2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League

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	Leader : 2017 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2017 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2017 AFC Champions League Third qualifying round
	Relegation to 2016-17 Azadegan League

Persian Gulf Pro League
Season	2015–16
Relegated	Esteghlal Ahvaz
Matches played	224
Goals scored	459 (2.05 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mehdi Taremi (16 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Fernando ; (15 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Rah Ahan 5–0 Est. Ahvaz; (16 October 2015)
Biggest away win	Foolad 0–3 Zob Ahan; (15 September 2015); Sepahan 0–3 Esteghlal; (26 October 2015); Est. Ahvaz 0–3 Saba Qom; (27 December 2015)
Highest scoring	Tractor Sazi 4–4 Zob Ahan (27October 2015)
Longest winning run	5 matches ; Persepolis
Longest unbeaten run	21 matches ; Persepolis
Longest winless run	20 matches ; Est. Ahvaz
Longest losing run	6 matches ; Est. Ahvaz
Highest attendance	100,000 (15 April 2016) ; Persepolis – Esteghlal
Lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban) ; Foolad – Zob Ahan ; (15 September 2015) ; Tractor Sazi – Saipa ; (10 October 2015); Foolad – Naft Tehran ; (13 December 2015) ; Malavan – Naft Tehran ; (3 February 2016); Tractor Sazi – Foolad ; (10 March 2016); Persepolis – Siah Jamegan ; (3 April 2016)
Total attendance	1,617,579 (30 April 2016)
Average attendance	7,420
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2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League (also known as Iran Pro League) is the 45th season of Iran's Football League and the 15th as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Sepahan are the defending champions. The season features 14 teams from 2014–15 Persian Gulf Pro League and two new teams promoted from 2014–15 Azadegan League: Siah Jamegan as Group A champions and Esteghlal Ahvaz as replacement for Group B champions Foolad Novin, which was ineligible for promotion since it is the second team of Foolad. The league started on 30 July 2015.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Saba

Sepahan
Zob Ahan

Foolad
Est. Ahvaz
Est. Khuzestan

Tractor Sazi
Gostaresh

Malavan

Padideh
Siah Jamegan

Esteghlal
Persepolis
Naft Tehran
Rah Ahan
Saipa

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Locations of clubs in 2015–16 Iran Pro League

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order

Team	City	Venue	Capacity
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	95,225
Esteghlal Ahvaz	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	15,000
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Ghadir	50,199
Foolad	Ahvaz	Ghadir	50,199
Gostaresh	Tabriz	Bonyan Dizel	12,000
Malavan	Anzali	Takhti Anzali	8,000
Naft Tehran	Tehran	Takhti Tehran	30,122
Padideh	Mashhad	Samen	35,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	95,225
Rah Ahan	Tehran	Shahr-e Qods	25,000
Saba Qom	Qom	Yadegar-e Emam	10,610
Saipa	Tehran	Shahid Dastgerdi	8,250
Sepahan	Isfahan	Foolad Shahr	15,000
Siah Jamegan	Mashhad	Samen	35,000
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Sahand	80,451
Zob Ahan	Isfahan	Foolad Shahr	15,000

Number of teams by region

	Region	Number of teams	Teams
1	Tehran	5	Esteghlal, Persepolis, Naft Tehran, Rah Ahan, Saipa
2	Khuzestan	3	Esteghlal Ahvaz, Esteghlal Khuzestan, Foolad
3	East Azerbaijan	2	Gostaresh, Tractor Sazi
4	Khorasan	2	Padideh, Siah Jamegan
5	Isfahan	2	Sepahan, Zob Ahan
6	Gilan	1	Malavan
7	Qom	1	Saba Qom

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Esteghlal	Parviz Mazloumi	Mehdi Rahmati	361 Degrees
Est. Ahvaz	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh	Adel Kolahkaj	Uhlsport
Est. Khuzestan	Abdollah Veisi	Mohammad Tayyebi	Start
Foolad	Dragan Skočić	Leonard Mesarić	Uhlsport
Gostaresh	Faraz Kamalvand	Morteza Asadi	Merooj
Malavan	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Pejman Nouri	Givova
Naft Tehran	Alireza Mansourian	Alireza Ezzati	Uhlsport
Padideh	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri	Hossein Badamaki	Peak
Persepolis	Branko Ivanković	Alireza Nourmohammadi	Uhlsport
Rah Ahan	Ioannis Topalidis	Bahador Abdi	Givova
Saba Qom	Ali Daei	Abolfazl Ebrahimi	Daei Sport
Saipa	Saeid Rajabi	Ebrahim Sadeghi	Uhlsport
Sepahan	Ghasem Zaghinejad	Moharram Navidkia	Joma
Siah Jamegan	Farhad Kazemi	Reza Enayati	Givova
Tractor Sazi	Amir Ghalenoei	Mehdi Kiani	Kelme
Zob Ahan	Yahya Golmohammadi	Mehdi Rajabzadeh	Takabi

