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Malavan
Full name	Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club
Nickname(s)	White Swans (Persian: قوی سپید)
Founded	1969
Ground	Takhti Stadium; Bandar-e Anzali; Iran; (Capacity: 20,000)
Chairman	Saeed Pourtahmasebi
Head Coach	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
League	Persian Gulf Cup
2008-09	Persian Gulf Cup, 12th
Home colours	Away colours

Malavan Bandar Anzali Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال ملوان بندر انزلى) is an Iranian football club based in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran.

The team is known to have some of the most passionate and loyal fans in Iranian football, and is one of the most successful teams not based in Tehran. It is attached to the Iranian Navy, and is known to have one of the best youth football programs in the country. It currently plays in Iran's top football league, the IPL.

Malavan is the football club of the multisport Malavan Sport and Cultural Club.

[edit] History

[edit] Establishment

Bahman Salehnia created the team in 1969 along with some young athletes from the port city of Anzali. After some time, the Iranian Navy decided to become the team's main sponsor and owner. Salehnia can be called the team's founder; he took over as the team's manger in 1973, and until 1998 remained in the position. The team has only had two coaches other than Salehnia, in the years since (Mohammad Ahmadzadeh and Nosrat Irandoost).

[edit] Success

Salehnia was last manager of the team when he helped the team climb out of the 1st division and back into the IPL. The club has never really had great success in the league but they were able to become the best non-Tehran based club and finishing third in the 1977 and 1989. Malavan has won the Hazfi Cup on three occasions, in 1976, 1986 and 1990. In 1988 Malavan participated in Asian Club Championship but after beating Saunders SC in first round they withdrew from tournament due to the Iran–Iraq War. They have been one of the most stable teams of the league in recent years where they only had few coaches during their history and always finished in mid table and challenge the big teams.They finished 12th in the 2008-09 season.

[edit] Season-by-season

For details on seasons, see List of Malavan F.C. seasons

[edit] Honors

Hazfi Cup

Winners (3): 1976, 1986, 1990

Runner Up (3): 1987, 1988,1991

[edit] Players

[edit] First-team squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Sajjad Beyranvand
2	DF	Morteza Falahati
3	DF	Milad Ghanbarzadeh
4	DF	Babak Pourgholami
6	DF	Hadi Tamini
7	FW	Mojtaba Ghorbani
8	MF	Pejman Nouri
10	FW	Jalal Rafkhaei
11	FW	Adriano Alvez
12	MF	Abolhassan Jafari
13	FW	Mohammad Heidari
14	MF	Alen Bašić
15	MF	Safar Salarzadeh
16	FW	Hossein Ebrahimi
17	FW	Ehsan Abadi
18	MF	Mohammed Nozhati

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Mehran Jafari
21	DF	Mohammad Rostami
23	MF	Hadi Azizi
24	DF	Morteza Falahzadeh
26	MF	Milad Hamrang
28	MF	Ali Mirzaei
29	FW	Farid Jadidi
30	MF	Felipe Alves
31	MF	Hadi Mousavi
33	FW	Mehdi Rahimzadeh
	MF	Arash Gholizadeh
	MF	Ali Ramezani
--	MF	Majid Madani
--	FW	Iman Sayad Nouri
--	DF	Zaman Hosseini
--	DF	Arash Soosarian

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

[edit] Former players

For details on former players, see Category:Malavan players.

[edit] Famous players

[edit] Club officials

Senior club staff

Club President: Ardeshir Pournemat
Supervisor: Hossein Gholami
General Secretary: Ali Akbar Keramati
Club Accountant: Mahmoud Basimi
Club Store Manager: Esmaeel Khabbaz Ghaziani
Director of Transport: Kamyar Karami

Management

Manager: Mohammad Ahmadzadeh
Assistant Manager: Farhad Pourgholami
Goalkeeping Coach: Mohammad Habibi

Academy coaching staff

Under 21's Coaches: Mahmoud Pishgah Hadian, Naser Kohan Ghanbarian, Reza Vishgahi, Shazdik Foomani & Nader Ezatollahi
Under 18's Coaches: Farhad Pourgholami, Fazel Ghadiri, Reza Sotudeh, Mehdi Hasani Moghaddam & Ali Sayyad
Under 12's Coaches: Ghader Ezatollahi, Ahmad Espandar, Hamid Mohammadian, Bijan Shojaei & Mohammad Nabinia
Under 8's Coaches: Alireza Fazaeli, Mehdi Delavari & Faramarz Salehnia

Medical staff

Medical Doctor: Dr. A Poortahmasbi
Medical Assistant: Shahbaz Kheiri
Physiotherapist: Enayat Ettehad

[edit] Managerial history

Name	Period
Bahman Salehnia	1968-1997
Nosrat Irandoost	1997-2000
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	2000-2002
Bahman Salehnia	2002-2004
Nosrat Irandoost	2004-2006
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	2006—

[edit] External links

[edit] Official

(English) (Persian) Official club website

[edit] Fan site

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