Sepahan Isfahan F.C.
Foolad Sepahan Isfahan Mobarekeh (Persian باشگاه فوتبال سپاهان ) is an Iranian football club based in Isfahan.
History
1944 Shahin Isfahan was founded as a branch of Shahin Tehran. 1967, there was discord between Tehran and Isfahan club so that it was decided in Isfahan to be independent of Tehran's mother club. Therefore, the name was changed in Sepahan Isfahan.
The club played in the regional league of Isfahan, until it was taken over by the local cement factory in 1993 and rose to the Azadegan League. There they played up to the 1999/2000 season, before the local steel mill, the Mobarakeh Steel Company, the club acquired and changed the name to Foolad Sepahan Isfahan Mobarekeh.
In the season 2002/2003 Sepahan Isfahan became the first not from Tehran Football Club winning the Iranian championship. Only a year later in the 2003/2004 season the club won the Iranian Cup ( Hazfi Cup). In the seasons 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 followed by two more cup wins.
Sepahan Isfahan was also successful in the AFC Champions League. In the AFC Champions League 2007 the club of catchment succeeded to the final. The club was defeated in two games with 1:1 and 0:2 Urawa Red Diamonds from Japan. In the AFC Champions League 2008, the club already retired from the group stage.
In the current 2007/2008 season the club on the final day lost the Iranian championship at Persepolis. After the lost championship and the weak performance in the AFC Champions League 2008 broke away from the club coach Jorvan Vieira. In the 2008 /09 season the club was coached by Fırat Engin.
In July 2009, Amir Ghalenoei was engaged as trainer who was with Sepahan Isfahan in the season 2009/10 and 2010/11 Iranian masters. For the 2011/12 season, after the departure of Amir Ghalenoei Luka Bonačić committed as the new coach, who was still replaced in the fall of the same season of his Croatian compatriot Zlatko Kranjcar. With him, the club celebrated winning the championship again.
Achievements
- Iranian Championship IPL
- Iranian Cup ( Hazfi Cup)
- AFC Champions League
Known coach
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zdravko Rajkov
- Croatia Stanko Poklepović
- Brazil Edson Tavares
- Croatia Luka Bonačić
- Iran Amir Ghalenoei
- Brazil Portugal Jorvan Vieira
Known player
- Iran Ahmadreza Abedzadeh
- Iraq Abdul- Wahab Abu Al- Hail
- Iran Hadi Aghily
- Iran Majid Basirat
- Iran Mohsen Bengar
- Iran Edmond County of
- Iran Jalal Hosseini
- Iran Mahmoud Karimi
- Iran Hossein Kazemi
- Rasoul Khatibi Iran
- Iran Mehrdad Minavand
- Iran Moharram Navidkia
- Armenia Armenak Petrosyan
- Iran Mehdi Rahmati
- Emad Mohammed Ridha Iraq
- Iran Ali Shojaei
- Armenia Levon Stepanyan
- Slovakia Kamil Susko