2015–16 Sepahan F.C. season

Sepahan
2015–16 season
Chairman	Asghar Bagherian
Manager	Hossein Faraki(until November 12, 2015); Igor Štimac
Stadium	Foolad Shahr Stadium
15th Pro League	11th
29th Hazfi Cup	1/4
35th AFC Champions	Group stage
Highest home attendance	15,000; Sepahan-Persepolis; (Pro League, 13 August 2015)
Lowest home attendance	800; Sepahan-Rah Ahan; (Pro League, 13 December 2015)

The 2015–16 season was Sepahan's 15th season in the Pro League, and their 22nd consecutive season in the top division of Iranian Football and 62nd year in existence as a football club. They competed in the Hazfi Cup and the AFC Champions League. Sepahan was captained by Moharram Navidkia.

Players

Updated 4 June 2015.[1][2]

First-team squad

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	IRN	Rahman Ahmadi
2	DF	BRA	Leandro Padovani
3	DF	IRN	Habib Gordani
4	MF	IRN	Moharram Navidkia (captain)
6	MF	IRN	Milad Sarlak ^U23
7	MF	IRN	Hossein Papi
8	MF	IRN	Rasoul Navidkia
9	FW	IRN	Mohammad Reza Khalatbari
10	DF	IRN	Abdollah Karami
11	MF	IRN	Amin Jahan Alian
12	MF	IRN	Ali Karimi ^U23
14	FW	IRN	Vahid Najafi ^U23
15	DF	IRN	Ali Gholami ^U23
17	MF	BIH	Senijad Ibričić
18	MF	UZB	Fozil Musaev
21	DF	IRN	Vouria Ghafouri
22	GK	IRN	Farid Nejat ^U21


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
24	MF	IRN	Armin Sohrabian ^U21
26	DF	IRN	Ali Ahmadi ^U23
27	GK	IRN	Mehdi Amini ^U21
29	FW	BRA	Luciano Pereira
33	DF	IRN	Saeed Ghaedifar
35	GK	IRN	Shahab Gordan
37	MF	IRN	Hossein Fazeli ^U23
39	DF	IRN	Mohammad Roshandel ^U23
47	DF	IRN	Hadi Aghili (vice-captain)
66	DF	IRN	Mohammad Ali Ahmadi
68	MF	IRN	Reza Asadi ^U21
70	MF	IRN	Hamed Bahiraei ^U21
74	FW	IRN	Amin Manouchehri
77	FW	IRN	Reza Mirzaei ^U23
80	MF	IRN	Ali Hazami ^U23
88	DF	IRN	Aref Gholami ^U21
99	FW	IRN	Mehdi Alimoradi ^U21

Loan list

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
99	MF	IRN	Amir Hossein Karimi (at Gostaresh)
26	GK	IRN	Mehdi Sedghian (at Fajr Sepasi)
3	DF	IRN	Shoja' Khalilzadeh (at Tractor Sazi)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	IRN	Mehdi Sharifi (at Tractor Sazi)
40	DF	IRN	Ali Hamoudi (at Tractor Sazi)

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2015–16.

Managerial staff

Current managerial staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Igor Štimac
Assistant coach	Ivo Šeparović
Assistant coach	Majid Basirat
Assistant coach	Qasem Zaghinejad
Goalkeepers coach	Zoran Varvodić
Fitness trainer	Alireza Rabbani
Analyzer	Manouchehr Rezaei
Doctor	Mohammad Rashadi
Doctor assistant	Asghar Majidikia
Physiotherapist	Ali Khorami
Massager	Hossein Afshardoost
Massager	Majid Fazlollahi
Massager	Hamed Bateni
Administrative manager	Reza Fatahi
Executive manager	Rasoul Khorvash

Sponsorship

Period	Kit manufacturer	Sponsor
2015–16	Joma	Mobarakeh Steel Company

Matches

Pro league

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Date Round

Home

Score

Away

Location

30 July 2015 1	Sepahan	1–0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Isfahan
19:35 UTC+03:30	Aghily 60' Sharifi 65' Khalatbari 78'	Report	44'Khanifar 50'Doraghi 78'Seifollahi 88'Zohaivi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Hassan Akrami

7 August 2015 2	Zob Ahan	0–1	Sepahan	Isfahan
21:00 UTC+03:30		Report	65'Karimi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mohsen Ghahremani

