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2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup

12nd season of Persian Gulf Pro League

Field	Value
image	[[File:Farhad Majidi celebrating IPL title with Esteghlal.jpg	250px	Esteghlal F.C.]]
caption	Esteghlal FC's Iranian idol Farhad Majidi raise the cup at Azadi Stadium
competition	Persian Gulf Cup
season	2012–13
winners	Esteghlal
3rd Pro League title
8th Iranian title
relegated	Aluminium Hormozgan
Sanat Naft
Paykan
Gahar Zagros
continentalcup1	Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiers	Esteghlal
Tractor Sazi
Sepahan
Foolad
league topscorer	Jalal Rafkhaei (19 goals)
best goalkeeper	Mehdi Rahmati (21 clean sheets)
matches	306
total goals	694
biggest home win	Persepolis 6–0 Paykan
(31 October 2012)
Fajr Sepasi 6–0 Aluminium Hormozgan
(2 March 2013)
Zob Ahan 6–0 Sanat Naft
(5 May 2013)
biggest away win	Paykan 0–5 Foolad
(26 September 2012)
Fajr Sepasi 0–5 Esteghlal
(15 February 2013)
highest scoring	Damash 5–3 Paykan
(31 July 2012)
Sanat Naft 2–6 Naft Tehran
(6 August 2012)
highest attendance	100,000
Esteghlal – Persepolis
(25 January 2013)
Esteghlal – Damash
(10 May 2013)
lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban)
Persepolis – Fajr Sepasi
(24 July 2012)
Persepolis – Aluminium Hormozgan
(27 September 2012)
Damash – Zob Ahan
(1 October 2012)
Damash – Saba Qom
(23 February 2013)
Esteghlal – Gahar Zagros
(12 April 2013)
attendance	2,397,100
average attendance	7,964
longest wins	5 matches
Sepahan
longest unbeaten	19 matches
Foolad
longest winless	21 matches
Sanat Naft
longest losses	7 matches
Paykan
Gahar Zagros
prevseason	2011–12
nextseason	2013–14

3rd Pro League title 8th Iranian title Sanat Naft Paykan Gahar Zagros Tractor Sazi Sepahan Foolad (31 October 2012) Fajr Sepasi 6–0 Aluminium Hormozgan (2 March 2013) Zob Ahan 6–0 Sanat Naft (5 May 2013) (26 September 2012) Fajr Sepasi 0–5 Esteghlal (15 February 2013) (31 July 2012) Sanat Naft 2–6 Naft Tehran (6 August 2012) Esteghlal – Persepolis (25 January 2013) Esteghlal – Damash (10 May 2013) Persepolis – Fajr Sepasi (24 July 2012) Persepolis – Aluminium Hormozgan (27 September 2012) Damash – Zob Ahan (1 October 2012) Damash – Saba Qom (23 February 2013) Esteghlal – Gahar Zagros (12 April 2013) Sepahan Foolad Sanat Naft Paykan Gahar Zagros The 2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup (also known as Iran Pro League) was the 30th season of Iran's Football League and 12th as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Sepahan were the defending champions. The season featured 15 teams from the 2011–12 Persian Gulf Cup and three new teams promoted from the 2011–12 Azadegan League: Paykan as champions, Aluminium Hormozgan and Gahar Zagros. The league started on 19 July 2012 and ended on 10 May 2013. Esteghlal won the Pro League title for the third time in their history (total eighth Iranian title).

Events

Competition format

After the 2012–13 Iran Pro League season, it was planned that the number of teams would be reduced from 18 to 16 for the next season, so 4 team was directly relegated to the Azadegan League, while one team was played against the 3rd ranked team from the second division league team in a play-off. 2 teams also are directly promoted from current Azadegan league to the next pro league season and one team played against the 14th placed pro league team in a play-off.

