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Sepahan

2015–16 season
Chairman	Asghar Bagherian
Manager	Hossein Faraki(until November 12, 2015) Igor Štimac
Stadium	Foolad Shahr Stadium
15th Pro League	11th
29th Hazfi Cup	1/4
35th AFC Champions	Group stage
Highest home attendance	15,000 Sepahan-Persepolis (Pro League, 13 August 2015)
Lowest home attendance	800 Sepahan-Rah Ahan (Pro League, 13 December 2015)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
← 2014-152016-17 →

The 2015–16 season was Sepahan's 15th season in the Pro League, and their 22nd consecutive season in the top division of Iranian Football and 62nd year in existence as a football club. They competed in the Hazfi Cup and the AFC Champions League. Sepahan was captained by Moharram Navidkia.

Players

Updated 4 June 2015.

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRN Rahman Ahmadi 2 DF  BRA Leandro Padovani 3 DF  IRN Habib Gordani 4 MF  IRN Moharram Navidkia (captain) 6 MF  IRN Milad Sarlak 7 MF  IRN Hossein Papi 8 MF  IRN Rasoul Navidkia 9 FW  IRN Mohammad Reza Khalatbari 10 DF  IRN Abdollah Karami 11 MF  IRN Amin Jahan Alian 12 MF  IRN Ali Karimi 14 FW  IRN Vahid Najafi 15 DF  IRN Ali Gholami 17 MF  BIH Senijad Ibričić 18 MF  UZB Fozil Musaev 21 DF  IRN Vouria Ghafouri 22 GK  IRN Farid Nejat

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 MF  IRN Armin Sohrabian 26 DF  IRN Ali Ahmadi 27 GK  IRN Mehdi Amini 29 FW  BRA Luciano Pereira 33 DF  IRN Saeed Ghaedifar 35 GK  IRN Shahab Gordan 37 MF  IRN Hossein Fazeli 39 DF  IRN Mohammad Roshandel 47 DF  IRN Hadi Aghili (vice-captain) 66 DF  IRN Mohammad Ali Ahmadi 68 MF  IRN Reza Asadi 70 MF  IRN Hamed Bahiraei 74 FW  IRN Amin Manouchehri 77 FW  IRN Reza Mirzaei 80 MF  IRN Ali Hazami 88 DF  IRN Aref Gholami 99 FW  IRN Mehdi Alimoradi

Loan list

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 99 MF  IRN Amir Hossein Karimi (at Gostaresh) 26 GK  IRN Mehdi Sedghian (at Fajr Sepasi) 3 DF  IRN Shoja' Khalilzadeh (at Tractor Sazi)

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  IRN Mehdi Sharifi (at Tractor Sazi) 40 DF  IRN Ali Hamoudi (at Tractor Sazi)

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2015–16.

Managerial staff

Current managerial staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Igor Štimac
Assistant coach	Ivo Šeparović
Assistant coach	Majid Basirat
Assistant coach	Qasem Zaghinejad
Goalkeepers coach	Zoran Varvodić
Fitness trainer	Alireza Rabbani
Analyzer	Manouchehr Rezaei
Doctor	Mohammad Rashadi
Doctor assistant	Asghar Majidikia
Physiotherapist	Ali Khorami
Massager	Hossein Afshardoost
Massager	Majid Fazlollahi
Massager	Hamed Bateni
Administrative manager	Reza Fatahi
Executive manager	Rasoul Khorvash

Sponsorship

Matches

Pro league

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

30 July 2015 1	Sepahan	1–0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Isfahan
19:35 UTC+03:30	Aghily  60' Sharifi 65' Khalatbari 78'	Report	44'Khanifar  50'Doraghi  78'Seifollahi  88'Zohaivi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Hassan Akrami

7 August 2015 2	Zob Ahan	0–1	Sepahan	Isfahan
21:00 UTC+03:30		Report	65'Karimi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mohsen Ghahremani

13 August 2015 3	Sepahan	4–2	Persepolis	Isfahan
19:30 UTC+03:30	Hajsafi 8' Karimi  35' Aghily 57' (pen.) Karami  63' Khalatbari 81'	Report	9'Alipour 12'Taremi 33'Alishah  35'Kamyabinia 39' (o.g.)Umaña  56'Kafshgari  70'Ansari  87'Alishah	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hassan Zargar

19 August 2015 4	Sepahan	1–1	Foolad	Isfahan
19:35 UTC+03:30	Vouria  11' Karami 67'	Report	6'Aghilinejan 32'Aghaei	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Mohsen Torky

25 August 2015 5	Saipa	0–2	Sepahan	Tehran
21:00 UTC+03:30	Ebrahimzadeh 77'	Report	4'Khalatbari 55' Hajsafi  86'Sharifi 90' Hajsafi  91'Hajsafi	Stadium: Ekbatan Attendance: 500 Referee: Alborz Hajipour

