2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League
15th season of Persian Gulf Pro League
Football league season
The 2015–16 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League ) was the 33rd season of Iran's Football League and 15th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Sepahan were the defending champions . The season featured 14 teams from the 2014–15 Persian Gulf Cup and two new teams promoted from the 2014–15 Azadegan League : Siah Jamegan and Esteghlal Ahvaz . The league started on 30 July 2015 and ended on 13 May 2016. Esteghlal Khuzestan won the Pro League title for the first time in their history (total first Iranian title). Mehdi Taremi of Persepolis was the top scorer with 16 goals.
Teams
Stadia and locations
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
10,000
Esteghlal Khuzestan
Ahvaz
Ghadir
38,960
Foolad
Ahvaz
Ghadir
38,960
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
66,833
Zob Ahan
Isfahan
Foolad Shahr
15,000
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.
Managerial changes
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.
In bold : Players that have been capped for their national team.
League table
Updated to match(es) played on 13 May 2016. Source:
IPL Stats Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions;
(R) Relegated
Notes:
Results
Updated to match(es) played on 13 May 2016. Source:
IPL Stats Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Positions by round
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 Est. Khuzestan 15 6 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 Persepolis 4 12 16 16 14 14 11 12 11 7 9 7 8 6 4 6 5 4 4 3 3 4 3 3 3 1 1 3 2 2 Esteghlal 1 1 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 Tractor Sazi 8 3 6 7 8 9 10 9 6 6 10 11 9 9 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 Naft Tehran 8 10 12 12 15 15 15 14 13 12 12 12 12 10 8 9 8 8 8 6 6 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 Zob Ahan 15 16 8 6 5 4 5 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 6 Saba Qom 8 10 8 13 9 10 8 8 5 5 4 6 4 4 5 4 6 6 6 7 8 9 9 10 8 8 8 7 7 7 Saipa 8 4 2 4 7 6 4 5 9 9 7 5 5 5 6 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 7 7 9 9 9 10 8 8 Gostaresh 8 14 15 10 4 8 7 7 10 8 5 8 6 8 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 8 9 9 Padideh 4 8 11 8 11 7 9 10 7 10 11 10 11 12 12 11 12 11 11 11 10 10 10 9 10 10 10 11 11 10 Sepahan 2 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 4 6 4 7 7 9 8 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 9 10 11 Foolad 4 8 13 14 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 13 13 13 13 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Siah Jamegan 14 15 10 15 10 11 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 15 15 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 15 13 Malavan 2 7 5 5 6 5 6 6 8 11 8 9 10 11 11 12 11 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 14 Rah Ahan 4 13 14 9 12 13 12 11 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 14 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 14 15 Est. Ahvaz 8 5 7 11 13 12 14 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Clubs season-progress
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
Mehdi Taremi
Last updated: 13 May 2016
Source: Soccerway.com
Source: Iplstats.com
Hat-tricks
Clean sheets
Fernando de Jesus
Last Update: 13 May 2016
Source: Iplstats.com
Scoring
First goal of the season: Sajjad Shahbazzadeh for Esteghlal against Siah Jamegan (30 July 2015 )
Fastest goal of the season: 56 seconds ,[ 32] Jalaleddin Alimohammadi for Saba Qom against Naft Tehran (6 August 2015 )
Latest goal of the season: 96 minutes ,[ 33] Mohammad Ghazi for Saba Qom against Esteghlal Khuzestan (14 September 2015 )
Largest winning margin: 5 goals
Rah Ahan 5–0 Esteghlal Ahvaz (16 October 2015 )
Tractor Sazi 5–0 Esteghlal Ahvaz (13 May 2016 )
Highest scoring game: 8 goals
Tractor Sazi 4–4 Zob Ahan (27 October 2015 )
Most goals scored in a match by a losing team: 3 goals
Gostaresh Foulad 4–3 Zob Ahan (31 March 2016 )
Awards
Team of the Season
Goalkeeper : Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri (Zob Ahan)
Defence : Sadegh Moharrami (Perspolis), Majid Hosseini (Esteghlal), Jalal Hosseini (Perspolis), Mohammad Ansari (Perspolis)
Midfield : Server Djeparov (Esteghlal), Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal), Mohammad Reza Hosseini (Zob Ahan)
Attack : Mehdi Torabi (Saipa), Ali Alipour (Perspolis), Vahid Amiri (Perspolis)
Player of the Season
Mehdi Torabi was awarded as the best player of the season. Ali Gholizadeh was also awarded as the best young player of the season.