Rules and regulations

The Iranian Football Clubs who participate in 2012–13 Iran Pro League are allowed to have up to maximum 35 players (including up to maximum 4 non-Iranian players) in their player lists, which will be categorized in the following groups:

Up to maximum 21 adult (over 23-year-old) players
Up to maximum 6 under-23 players (i.e. the player whose birth is after 19 July 1989).
Up to maximum 5 under-21 players (i.e. the player whose birth is after 19 July 1991).
Up to maximum 3 under-19 players (i.e. the player whose birth is after 19 July 1993).

Based on the fact that the Season is started from 19 July 2012.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Team	City	Venue	Capacity
Aluminium	Bandar Abbas	Khalij Fars	15,459
Damash Gilan	Rasht	Dr. Azodi	11,000
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	84,412
Fajr Sepasi	Shiraz	Hafezieh
Dastgheib	14,560
7,000
Foolad	Ahvaz	Ghadir	50,199
Gahar Zagros	Dorood	Takhti Doorood	10,052
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	8,000
Mes Kerman	Kerman	Shahid Bahonar	15,430
Naft Tehran	Tehran	Dastgerdi	8,250
Paykan	Tehran	Peykanshahr	30,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	84,412
Rah Ahan	Tehran	Rah Ahan	12,922
Saba Qom	Qom	Yadegar Emam	10,610
Saipa	Karaj	Enghelab Karaj	30,000
Sanat Naft	Abadan	Takhti Abadan	25,256
Sepahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	31,439
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Yadegar-e-Emam	66,833
Zob Ahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	31,439

Personnel and kits

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	Shirt sponsor	Past Season
Aluminium	IRN Parviz Mazloomi	IRN Mahmood Tighnavard	Uhlsport	Parmis	Promoted
Damash	IRN Afshin Nazemi (caretaker)	IRN Reza Mahdavi	Uhlsport	Sadra Holding	7th
Esteghlal	IRN Amir Ghalenoei	IRN Farhad Majidi	Uhlsport	Refah Bank	Champion
Fajr Sepasi	IRN Mahmoud Yavari	IRN Hossein Kazemi	Majid	HICE	13th
Foolad	IRN Hossein Faraki	Iran Bakhtiar Rahmani	Uhlsport	Foolad Khuzestan	14th
Gahar Zagros	IRN Mohammad Mayeli Kohan	IRN Majid Bajelan	Uhlsport	Mahab	Promoted
Malavan	IRN Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	IRN Pejman Nouri	Uhlsport	Steel Azin Iranian	12th
Mes Kerman	CRO Luka Bonačić	IRN Farzad Hosseinkhani	Uhlsport	Resalat Bank	9th
Naft Tehran	IRN Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	IRN Hadi Shakouri	Uhlsport	NIOC	5th
Paykan	IRN Firouz Karimi	IRN Reza Tahmasebi	Uhlsport	IKCO Runna	Promoted
Persepolis	IRN Yahya Golmohammadi	IRN Mehdi Mahdavikia	Uhlsport	Kavosh	15th
Rah Ahan	IRN Ali Daei	IRN Hossein Pashaei	Daei	Fars Air Qeshm	11th
Saba Qom	IRN Samad Marfavi	IRN Morteza Kashi	Majid	Lojix	4th
Saipa	IRN Mojtaba Taghavi	IRN Ebrahim Sadeghi	Uhlsport	SAIPA	8th
Sanat Naft	POR Acácio Casimiro	IRN Hossein Kaebi	adidas	Jondi Shapour Co.	10th
Sepahan	CRO Zlatko Kranjčar	IRN Moharram Navidkia	Lotto	Foolad Mobarakeh	3rd
Tractor Sazi	IRN Hassan Azarnia (interim)	IRN Morteza Assadi	Uhlsport	Javanan Khayyer	2nd
Zob Ahan	IRN Farhad Kazemi	IRN Mohammad Salsali	Uhlsport	Esfahan Steel	6th

;Notes

Esteghlal's captain was Mehdi Rahmati before Farhad Majidi rejoins to the team.
Reza Haghighi was the captain of Fajr Sepasi until his transfer to the Persepolis.
From 19 January 2013 to 18 March 2013, Ali Firouzi and from 18 March 2013, Saeed Salamaat were the caretaker head coaches of Sanat Naft due to Casimiro's illness.

