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	AFC Champions League 2011 Group stage
	Relegation to Azadegan League 2010-11

Persian Gulf Cup
Season	2009–10
Matches played	144
Goals scored	381 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ali Karimi (10)
Biggest home win	Saba Qom 4-0 Shahin Bushehr; Moghavemat 4-0 Malavan; Paykan 4-0 Malavan
Biggest away win	Aboomoslem 0-5 Esteghlal
	← 2008–09 2010–11 →

The 2009–10 season of the Persian Gulf Cup (also known as the Iran Pro League) is the ninth season since its establishment. It began on 8 August 2009 and will end in spring 2010. Esteghlal are the defending champions.

[edit] Team changes from 2008–09

[edit] Team overview

[edit] Stadia and locations

Persepolis
Esteghlal
Rah Ahan
Steel Azin

Locations of clubs in 2009–10 Persian Gulf Cup

Team	City	Venue	Capacity
Aboomoslem	Mashhad	Samen Al-Aeme	35,000
Est. Ahvaz	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	30,000
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	90,000
Foolad	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	30,000
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	20,000
Mes Kerman	Kerman	Shahid Bahonar	15,000
Moghavemat	Shiraz	Hafezieh	20,000
PAS Hamedan	Hamedan	Shahid Mofatteh	15,000
Paykan	Qazvin	Shahid Rajaei	5,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	90,000
Rah Ahan	Ray	Rah Ahan	15,000
Saba Qom	Qom	Yadegar Emam Qom	15,000
Saipa	Karaj	Enghelab Karaj	15,000
Sepahan	Esfahan	Naghsh Jahan	50,000
Shahin	Bushehr	Shahid Beheshti	15,000
Steel Azin	Tehran	Shahid Dastgerdi	5,000
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Yadegar Emam Tabriz	71,000
Zob Ahan	Esfahan	Foolad Shahr	25,000

[edit] Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Head coach	Team captain	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor	Past Season
Aboomoslem	?	Saeid Khani	Merooj	City Credit Cooperative	15th
Est. Ahvaz	Majid Bagherinia	Afshin Komaei	Merooj	Samsung	14th
Esteghlal	Samad Marfavi	Farhad Majidi	Legea	Iran Furniture Market	Champion
Foolad	Majid Jalali	Jalal Kameli Mofrad	Daei SWE		7th
Malavan	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Pejman Nouri	Daei SWE	Anzali Free Zone	12th
Mes Kerman	Parviz Mazloomi	Abbas Mohammadi	Merooj	Mahan Air	3rd
Moghavemat	Davoud Mahabadi	Mostafa Sabri	Merooj		9th
Pas Hamedan	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta	Yadollah Akbari	Merooj	Achilan Door	13th
Paykan	Hamid Derakhshan	Mohammad Reza Tahmasebi	JEJ	Liugong	8th
Persepolis	Zlatko Kranjčar	Karim Bagheri	Uhlsport	Tehran Municipality	5th
Rah Ahan	Ernie Brandts	Alireza Noormohammadi	JEJ	RAJA	11th
Saba Qom	Rasoul Korbekandi	Morteza Assadi	Daei SWE	Salafchegan Special Economic Zone	6th
Saipa	Mohammad Mayeli Kohan	Ebrahim Sadeghi	Nahangi	Saipa	10th
Sepahan	Amir Ghalenoei	Moharram Navidkia	Lotto	Mobarakeh Steel Company	4th
Shahin	Mahmoud Yavari	Reza Baziari	Nahangi	Haffar Machine Co.	Promoted
Steel Azin	Hamid Estili	Ali Karimi	Merooj	Razi Insurance	Promoted
Tractor Sazi	Faraz Kamalvand	Mohammad Nosrati	Daei SWE		Promoted
Zob Ahan	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	Mostafa Salehi Nejad	Merooj		2nd

[edit] Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Shahin Bushehr	Hamid Kolali Fard	Sacked	6 Sep 2009	Mahmoud Yavari	8 Sep 2009
Est.Ahvaz	Khodadad Azizi	Abdicate	19 Sep 2009	Majid Bagherinia	20 Sep 2009
Foolad	Luka Bonačić	Sacked	28 Sep 2009	Majid Jalali	28 Sep 2009
Pas Hamedan	Alireza Mansourian	Abdicate	6 Oct 2009	Ali Asghar Modir Roosta	8 Oct 2009
Aboomoslem	Nasser Pourmehdi	Sacked	29 Oct 2009	Farhad Kazemi	29 Oct 2009
Saba Qom	Mohammad Hossein Ziaei	Abdicate	9 Nov 2009	Rasoul Korbekandi	9 Nov 2009
Aboomoslem	Farhad Kazemi	Abdicate	17 Nov 2009	?	? Nov 2009

[edit] League table

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sepahan	16	9	4	3	28	13	+15	31	AFC Champions League 2011 Group stage
2	Zob Ahan	16	8	6	2	26	16	+10	30
3	Esteghlal	16	7	6	3	22	13	+9	27
4	Steel Azin	16	7	6	3	29	23	+6	27
5	Persepolis	16	6	8	2	26	20	+6	26
6	Paykan	16	6	7	3	19	15	+4	25
7	Moghavemat	16	5	9	2	21	15	+6	24
8	Malavan	16	6	6	4	16	21	−5	24
9	Teraktor Sazi	16	6	5	5	22	20	+2	23
10	Est. Ahvaz	16	5	6	5	25	26	−1	21
11	Saba Qom	16	6	2	8	23	23	0	20
12	Mes	16	5	4	7	27	32	−5	19
13	Rah Ahan	16	4	6	6	20	23	−3	18
14	Saipa	16	4	5	7	20	28	−8	17
15	Shahin Bushehr	16	3	7	6	21	24	−3	016¹
16	Pas Hamedan	16	3	4	9	16	24	−8	013¹	Relegation to Azadegan League
17	Foolad	16	1	7	8	9	18	−9	10
18	Aboomoslem	16	0	8	8	12	27	−15	8

