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Foolad

2015–16 season
Chairman	Seifollah Dehkordi
Manager	Dragan Skocic
Stadium	Ghadir Stadium
Persian Gulf Pro League	14th
Hazfi Cup	Round 4
Top goalscorer	Soroush Rafiei (2 goals) Mathias Chago (2 goals) Hossein Ebrahimi (2 goals)
Highest home attendance	13,000 (25 August 2015 against Persepolis (Persian Gulf Pro League))
Lowest home attendance	0 (11 September 2014 against Zob Ahan)
Average home league attendance	League: 3,300 All: 3,000
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2015–16 season are Foolad's 14th season in the Persian Gulf Pro League. They competed in the Hazfi Cup which they were eliminated by Esteghlal in Round 4. Foolad is captained by Leonard Mesaric.

Players

Last updated on 21 April 2015

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Since	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed From
Goalkeepers
1	Alireza Salimi		GK	2010	(1984-02-23) 23 February 1984 (age 40)	Tarbiat Yazd
33	Mehrdad Bashagardi		GK	2015	(1984-09-03) 3 September 1984 (age 40)	PAS Hamedan
31	Farzad Tayebipour		GK	2014	?	Youth system
Defenders
27	Reza Ahmadi		DF	2015	(1993-02-10) 10 February 1993 (age 31)	Youth system
3	Leonard Mesaric (captain)		DF	2014	(1983-08-10) 10 August 1983 (age 41)	Lokomotiva, Croatia
17	Abdollah Nasseri		DF	2008	(1992-05-20) 20 May 1992 (age 32)	Foolad Novin
15	Mathias Chago		DF	2012	(1983-03-13) 13 March 1983 (age 41)	Lokomotiva, Croatia
19	Bahman Kamel		DF	2014	(1986-01-19) 19 January 1986 (age 38)	Naft Tehran
21	Omid Khaledi		DF	2011	(1988-10-29) 29 October 1988 (age 36)	Shahin Ahvaz
24	Mehrdad Jama'ati		DF	2009	(1987-10-07) 7 October 1987 (age 37)	Youth system
44	Mohammad Ahle Shakhe		DF	2014	(1993-07-02) 2 July 1993 (age 31)	Youth system
33	Soroush Saeidi		DF	2014	(1991-07-02) 2 July 1991 (age 33)	Youth system
70	Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh		DF	2015	(1991-05-11) 11 May 1991 (age 33)	Persepolis
16	Aref Aghasi		DF	2015	?	Foolad Novin
Midfielders
5	Mehdi Badrlou		AM	2013	(1986-01-14) 14 January 1986 (age 38)	Saba Qom
88	Amirhossein Feshangchi		MF	2015	(1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 (age 37)	Paykan
10	Esmaeil Sharifat		MF	2012	(1988-06-06) 6 June 1988 (age 36)	Esteghlal
7	Hossein Ebrahimi		MF	2015	(1990-08-03) 3 August 1990 (age 34)	Naft Tehran
14	Shahab Karami		MF	2012	(1991-03-16) 16 March 1991 (age 33)	Shahrdari Yasuj
29	Ali Sina Rabbani		MF	2009	(1993-01-16) 16 January 1993 (age 31)	Youth system
32	Hadi Habibinejad		MF	2014	(1995-10-17) 17 October 1995 (age 29)	Youth system
15	Yousef Vakia		MF	2012	(1993-09-30) 30 September 1993 (age 31)	Youth system
30	Mahmoud Motlaghzadeh		MF	2015	(1994-05-11) 11 May 1994 (age 30)	Youth system
11	Akbar Imani		MF	2015	(1992-03-21) 21 March 1992 (age 32)	Zob Ahan
Forwards
8	Sasan Ansari		FW	2010	(1991-05-04) 4 May 1991 (age 33)	Youth system
9	Iman Mousavi		FW	2014	(1989-06-02) 2 June 1989 (age 35)	Gostaresh
29	Bahman Jahantigh		FW	2014	(1995-03-14) 14 March 1995 (age 29)	Youth system
23	Hossein Maleki		FW	2015	(1990-04-06) 6 April 1990 (age 34)	Naft MIS
2	Mehdi Daghagheleh		FW	2015	(1990-01-30) 30 January 1990 (age 34)	Persepolis