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach
Paykan	Iran Farhad Kazemi	Contract expired		Pre-season	Iran Abdollah Veisi
Damash	Iran Mehdi Tartar	End of caretaker spell		Iran Omid Harandi
Foolad	Iran Majid Jalali	Contract expired		Iran Hossein Faraki
Zob Ahan	Iran Mansour Ebrahimzadeh		Iran Rasoul Korbekandi
Saba	Iran Abdollah Veisi		Iran Yahya Golmohammadi
Naft Tehran	Iran Hossein Faraki	Signed by Foolad		Iran Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
Esteghlal	Iran Parviz Mazloomi	Sacked		Iran Amir Ghalenoei
Tractor Sazi	Iran Amir Ghalenoei	Signed by Esteghlal		Portugal Toni
Gahar Zagros	Iran Davoud Mahabadi	Resigned		Iran Mehdi Tartar
Persepolis	TUR Mustafa Denizli	Mutual agreement		POR Manuel José de Jesus

In season

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach
Gahar Zagros	IRN Mehdi Tartar	Resigned		17th	IRN Mohammad Mayeli Kohan
Damash	IRN Omid Harandi	Sacked		11th	IRN Hamid Derakhshan
Saba	IRN Yahya Golmohammadi	Resigned		7th	IRN Samad Marfavi
Sanat Naft	POR José Alberto Costa	Sacked		17th	POR Acácio Casimiro
Malavan	IRN Farhad Pourgholami	Resigned		9th	IRN Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
Zob Ahan	IRN Rasoul Korbekandi	Sacked		15th	IRN Farhad Kazemi
Persepolis	POR Manuel José de Jesus		12th	IRN Yahya Golmohammadi
Mes Kerman	IRN Ebrahim Ghasempour		8th	CRO Luka Bonačić
Paykan	IRN Abdollah Veisi		16th	IRN Firouz Karimi
Aluminium	IRN Akbar Misaghian		14th	IRN Parviz Mazloomi
Damash	IRN Hamid Derakhshan		13th	IRN Afshin Nazemi
Tractor Sazi	POR Toni		2nd	IRN Majid Jalali

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Former Players
Aluminium	Bosnia and Herzegovina Riad Demic	Brazil Luiz Fernando	Libya Éamon Zayed	Syria Mohamed Istanbali	Brazil Cris
Brazil Henrique
Damash Gilan	Brazil Arilson	Burkina Faso Boubacar Kébé			Morocco Ibrahim Maaroufi
Esteghlal	Bolivia Vicente Arze	Trinidad and Tobago Jlloyd Samuel			Brazil Januário
Brazil Rodrigo Tosi
Australia Liam Reddy
Fajr Sepasi	Curaçao Sendley Bito				Brazil Diego Máximo
Syria Mahmoud Amnah
Foolad	Brazil Chimba	Brazil Juninho	Brazil Leandro Padovani		Romania Claudiu Mircea Ionescu
Gahar Zagros	Armenia Hamlet Mkhitaryan	Bosnia and Herzegovina Saša Kolunija			Armenia Grigor Meliksetyan
Malavan	Moldova Serghei Pașcenco
Mes Kerman	Montenegro Milan Mijatović	Serbia Ivan Petrović	Serbia Stevan Bates
Naft Tehran	Brazil Magno	Brazil Mario Ramos	Croatia Goran Ljubojević
Paykan	Brazil Diego Máximo	Brazil Fábio Carvalho	Brazil Josieley Ferreira
Persepolis	Brazil Nilson	North Macedonia Vlatko Grozdanoski	Serbia Marko Perović		Brazil Roberto Sousa
Libya Éamon Zayed
South Korea Kwon Jun
Rah Ahan	Brazil Igor Castro
Saba Qom	Cameroon David Wirikom
Saipa	Brazil Júnior	Brazil Márcio Alemão
Sanat Naft	Armenia Valeri Aleksanyan	Mali Fousseyni Sidibé	Portugal Hugo Machado		Brazil Diogo Melo
Croatia Marko Šimić
Sepahan	Albania Ervin Bulku	Albania Xhevahir Sukaj		Australia Milan Susak	Montenegro Radomir Đalović
Tractor Sazi	Netherlands Agil Etemadi	Portugal Flávio Paixão			Portugal João Vilela
Zob Ahan	Armenia Gevorg Kasparov	Ivory Coast Ismaël Béko Fofana			Montenegro Darko Božović
North Macedonia Aco Stojkov
Portugal Hugo Machado