Other awards
Branko Ivankovic was awarded as the best coach of the season.
Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri won the best Goalkeeper award.
Jalal Hosseini won the best Defender award.
Omid Ebrahimi won the best Midfielder award.
Ali Alipour won the best Striker award.
Attendances
Average home attendances
Pos
Team
Total
High
Low
Average
Change
1
Persepolis
658,500
100,000
0
47,036
+198.3% †
2
Esteghlal
453,000
90,000
2,500
30,200
+84.1% †
3
Tractor Sazi
115,350
20,000
0
8,873
−67.7% †
4
Saipa
90,299
77,000
70
6,020
+133.2% †
5
Est. Khuzestan
76,460
35,000
200
5,097
+89.6% †
6
Siah Jamegan
64,109
25,000
120
4,274
n/a†
7
Padideh
58,367
22,000
200
3,891
−62.4% †
8
Malavan
57,909
10,000
0
4,136
−9.1% †
9
Rah Ahan
53,302
35,000
47
3,553
+123.5% †
10
Foolad
52,800
18,000
0
4,062
−39.4% †
11
Sepahan
45,150
12,500
250
3,010
−48.3% †
12
Gostaresh
35,107
15,000
60
2,340
+16.1% †
13
Saba Qom
34,840
15,000
100
2,323
+70.2% †
14
Zob Ahan
31,370
8,000
200
2,091
+9.8% †
15
Est. Ahvaz
24,820
10,800
0
1,773
n/a†
16
Naft Tehran
23,910
12,200
70
1,594
−17.3% †
League total
1,875,293
100,000
0
8,048
+16.3% †
Attendances by round
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
85,000
A
30,200
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
NC
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
35,000
5,097
Foolad
3,100
A
2,000
A
13,000
NC
A
1,200
A
400
A
18,000
A
NC
A
A
200
A
6,000
A
A
4,000
A
2,500
A
2,000
A
350
A
50
4,062
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
15,000
A
2,340
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
NC
A
2,000
A
3,200
A
10,000
A
5,000
A
7,221
A
4,136
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
70
A
1,594
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
586
A
3,891
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
NC
A
100,000
A
80,000
A
90,000
47,036
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
57
A
3,553
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
4,000
2,323
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
80
6,020
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
250
3,010
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
8,000
4,274
Tractor Sazi
20,000
A
8,200
A
7,000
A
20,000
A
NC
2,500
A
9,500
A
7,000
A
A
1,350
A
5,000
A
10,000
A
NC
A
A
10,800
A
2,000
A
12,000
8,873
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
400
A
2,091
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
108,334
149,380
1,875,293
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
15,476
18,673
8,048
Notes: Updated to games played on 13 May 2016. Source: Iranleague.ir Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances Esteghlal Ahvaz played their matches against Esteghlal and Siah Jamegan at Ghadir Foolad played their match against Gostaresh at Takhti Ahvaz Gostaresh played their matches against Persepolis and Tractor Sazi at Sahand Rah Ahan played their match against Esteghlal at Azadi Saipa played their match against Esteghlal at Takhti Tehran Saipa played their match against Persepolis at Azadi
Highest attendances
Rank
Home team
Score
Away team
Attendance
Date
Week
Stadium
1
Persepolis
4–2
Esteghlal
100,000
15 April 2016 (2016-04-15 )
26
Azadi
2
Esteghlal
1–1
Persepolis
90,000
30 October 2015 (2015-10-30 )
11
Azadi
Persepolis
2–1
Rah Ahan
90,000
13 May 2016 (2016-05-13 )
30
Azadi
4
Esteghlal
2–3
Tractor Sazi
85,000
8 May 2016 (2016-05-08 )
29
Azadi
5
Persepolis
1–0
Foolad
80,000
12 February 2016 (2016-02-12 )
20
Azadi
Persepolis
1–1
Tractor Sazi
80,000
6 March 2016 (2016-03-06 )
22
Azadi
Persepolis
0–2
Naft Tehran
80,000
28 April 2016 (2016-04-28 )
28
Azadi
8
Persepolis
2–2
Sepahan
77,000
2 February 2016 (2016-02-02 )
18
Azadi
Saipa
1–1
Persepolis
77,000
18 February 2016 (2016-02-18 )
21
Azadi
10
Esteghlal
2–1
Gostaresh
70,000
19 February 2016 (2016-02-19 )
21
Azadi
Notes: Updated to games played on 13 May 2016. Source: Iranleague.ir
See also
References
2022–23 teamsFormer teams Competition Statistics and awards Associated competitions List of transfers
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