Transfers

In

No	P	Nat	Name	Age	Moving from	Ends	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Source
23	FW		Hossein Maleki	25	Naft MIS	2016	N/A	Transfer	Summer
2	MF		Mehdi Daghagheleh	26	Persepolis	2016	N/A	Transfer	Summer
7	MF		Hossein Ebrahimi	25	Naft Tehran	2018	Free	Transfer	Summer
30	MF		Mahmoud Motlaghzadeh	21	Foolad Novin	2015	Free	Transfer	Summer
11	MF		Akbar Imani	23	Zob Ahan	2016	Free	Transfer	Winter
70	DF		Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh	24	Persepolis	2016	Free	Transfer	Summer
17	DF		Abdollah Nasseri	23	Foolad Novin	2017	Free		Summer
33	GK		Mehrdad Bashagardi	31	PAS Hamedan	2016	Free	Transfer	Summer
88	MF		Amirhossein Feshangchi	29	Paykan	2016	Free	Transfer	Summer
14	FW		Dorge Kouemaha	32	Lierse	2016	?	Transfer	Summer
16	DF		Aref Aghasi	20	Foolad Novin	2017	Free	Transfer	Summer

Out

No	P	Nat	Name	Age	Moving to	Transfer fee	Type	Transfer window	Source
77	MF		Mohsen Mosalman	25	Zob Ahan	Returned	Loan	Summer
4	MF		Ayub Vali	28	Free agent	N/A	Released	Summer
9	FW		Iman Mousavi	27	Siah Jamegan	Free	Transfer	Summer
2	DF		Ahmad Alenemeh	33	Free agent	N/A	Released	Summer
14	MF		Shahab Karami	24	Malavan	N/A	Loan	Summer
63	GK		Ershad Yousefi	34	Mes Kerman	Free	Transfer	Summer
99	FW		Mohammad Ghazi	31	Saba Qom	Free	Transfer	Summer
7	MF		Soroush Rafiei	25	Tractor Sazi	N/A	Loan	Summer
11	MF		Bakhtiar Rahmani	26	Tractor Sazi	N/A	Loan	Summer
17	FW		Aloys Nong	32	Naft Tehran	Free	Transfer	Summer
33	DF		Soroush Saeidi	24	Fajr Sepasi	N/A	Loan	Summer
22	GK		Behnam Mousavi	?	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Free	Transfer	Summer

Pre-season and friendlies

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers
15 July 2015	Eskişehirspor	N	W 0 – 3	Sharifat 14', Ebrahimi 41' (pen), Jahantigh 54'
20 July 2015	Olmaliq	N	W 1 – 0	?
24 July 2015	Balkan	N	W 3 – 0	?

Competitions

Overview

Source: Competitions

Results summary

Last updated: 13 May 2016.
Source: Ipl Stats

Results by round

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

31 July 2015 1	Foolad	2 – 2	Rah Ahan	Ahvaz
17:30	Vakia Chago 83' Badrlou 83'	Summary	Koohnavard Mehdizadeh Mohammadi 52' Manouchehri 61' Irannejad	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar

6 August 2014 2	Padideh	1 – 1	Foolad	Mashhad
16:00	Kheiri Moradmand 90'	Summary	Ebrahimi 89'	Stadium: Samen Stadium Referee: Mehdi Seyedali

14 August 2014 3	Foolad	0 – 2	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz
19:55	Ebrahimi Ansari Sharifat	Summary	Tayyebi Coulibaly Beyt Saeed 53' Kaabi Janfaza 90+4'	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Ahmad Salehi

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