League table

Results

Positions by round

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Clubs season-progress

Relegation play-offs

Zob Ahan as 14th-placed team faced play-off winner of 2012–13 Azadegan League, Pas Hamedan in a two-legged play-off.

Farhadi Bayatinia Aliabadi

Zob Ahan won 5–3 on aggregate and retained its Iran Pro League spot for the 2013–14 season.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	IRN Jalal Rafkhaei	Malavan	19
2	Iran Mehdi Seyed Salehi	Tractor Sazi	16
3	IRN Mohammad Reza Khalatbari	Sepahan	14
IRN Mostafa Shojaei	Mes Kerman
5	BRA Chimba	Foolad	12
6	IRN Saeid Daghighi	Saipa	11
IRN Reza Enayati	Mes Kerman
Albania Xhevahir Sukaj	Sepahan
9	IRN Arash Borhani	Esteghlal	10
IRN Yaghoub Karimi	Naft Tehran
POR Flávio Paixão	Tractor Sazi
12	IRN Farzad Hatami	Esteghlal	9
13	IRN Karim Ansarifard	Persepolis	8
IRN Omid Ebrahimi	Sepahan
IRI Alireza Jahanbakhsh	Damash
686
306
****

Last updated: 10 May 2013 Source: IPL Stats

Clean sheets

Position	Player	Club	Clean sheets	Goals conceded
1	IRI Mehdi Rahmati	Esteghlal	21	18
2	IRI Rahman Ahmadi	Saipa	15	29
3	BRA Nilson Corrêa Júnior	Persepolis	14	21
4	IRI Arman Shahdadnejad	Mes Kerman	13	16
5	IRI Sosha Makani	Naft Tehran	11	15
6	ARM Gevorg Kasparov	Zob Ahan	8	12
IRI Hamed Lak	Saba Qom	23
8	BRA Fábio Carvalho	Paykan	7	54
IRI Shahab Gordan	Sepahan	23
Montenegro Milan Mijatovic	Mes Kerman	5
IRI Vahid Sheikhveisi	Fajr Sepasi	24
IRI Ershad Yousefi	Foolad	22
13	IRI Habib Dehghani	Sanat Naft	6	34
IRI Hamed Fallahzadeh	Naft Tehran	12
BRA Luiz Fernando	Aluminium	20
IRI Mojtaba Roshangar	Aluminium	18
IRI Shahram Mehraban	Gahar	43
IRI Mehdi Sabeti	Tractor Sazi	14
19	IRI Farshid Karimi	Rah Ahan	5	24
IRI Milad Farahani	Damash Gilan	25
IRI Mohammad Mohammadi	Rah Ahan	9
IRI Hassan Roudbarian	Damash Gilan	22
23	IRI Ali Hassani Sefat	Malavan	4	11
24	IRI Reza Mohamadi	Persepolis	3	11
IRI Saleh Khalil Azad	Fajr Sepasi	11
IRI Agil Etemadi	Tractor Sazi	9
IRI Mehrdad Tahmasbi	Saba Qom	11
IRI Mohammad-Bagher Sadeghi	Sepahan	10
30	IRI Mohsen Forouzan	Tractor Sazi	2	7
IRI Masoud Homami	Zob Ahan	12
32	1
IRI Mohammad Mazaheri	Foolad	2
IRI Mohammad Khazaei	Fajr Sepasi	3
40	ARM Alireza Beiranvand	Saba Qom	1	0
IRI Ali Mohsenzadeh	Zob Ahan	0
IRI Ali Salimi	Foolad	4
43	IRI Alireza Beiranvand	Naft Tehran	0	2
IRI Alireza Salimi	Foolad	4
IRI Saeed Razani	Gahar	6
ARM Grigor Meliksetyan	Gahar	7
MNE Darko Božović	Zob Ahan	15
CRO Marko Šimić	Naft Abadan	17

