# 2019–20 Persepolis F.C. season

The 2019–20 season are the Persepolis's 19th season in the Pro League, and their 37th consecutive season in the top division of Iranian Football. They were also competing in the Hazfi Cup, Super Cup and AFC Champions League.

## Squad
### First team squad

| No. | Name | Date of Birth (Age) | Position (s) | Since | App | Goals | Assist | Ends | Signed from | Transfer fee | Notes |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||
| 1 | Alireza Beiranvand | 1992-9-21 (age 32) | GK | 2016 | 115 | 0 | 1 | 2023 | Naft Tehran | Free | |
| 12 | Sasan Zamaneh | 1999-01-26 (age 25) | GK | 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2024 | Esteghlal | Free | U-21 |
| 44 | Božidar Radošević | 1989-04-04 (age 35) | GK | 2016 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 2023 | Debreceni | Free | |
| 63 | Amirhossein Bayat | 1998-1-13 (age 26) | GK | 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2022 | Baadraan | Free | U-23 |
| Defenders |||||||||||||
| 3 | Shoja' Khalilzadeh | 1989-05-14 (age 35) | CB / RB | 2017 | 82 | 10 | 2 | 2022 | Sepahan | Free | |
| 4 | Jalal Hosseini | 1982-02-03 (age 42) | CB / RB | 2016 | 166 | 6 | 4 | 2022 | Naft Tehran | Free | |
| 6 | Hossein Kanaanizadegan | 1994-03-23 (age 30) | CB / RB / LB | 2013 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2021 | Machine Sazi | Free | |
| 15 | Mohammad Ansari | 1991-09-23 (age 33) | LB / CB / DM | 2015 | 108 | 3 | 3 | 2021 | Shahrdar Tabriz | Free | |
| 17 | Mehdi Shiri | 1991-01-31 (age 33) | RB / RM / RW / DM | 2018 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 2021 | Paykan | Free | |
| 28 | Mohammad Naderi | 1996-10-05 (age 28) | LB / CB | 2019 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 2020 | Kortrijk | Loan | U-23 |
| 33 | Sina Mahdavi | 1999-06-11 (age 25) | LB | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2023 | Academy | Free | U-23 |
| 38 | Ehsan Hosseini | 1998-10-03 (age 26) | CB / DM | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2022 | Academy | Free | U-23 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||
| 2 | Omid Alishah | 1992-01-10 (age 32) | LM / RM / LW / RW / SS | 2013 | 107 | 15 | 22 | 2021 | Rah Ahan | Free | |
| 5 | Bashar Resan | 1996-12-22 (age 27) | AM / RM / LM / CM | 2017 | 63 | 2 | 4 | 2020 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | Free | U-25 |
| 8 | Ahmad Nourollahi | 1993-02-01 (age 31) | DM / CM / RM / LM | 2014 | 135 | 6 | 7 | 2022 | Foolad Yazd | Free | |
| 9 | Mehdi Torabi | 1994-09-10 (age 30) | RM / LM / RW / LW / AM | 2018 | 25 | 9 | 9 | 2021 | Saipa | Free | |
| 11 | Kamal Kamyabinia | 1989-01-18 (age 35) | DM / CM / RM / LM | 2015 | 137 | 16 | 4 | 2021 | Naft Tehran | Free | |
| 18 | Mohsen Rabiekhah | 1987-12-24 (age 36) | DM / CB / LB | 2016 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Sanat Naft | Free | |
| 19 | Vahid Amiri | 1988-04-02 (age 36) | LM / RM / LW / RW / SS / CF | 2016 | 53 | 12 | 17 | 2021 | Trabzonspor | Free | |
| 26 | Saeid Hosseinpour | 1998-10-12 (age 25) | AM / CM / DM | 2017 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2022 | Paykan | Free | U-23 |
| 80 | Mohammad Hosseini | 1999-02-12 (age 25) | AM / CM / DM | 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2023 | Academy | Free | U-23 |
| 88 | Siamak Nemati | 1994-04-17 (age 30) | RM / LM / AM / CM / SS | 2017 | 74 | 9 | 6 | 2021 | Paykan | Free | |
| Forwards |||||||||||||
| 10 | Anthony Stokes | 1988-06-25 (age 36) | CF / SS / LW | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2020 | Adana Demirspor | Free | |
| 16 | Mehdi Abdi | 1998-11-30 (age 25) | CF / SS | 2017 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2022 | Academy | Free | U-23 |
| 20 | Amir Roostaei | 1997-08-05 (age 27) | CF / LW / RW | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2022 | Paykan | Free | U-23 |
| 25 | Aria Barzegar | 2002-10-10 (age 21) | CF / SS | 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2022 | Khalij Fars | Free | U-21 |
| 70 | Ali Alipour | 1994-11-24 (age 29) | CF / RW / LW | 2015 | 167 | 59 | 25 | 2020 | Rah Ahan | Free | |
| 99 | Christian Osaguona | 1990-10-10 (age 33) | CF / SS | 2020 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2020 | Jeju United | Free | |
| Players left the club during the season |||||||||||||
| 7 | Júnior Brandão | 1995-01-07 (age 29) | CF / SS | 2019 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2019 | Loan Return | Loan Return | Loan Return |
| 23 | Mohammad Amin Asadi | 1998-12-24 (age 25) | CF / SS | 2017 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2019 | Loan to Naft Masjed Soleyman | Loan to Naft Masjed Soleyman | Loan to Naft Masjed Soleyman |
| 21 | Adam Hemati | 1995-01-22 (age 29) | RB / RM / RW | 2017 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2020 | Transfer to Pars Jonoubi | Transfer to Pars Jonoubi | Transfer to Pars Jonoubi |
| 10 | Farshad Ahmadzadeh | 1992-09-23 (age 32) | AM / RW / LW / SS | 2019 | 85 | 14 | 12 | 2020 | Transfer to Foolad | Transfer to Foolad | Transfer to Foolad |
| 13 | Hossein Mahini | 1986-09-16 (age 38) | RB / LB / CB / DM | 2012 | 157 | 3 | 6 | 2020 | Transfer to Nassaji | Transfer to Nassaji | Transfer to Nassaji |

