Saba Mehr Qazvin
Leagues	Iranian Super League
Founded	2002
History	Saba Battery Tehran 2002 – 2008 Saba Mehr Tehran 2008 – 2009 Saba Mehr Qazvin 2009 – present
Arena	Shahid Babaei Arena
Location	Qazvin, Iran
Team colors	White and Blue
President	Omid Vatani
Head coach	Mehran Shahintab
Championships	(2) Asian Cup (1) West Asian Cup (3) Iranian Championships
Website	www.sabamehr.org
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Saba Mehr Qazvin Basketball Club formerly known as Saba Battery Tehran Basketball Club is an Iranian basketball club based in Qazvin, Iran. They compete in the Iranian Basketball Super League.

The team was part of Saba Battery Club, owned by Saba Battery Co from 2002 to 2008. In 2008, Saba Battery Co. refused to hold the team anymore and club saved by a private company and changed its name to Saba Mehr. on April 2009 the club transferred from Tehran to Qazvin. ^[1]

Contents 1 Tournament records 1.1 Iranian Super League 1.2 WABA Champions Cup 1.3 Asia Champions Cup 2 Roster 2.1 Depth chart 3 Coaches 4 Notable former players 5 Squads 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Tournament records

[edit] Iranian Super League

• 2003–04: Champions
• 2004–05: 2nd place
• 2005–06: Champions
• 2006–07: Champions
• 2007–08: 2nd place
• 2008–09: 3rd place

[edit] WABA Champions Cup

• 2005: 2nd place
• 2006: 2nd place
• 2007: Champions
• 2008: 2nd place
• 2009: 3rd place

[edit] Asia Champions Cup

• 2005: 4th place
• 2006: 5th place
• 2007: Champions
• 2008: Champions

[edit] Roster

Number	Player	Position	Height (m)
4	Iman Paryab	PG
5	Mehdi Shirjang	SF	1.91
6	Benny Koochoie	PG	1.88
7	Mohammad Sistani	PG	1.86
8	Mohammad Masoud Irani	SF	1.93
10	Hamed Hosseinzadeh	PG
11	Terrance Shannon	PF	2.03
12	Mohammad Hassanzadeh	PF	2.01
13	Mehdi Danaei
14	Mohammad Shahsavand	C	2.08
16	Amir Dehghanian
17	Jeff Varem	SF	1.98
21	Rouzbeh Arghavan	C	2.12

Position	Name
Head Coach	Mehran Shahintab
Assistant Coach	Hossein Gharegozlou
Assistant Coach	Mohsen Shah-Ali

[edit] Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Bench	Reserve
C	Rouzbeh Arghavan	Mohammad Shahsavand
PF	Terrance Shannon	Mohammad Hassanzadeh
SF	Jeff Varem	Mohammad Masoud Irani
SG	Mehdi Shirjang	Mohammad Sistani
PG	Benny Koochoie	Hamed Hosseinzadeh

[edit] Coaches

• Mehran Shahintab (2002 – present)

[edit] Notable former players

Garth Joseph Hamed Afagh Karam Ahmadian Hamed Haddadi Alireza Honardoust Mehdi Kamrani Asghar Kardoust Babak Nezafat Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Sohrabnejad Saeid Tabeshnia Saman Veisi

Makan Dioumassi Gabe Muoneke DaJuan Tate Lorenzo Hall Mike Jones Priest Lauderdale Andre Pitts Omar Sneed Jackson Vroman Gerald Walker Leandro García

[edit] Squads

• FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2007
  • Behnam Afradi, Babak Nezafat, Saman Veisi, Mohammad Sistani, Hamed Afagh, Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Gabe Muoneke, Garth Joseph, Asghar Kardoust, Karam Ahmadian, Samad Nikkhah Bahrami, Behzad Afradi. Coach: Mehran Shahintab
• FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2008
  • Mohammad Masoud Irani, Kamran Jamshidvand, Hamed Afagh, Mehdi Kamrani, Mohammad Sistani, DaJuan Tate, Gabe Muoneke, Asghar Kardoust, Karam Ahmadian, Saeid Tabeshnia, Hamed Haddadi, Samad Nikkhah Bahrami. Coach: Mehran Shahintab

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• page on Asia-Basket

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