13 August 2015 3	Sepahan	4–2	Persepolis	Isfahan
19:30 UTC+03:30	Hajsafi 8' Karimi 35' Aghily 57' (pen.) Karami 63' Khalatbari 81'	Report	9'Alipour 12'Taremi 33'Alishah 35'Kamyabinia 39' (o.g.)Umaña 56'Kafshgari 70'Ansari 87'Alishah	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hassan Zargar

19 August 2015 4	Sepahan	1–1	Foolad	Isfahan
19:35 UTC+03:30	Vouria 11' Karami 67'	Report	6'Aghilinejan 32'Aghaei	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Mohsen Torky

25 August 2015 5	Saipa	0–2	Sepahan	Tehran
21:00 UTC+03:30	Ebrahimzadeh 77'	Report	4'Khalatbari 55' Hajsafi 86'Sharifi 90' Hajsafi 91'Hajsafi	Stadium: Ekbatan Attendance: 500 Referee: Alborz Hajipour

19 September 2015 6	Sepahan	0–0	Tractor Sazi	Isfahan
17:00 UTC+03:30		Report		Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Afshin Khorshidi

24 September 2015 7	Saba	1–0	Sepahan	Qom
17:20 UTC+03:30	Alimohammadi 6' Eslami 61' Alimohammadi 84'	Report	86'Sharifi	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Attendance: 500 Referee: Payam Haydari

16 October 2015 8	Sepahan	1–1	Siah Jamegan	Isfahan
17:00 UTC+03:30	Gordan 14' Sharifi 45' Karami 68'	Report	36'Sharbati 58'Afshar 66'da silva 74'Enayati 93'Kamdar	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Reza Kermanshahi

20 October 2015 9	Malavan	0–0	Sepahan	Bandar-e Anzali
15:30 UTC+03:30	Yousefzadeh 84'	Report	18'Gordani 83'Karimi	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 2,270 Referee: Tooraj Haghverdi

26 October 2015 10	Sepahan	0–3	Esteghlal	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Musaev 32'	Report	6'Esmaeili 53'Ansari 77'Barzay 92'Ebrahimi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Shahin Haji Babaei

31 October 2015 11	Esteghlal Ahvaz	1–1	Sepahan	Ahvaz
16:50 UTC+03:30	Ashoubi 29' Majidi 38' Ashoubi 80'	Report	24'Khalatbari 55'Roshandel	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Payam Heydari

20 November 2015 12	Sepahan	2–1	Naft Tehran	Isfahan
15:15 UTC+03:30	Gordani 33' Sharifi 1+45' Sarlak 86' Aghily 90' (pen.) Karimi 4+90'	Report	31Bou Hamdan 36'Ghorbani	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Alireza Faghani

29 November 2015 13	Gostaresh Foulad	1–0	Sepahan	Tabriz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Goudarzi 18'	Report	34'Roshandel 56'Aghily 90+1'Karami	Stadium: Gostaresh Foulad Stadium

13 December 2015 14	Sepahan	0–0	Rah Ahan	Isfahan
15:15 UTC+03:30	Gordani 16' Khalatbari 44' Karami 82'	Report		Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 800 Referee: Mohammad Reza Faghani

18 December 2015 15	Padideh	1–1	Sepahan	Mashhad
14:45 UTC+03:30	Kheiri 54' Abbasian 87' Mardani 88'	Report	33'Ahmadi 45'Sharifi	Stadium: Samen Stadium Referee: Reza Adel

26 December 2015 16	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1–1	Sepahan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Zohaivi 58' Zohaivi 89'	Report	48'Ghafouri 85'Khalatbari 61'Aghily 92'Ahmadi	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Mohsen Torky

31 December 2015 17	Sepahan	1–1	Zob Ahan	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Khalatbari 41' Karimi 50' Fozil 60' Karami 66'	Report	14'Pahlavan 58'Mehdipour 60'Hassanzadeh 69'Pahlavan	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar Assistant referee: Sajad Touri, Mehdi Alighadr

2 February 2016 18	Persepolis	2–2	Sepahan	Tehran
17:00 UTC+03:30	Mosalman 25' Alipour 48' Kamyabinia 74' Hatami 82'	Report	9'Fozil 25'Chimba 32'Karimi 64'Chimba 76'Pado	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Bijan Haydari Assistant referee: Mohammadreza Mansouri، Babak Davari

7 February 2016 19	Foolad	1–0	Sepahan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Ahle Shakheh 70' Ahle Shakheh 70' Motlaghzadeh 81'	report	38'Karami 94'Fazeli	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Tooraj Haghverdi Assistant referee: Ali Mirzabeygi، Farhad Moraveji Fourth referee: Saeid Rahimi moghadam

