Persepolis F.C. Academy

Persepolis F.C. Academy

Full name	Persepolis Tehran Football Club Academy
Ground	Derafshifar Stadium Emam Reza Stadium
Director	Hamid Estili
Chairman	Alireza Rahimi
Head Coach	Hamid Motahari (U-21) Majid Parvin (U-19) Rahim Yousefi (U-16) Faramarz Mirzaei (U-14)
League	AFC Vision Asia U-21 Tehran Premier League AFC Vision Asia U-19 Tehran Premier League AFC Vision Asia U-16 Tehran Premier League AFC Vision Asia U-14 Tehran Premier League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Persepolis Football Club Academy are the youth team of Persepolis Football Club. They currently play in the AFC Vision Asia Youth Premier League, the highest level of youth football in Iran.

The Academy

Current squad

Players in bold are National Player

U-21

• Head Coach: Behrouz Soltani (Temp)
• Season: 2014–15 (Players born after 1994)

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
4	DF	IRN	Reza Alavi
7	MF	IRN	Mohammad Khosravi
9	FW	IRN	Maziar Nashtaei
10	FW	IRN	Amir Mohammad Madani
11	FW	IRN	Shahab Zahedi
44	GK	IRN	Vendad Atashkar
—	GK	IRN	Kiavash Bazohouri
—	GK	IRN	Morteza Ghadimipour
—	DF	IRN	Hossein Ali Bakhshi
—	DF	IRN	Hossein Belal
—	DF	IRN	Bahador Divsalar
—	DF	IRN	Sadegh Eskandari
—	DF	IRN	Danial Ghounji
—	DF	IRN	Mohammad Amin Rezaei
—	MF	IRN	Milad Kamandani
—	MF	IRN	Mohammad Rahmati
—	MF	IRN	Siavash Hagh Nazari

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	IRN	Mehrdad Zarei
—	MF	IRN	Farshad Hodaei
—	MF	IRN	Hamidreza Ghaderi
—	MF	IRN	Amir Hossein Neshatjou
—	FW	IRN	Amir Hossein Fallah
—	FW	IRN	Milad Nobakht
—		IRN	Reza Derakhshani
—		IRN	Esmaeil Mehr Ayin
—		IRN	Pouria Baradar
—		IRN	Arman Karimi
—		IRN	Ashkan Feyzi
—		IRN	Ebrahim Hassanzadeh
—		IRN	Sajjad Shojaei
—		IRN	Farid Mohammadi
—		IRN	Mohammadreza Zeynivand
—		IRN	Ahmad Teymouri
—		IRN	Ali Taleshi

U-19

• Head Coach: Majid Parvin
• Season: 2014–15 (Players born after 1996)

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	IRN	Navid Sabouri
—	MF	IRN	Ali Astani
—		IRN	Mehran Malvandi
—		IRN	Amirreza Ghasemi
—		IRN	Mahdi Abdolvand
—		IRN	Alireza Alipour
—		IRN	Amirhossein Jafari
—		IRN	Milad Toulaei
—		IRN	Ali Jafari
—		IRN	Nima Rahbarifard
—		IRN	Hamed Yousefi
—		IRN	Mohammad Hossein Mirzaei
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Salehi
—		IRN	Reza Rezaei
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Aminzadeh
—		IRN	Shahin Taherkhani

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—		IRN	Hossein Shaabani
—		IRN	Mohammadreza Hatami
—		IRN	Younes Izanlou
—		IRN	Sina Khoshdel
—		IRN	Soheyl Tehraninejad
—		IRN	Nirvan Soleymanian
—		IRN	Amir Roustaei
—		IRN	Taha Imani
—		IRN	Hossein Abarghouei
—		IRN	Sepehr Haghighat
—		IRN	Ali Hashemian
—		IRN	Saeid Ghaffari
—		IRN	Mehdi Ghorbanpour
—		IRN	Ali Fathollahzadeh
—		IRN	Ali Alghosi

U-16

• Head Coach: Rahim Yousefi
• Season: 2014–15 (Players born after 1999)