24 September 2015 7	Saba	1–0	Sepahan	Qom
17:20 UTC+03:30	Alimohammadi 6' Eslami 61' Alimohammadi 84'	Report	86'Sharifi	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Attendance: 500 Referee: Payam Haydari

16 October 2015 8	Sepahan	1–1	Siah Jamegan	Isfahan
17:00 UTC+03:30	Gordan 14' Sharifi 45' Karami 68'	Report	36'Sharbati 58'Afshar  66'da silva  74'Enayati  93'Kamdar	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Reza Kermanshahi

20 October 2015 9	Malavan	0–0	Sepahan	Bandar-e Anzali
15:30 UTC+03:30	Yousefzadeh 84'	Report	18'Gordani  83'Karimi	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 2,270 Referee: Tooraj Haghverdi

26 October 2015 10	Sepahan	0–3	Esteghlal	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Musaev 32'	Report	6'Esmaeili 53'Ansari 77'Barzay  92'Ebrahimi	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Shahin Haji Babaei

31 October 2015 11	Esteghlal Ahvaz	1–1	Sepahan	Ahvaz
16:50 UTC+03:30	Ashoubi 29' Majidi 38' Ashoubi 80'	Report	24'Khalatbari  55'Roshandel	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Payam Heydari

20 November 2015 12	Sepahan	2–1	Naft Tehran	Isfahan
15:15 UTC+03:30	Gordani 33' Sharifi 1+45' Sarlak  86' Aghily 90' (pen.) Karimi 4+90'	Report	31Bou Hamdan 36'Ghorbani	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Alireza Faghani

29 November 2015 13	Gostaresh Foulad	1–0	Sepahan	Tabriz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Goudarzi 18'	Report	34'Roshandel  56'Aghily  90+1'Karami	Stadium: Gostaresh Foulad Stadium

13 December 2015 14	Sepahan	0–0	Rah Ahan	Isfahan
15:15 UTC+03:30	Gordani 16' Khalatbari 44' Karami  82'	Report		Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 800 Referee: Mohammad Reza Faghani

18 December 2015 15	Padideh	1–1	Sepahan	Mashhad
14:45 UTC+03:30	Kheiri  54' Abbasian 87' Mardani 88'	Report	33'Ahmadi 45'Sharifi	Stadium: Samen Stadium Referee: Reza Adel

26 December 2015 16	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1–1	Sepahan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Zohaivi 58' Zohaivi 89'	Report	48'Ghafouri 85'Khalatbari  61'Aghily  92'Ahmadi	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Mohsen Torky

31 December 2015 17	Sepahan	1–1	Zob Ahan	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Khalatbari 41' Karimi 50' Fozil 60' Karami 66'	Report	14'Pahlavan  58'Mehdipour  60'Hassanzadeh  69'Pahlavan	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar Assistant referee: Sajad Touri, Mehdi Alighadr

2 February 2016 18	Persepolis	2–2	Sepahan	Tehran
17:00 UTC+03:30	Mosalman 25' Alipour 48' Kamyabinia 74' Hatami 82'	Report	9'Fozil  25'Chimba  32'Karimi 64'Chimba  76'Pado	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Bijan Haydari Assistant referee: Mohammadreza Mansouri، Babak Davari

7 February 2016 19	Foolad	1–0	Sepahan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+03:30	Ahle Shakheh 70' Ahle Shakheh 70' Motlaghzadeh 81'	report	38'Karami  94'Fazeli	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium Referee: Tooraj Haghverdi Assistant referee: Ali Mirzabeygi، Farhad Moraveji Fourth referee: Saeid Rahimi moghadam

12 February 2016 20	Sepahan	1–2	Saipa	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+03:30	Gordani 46' Vouria 86' Chimba 92'	Report	Meydavoudi 59' Zeinali 77'	Stadium: Fooladshahr Stadium Referee: Shahin Hajbabaei کمک‌ها: Hamid Ghamzeh، Mohammadreza Rousta داور چهارم: Hadi Haj Abbasi

18 February 2016 21	Tractor Sazi	2–1	Sepahan	Tabriz
15:15 UTC+03:30	Nong 28' Aghaei 28' Sharifi 94'		13'Rasoul  58'Karami  81'Fozil	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Referee: Ashkan Khorshidi

Hazfi Cup

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

11 September 2015 1/16	Sepahan F.C.	4–0	Abyek Qazvin F.C.	Esfahan
19:35	Papi 6' Papi 38' Khalatbari 65' Jahan Alian 75'	Report		Stadium: Safaeieh

19 September 2015 1/8	Kara Shiraz F.C.	1–3	Sepahan F.C.	Shiraz
19:35	Cheraghi 53'	Report	Sharifi 11' Sharifi 33' Rasoul 1+90'	Stadium: Hafezieh

