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Saba Qom
صبای قم
Full name	Saba Qom Football Club
Founded	2002
Ground	Yadegar Emam Stadium, Qom; (Capacity: 15,000)
Chairman	Gen. Hossein Shahriari
Head Coach	Rasoul Korbekandi
League	Persian Gulf Cup
2008-09	Persian Gulf Cup, 6th
Home colours	Away colours
	Current season

Saba Qom Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال صبای قم) is a football team based in Qom, Iran.

The team is part of Saba Battery Club, owned by Saba Battery Co, and is located in Qom, although they are registered as a team from Qom. They are one of the wealthier teams in the league, and have good facilities and management compared to other IPL teams.

[edit] History

[edit] Establishment

In 1974 a football called Mohemat Sazi was established in Tehran. The team never had any major success and only played in the lower leagues of the Iranian football league system. They came close to making it to Tehran's top football league in the eighties. In the early nineties the club was sponsored by a company named Maham. During the later stages of the club's history they were sponsored by Sanam, an electronics company.

[edit] Takeover

In 2002, the club's shares were sold to Saba Battery Co. (also known as Niru Co.) which is under the control of Iran's Ministry of Defense. Due to the club's greatly improved financial status, the team was able to purchase talented players and was promoted to the IPL after only two years.

[edit] IPL

The team debuted in the IPL 2005/06 season. The football team was able to secure a berth for the Asian Champions League after winning the 2005 Hazfi Cup, however failed to make it past the group stages. In 2008 Saba was moved to Qom because the city of Tehran has many football teams that have low attendance figures. They were one of the few teams of the league in 2008-09 season which had one coach during the season and finished in 6th position at the end of the season.

[edit] Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Saba Battery every season, from 2002 to the present day.

Season	League	Position	Hazfi Cup	ACL
2002-2003	Azadegan League	6th		Did not qualify
2003-2004	Azadegan League	1st
2004-2005	Iran Pro League	9th	Cup
2005-2006	Iran Pro League	4th	Semifinal	First Round
2006-2007	Iran Pro League	13th	Final	Did not qualify
2007-2008	Iran Pro League	3rd	1/8 Final	Did not qualify
2008-2009	Iran Pro League	6th	Semifinal	First Round

[edit] Club honors

Azadegan League:
- 2004

Hazfi Cup:
- 2005

Iranian Super Cup:
- 2005

[edit] Club chairmen

Abbas Moradi (2002)
Mojtaba Tabatabaei (2002-2003)
Ahmad Shahryari (2003-2008)
Ebrahim Torki (2008)
Karimi Malahi (2008-2009)

[edit] Club managers

Parviz Mazloumi (2002 - 2004)
Milan Živadinović (2004 - 2005)
Majid Jalali (2005)
Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (2005 - 2006)
Farhad Kazemi (2006)
Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (November 2006 - March 2008)
Yahya Golmohammadi (March 2008)
Firouz Karimi (July 2008 - June 2009)
Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (July 2009 - November 2009)
Rasoul Korbekandi (November 2009-)

[edit] Players

As of December 16, 2009.

[edit] First-team squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Mehdi Vaezi
2	DF	Morteza Kashi
3	DF	Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
4	DF	Hamid Farzaneh
5	FW	Mohsen Bayatiniya
6	MF	Abolfazl Hajizadeh
7	MF	Mohammad Hamrang
8	MF	Mohsen Bayat
9	FW	Diego José Clementino
10	FW	Davoud Haghi
11	MF	Ahmad Taghavi
14	MF	Mohammad Nouri
15	MF	Abbas Mohammad Rezaei

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Ali Reza Latifi
17	FW	Fereydoon Fazli
18	GK	Ershad Yousefi
19	MF	Seyed Mostafa Haghipour
22	MF	Mostafa Mahdizadeh
23	DF	Amir Hossein Feshangchi
25	DF	Morteza Assadi
27	DF	Ramin Rezaian
--	MF	Jaber Ansari
--	MF	Mohammad Rezaei
--	DF	Shahin Shafiei
	DF	Andrzej Bednarz