Last Update: 10 May 2013

Scoring

First goal of the season: Mehdi Nazari for Fajr against Zob Ahan (19 July 2012)
Fastest goal of the season: 12 seconds, Gholamreza Rezaei for Persepolis against Fajr Sepasi (30 December 2012)
Latest goal of the season: 96 minutes and 12 seconds, Karim Ansarifard for Persepolis against Zob Ahan (19 November 2012)
Largest winning margin: 6 goals
- Persepolis 6–0 Paykan (31 October 2012)
- Fajr 6–0 Aluminium (1 March 2013)
- Zob Ahan 6–0 Sanat Naft (5 May 2013)
Highest scoring game: 8 goals
- Damash 5–3 Paykan (31 July 2012)
- Sanat Naft 2–6 Naft Tehran (6 August 2012)
Most goals scored in a match by a single team: 6 goals
- Sanat Naft 2–6 Naft Tehran (18 August 2012)
- Fajr 6–1 Damash (15 September 2012)
- Persepolis 6–0 Paykan (31 October 2012)
- Fajr 6–0 Aluminium (1 March 2013)
Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
- Damash 5–3 Paykan (31 July 2012)
- Naft Tehran 3–4 Sepahan (30 October 2012)
- Sepahan 4–3 Zob Ahan (13 January 2013)

Hat-tricks

Player		For	Against
IRN	Malavan	Saba Qom	3–1
IRN	Naft Tehran	Sanat Naft	6–2
IRN	Fajr Sepasi	Damash Gilan	6–1
IRN	Persepolis	Paykan	6–0
IRN	Saba Qom	Sanat Naft	3–2
IRN	Mes	Gahar	5–1

Awards

Team of the Season

Goalkeeper: Mehdi Rahmati (Esteghlal)

Defence: Mehrdad Jama'ati (Foolad), Pejman Montazeri (Esteghlal), Amir Hossein Sadeghi (Esteghlal), Khosro Heydari (Esteghlal)

Midfield: Reza Haghighi (Perspolis), Bakhtiar Rahmani (Foolad), Moharram Navidkia (Sepahan), Yaghoub Karimi (Naft.t)

Attack: Jalal Rafkhaei (Malavan), Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (Sepahan)

Player of the Season

Moharram Navidkia was awarded as the best player of the season among Mehdi Rahmati and Pejman Montazeri became second and third. Saeid Ezzatollahi was also awarded as the best young player of the season and Alireza Jahanbakhsh was ranked second.

Other awards

Amir Ghalenoei was awarded as the best coach of the season, Zlatko Kranjčar becomes second and Hossein Faraki third. Saeid Mozafarizadeh awarded best referee, Fair Play Award was given to the Fajr Sepasi and Esteghlal was the team of the season. Mehdi Mahdavikia, Ali Parvin, Homayoun Behzadi and Ali Jabari were also awarded for their service to the Iranian football.

Attendances

Average home attendances

Highest attendances

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Week	Stadium
1	Esteghlal	0–0	Persepolis	100,000		23	Azadi
Esteghlal	1–2	Damash	100,000		34	Azadi
3	Persepolis	0–0	Esteghlal	90,000		6	Azadi
4	Esteghlal	1–0	Tractor Sazi	75,000		29	Azadi
5	Gahar Zagros	1–1	Persepolis	65,000		3	Azadi
Persepolis	0–2	Saba Qom	65,000		4	Azadi
7	Esteghlal	1–1	Sepahan	60,000		30	Azadi
8	Esteghlal	1–0	Aluminium Hormozgan	50,000		1	Azadi
Tractor Sazi	2–0	Esteghlal	50,000		12	Sahand
10	Saipa	2–1	Esteghlal	40,000		2	Azadi

Notes: Updated to games played on 10 May 2013. Source: Iranleague.ir

References

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References

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