Zob Ahan F.C.

Infobox Football club
clubname = Zob Ahan ذوب ‌آهن


fullname = Zob Ahan Football Club
nickname =
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founded = 1969
dissolved =
ground = Foolad Shahr Stadium
Fooladshahr
Iran
capacity = 25,000
chairman = flagicon|IRN Saeed Azari
mgrtitle = Head Coach
manager = flagicon|IRN Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
league = Persian Gulf Cup
season = 2007-08
position = Persian Gulf Cup, 6th
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Zob Ahan Football Club (PerB|باشگاه فوتبال ذوب ‌آهن) is an Iranian football club based in Esfahan, Iran.

It is sponsored by the "Esfahan Steel Company", which also goes by the name Zob Ahan. The club's main rival is fellow Esfahani team Sepahan, which is also sponsored by the rival steel mill.

Zob Ahan club also has a basketball team, sponsored by the same "Esfahan Steel Company", which is one of the teams in the Iranian Super League.

History

Mohammad Ali Taghizadeh Farahmand established the club in 1969. They entered the Takhte Jamshid Cup in 1973. Zob Ahan prepared its team by buying 14 players from Sepahan. Zob Ahan has always been the wealthier team. The team has participated in the highest Iranian league for every year except in 1995 when they played in the 2nd division. They were promoted to the 1st division the year after and are now seen as contenders every season in the IPL ever since. The club's biggest honor to date has been winning the Hazfi Cup in 2003. The club was able to partcipate in the Asian Champions League after winning the Hazfi Cup, but did not make any noise and was soon eliminated.

eason-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Zob Ahan since 2001.

Club honours

* National Championships:"Runner Up (1): "2004-2005"

*Hazfi Cup: :"Winners (1)": "2003"

Club managers

*flagicon|Russia Yevgeny Lyadin (1974)
*?
*flagicon|Russia Yevgeny Lyadin (1993 - 1995)
*?
*flagicon|Iran Nasser Hejazi (1998 - 2001)
*flagicon|Iran Bahram Atef (2001 - 2002)
*flagicon|Armenia Samvel Darbinyan (2002 - 2004)
*flagicon|Iran Rasoul Korbekandi (2004 - Jun 2007)
*flagicon|Serbia Zoran Đorđević (Jun 2007 - Oct 2007)
*flagicon|Iran Bijan Zolfagharnasab (Nov 2007 - May 2008)
*flagicon|Iran Mansour Ebrahimzadeh (May 2008 - Present)

Current Management Team

* Head Coach : Mansour Ebrahimzadeh
* Assistant Coach : Ali Shojaei

Players

"As of October 9 2007, the numbers are established according to [http://www.iplstats.com Iranian Pro League Stats] ."

=First-team squad=

2008/2009 Transfers

In:

Out:

Famous players

1970s
*flagicon|Iran|1964 Abdolali Changiz
*flagicon|Iran|1964 Rasoul Korbekandi

1990s
*flagicon|Iran Ali Akbar Ostad-Asadi
*flagicon|Iran Reza Sahebi2000s
*flagicon|Iran Rahman Rezaei
*flagicon|Iran Sepehr Heidari
*flagicon|Iran Mehdi Rajabzadeh
*flagicon|Iran Ebrahim Taghipour
*flagicon|Iran Vahid Amraei
*flagicon|Armenia Levon Stepanyan
*flagicon|Armenia Armenak Petrosyan
*flagicon|Moldova Gheorghe Stratulat

External links

Official

* [http://www.zobahanclub.com/ Official club website]