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Siah Jamegan	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri ^[8]	Resigned	15 June 2015	Pre-season	Rasoul Khatibi ^[9]	16 June 2015
Esteghlal	Amir Ghalenoei ^[10]	Mutual consent	18 May 2015		Parviz Mazloumi ^[11]	21 June 2015
Padideh	Alireza Marzban ^[12]	Resigned	5 July 2015		Mohammad Reza Mohajeri ^[13]	5 July 2015
Saba Qom	Mehdi Tartar	Sacked	16 July 2015		Ali Daei ^[14]	16 July 2015
Malavan	Firouz Karimi ^[15]	Resigned	23 May 2015	7th	Hamid Estili ^[16]	10 August 2015
Siah Jamegan	Rasoul Khatibi ^[17]	Resigned	21 August 2015	15th	Saeed Ramezani ^[18]	29 August 2015
Rah Ahan	Farhad Kazemi ^[19]	Sacked	19 September 2015	13th	Mehdi Tartar ^[20]	21 September 2015
Siah Jamegan	Saeed Ramezani ^[21]	Sacked	26 September 2015	13th	Farhad Kazemi ^[22]	28 September 2015
Esteghlal Ahvaz	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh ^[23]	Sacked	16 October 2015	15th	Ali Hanteh ^[24]	17 October 2015
Sepahan	Hossein Faraki ^[25]	Mutual consent	1 November 2015	6th	Igor Štimac ^[26]	12 November 2015
Tractor Sazi	Toni Oliveira ^[27]	Mutual consent	8 December 2015	9th	Amir Ghalenoei ^[28]	9 December 2015
Esteghlal Ahvaz	Ali Hanteh ^[29]	Mutual consent	26 December 2015	16th	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh ^[30]	26 December 2015
Malavan	Hamid Estili ^[31]	Resigned	15 February 2016	12th	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh ^[32]	9 March 2016
Rah Ahan	Mehdi Tartar ^[33]	Sacked	19 February 2016	15th	Ioannis Topalidis ^[34]	22 February 2016
Sepahan	Igor Štimac ^[35]	Resigned	20 April 2016	11th	Ghasem Zaghinejad ^[36]	21 April 2016
Saipa	Majid Jalali ^[37]	Sacked	3 May 2016	10th	Saeid Rajabi ^[38]	5 May 2016

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to four per Iran Pro League team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player
Esteghlal	Hrayr Mkoyan	Pero Pejić	Adil Chihi
Esteghlal Ahvaz	Luiz Fernando	Sandi Šahman
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Fernando	Moussa Coulibaly	Eduardo Ferreira	Fellipe Bertoldo
Foolad	Leonard Mesarić	Mathias Chago	Dorge Kouemaha
Gostaresh	Magno Batista	Leo Pimenta	Georgi Georgiev
Malavan
Naft Tehran
Padideh
Persepolis	Luka Marić	Michael Umaña	Jerry Bengtson	Alexander Lobanov
Rah Ahan	Athos Solomou	Sebastian Strandvall
Saba Qom	Filipe Machado
Saipa	Ratko Dujković
Sepahan	Leandro Padovani	Luciano Pereira	Senijad Ibričić	Fozil Musaev
Siah Jamegan	Kyle Konwea	Alagie Sosseh	Korede Aiyegbusi
Tractor Sazi	Augusto	Carlos Cardoso	Aloys Nong
Zob Ahan	Ali Hamam			Walid Ismail

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Persepolis	568,500	100,000	0	43,731	+173.3%^†
2	Esteghlal	368,000	90,000	2,500	26,286	+41.7%^†
3	Tractor Sazi	103,350	20,000	0	8,613	−72.1%^†
4	Saipa	90,219	77,000	70	6,444	+168.5%^†
5	Foolad	52,750	18,000	0	4,396	−40.6%^†
6	Padideh	57,781	22,000	200	4,127	−62.3%^†
7	Siah Jamegan	56,109	25,000	120	4,008	n/a^†
8	Malavan	50,688	10,000	0	3,899	−35.8%^†
9	Rah Ahan	53,245	35,000	47	3,803	+67.8%^†
10	Sepahan	44,900	12,500	500	3,207	−38.3%^†
11	Est. Khuzestan	41,460	17,000	200	2,961	−12.9%^†
12	Zob Ahan	30,970	8,000	200	2,212	−2.4%^†
13	Saba Qom	30,840	15,000	100	2,203	+11.6%^†
14	Est. Ahvaz	24,820	10,800	200	1,773	n/a^†
15	Naft Tehran	23,840	12,200	70	1,703	−17.6%^†
16	Gostaresh	20,107	6,500	60	1,436	−54.2%^†
	League total	1,617,579	100,000	0	7,420	−3.0%^†

