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Season | 2019β20 |
---|---|
Dates | 23 August 2019 β 20 August 2020 |
Champions |
Persepolis 6th Pro League title 13th Iranian title |
Relegated |
Pars Jonoubi Shahin Bushehr |
Champions League |
Persepolis Esteghlal Foolad Tractor |
Matches played | 240 |
Goals scored | 503 (2.1 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Cheick DiabatΓ© (15 goals) |
Best goalkeeper | Payam Niazmand (15 clean sheets) |
Biggest home win |
Esteghlal 5β0
Sanat Naft (5 November 2019) Sepahan 5β0 Shahin (19 December 2019) |
Biggest away win |
Shahin 0β5
Persepolis (25 October 2019) |
Highest scoring |
Paykan 6β2
Machine Sazi (20 September 2019) |
Longest winning run | Persepolis (7 matches, 2 times) |
Longest unbeaten run | Persepolis (16 matches) |
Longest winless run | Shahin Bushehr (17 matches) |
Longest losing run | Shahin Bushehr (6 matches) |
Highest attendance | 80,000 Tractor 2β4 Esteghlal (1 November 2019) |
Lowest attendance | 100 Machine Sazi 4β2 Shahin Bushehr (26 September 2019) |
Total attendance | 1,320,200 |
Average attendance | 8,629 |
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The 2019β20 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 37th season of Iran's Football League and 19th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Persepolis are the defending champions and won their record-extending 4th consecutive title and 13th title overall (6th in the Pro League era) on 24 July with four games to spare. The season featured 14 teams from the 2018β19 Persian Gulf Pro League and two new teams promoted from the 2018β19 Azadegan League: Shahin Bushehr and Gol Gohar Sirjan.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the Persian Gulf Pro League temporally suspended all matches from 11 March to 24 June 2020. [1]
Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
---|---|---|---|
Esteghlal | Tehran | Azadi | 78,116 |
Foolad | Ahvaz | Foolad Arena | 30,655 |
Gol Gohar Sirjan | Sirjan | Imam Ali | 8,000 |
Machine Sazi | Tabriz | Qasem Soleimani | 12,000 |
Naft Masjed Soleyman | Masjed Soleyman | Behnam Mohammadi | 8,000 |
Nassaji Mazandaran | Qaem Shahr | Vatani | 15,000 |
Pars Jonoubi Jam | Jam | Takhti Jam | 15,000 |
Paykan | Shahr-e Qods | Shahre Qods | 18,000 |
Persepolis | Tehran | Azadi | 78,116 |
Saipa | Tehran | Dastgerdi | 8,250 |
Sanat Naft | Abadan | Takhti Abadan | 10,000 [2] |
Sepahan | Isfahan | Naghsh-e-Jahan | 75,000 |
Shahin Bushehr | Bushehr | Shahid Mahdavi | 15,000 |
Shahr Khodro | Mashhad | Imam Reza | 27,700 |
Tractor | Tabriz | Yadegar-e Emam | 75,000 |
Zob Ahan | Fooladshahr | Fooladshahr | 15,000 |
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer |
---|---|---|---|
Esteghlal | Farhad Majidi | Voria Ghafouri | Uhlsport |
Foolad | Javad Nekounam | Ayoub Vali | Uhlsport |
Gol Gohar | Majid Jalali | Mehran Golzari | Merooj |
Machine Sazi | Human Afazeli | Aziz Maeboodi | Merooj |
Naft MIS | Mehdi Tartar | Abbas Asgari | Merooj |
Nassaji | Mahmoud Fekri | Mohammad Abbaszadeh | Merooj |
Pars Jonoubi | Sirous Pourmousavi | Mohammad Nouri | Uhlsport |
Paykan | Abdollah Veisi | Ali Hamoudi | Yousef Jame |
Persepolis | Yahya Golmohammadi | Jalal Hosseini | Uhlsport |
Saipa | Ebrahim Sadeghi | Roozbeh Shahalidoost | Start |
Sanat Naft | Behnam Seraj | Hossein Baghlani | Merooj |
Sepahan | Miguel Teixeira (caretaker) | Rasoul Navidkia | Uhlsport |
Shahin Bushehr | Mehdi Pashazadeh | Milad Saremi | Uhlsport |
Shahr Khodro | Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh | Reza Nasehi | Uhlsport |
Tractor | Saket Elhami | Masoud Shojaei | Adidas |
Zob Ahan | Luka BonaΔiΔ | Ghasem Haddadifar | Talash |
Team | Outgoing head coach | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Incoming head coach | Date of appointment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nassaji | Majid Jalali | Resigned | 17 May 2019 | Pre-season | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | 20 June 2019 |
Sanat Naft | Paulo SΓ©rgio | Signed with Al-Taawoun | 22 May 2019 | Dragan SkoΔiΔ | 1 July 2019 | |