## New Contracts

| No | P | Name | Age | Contract length | Contract ends |
| 3 | DF | Shoja' Khalilzadeh | 30 | 3 season | 2022 |
| 69 | DF | Shayan Mosleh | 25 | 2 season | 2021 |
| 15 | DF | Mohammad Ansari | 27 | 2 season | 2021 |
| 88 | MF | Siamak Nemati | 25 | 1 season | 2021 |
| 18 | MF | Mohsen Rabiekhah | 31 | 1 season | 2021 |
| 2 | MF | Omid Alishah | 27 | 1 season | 2021 |
| 26 | MF | Saeid Hosseinpour | 20 | 1 season | 2022 |
| 38 | DF | Ehsan Hosseini | 20 | 1 season | 2022 |
| 1 | GK | Alireza Beiranvand | 26 | 2 season | 2023 |
| 8 | MF | Ahmad Nourollahi | 26 | 2 season | 2022 |
| 17 | DF | Mehdi Shiri | 28 | 1 season | 2021 |
| 44 | GK | Božidar Radošević | 30 | 3 season | 2023 |

## Transfers
### In

| No | P | Name | Age | Moving from | Ends | Transfer fee | Type | Transfer window | Quota |
| 37 | MF | Hamidreza Taherkhani | 20 | Sepidrood Rasht | 2021 | — | Loan return | Summer | |
| 16 | FW | Mehdi Abdi | 20 | Baadraan | 2022 | — | Loan return | Summer | U-23 |
| 12 | GK | Sasan Zamaneh | 20 | Esteghlal | 2024 | — | Transfer | Summer | U-21 |
| 10 | MF | Farshad Ahmadzadeh | 26 | Śląsk Wrocław | 2022 | — | Transfer | Summer | |
| 6 | DF | Hossein Kanaanizadegan | 25 | Machine Sazi | 2021 | — | Transfer | Summer | PL |
| 19 | MF | Vahid Amiri | 31 | Trabzonspor | 2021 | — | Transfer | Summer | |
| 20 | FW | Amir Roostaei | 21 | Paykan | 2022 | — | Transfer | Summer | PL |
| 63 | GK | Amir Hossein Bayat | 21 | Baadraan | 2022 | — | Transfer | Summer | U-23 |
| 7 | FW | Júnior Brandão | 24 | Ludogorets | 2020 | — | Loan | Summer | |
| 25 | FW | Aria Barzegar | 17 | Khalij Fars | 2022 | — | Transfer | Summer(During First Half Season) | U-21 |
| 99 | FW | Christian Osaguona | 29 | Jeju United | 2020 | — | Transfer | Winter | |
| 10 | FW | Anthony Stokes | 31 | Adana Demirspor | 2020 | — | Transfer | Winter | |
| 33 | LB | Sina Mahdavi | 21 | Academy | 2023 | — | Transfer | Winter(During Second half season) | U-23 |
| 80 | CM | Mohammad Hosseini | 21 | Academy | 2023 | — | Transfer | Winter(During Second half season) | U-23 |

### Out

| No | P | Name | Age | Moving to | Transfer fee | Type | Transfer window |
| 19 | CF | Mario Budimir | 33 | Lokomotiva | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 7 | MF | Soroush Rafiei | 29 | Shahr Khodro | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 69 | DF | Shayan Mosleh | 26 | Sepahan | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 37 | MF | Hamidreza Taherkhani | 20 | Unattached | Free | Released | Summer |
| 10 | FW | Mehdi Sharifi | 26 | Sumgayit | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 12 | GK | Abolfazl Darvishvand | 22 | Shahin Bushehr | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 77 | FW | Saeid Karimi | 19 | Shahin Bushehr | Free | Transfer | Summer |
| 7 | FW | Júnior Brandão | 24 | Ludogorets | Free | Loan return | Summer(during first half season) |