Team/Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Average
Esteghlal	A	30,000	35,000	A	14,000	A	11,000	A	2,500	A	90,000	A	11,000	A	6,500	5,000	A	A	12,000	A	70,000	A	28,000	A	38,000	A	15,000	A		A	26,286
Esteghlal Ahvaz	A	1,100	A	6,000	A	A	370	A	200	A	500	A	1,500	A	500	600	A	200	A	550	800	A	200	A	1,500	A	10,800	A		A	1,773
Esteghlal Khuzestan	A	6,000	A	300	A	200	A	350	A	210	A	450	A	250	A	2,000	A	5,000	A	5,000	A	1,100	A	17,000	A	3,250	A	350	A		2,961
Foolad	3,100	A	2,000	A	13,000	0	A	1,200	A	400	A	18,000	A	0	A	A	200	A	6,000	A	A	4,000	A	2,500	A	2,000	A	350	A		4,396
Gostaresh	A	6,500	A	520	A	2,000	A	214	A	A	60	A	650	A	225	100	A	186	A	528	A	624	A	2,000	2,500	A	4,000	A		A	1,436
Malavan	4,656	A	4,200	A	1,600	A	2,832	A	5,000	A	700	A	5,000	A	1,200	A	5,300	A	0	A	2,000	A	3,200	A	10,000	A	5,000	A		A	3,899
Naft Tehran	A	500	A	990	A	100	A	A	200	A	200	A	12,200	A	200	1,200	A	100	A	7,650	A	130	70	A	100	A	200	A		A	1,703
Padideh	A	2,500	A	5,000	A	3,000	A	22,000	A	550	A	700	A	A	1,500	18,000	A	1,500	A	2,000	A	351	A	230	A	250	A	200		A	4,127
Persepolis	18,000	A	A	25,000	A	11,000	A	35,000	A	9,000	A	9,000	A	4,500	A	A	40,000	77,000	A	80,000	A	80,000	A	0	A	100,000	A	80,000	A		43,731
Rah Ahan	A	525	A	1,000	A	500	A	250	A	250	A	A	500	A	11,800	200	A	2,500	A	300	A	35,000	A	47	A	250	123	A		A	3,803
Saba Qom	890	A	200	A	1,500	A	4,000	A	350	A	2,500	2,500	A	200	A	A	1,000	A	100	A	1,850	A	15,000	A	500	A	A	250	A		2,203
Saipa	250	A	300	A	500	A	300	300	A	350	A	500	A	210	A	A	289	A	70	A	77,000	A	A	950	A	200	A	9,000	A		6,444
Sepahan	2,200	A	12,500	3,500	A	3,500	A	1,500	A	8,500	A	2,200	A	800	A	A	3,500	A	A	3,500	A	600	A	1,400	A	500	A	700	A		3,207
Siah Jamegan	25,000	A	2,000	A	1,500	A	1,830	A	18,000	A	120	A	450	200	A	A	268	A	900	A	3,580	A	600	A	411	A	1,250	A	A		4,008
Tractor Sazi	20,000	A	8,200	A	7,000	A	20,000	A	0	2,500	A	9,500	A	7,000	A	A	1,350	A	5,000	A	10,000	A	0	A	A	10,800	A	2,000	A		8,613
Zob Ahan	A	6,000	A	A	1,500	A	800	A	400	A	520	A	500	A	1,900	350	A	6,500	8,000	A	1,000	A	200	A	2,300	A	1,000	A		A	2,212
Total	74,096	53,125	64,400	42,310	40,600	20,300	41,132	60,814	26,650	21,760	94,600	42,850	31,800	13,160	23,825	27,450	51,907	92,986	32,070	99,528	166,230	121,805	47,270	24,127	55,311	117,250	37,373	92,850
Average	9,262	6,641	8,050	5,289	5,075	2,900	5,142	7,602	3,807	2,720	11,825	5,356	3,975	1,880	2,978	3,431	6,488	11,623	4,581	12,441	20,779	15,226	6,753	3,447	6,914	14,656	4,672	11,606

Teams

Stadia and locations

Number of teams by region

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

Foreign players

League table

Results

Positions by round

Clubs season-progress

Statistics

Top Goalscorers

Top Assistants

Clean Sheets

Hat-tricks

Scoring

Attendances

Average home attendances

Attendances by round

Highest attendances

See also

References