Foolad | Afshin Ghotbi | Contract expired | 1 June 2019 | Javad Nekounam | 1 June 2019 | |
Tractor | Georges Leekens | 1 June 2019 | Mustafa Denizli | 13 June 2019 | ||
Pars Jonoubi Jam | Mehdi Tartar | 1 June 2019 | Faraz Kamalvand | 8 June 2019 | ||
Naft MIS | Firouz Karimi | 1 June 2019 | Mehdi Tartar | 29 June 2019 | ||
Esteghlal | Farhad Majidi | End of caretaker role | 10 June 2019 | Andrea Stramaccioni | 13 June 2019 | |
Machine Sazi | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | Mutual Consent | 15 June 2019 | Rasoul Khatibi | 15 June 2019 | |
Persepolis | Branko IvankoviΔ | Signed with Al-Ahli | 19 June 2019 | Gabriel CalderΓ³n | 1 July 2019 | |
Gol Gohar Sirjan | Vinko BegoviΔ | Sacked | 4 October 2019 [3] | 15th | Majid Jalali | 16 October 2019 |
Shahin Bushehr | Abdollah Veisi | Resigned | 10 October 2019 [4] | 16th | MiΕ‘o KrstiΔeviΔ [5] | 12 November 2019 |
Esteghlal | Andrea Stramaccioni | 6 December 2019 [6] | 1st | Farhad Majidi | 2 January 2020 [7] | |
Tractor | Mustafa Denizli | Sacked | 7 December 2019 [8] | 8th | Saket Elhami | 10 December 2019 [9] |
Pars Jonoubi Jam | Faraz Kamalvand | Resigned | 14 December 2019 [10] | 13th | Human Afazeli | 28 December 2019 [11] |
Zob Ahan | Alireza Mansourian | Mutual Consent | 18 December 2019 | 11th | Miodrag RaduloviΔ | 14 January 2020 |
Machine Sazi | Rasoul Khatibi | Signed with Aluminium | 3 January 2020 | 9th | Ahad Sheykhlari | 6 January 2020 |
Persepolis | Gabriel CalderΓ³n | Resigned | 12 January 2020 | 1st | Yahya Golmohammadi | 13 January 2020 |
Shahr Khodro | Yahya Golmohammadi | Signed with Persepolis | 13 January 2020 | 6th |
Mojtaba Sarasiaei Stefano Cusin 1 |
14 January 2020 |
Paykan | Hossein Faraki | Resigned | 31 January 2020 | 14th | Abdollah Veisi | 4 February 2020 |
Sanat Naft | Dragan SkoΔiΔ | Signed with Iran national football team | 6 February 2020 | 6th | Behnam Seraj | 16 February 2020 |
Nassaji | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | Resigned | 22 February 2020 | 11th | Mahmoud Fekri | 25 February 2020 |
Zob Ahan | Miodrag RaduloviΔ | Mutual Consent | 17 June 2020 | 11th | Luka BonaΔiΔ | 24 June 2020 |
Shahin Bushehr | MiΕ‘o KrstiΔeviΔ | Resigned | 30 June 2020 | 15th | Mehdi Pashazadeh | 14 July 2020 |
Machine Sazi | Ahad Sheykhlari | 1 July 2020 | 10th | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | 1 July 2020 | |
Shahr Khodro | Mojtaba Sarasiaei | 8 July 2020 | 3rd | Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh | 14 July 2020 | |
Machine Sazi | Mohammad Reza Mohajeri | 13 July 2020 | 10th | Human Afazeli | 15 July 2020 | |
Pars Jonoubi Jam | Human Afazeli | 15 July 2019 | 13th | Sirous Pourmousavi | 16 July 2019 | |
Sepahan | Amir Ghalenoei | 2 August 2020 | 5th | Miguel Teixeira (Caretaker) | 2 August 2020 |
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per
Persian Gulf Pro League team, including a slot for a player from
AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Persepolis (C) | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 46 | 17 | +29 | 67 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage |
2 | Esteghlal | 30 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 55 | 31 | +24 | 53 | |
3 | Foolad | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 28 | 19 | +9 | 51 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs |
4 | Tractor | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 31 | 23 | +8 | 50 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage [a] |
5 | Sepahan | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 39 | 22 | +17 | 49 | |
6 | Shahr Khodro | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 27 | 25 | +2 | 46 | |
7 | Sanat Naft | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 29 | 33 | −4 | 41 | |
8 | Naft Masjed Soleyman | 30 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 38 | |
9 | Nassaji Mazandaran | 30 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 30 | 32 | −2 | 38 | |
10 | Gol Gohar | 30 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 27 | 34 | −7 | 33 | |