5 November 2015 1/4	Sepahan F.C.	2–0	Rah Ahan F.C.	Esfahan
15:00	Karimi 94' Sharifi 111'	Report		Stadium: Foolad Shahr

24 November 2015 Semi-Final	Zob Ahan F.C.	2–2 (a.e.t.) (4–1 p)	Sepahan F.C.	Esfahan
14:30	Rezaei 2' Hamam  22' Tabrizi  32' Ismail  77' Hosseini 110'	Report	51'Vouria  52'Vouria  32'  84'Sarlak  88' Khalatbari  93'Gordani 122'Vouria	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Attendance: 5000 Referee: Mohsen Torky
	Penalties
	Rajabzadeh Rezaei Hassanzadeh Mehdipour		Aghily Vouria Karimi

Friendly Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

11 July 2015 (2015-07-11)	Altınordu	3–3	Sepahan	Bolu, Turkey
18:30			Khalatbari Sharifi Hajsafi

15 July 2015 (2015-07-15)	Mersin İdmanyurdu	0–2	Sepahan	Bolu, Turkey
19:30			Pereira Sharifi

June 2015 3	Sepahan	1–2	Trinidad and Tobago	Bolu, Turkey
18:30	Khalatbari	report

24 July 2015 4	Sepahan	2–1	Rah Ahan F.C.	Esfahan
17:30	Khalatbari Najafi	report	Mehrdad	Stadium: Ferdos

21 January 2016 5	Sepahan	2–1	Sumgayit FK	Antalya
18:30	Khalatbari Fazeli	report		Stadium: Mardan Sports

24 January 2016 6	Sepahan	2–3	ASA Târgu Mureș	Antalya
18:30	Khalatbari Chimba	report		Stadium: Mardan Sports

Competitions

Overall

Pro league

League table

Results summary

Source: Ipl Stats

Results by round

Goal scorers

Overall Player Goal Mehdi Sharifi 7 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari 5 Ehsan Hajsafi 3 Hossein Papi 2 Hadi Aghily Ali Karimi Vouria Ghafouri Luciano Pereira Mendes Rasoul Navidkia Fozil Musaev 1 Abdollah Karami Amin Jahan Alian	Pro League Player Goal Mehdi Sharifi 4 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari Ehsan Hajsafi 3 Hadi Aghily 2 Luciano Pereira Mendes Ali Karimi 1 Abdollah Karami Fozil Musaev Rasoul Navidkia	Hazfi Cup Player Goal Mehdi Sharifi 3 Hossein Papi 2 Vouria Ghafouri Amin Jahan Alian 1 Mohammad Reza Khalatbari Ali Karimi Rasoul Navidkia
Last update: 4 February 2016

Transfers

Last updated on 02 February 2016

Summer

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 2 MF  BRA Leandro Padovani Celin (from Naft Tehran F.C.) 3 DF  IRN Habib Gordani (from Tractor Sazi F.C.)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 99 MF  IRN Amir Hossein Karimi (to Gostaresh Foulad F.C.) 18 DF  IRN Mohammad Hossein Moradmand (to Padideh F.C.) 14 FW  ALB Xhevahir Sukaj 28 MF  IRN Ehsan Hajsafi (to FSV Frankfurt)

Winter

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  BIH Senijad Ibričić (from Karşıyaka S.K.) 80 MF  IRN Ali Hazzami (from Foolad F.C.) 74 FW  IRN Amin Manouchehri (from Rah Ahan F.C.)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  IRN Mehdi Sharifi ((Loan) to Tractor Sazi F.C.)

See also

• 2015–16 Iran Pro League
• 2015–16 Hazfi Cup

References

1. "Sepahan 2013–14 squad". Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
2. Sepahan 2013–14 squad Archived August 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
3. "فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 3 – آلتیناردو ترکیه 3 | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
4. "فولاد مبارکه سپاهان 2 – مرسین اسپرت صفر | باشگاه فرهنگی ورزشی فولاد مبارکه سپاهان" (in Persian). Fooladsepahansport.com. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
5. "پادووانی یک ساله به سپاهان پیوست". ورزش سه.
6. "گردانی با سپاهان قرارداد بست".
7. باقریان:حمودی هنوز به سپاهان برنگشته است Archived 2016-02-11 at the Wayback Machine (وبسایت رسمی برنامه نود)
8. خریدجدیدسپاهان/علی هزامی Archived 2018-10-03 at the Wayback Machine وبگاه باشگاه سپاهان
9. امین منوچهری به سپاهان پیوست ورزش۳
10. مهدی شریفی سرباز تراکتورسازی شد (وبسایت ورزش سه)

External links

• (in English) Club Official Website
• (in English) The Club page in Soccerway.com
• (in English) The Club page in Persianleague.com

• Sepahan S.C. seasons
• Iranian football clubs 2015–16 season