2001 AK Pipe International Cup

2001 AK Pipe International Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	15 October – 17 October
Teams	4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Aboomoslem (1st title)
Runners-up	Fajr Sepasi
Third place	Esteghlal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4
Goals scored	16 (4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Reza Enayati (5 goals)

The 2001 AK Pipe International Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in Mashhad, Iran. The tournament was sponsored by Aria Kavan Trading & Production Group.

Revenues generated from ticket sales for this tournament went towards refugees from war torn Afghanistan.^[1]

Köpetdag Aşgabat fielded two Iranian footballers in the game against Aboomoslem, the two were Ali Khosravi and Mehdi Khazaei.^[2]

Participant teams

Initially this tournament was going to be held in August 2001 and the four participants were going to be Persepolis F.C., Partsazan Khorasan, Köpetdag Aşgabat and AK Pipe Mashhad. However Persepolis F.C. decided not to take part in the tournament due to several players' injuries.^[3]

The tournament was postponed to October and the participants were as follow:^[4]

Esteghlal	Azadegan League 2000–01 - Champion
Fajr Sepasi	Hazfi Cup 2000-01 - Champion
Aboomoslem	2nd Division 2000-01 - Champion
Köpetdag	Turkmenistan League 2000 - Champion

Semifinals

15 October 2001

Aboomoslem	7 – 1	Köpetdag
Enayati 25' 41' 54' Aliyev 56' 63' Rajabi 43' Shokri 89'	Report	Bayramov 80'

Takhti Stadium

Referee: Alireza Jafarzadeh (Iran)

15 October 2001

Esteghlal	0 – 0 (a.e.t.)	Fajr Sepasi

Penalties
	3 – 4

Takhti Stadium

Third place Match

17 October 2001

Esteghlal	4 – 0	Köpetdag
Navazi, Majidi, Guliev, Mousavi	Report

Takhti Stadium

Final

17 October 2001

Aboomoslem	3-1	Fajr Sepasi
Enayati (2 goals), Mikaeili		Tahmasebi

Takhti Stadium

Statistics

Top scorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Reza Enayati	Aboomoslem	5
2	Pasha Aliyev	Aboomoslem	2
3	Hamid Rajabi	Aboomoslem	1
	Ramazan Shokri	Aboomoslem
	Nazar Bayramov	Köpetdag
	Mohammad Navazi	Esteghlal
	Farzad Majidi	Esteghlal
	Rafat Guliev	Esteghlal
	Ali Mousavi	Esteghlal
	Dariush Mikaeili	Aboomoslem
	Bahman Tahmasebi	Fajr Sepasi
_	OG		0
_	Penalty Goals		0
_	Total goals			16
Total games			4

Cards

Position	Player	Club				Total
1	Hasan Razaqpour	Aboomoslem	1	0	0	1
1	Sergei Leonov	Köpetdag	1	0	0		1
Total Cards		?	?	?	?

Champion

AK Pipe International Cup 2001 Winners
Aboomoslem

References

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