- Saba Battery F.C.
Infobox Football club
clubname = Saba Battery
صبا باترى
fullname = Saba Battery Football Club
nickname =
shortname =
founded = 2002
dissolved =
ground = Yadegar e Emam,Qom
capacity = 15,000
chairman = flagicon|IRN Karim Malahi
mgrtitle = Head Coach
manager = flagicon|IRNFirouz Karimi
league = Persian Gulf Cup
season = 2007-08
position = Persian Gulf Cup, 3rd
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leftarm2=0000FF|body2=0000FF|rightarm2=0000FF|shorts2=000000|socks2=0000FFSaba Battery Football Club (PerB|باشگاه فوتبال صبا باترى) is a football team based in
Qom ,Iran .The team is part of
Saba Battery Club , owned by "Saba Battery Co", and is located inQom , although they are registered as a team fromQom . They are one of the wealthier teams in the league, and have good facilities and management compared to other IPL teams. Saba Battery, the sponsor of the team also sponsors a very successfulbasketball team in theIran ian national basketball league. Saba Battery Basketball Club is the current Champions of Asia.History
Establishment
In
1974 a football called "Mohemat Sazi" was established inTehran . The team never had any major success and only played in the lower leagues of theIranian football league system . They came close to making it to Tehran's top football league in the eighties. In the early nineties the club was sponsored by a company named "Maham". During the later stages of the club's history they were sponsored by "Sanam", an electronics company.Takeover
In
2002 , the club's shares were sold to "Saba Battery Co." (also known as "Niru Co.") which is under the control of Iran's Ministry of Defense.Due to the club's greatly improved financial status, the team was able to purchase talented players and was promoted to the IPL after only two years.IPL
The team debuted in the
IPL 2005/06 season. The football team was able to secure a berth for theAsian Champions League after winning the2005 Hazfi Cup , however failed to make it past the group stages.eason-by-season
The table below chronicles the achievements of Saba Battery every season, from 2002 to the present day.
Club honors
*
Hazfi Cup :
**2005*
Iranian Super Cup :
**2005Club chairmen
* Abbas Moradi (2002)
* Mojtaba Tabatabaei (2002-2003)
* Ahmad Shahryari (2003-2008)
* Ebrahim Torki (2008)
* Karimi Malahi (2008-Present)Club managers
*
Parviz Mazloumi (2002 - 2004)
*Milan Živadinović (2004 - 2005)
*Majid Jalali (2005)
*Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (2005 - 2006)
*Farhad Kazemi (2006)
*Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (November 2006 - March 2008)
*Yahya Golmohammadi (March 2008)
*Firouz Karimi (July 2008 - Present)Players
"As of
December 1 2007 . The numbers are established according to the [http://www.sababatteryclub.com official club website] "First-team squad
2008/2009 Transfers
In:
Out:
Famous players
*flagicon|IRN
Ali Daei
*flagicon|IRNSohrab Bakhtiarizadeh
*flagicon|IRNYahya Golmohammadi
*flagicon|IRNMohammad Navazi
*flagicon|IRNJavad Zarincheh
*flagicon|IRNHadi Tabatabaei
*flagicon|IRNSattar Hamedani
*flagicon|IRNRobert Markosi
*flagicon|IRNAlireza Abbasfard
*flagicon|IRNAdel Kolahkaj
*flagicon|IRN Mohammad Nouri
*flagicon|IRNFereydoon Fazli
*flagicon|IRNMorteza Asadi
*flagicon|IRNGholamreza Rezaei
*flagicon|Bosnia and HerzegovinaAlmir Tolja
*flagicon|Bosnia and HerzegovinaAlen Avdić References
* cite web
url=http://www.sababatteryclub.com/content/view/32/57/
title=fa icon تاریخچه
work=Official Club Website
accessdate=November 9
accessyear=2006* cite web
url=http://www.iranmania.com/news/sports/pro_league04_05/teams/sababattery.asp
title= fa icon صبا باتري
work=Iranmania.com
accessdate=November 9
accessyear=2006External links
Official
* [http://www.sababatteryclub.com/ Official club website]
Fan site
* [http://www.sabafans.persianblog.com/ Saba Battery Fan Club]
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