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Moghavemat Fars
Full name	Basij Moghavemat Shahid; Sepasi Fars Football Club
Founded	1988, as F.C. Fajr Shahid Sepasi
Ground	Hafezieh Stadium; Shiraz; Iran; (Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman	Jafar Jafari
Head Coach	Davoud Mahabadi
League	Persian Gulf Cup
2008-09	Persian Gulf Cup, 9th
Home colours	Away colours

Basij Moghavemat Shahid Sepasi Fars Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال بسیج مقاومت شهید سپاسی فارس) is an Iranian football club based in Shiraz, Iran.

The club is one the more financially restricted teams in Iran's football, and is owned by Iran's Basij. Prior to the club's affiliation with the Basij many young players who had yet to serve in the military (2 year military service is mandatory in Iran) choose to play for Fajr Sepasi, because of the close relationship between the team and the Iranian military.

The club consists of mostly young players, and does not have a very large following in Shiraz, Bargh, Fajr's rival has a much stronger fan base in the city.

[edit] History

[edit] Establishment

In 1988, a group of youngsters, who were from Shiraz along with Jafar Jafari, established a football team named Behzad. They started play in the 2nd division of Shiraz's local city league. When Majid Sepasi, was killed in the Iran–Iraq War, the team renamed it self Fajr Shahid Sepasi, to honor him. By 1991 the club had been bought by Sepah Pasdaran. In 1995 they became champions of Fars province, and in 1996 were promoted to the Azadegan League. The club has remained in the highest level of Iranian football since then, and surprised everyone when they won the Hazfi Cup in 2001.

[edit] Takeover

Fajr Shahid Sepasi emblem (1988-2007)

In December 2006 Sepah Pasdaran sold its shares in sport to Basij, therefore all Fajr teams were renamed to Moghavemat teams. Fajr Sepasi are now officially known as Moghavemat Shahid Sepasi Shiraz, although the name is not in common use yet.^[1]

They kept the coach Gholam Hossein Peyrovani till 2009 where he was appointed as Irans olympics teams coach and had to leave the club so Peyrovani left the club after 10 years being in charge and he was finished his last season in mid table and was replaced by Davoud Mahabadi.

[edit] Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Moghavemat Sepasi in various competitions since 1995.

Season	League	Position	Hazfi Cup	Notes	Asian Cup Winners Cup
1995-1996	Fars Province League	1st	Did not qualify	Promoted	Did not qualify
1996-1997	2nd Division	1st	1/16 Final	Promoted
1997-1998	Azadegan League	4th	Not held
1998-1999	Azadegan League	10th	1/16 Final
1999-2000	Azadegan League	3rd	1/8 Final
2000-2001	Azadegan League	9th	Cup
2001-2002	Iran Pro League	10th	Final		First Round
2002-2003	Iran Pro League	4th	Final		Did not qualify
2003-2004	Iran Pro League	11th	1/8 Final
2004-2005	Iran Pro League	11th	1/16 Final
2005-2006	Iran Pro League	10th	1/8 Final
2006-2007	Iran Pro League	10th	1/16 Final
2007-2008	Iran Pro League	14th	1/8 Final
2008-2009	Iran Pro League	9th	1/16 Final
2009-2010	Iran Pro League

[edit] Honors

Hazfi Cup:

Winners (1): 2001

Runners-Up (2): 2002, 2003

2nd Division:

Winner: 1997

[edit] Head Coaches

[edit] Players

As of October 12, 2009.

[edit] First-team squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Cyrus Sangchouli
4	DF	Mirhan Hashemi
5	DF	Mohsen Neysani
6	DF	Mostafa Sabri (captain)
7	MF	Mohammad Iranpourian
8	MF	Sadegh Mohammad-Karami
9	MF	Mahmoud Mohammadi
10	FW	Siamak Koohnavard
11	FW	Shahram Goudarzi
12	DF	Ali Mohamad Dehghan
16	MF	Behnam Afsheh
18	MF	Mehdi Nazari
20	FW	Mostafa Chatrabgoon
21	GK	Mohammad Reza Sanaei

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Ali Mombaini
23	FW	Javad Mohammad Zarehei
24	FW	Mehdi Shojaei
27	FW	Amin Motevaselzadeh
32	MF	Mohammed Reza Pourmohammad
	MF	Jalal Abbasi
	DF	Meysam Amiri
	FW	Saeed Chajouei
	MF	Hassan Faraji
	MF	Reza Haghighi
	MF	Hadi Imani
	MF	Iman Mousavi
	MF	Mohammed Pourmand

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2009.

[edit] Former players

For details on former players, see Category:Fajr Sepasi players.

[edit] Famous players

[edit] Notes

^ "Basij buy out Sepah". IRNA. http://www.irna.ir/fa/news/view/line-14/8509290196160853.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-15.

[edit] External links

Template:Lang fa Official club website

[0] "Basij buy out Sepah". IRNA. http://www.irna.ir/fa/news/view/line-14/8509290196160853.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-15.

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