla Mohammed | Midfielder | 6 | |
8 | Bashar Resan | Midfielder | 5 | |
9 | Tiago Fraga | Midfielder | 4 | |
10 | Issa Traoré | Midfielder | 3 | |
Zyad Chaabo | Forward | |||
Mate Dragičević | Forward | |||
Persepolis top flight top goalscorer
This is the list of Persepolis top league goalscorers in a single season.
Name | Season | Goals | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Hossein Kalani | 1970-71 | 7 |
2 | Hossein Kalani | 1971–72 | 11 |
Safar Iranpak | |||
3 | Farshad Pious | 1991-92 | 11 |
4 | Farshad Pious | 1994–95 | 20 |
5 | Ali Daei | 2003-04 | 16 |
6 | Mohsen Khalili | 2007-08 | 18 |
7 | Mehdi Taremi | 2015-16 | 16 |
8 | Mehdi Taremi | 2016-17 | 18 |
9 | Ali Alipour | 2017-18 | 19 |
Transfers
Record transfer fees
- Record transfer fee received:
The club's record sale came on July 2001, when they sold Ali Karimi to Al-Ahli Dubai for a fee of € 2.5 million.
- € 2.500.000 from Al-Ahli Dubai for Ali Karimi, July 2001
- € 2.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia 2001
- € 1.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia, 1999
- € 1.150.000 from SK Sturm Graz for Mehrdad Minavand, 1998
- € 950.000† from Rubin Kazan for Alireza Haghighi, January 2012[4]
- € 550.000‡ from Charlton Athletic for Karim Bagheri, 2000
- € 500.000 from Al-Shaab for Mehrzad Madanchi, 2006
- † about $ 1.400.000
- ‡ about £ 400,000
World Cup players
The following World Cup players, played at Persepolis at some point during their career. Highlighted players played for Persepolis while playing at the World Cup.
- Javad Allahverdi (Argentina 1978)
- Ali Parvin (Argentina 1978)
- Mohammad Sadeghi (Argentina 1978)
- Bahram Mavaddat (Argentina 1978)
- Nasser Nouraei (Argentina 1978)
- Hossein Faraki (Argentina 1978)
- Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (France 1998)
- Mehdi Mahdavikia (France 1998)
- Naeim Saadavi (France 1998)
- Mohammad Khakpour (France 1998)
- Afshin Peyrovani (France 1998)
- Karim Bagheri (France 1998)
- Hamid Estili (France 1998)
- Ali Daei (France 1998)
- Khodadad Azizi (France 1998)
- Nima Nakisa (France 1998)
- Nader Mohammadkhani (France 1998)
- Reza Shahroudi (France 1998)
- Behnam Seraj (France 1998)
- Mehrdad Minavand (France 1998)
- Mehdi Mahdavikia (Germany 2006)
- Yahya Golmohammadi (Germany 2006)
- Rahman Rezaei (Germany 2006)
- Ali Karimi (Germany 2006)
- Ali Daei (Germany 2006)
- Vahid Hashemian (Germany 2006)
- Hassan Roudbarian (Germany 2006)
- Hossein Kaebi (Germany 2006)
- Javad Kazemian (Germany 2006)
- Mehrzad Madanchi (Germany 2006)
- Mohammad Nosrati (Germany 2006)
- Franck Atsou (Germany 2006)
- Michael Umaña (Brazil 2014)
- Rahman Ahmadi (Brazil 2014)
- Jalal Hosseini (Brazil 2014)
- Reza Haghighi (Brazil 2014)
- Karim Ansarifard (Brazil 2014)
- Alireza Haghighi (Brazil 2014)
- Hossein Mahini (Brazil 2014)
- Mehrdad Pooladi (Brazil 2014)
- Alireza Beiranvand (Russia 2018)
- Vahid Amiri (Russia 2018)
- Mehdi Taremi (Russia 2018)
- Ramin Rezaeian (Russia 2018)
- Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (Russia 2018)
References
- زندگی نامه فرشاد پیوس Archived 2011-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Farshad Pious
- ده گلزن برتر تاریخ پرسپولیس Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Ben Somerford (12 January 2012), Official: Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi joins Rubin Kazan, Goal, retrieved 20 November 2019