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Saipa F.C.

Iranian football club

Saipa F.C.
Summary

Iranian football club

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fullnameSaipa Football Club
nicknameCarmakers
The Foxes
Oranges
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groundShahid Dastgerdi Stadium
capacity8,250
ownerSAIPA
chairmanRasoul Khatibi
managerEbrahim Sadeghi
leagueAzadegan League
season2023-24
positionAzadegan League, 5th
current2023–24 Azadegan League
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سايپا The Foxes Oranges Saipa Football Club (, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Saipa) is a football club from Tehran, Iran. The team is owned by SAIPA, an Iranian automobile manufacturer. The team has never had a large fanbase. In the 2006–07 season, under the guidance of Ali Daei, Saipa won their only Persian Gulf Cup title. Saipa has also won the Azadegan League twice and the Hazfi Cup once. Saipa is the football club of the multisport Saipa Cultural and Athletic Corporation.

History

Team training in February 2019

Early days

In 1989, SAIPA Company decided to start its own football team. They purchased a team playing in the 4th division of Tehran's city league, and renamed it Saipa F.C. After back to back promotions starting in the first year, the Karaj based club was playing in the 2nd division by 1991. That same year they purchased the Shipping Department team's shares, and participated in the 1st division of Tehran's local league. In that year they won the Tehran city championship as well as the Tehran Super Cup, thus attaining the right to play in Iran's top league at the time, the Azadegan League.

Azadegan League

In their first year in the Azadegan League they won the championship, as well as the Hazfi Cup. They also won the league championship again in 1994. The team was relegated into the second division in 1995, but were promoted again in the following year. Since their second promotion to the top tier, the club has remained in the middle of the league table.

Persian Gulf Pro League

Ali Daei era

By 2001, the club's on-field performance remained stable, occupying mid-table position most years. Shortly following Iranian goalkeeper Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh's retirement, he was linked with the head coaching job at Saipa. It never materialized, but the club signed another Iranian, Ali Daei in a move from Saba Battery. The club had finished third in the previous season and now, with Werner Lorant as a coach, the team aimed to work for the title. Shortly after the season began though, Littbarski was fired and Ali Daei took on the role of player/coach. Daei scored the winner in the title winning game. Daei extended his contract, this time as a full-time coach. He was appointed head coach of the national team but kept his role at Saipa until the end of the season.

Return to mid-table and relocation to Tehran

Following the title winning year which saw the team play in the AFC Champions League, Saipa turned back into the mid-table places of the league again. Before the start of the 2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League season Saipa announced they had moved their home city from Karaj to nearby Tehran.

Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Saipa in various competitions since 1993.

SeasonPos.Hazfi CupACL
1993–94Azadegan League1stWinners
1994–951stSecond round
1995–9616th4th Place
1996–97Second Division2nd
1997–98Azadegan League7thNot held
1998–994th
1999–20003rdSemifinal
2000–017thSemifinal
2001–02Pro League11th
2002–036thQuarterfinals
2003–0413thSemifinal
2004–0513thQuarterfinals
2005–063rdRound of 16
2006–071stQuarterfinals
2007–0811thRound of 16Quarterfinals
2008–0910thRound of 16did not qualify
2009–108thThird Round
2010–1111thFourth Round
2011–128thRound of 16
2012–139thRound of 16
2013–148thRound of 16
2014–157thRound of 16
2015–168thSemifinals
2016–1713thSemifinals
2017–184thRound of 16
2018–197thSemifinalsPlay-off
2019–2014thQuarterfinalsdid not qualify
2020–2115thRound of 16
2021-22Azadegan League14thThird Round
2022-23

Honours

  • Iran Pro League/First Division
  • Hazfi Cup
    • Winners: 1993–94*
  • Tehran Super Cup
    • Champions: 1993
  • Tehran Province League
    • Champions: 1992-1993
  • ***** Won League title and Hazfi Cup (double)

Players

Current squad

Out on loan

Individual Records

All Top Appearances

#NameNationalityApps
1Ebrahim SadeghiIran Iran452
2Majid AyoubiIran Iran338
3Roozbeh ShahalidoostIran Iran254
4Hamed ShiriIran Iran166
5Mohsen KhaliliIran Iran156
6Ali ZeinaliIran Iran150
7Omid SharifinasabIran Iran149
8Javad AshtianiIran Iran143
9Hamed FallahzadehIran Iran138
10Ebrahim ShakouriIran Iran133

All Top Scorers

#NameNationalityGoals
1Mohsen KhaliliIran Iran62
2Karim AnsarifardIran Iran56
3Ebrahim SadeghiIran Iran41
4Amin ManouchehriIran Iran25
5Hamed ShiriIran Iran22
6Sajjad ShahbazzadehIran Iran21
7Mehdi TorabiIran Iran20
8Javad KazemianIran Iran16
9Arman RamezaniIran Iran15
10Omid SharifinasabIran Iran14

Manager

Coaching staff

StaffName
Head coachIRN Faraz Kamalvand
First team coachIRN Asghar Maziar
Assistant coachIRN Mehdi Zarei
IRN Kazem Borjlou
Goalkeeping coachIRN Farshad Bakhtiarizadeh
Fitness coachIRN Ali Asghar GhorbanaliPour
DoctorIRN Mahyar Mortazavi
AnalyzerIRN Mohammad Palizvan
Technical ManagerIRN Asghar Hajiloo
B team ManagerIRN Kianoush Rahmati

The following managers had managed Saipa since 1993:

NamePeriodTrophies
Iran Bijan Zolfagharnasab1993–972 Azadegan League, Hazfi Cup
Iran Nasrollah Abdollahi1997–00
Iran Behtash Fariba2000–01
Iran Hamid Alidoosti2001–02
Italy Giovanni Mei2002–03
Iran Mohammad Mayeli Kohan2003–04
Iran Bijan Zolfagharnasab2004–06
Germany Werner Lorant2006
Iran Ali Daei2006–081 Persian Gulf Cup
Germany Pierre Littbarski2008
Iran Mohammad Mayeli Kohan2008–11
Iran Majid Saleh2011–12
Iran Mojtaba Taghavi2012–13
Turkey Engin Firat2013–14
Iran Majid Jalali2014–16
Iran Hossein Faraki2016–17
Iran Ali Daei2017–19
Iran Ebrahim Sadeghi2019–21
Iran Faraz Kamalvand2021

References

References

  1. "سازمان لیگ فوتبال ایران".
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