12 February 2016 20	Sepahan	1–2	Saipa	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Gordani 46' Vouria 86' Chimba 92'	Report	Meydavoudi 59' Zeinali 77'	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Referee: Shahin Hajbabaei کمک‌ها: Hamid Ghamzeh، Mohammadreza Rousta داور چهارم: Hadi Haj Abbasi

18 February 2016 21	Tractor Sazi	2–1	Sepahan	Tabriz
15:15 UTC+03:30	Nong 28' Aghaei 28' Sharifi 94'		13'Rasoul 58'Karami 81'Fozil	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Referee: Ashkan Khorshidi

6 March 2016 22	Sepahan	2–2	Saba	Isfahan
				Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium

10 March 2016 23

Siah Jamegan

0–1

Sepahan

31 March 2016 24	Sepahan	2–2	Malavan	Isfahan
				Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium

10 April 2016 25

Esteghlal

0–0

Sepahan

15 April 2016 26	Sepahan	1–1	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Isfahan
16:50				Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium

24 April 2016 27

Naft Tehran

0–1

Sepahan

28 April 2016 28	Sepahan	2–1	Gostaresh Foulad	Isfahan
				Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium

8 May 2016 29

Rah Ahan

1–0

Sepahan

13 May 2016 30	Sepahan	0–2	Padideh	Isfahan
				Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium

Hazfi Cup

Win Draw Loss Postponed

11 September 2015 1/16	Sepahan F.C.	4–0	Abyek Qazvin F.C.	Esfahan
19:35	Papi 6' Papi 38' Khalatbari 65' Jahan Alian 75'	Report		Stadium: Safaeieh

19 September 2015 1/8	Kara Shiraz F.C.	1–3	Sepahan F.C.	Shiraz
19:35	Cheraghi 53'	Report	Sharifi 11' Sharifi 33' Rasoul 1+90'	Stadium: Hafezieh

5 November 2015 1/4	Sepahan F.C.	2–0	Rah Ahan F.C.	Esfahan
15:00	Karimi 94' Sharifi 111'	Report		Stadium: Foolad Shahr

24 November 2015 Semi-Final	Zob Ahan F.C.	2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)	Sepahan F.C.	Esfahan
14:30	Rezaei 2' Hamam 22' Tabrizi 32' Ismail 77' Hosseini 110'	Report	51'Vouria 52'Vouria 32' 84'Sarlak 88' Khalatbari 93'Gordani 122'Vouria	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Attendance: 5000 Referee: Mohsen Torky
	Penalties
	Rajabzadeh Rezaei Hassanzadeh Mehdipour		Aghily Vouria Karimi

Friendly Matches

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Date Round

Home

Score

Away

Location

11 July 2015 (2015-07-11)	Altınordu	3–3	Sepahan	Bolu, Turkey
18:30		[3]	Khalatbari Sharifi Hajsafi

15 July 2015 (2015-07-15)	Mersin İdmanyurdu	0–2	Sepahan	Bolu, Turkey
19:30		[4]	Pereira Sharifi

June 2015 3	Sepahan	1–2	Trinidad and Tobago	Bolu, Turkey
18:30	Khalatbari	report

24 July 2015 4	Sepahan	2–1	Rah Ahan F.C.	Esfahan
17:30	Khalatbari Najafi	report	Mehrdad	Stadium: Ferdos

21 January 2016 5	Sepahan	2–1	Sumgayit FK	Antalya
18:30	Khalatbari Fazeli	report		Stadium: Mardan Sports

24 January 2016 6	Sepahan	2–3	ASA Târgu Mureș	Antalya
18:30	Khalatbari Chimba	report		Stadium: Mardan Sports

Competitions

Overall

Competition	First match	Last match	Final position / round	Comments
Persian Gulf Pro League	30 July 2015	–	–	-
Hazfi Cup	11 September 2015	24 November 2015	Semi-Final	Failure of Zob Ahan F.C. on Penalty kick
AFC Champions League	–	–	-	-

Pro league

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	Gostaresh	30	10	9	11	36	32	+4	39
10	Padideh	30	10	9	11	30	35	−5	39
11	Sepahan	30	8	14	8	29	30	−1	38
12	Foolad	30	9	8	13	26	37	−11	35
13	Siah Jamegan	30	7	6	17	23	34	−11	27

Updated to match(es) played on 13 May 2016. Source: IPL Stats
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
21	5	10	6	20	21	−1	25	3	4	2	10	10	0	2	6	4	10	11	−1

