S.C. Damash

S.C. Damash
داماش گیلان

Full name	Damash Gilan Football Club
Founded	11 October 2008
Ground	Dr. Azodi Stadium, Rasht (Capacity: 20,000)
Owner	Amir Mansour Arya
Chairman	Amir Abedini
Head Coach	Ebrahim Ghasempour
League	Iran Pro League
2010-11	Azadegan League Group 1, 1st (promoted)
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Sports Club Damash Gilan (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال داماش گیلان) is an Iranian football club based in Rasht, Gilan. They compete in the Iran Pro League.^[1] Damash Football Club is owend by mineral water company Damash Iranian.

Damash Gilan also has a Volleyball team Damash Gilan VC. They currently compete in the Iranian Volleyball Super League.

History

In October 2008 Arya Investment Company bought Pegah F.C. sports activities due to financial problems. Damash Iranian owned by Amir Abedini took over their license. After poor result at the beginning of the 2008-2009 season Hossein Abdi and Stanko Poklepović were replaced with Bijan Zolfagharnasab, but that did not help neither and Damash was relegated to Azadegan League. Club lost many key players to Pro league teams including Afshin Chavoshi, Mohammad Reza Mahdavi, Adriano Alves. for 2009–10 season Amir Abedini hired Firouz Karimi who was banned to work in Pro league for one season and brought many players that were working with him in the past to the club. In following season Damash made it to the promotion playoffs but they were eliminated in the playoff game against Sanat Naft and missed out on promotion. For 2010-2011 season damash signed with former key players Afshin Chavoshi & Mohammadreza Mahdavi and also a Slovenian coach Marijan Pušnik but after only 4 weeks and getting poor result with team he was replaced by his assistant and former Pegah Gilan capitan Afshin Nazemi. Despite getting good result with team Nazemi once again was replaced by Mehdi Dinvarzadeh. On April 22, 2011 Damash was able to secure its promotion to IPL even 2 weeks before end of the season.

Seasons

Year	Division	Position	Hazfi Cup
2008–09	IPL	17th (relegated)	Third round
2009–10	Div 1	2nd	1/8 Final
2010–11	Div 1	1st (promoted)	1/8 Final
2011–12	IPL

First-team squad

As of July 19, 2011^[2]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Milad Farahani 2 DF Mehdi Mahdavikia (1st Vice-Captain) 3 DF Ali Hosseini 4 MF Abbas Aghaei 5 DF Orestes 6 MF Jahangir Asgari 7 MF Milad Zeneyedpour 8 DF Alireza Nazifkar 9 FW Mohammad Gholami 10 FW Afshin Chavoshi (2nd Vice Captain) 11 MF Mohammad Reza Mahdavi (Captain) 12 MF Mostafa Hajati 13 MF Mohammad Abshak 14 MF Magno

No. Position Player 15 MF Behnam Afsheh 17 MF Siamak Sarlak 19 FW Farzad Mohammadi 20 DF Mohammad Mokhtari 21 DF Abouzar Rahimi 22 GK Mohammad Mohammadi 23 GK Behnam Laeghifar 24 MF Mohammad Karimi 25 DF Milad Nosrati 27 MF Hossein Ebrahimi 28 MF Afshin Esmaeilizadeh 29 DF Hadi Mohammadi 30 MF Alireza Jahanbakhsh

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers, summer 2011.

Club managers

Bijan Zolfagharnasab (October 2008-November 2008) Hossein Abdi (November 2008-January 09) Stanko Poklepović (January 2009-April 09) Firouz Karimi (July 2009-June 10)

Markar Aghajanian (June 2010-July 10) Marijan Pušnik (July 2010-November 10) Mehdi Dinvarzadeh (December 2010-September 11) Ebrahim Ghasempour (September 11-)

References

1. ^ http://www.damashsc.com/fa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=515:gilan-damash-football-team&catid=15:english&Itemid=80
2. ^ http://www.damashsc.com/fa/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=805&Itemid=46

External links

• (Persian) Official Website
• (English) Official Website
• (Persian) Damash Gilan Fan Site
• (Persian) Damash Gilan Fan Site
• (English) Players and Results