| 23 | FW | Mohammad Amin Asadi | 20 | Naft Masjed Soleyman | Free | Loan | Winter |
| 21 | RB | Adam Hemati | 24 | Pars Jonoubi | Free | Transfer | Winter |
| 10 | MF | Farshad Ahmadzadeh | 27 | Foolad | Free | Transfer | Winter |
| 13 | RB | Hossein Mahini | 33 | Nassaji | Free | Transfer | Winter |

### Transfer(cost and benefit)

Undisclosed fees are not included in the transfer totals.

## Technical staff

| Position | Staff |
| Head coach | Yahya Golmohammadi |
| Assistant coach | Hamid Motahari |
| First-team coach | Karim Bagheri |
| Goalkeeping coach | Davoud Fanaei |
| Physical fitness trainer | Dr. Mazaher Rahimpour |
| Analyzer | Mohammad Asgari |
| Doctor | Dr. Alireza Haghighat |
| Physiotherapist | Meysam Alipour |
| Team Manager | Afshin Peyrovani |
| Media Officer | Alireza Ashraf |

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| PGPL | 22 August 2019 | 20 August 2020 | Matchday 1 | Winners | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 46 | 17 | +29 | 070.00 |
| Hazfi Cup | 30 Setamber 2019 | 26 August 2020 | Round of 32 | Semi-Finals | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 075.00 |
| Super Cup | | | Final | Winners | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| ACL | 11 February 2020 | 18 February 2020 | Group stage | | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 54 | 23 | +31 | 066.67 |
Last updated: 28 SEP 2020 Source: Competitions

### Persian Gulf Pro League
#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 19 December 2019. Source: Ipl Stats

#### Results by round

| 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 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | L | W | W | L | L | W | W | D | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | L | D | W |
| Position | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |

#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Persepolis (C) | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 46 | 17 | +29 | 67 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage |
| 2 | Esteghlal | 30 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 55 | 31 | +24 | 53 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage |
| 3 | Foolad | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 28 | 19 | +9 | 51 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs |
| 4 | Tractor | 30 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 31 | 23 | +8 | 50 | Qualification for 2021 AFC Champions League group stage |
| 5 | Sepahan | 30 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 39 | 22 | +17 | 49 | |
* ↑ Tractor qualified to AFC Champions League group stage directly by winning the Hazfi Cup

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Hazfi Cup
#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Super Cup

Since Persepolis won both 2018-19 Persian Gulf Pro League and Hazfi Cup, so the Iran Football Association announced them as the 2019 Super Cup winner.