Source: Ipl Stats

Results by round

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
Ground	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	W	W	W	D	W	D	L	D	D	L	D	W	L	D	D	D	D	D	L	L	L	D	W	D	D	D	W	W	L	L
Position	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	4	6	4	7	7	9	8	9	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	9	10	11

Source: "Ipl".
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Goal scorers

Overall

Player	Goal
Mehdi Sharifi	7
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	5
Ehsan Hajsafi	3
Hossein Papi	2
Hadi Aghily
Ali Karimi
Vouria Ghafouri
Luciano Pereira Mendes
Rasoul Navidkia
Fozil Musaev	1
Abdollah Karami
Amin Jahan Alian

Pro League

Player	Goal
Mehdi Sharifi	4
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	4
Ehsan Hajsafi	3
Hadi Aghily	2
Luciano Pereira Mendes	2
Ali Karimi	1
Abdollah Karami
Fozil Musaev
Rasoul Navidkia

Hazfi Cup

Player	Goal
Mehdi Sharifi	3
Hossein Papi	2
Vouria Ghafouri	2
Amin Jahan Alian	1
Mohammad Reza Khalatbari
Ali Karimi
Rasoul Navidkia

Last update: 4 February 2016

Transfers

Last updated on 02 February 2016

Summer

In: 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	MF	BRA	Leandro Padovani Celin (from Naft Tehran F.C.)[5]
3	DF	IRN	Habib Gordani (from Tractor Sazi F.C.)[6]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
99	MF	IRN	Amir Hossein Karimi (to Gostaresh Foulad F.C.)
18	DF	IRN	Mohammad Hossein Moradmand (to Padideh F.C.)
14	FW	ALB	Xhevahir Sukaj
28	MF	IRN	Ehsan Hajsafi (to FSV Frankfurt)

Winter

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	MF	BIH	Senijad Ibričić (from Karşıyaka S.K.)[7]
80	MF	IRN	Ali Hazzami (from Foolad F.C.)[8]
74	FW	IRN	Amin Manouchehri (from Rah Ahan F.C.)[9]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	FW	IRN	Mehdi Sharifi ((Loan) to Tractor Sazi F.C.)[10]

References

"Sepahan 2013–14 squad". Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
Sepahan 2013–14 squad Archived August 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
"فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 3 – آلتیناردو ترکیه 3 | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
"فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 2 – مرسین اسپرت صفر | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
"پادووانی یک ساله به سپاهان پیوست". ورزش سه.
"گردانی با سپاهان قرارداد بست".
باقریان:حمودی هنوز به سپاهان برنگشته است Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine (وبسایت رسمی برنامه نود)
خریدجدیدسپاهان/علی هزامی Archived 2018-10-03 at the Wayback Machine وبگاه باشگاه سپاهان
امین منوچهری به سپاهان پیوست ورزش۳
مهدی شریفی سرباز تراکتورسازی شد (وبسایت ورزش سه)

External links

(in English) Club Official Website
(in English) The Club page in Soccerway.com
(in English) The Club page in Persianleague.com

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[1] "Sepahan 2013–14 squad". Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2015.

[2] Sepahan 2013–14 squad Archived August 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[3] "فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 3 – آلتیناردو ترکیه 3 | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[4] "فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 2 – مرسین اسپرت صفر | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

[5] "پادووانی یک ساله به سپاهان پیوست". ورزش سه.

[Sepahan_2-6] "گردانی با سپاهان قرارداد بست".

[7] باقریان:حمودی هنوز به سپاهان برنگشته است Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine (وبسایت رسمی برنامه نود)

[8] خریدجدیدسپاهان/علی هزامی Archived 2018-10-03 at the Wayback Machine وبگاه باشگاه سپاهان

[9] امین منوچهری به سپاهان پیوست ورزش۳

[10] مهدی شریفی سرباز تراکتورسازی شد (وبسایت ورزش سه)

Sepahan Sports Club
Football team Reserve team Managers Players
Home stadiums	Takhti Stadium (1953–1982) 22nd Bahman Stadium (1982–2003) Naghsh-e-Jahan Stadium (2003–2007, 2016–) Foolad Shahr Stadium (2007–2016)
Rivalries	Naghsh-e-Jahan Derby (vs Zob Ahan) vs Esteghlal vs Persepolis
Other teams	Sepahan B Handball team (Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan) Futsal team

2015–16 Sepahan F.C. season

Players

First-team squad

Loan list

Managerial staff

Current managerial staff

Sponsorship

Matches

Pro league

Hazfi Cup

Friendly Matches

Competitions

Overall

Pro league

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Goal scorers

Transfers

Summer

Winter

See also

References

External links