11 | Machine Sazi | 30 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 28 | 40 | −12 | 31 | |
12 | Zob Ahan | 30 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 31 | 39 | −8 | 30 | |
13 | Paykan | 30 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 38 | 44 | −6 | 29 | |
14 | Saipa | 30 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 24 | 35 | −11 | 29 | |
15 | Pars Jonoubi Jam (R) | 30 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 27 | Relegation to 2020β21 Azadegan League |
16 | Shahin Bushehr (R) | 30 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 57 | −31 | 22 |
Leader : 2021 AFC Champions League Group stage | |
2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off round | |
Relegation to 2020-21 Azadegan League |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Cheick DiabatΓ© | Esteghlal | 15 |
2 | Shahriar Moghanlou | Paykan | 13 |
3 | Ali Alipour | Persepolis | 12 |
Issa Alekasir | Sanat Naft | ||
5 | Mehdi Torabi | Persepolis | 11 |
6 | Mehdi Ghaedi | Esteghlal | 10 |
Amir Arsalan Motahari | Zob Ahan / Esteghlal | ||
8 | Younes Shakeri | Shahr Khodro / Gol Gohar | 9 |
9 | Faraz Emamali | Paykan | 8 |
Hossein Maleki | Shahin Bushehr | ||
Mohammad Nouri | Pars Jonoubi | ||
Ahmad Reza Zendehrouh | Gol Gohar |
Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ali Alipour | Persepolis | Shahin Bushehr | 5β0 (A) | 25 October 2019 |
Cheick DiabatΓ© | Esteghlal | Tractor | 4β2 (A) | 1 November 2019 |
Kiros Stanlley | Sepahan | Shahin Bushehr | 5β0 (H) | 19 December 2019 |
Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Payam Niazmand | Sepahan | 17 |
2 | Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | Tractor | 14 |
3 | Shahab Gordan | Foolad | 13 |
4 | Mehdi Rahmati | Shahr Khodro | 12 |
5 | Alireza Haghighi | Nassaji | 11 |
6 | BoΕΎidar RadoΕ‘eviΔ | Persepolis | 10 |
7 | Hossein Hosseini | Esteghlal | 7 |
8 | Alireza Beiranvand | Persepolis | 6 |
Hamed Fallahzadeh | Saipa | ||
Milad Farahani | Gol Gohar | ||
Hamed Lak | Machine Sazi | ||
Sosha Makani | Naft MIS |
Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Persepolis | 248,000 | 57,000 | 8,000 | 27,556 | β30.2% |
2 | Esteghlal | 211,000 | 65,000 | 9,000 | 26,375 | β7.3% |
3 | Tractor | 219,000 | 80,000 | 2,000 | 21,900 | β52.8% |
4 | Sepahan | 172,000 | 45,000 | 7,000 | 19,111 | β6.9% |
5 | Nassaji | 79,000 | 15,000 | 3,000 | 7,182 | β29.8% |
6 | Shahr Khodro | 73,000 | 23,000 | 2,000 | 8,111 | β42.2% |
7 | Sanat Naft | 64,500 | 12,000 | 1,500 | 6,450 | +97.4% |
8 | Foolad | 47,000 | 25,000 | 1,000 | 5,875 | β27.5% |
9 | Shahin Bushehr | 41,000 | 10,000 | 2,000 | 4,100 | β21.2% |
10 | Gol Gohar | 40,500 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 4,050 | +239.8% |
11 | Naft MSJ | 32,000 | 6,000 | 1,000 | 3,556 | β26.8% |
12 | Pars Jonoubi Jam | 27,200 | 6,000 | 500 | 2,720 | β40.1% |
13 | Zob Ahan | 21,500 | 5,000 | 500 | 2,150 | β22.7% |
14 | Saipa | 18,300 | 8,000 | 200 | 1,830 | β22.8% |
15 | Paykan | 17,800 | 10,000 | 100 | 1,780 | β16.9% |
16 | Mashin Sazi | 8,400 | 4,000 | 100 | 840 | β54.1% |
League total | 1,320,200 | 80,000 | 100 | 8,629 | β29.3% |
Updated to games played on 23 February 2020
Source:
[1]
Notes:
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances:
- Esteghlal, Naft MSJ and Persepolis each were fined one spectator ban match
- The matches between Esteghlal vs Zob Ahan and Shahr Khodro vs Naft MSJ played without spectators due to
Coronavirus prevention
- The match between Sepahan and Persepolis was not played due to Sepahan's late arriving
Gol Gohar and Shahin Bushehr played last season in
Azadegan League
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 | 20000 | A | 57000 | A | N | A | 15000 | A | 20000 | A | A | 65000 | A | 10000 | 15000 | P | 9000 | A | C | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 26375 |
Foolad | 6000 | A | 5000 | A | 4000 | A | A | 2000 | A | 25000 | A | 1000 | A | 1000 | A | A | P | A | 3000 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5875 |
Gol Gohar | 5000 | A | 3000 | A | 5000 | A | 5000 | A | 4000 | A | 3500 | A | 3000 | A | 5000 | A | 3000 | A | 4000 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4050 |