### AFC Champions League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PRS | TAW | DUH | SHJ |
| 1 | Persepolis | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–0 | 0–1 | 4–0 |
| 2 | Al-Taawoun | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 0–6 |
| 3 | Al-Duhail | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 9 | | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 2–1 |
| 4 | Sharjah | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | +2 | 7 | | 2–2 | 0–1 | 4–2 | — |
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Al-Taawoun 6, Al-Duhail 0.

#### Matches

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Friendly Matches
#### Pre-season

Win  Draw  Loss

#### During season

Win  Draw  Loss

## Statistics
### Scorers

| Rank | No | N | P | Name | PGPL | Hazfi Cup | 2020 ACL | Total |
| 1 | 70 | | FW | Ali Alipour | 12 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| 2 | 9 | | FW | Mehdi Torabi | 11 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | 19 | | MF | Vahid Amiri | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | 16 | | FW | Mehdi Abdi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 8 | | MF | Ahmad Nourollahi | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 5 | | FW | Bashar Resan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | | DF | Shoja' Khalilzadeh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 99 | | FW | Christian Osaguona | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 6 | | CB | Hossein Kanaanizadegan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 88 | | DF | Siamak Nemati | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Others | Others | Others | Others | Others | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 46 | 6 | 4 | 56 |
| Last updated: 18 September 2020 |||||||||

### Assists

| Rank | No | N | P | Name | PGPL | Hazfi Cup | 2020 ACL | Total |
| 1 | 9 | | FW | Mehdi Torabi | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | 70 | | FW | Ali Alipour | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | 19 | | MF | Vahid Amiri | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 5 | | FW | Bashar Resan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 88 | | MF | Siamak Nemati | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | 17 | | MF | Mehdi Shiri | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | | MF | Omid Alishah | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 28 | | LB | Mohammad Naderi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | 99 | | FW | Christian Osaguona | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 18 | | DM | Mohsen Rabiekhah | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 8 | | MF | Ahmad Nourollahi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 10 | | MF | Farshad Ahmadzadeh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 30 | 4 | 2 | 36 |
| Last updated: 22 August 2020 |||||||||

### Goalkeeping

| | | | | PGPL | PGPL | PGPL | Hazfi Cup | Hazfi Cup | Hazfi Cup | 2020 ACL | 2020 ACL | 2020 ACL | Total | Total | Total |
| Rank | No | N | Name | M | GA | CS | M | GA | CS | M | GA | CS | M | GA | CS |
| 1 | 44 | | Božidar Radošević | 15 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 11 |
| 2 | 1 | | Alireza Beiranvand | 14 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 8 |
| 3 | 63 | | Amirhossein Bayat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 12 | | Sasan Zamaneh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 29 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 21 | 20 |
| Last updated: 22 August 2020 ||||||||||||||||

### Disciplinary record

| | | | | PGPL | PGPL | PGPL | Hazfi Cup | Hazfi Cup | Hazfi Cup | 2020 ACL | 2020 ACL | 2020 ACL | Total | Total | Total |
| No | P | N | Name | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 1 | GK | | Alireza Beiranvand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | | Shoja' Khalilzadeh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | | Jalal Hosseini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 30 March 2018. Source: Competitive matches

## Awards
### Team

| Award | Date | Source |

### Player

| No. | Player | Award | Month | Source |

## Club
### Kit

Supplier: Uhlsport
First half season :
| Home Kit | Away Kit |
Second half season :
| Home Kit | Away Kit |
Derby 92 and 2020 ACL :
| Home Kit | Away Kit |
Source:

### Sponsorship

* Main sponsor: Tourism Bank
* Other sponsors: Irancell
** Bonmano coffee
* Official shirt manufacturer: Uhlsport