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	IRN	Shahab Rashno
—		IRN	Ahmadreza Mirzaei
—		IRN	Sepehr Mousavi
—		IRN	Ali Zanjani
—		IRN	Mohammad Javad Molaei
—		IRN	Vahid Meykhoush
—		IRN	Mehdi Nariman
—		IRN	Mobin Moghaddasi
—		IRN	Omid Shahbazi
—		IRN	Hamidreza Tahekhani
—		IRN	Ali Mohammadi
—		IRN	Moein Azadi
—		IRN	Mehdi Ranjbar
—		IRN	Saeid Sarabadani
—		IRN	Mehran Moharrami
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Shahmari
—		IRN	Hakhamanesh Naeij
—		IRN	Hamidreza Belali
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Shavandi

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Hanjari
—		IRN	Mohammad Bagheri
—		IRN	Hafez Naseri
—		IRN	Mohammadreza Moghanlou
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Yaghoubi
—		IRN	Mehdi Davarpour
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Khajevand
—		IRN	Ahmadreza Nourmohammadi
—		IRN	Mohammad Hosseini
—		IRN	Amir Alamshekan
—		IRN	Morteza Fathi
—		IRN	Amir Reza Pourtaghi
—		IRN	Parham Zohrevand
—		IRN	Mehdi Moradi
—		IRN	Mohammadreza Moradi
—		IRN	Ahoura Hassankhani
—		IRN	Mohammad Matin Shirzad
—		IRN	Reza Kaneshlou

U-14

• Head Coach: Zia Arabshahi
• Season: 2014–15 (Players born after 2001)

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

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—		IRN	Alireza Khodaei
—		IRN	Hamidreza Nanakli
—		IRN	Alireza Khaleghi
—		IRN	Mehdi Mehri
—		IRN	Amir Mohammad Kharkesh
—		IRN	Alireza Molaei
—		IRN	Yousef Heydari
—		IRN	Soheil Sahraei
—		IRN	Mohammad Hossein Tavvakoli
—		IRN	Hossein Yousefli
—		IRN	Amir Hossein Haji Agha
—		IRN	Mohammad Jaberi

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—		IRN	Arshia Eftekhari
—		IRN	Mehdi Mardani
—		IRN	Mohammad Khoshhal
—		IRN	Amir Parsa Hassanpour
—		IRN	Mohammadreza Saeidi
—		IRN	Ehsan Mohammadi
—		IRN	Kousha Lashgari
—		IRN	Ali Abdi
—		IRN	Mohammad Abdi
—		IRN	Aria Taheri
—		IRN	Ali Molaei

Former Players

Notable Youth System products

• Alireza Haghighi
• Amir Abedzadeh
• Hadi Norouzi
• Mohammad Parvin
• Amir Hossein Feshangchi
• Mehrdad Oladi
• Fariborz Moradi
• Mohsen Bayatinia
• Mohammad Mehdi Elhaei
• Ali Ebrahimi
• Khosro Heidari
• Mehrdad Bayrami
• Vahid Talebloo
• Nader Safarzaei

• Ebrahim Asadi
• Mehrdad Jama'ati
• Ehsan Khorsandi
• Reza Abedian
• Saeid Azizian
• Hossein Abdi
• Hadi Aghili
• Hadi Asghari
• Ebrahim Sadeghi
• Milad Nouri
• Ahmad Ahi
• Hamed Khosravi
• Saeed Hallafi
• Navid Sabouri

• Hadi Mahdavikia
• Mehdi Hob Darvish
• Hamed Kavianpour
• Mehrdad Hosseini
• Rouhollah Seifollahi
• Hossein Kanaani
• Afshin Esmaeilzadeh
• Saeid Ghadami
• Farshad Ahmadzadeh
• Farshad Ghasemi
• Jacques Elong Elong
• Ali Fatemi
• Ali Astani

Other Players promoted to first team

• Javad Razzaghi
• Ardalan Ashtiani
• Meghdad Ghobakhlou
• Ziaeddin Niknafs
• Amirhossein Ipakchi
• Mehran Farziat
• Mohsen Eliasi
• Masoud Dastani

See also

Reserve teams

• Persepolis Qaem Shahr
• Shamoushak Noshahr

External links

• Official Website of Persepolis