Updated to games played on 07 November 2009
Source: IPL Stats
¹PAS Hamedan received a technical lose of 3–0 to Shahin Bushehr. The original game was finished in a 1–1 draw
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (Q) = Qualified to respective phase of tournament; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

[edit] Positions by round

Team \ Round	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
Sepahan	15	6	12	8	7	5	6	5	5	4	4	2	3	1	1	1
Zob Ahan	1	2	1	1	2	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	2
Esteghlal	6	5	3	5	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	3
Steel Azin	2	1	4	2	5	8	9	10	6	8	8	8	8	7	5	4
Persepolis	8	10	7	4	6	7	7	8	8	6	7	7	6	6	7	5
Paykan	17	16	9	6	4	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	2	4	4	6
Moghavemat	3	3	2	3	1	2	4	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	6	7
Malavan	12	4	11	12	13	11	11	12	13	13	10	11	9	11	9	8
Teraktor Sazi	13	14	10	7	8	10	10	6	7	10	11	12	10	12	11	9
Est. Ahvaz	10	11	8	11	12	14	15	15	15	15	13	14	13	10	8	10
Saba Qom	5	7	5	9	10	9	5	7	11	7	5	5	7	8	10	11
Mes	7	18	18	13	9	6	8	9	9	11	12	10	12	9	12	12
Rah Ahan	4	8	13	14	14	13	14	14	14	12	14	13	15	15	15	13
Saipa	18	9	6	10	11	12	12	11	10	9	9	9	11	13	13	14
Shahin Bushehr	11	15	16	17	18	18	13	13	12	14	14	15	14	14	14	15
Pas Hamedan	16	17	17	18	15	16	18	16	16	18	17	16	17	16	17	16
Foolad	14	13	15	16	17	17	16	17	18	17	16	18	16	18	16	17
Aboomoslem	9	12	14	15	16	15	17	18	17	16	18	17	18	17	18	18

Last updated: 07 November 2009
Source: cups.ir (Persian)

[edit] Results

Home \ Away¹	ABU	ESA	EST	FOL	MLV	MES	MVT	PAS	PAY	PRS	RAH	SAB	SAP	SEP	SAB	STL	TRK	ZOB
Aboomoslem			0–5	1–1				0–0			1–1		1–1			2–2		1–2
Est. Ahvaz	1–1				2–0	1–0	0–0		3–1			0–1			2–2		2–3
Esteghlal		2–3		1–0						1–1		1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	2–0
Foolad		1–1					1–1		1–1	0–0		2–1		0–0		0–1
Malavan	3–1		0–0	1–0		2–1		1–0			2–1						1–1
Mes			1–2	2–0				3–2		3–3	2–2		3–2			2–6		5–2
Moghavemat	1–1		0–0		4–0	1–1		1–0						3–1				0–2
Pas Hamedan		2–1	0–0	3–1						1–2	0–1		3–1			0–2		1–1
Paykan	2–0				4–0	0–0	0–2	2–2			1–1			1–4			1–0	1–1
Persepolis	2–1	1–1	a		1–1		4–2		1–2			1–0		a	2–2		2–1
Rah Ahan		1–1	3–2	2–1						2–2		1–3	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–1
Saba Qom	2–1				0–1	1–3	1–2	2–1	0–0						4–0		2–1
Saipa		2–4			3–1		1–1		0–2	0–2				2–2	1–0
Sepahan	2–0	4–1				3–0		3–1		a		3–1				0–1	3–1
Shahin Bushehr	1–1				1–1	4–1	0–0	1–1²	0–0					1–2			2–4	1–1
Steel Azin					2–2		1–1		0–1	2–1		4–3	2–2		2–1		2–2
Teraktor Sazi	1–0		1–1	1–0		1–0					2–1		1–2					0–0
Zob Ahan		5–2	1–0	1–0						1–1	1–2	2–1	3–0	0–0		3–1

Updated to games played on 07 November 2009
Source: IPL Stats
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
²PAS Hamedan received a technical lose of 3–0 to Shahin Bushehr. The original game was finished in a 1–1 draw.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Top goalscorers

10 goals

Ali Karimi (Steel Azin)

8 goals

7 goals

[edit] Top assistants

6 assists

Ali Karimi (Steel Azin)
Khosro Heidari (Esteghlal)

5 assists

Ehsan Hajysafi (Sepahan)

4 assists

[edit] Cards

Player				Team
Ali Karimi	6	1	1	Steel Azin
Saeed Lotfi	6	0	0	Paykan
Karrar Jassim	4	0	1	Tractor Sazi
Abdollah Tohidi Mehr	4	0	1	Est. Ahvaz
Farhad Majidi	4	1	0	Esteghlal
Hossein Kaebi	4	1	0	Steel Azin
Omid Sharifinasab	5	0	0	Saipa
Sina Ashouri	5	0	0	Zob Ahan

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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