Machine Sazi | 4000 | A | 700 | A | 100 | A | 100 | 200 | A | 600 | A | 100 | A | 2000 | A | A | 500 | A | 100 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 840 |
Naft MSJ | 1000 | A | 5000 | A | N | A | 3000 | A | 3000 | 4000 | A | 6000 | A | 2000 | A | A | 5000 | A | 3000 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 3556 |
Nassaji | A | 6000 | A | 8000 | A | 7000 | 8000 | A | 4000 | A | 15000 | A | 8000 | A | 7000 | 7000 | A | 6000 | A | 3000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 7182 |
Pars Jam | A | 3000 | A | 5000 | 3000 | A | 1000 | A | 2000 | A | 3000 | A | 500 | A | 3000 | 6000 | A | 700 | A | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2720 |
Paykan | 300 | A | A | 200 | A | 100 | A | 300 | A | 200 | A | 6000 | A | 10000 | A | A | 300 | 100 | A | 300 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1780 |
Persepolis | 25000 | A | 12000 | A | 20000 | A | N | A | 16000 | A | 8000 | 40000 | A | 30000 | A | A | 40000 | A | 57000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 27556 |
Saipa | A | 500 | 500 | A | 6000 | A | 2000 | A | 200 | A | 200 | A | 200 | A | 8000 | 300 | A | A | 400 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1830 |
Sanat Naft | A | 5000 | A | 6000 | A | 1500 | A | 5000 | A | A | 12000 | A | 3000 | A | 7000 | 12000 | A | 8000 | A | 5000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6350 |
Sepahan | A | 25000 | A | 10000 | A | 15000 | A | 20000 | A | 30000 | A | 45000 | A | A | 10000 | 7000 | A | 10000 | A | X | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 19111 |
Shahin Bushehr | 7000 | A | 2000 | A | A | 2000 | A | 10000 | A | 5000 | A | 2000 | A | 3000 | A | A | 3000 | A | 1000 | 6000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4100 |
Shahr Khodro | A | 7000 | A | 15000 | A | 23000 | A | 3500 | A | 8000 | A | 2000 | A | 7000 | A | 5000 | A | 2500 | A | C | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8111 |
Tractor | A | 50000 | A | 17000 | A | 25000 | A | A | 80000 | A | 20000 | A | 4000 | A | 2000 | 10000 | A | 7000 | A | 4000 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 21900 |
Zob Ahan | 2000 | A | 3000 | A | 5000 | A | 1000 | A | 500 | A | 500 | A | 5000 | 2000 | A | A | 500 | A | 2000 | A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2150 |
Total | 50300 | 116500 | 31200 | 118200 | 43100 | 73600 | 20100 | 56000 | 109700 | 92800 | 62200 | 102100 | 88700 | 57000 | 52000 | 62300 | N/A | 43300 | 70500 | 19300 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 71422 |
Average | 6288 | 14563 | 3900 | 14775 | 6157 | 10514 | 2871 | 7000 | 13713 | 11600 | 7775 | 12763 | 11088 | 7125 | 6500 | 7788 | N/A | 5413 | 8813 | 3860 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8737 |
Notes:
Updated to games played on 23 February 2020. Source:
[2]
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
A=Away
N=Spectator Ban
C=No spectator due to CoronaVirus prevention
X=Not played
Rank | Home team | Score | Away team | Attendance | Date | Week | Stadium |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Tractor | 2–4 | Esteghlal | 80000 | 1 November 2019 | 9 | Yadegar-e Emam Stadium |
2 | Esteghlal | 1–0 | Shahr Khodro | 65000 | 5 December 2019 | 13 | Azadi Stadium |
3 | Esteghlal | 0–1 | Persepolis | 57000 | 22 September 2019 | 4 | Azadi Stadium |
Persepolis | 2–2 | Esteghlal | 57000 | 6 February 2020 | 19 | Azadi Stadium | |
5 | Tractor | 1–0 | Persepolis | 50000 | 30 August 2019 | 2 | Yadegar-e Emam Stadium |
6 | Sepahan | 2–2 | Esteghlal | 45000 | 30 November 2019 | 12 | Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium |
7 | Persepolis | 1–0 | Nassaji | 40000 | 27 December 2019 | 12 | Azadi Stadium |
Persepolis | 2–0 | Tractor | 40000 | 26 January 2020 | 17 | Azadi Stadium | |
9 | Sepahan | 2–0 | Tractor | 30000 | 5 November 2019 | 10 | Naghsh-e Jahan Stadium |
Persepolis | 2–1 | Gol Gohar | 30000 | 10 December 2019 | 14 | Azadi Stadium |
Notes:
Updated to games played on 7 February 2020. Source:
[3]