# 1986 Fajr International Tournament

The 1986 Fajr International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی دهه فجر) was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran, Iran. Opening game was played on February 13, 1986, two days after Iranian Revolution Day which is a national public holiday and the final was played on February 21, 1986.

## Participant teams

The tournament's participants were from three confederations:
| Iran | AFC |
| Iran B | AFC |
| Khuzestan XI | AFC |
| Pakistan | AFC |
| Al-Fotuwa SC | AFC |
| Ghana | CAF |
| Poland U21 | UEFA |
| Romania XI | UEFA |

## Squads
### Iran

Head coach: Fereydoun Asgarzadeh
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1 | 1GK | Ahmad Sajjadi | | Homa F.C. |
| | 1GK | Jalal Basharzad | | Homa F.C. |
| | 2DF | Shahin Bayani | (1962-01-31)31 January 1962 (aged 24) | Esteghlal F.C. |
| | 2DF | Asghar Hajiloo | (1956-08-01)1 August 1956 (aged 29) | Esteghlal F.C. |
| | 2DF | Mohammad Panjali (c) | (1955-07-26)26 July 1955 (aged 30) | Persepolis F.C. |
| | 2DF | Hossein Mesgar-Saravi | | Darya Babol F.C. |
| | 2DF | Morteza Fonounizadeh | | Persepolis F.C. |
| | 3MF | Shahrokh Bayani | | Esteghlal F.C. |
| | 3MF | Sirous Ghayeghran | (1962-01-22)22 January 1962 (aged 24) | Malavan F.C. |
| | 3MF | Mehran Najafi | | |
| | 3MF | Saeed Tahmatan | | Bank Melli F.C. |
| | 3MF | Mahmoud Pazooki | | Shahin F.C. |
| 8 | 3MF | Hamid Derakhshan | (1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 28) | Persepolis F.C. |
| | 3MF | Morteza Yekke | | Esteghlal F.C. |
| | 3MF | Hamid Alidousti | (1956-01-01)1 January 1956 (aged 30) | Homa F.C. |
| | 4FW | Nasser Mohammadkhani | (1957-09-07)7 September 1957 (aged 28) | Persepolis F.C. |
| | 4FW | Abdolali Changiz | (1959-03-13)13 March 1959 (aged 26) | Esteghlal F.C. |

### Iran B

Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1 | 1GK | Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh | (1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 19) | Tam Esfahan |
| | 1GK | Pirouz Jaghtapour | | Nassaji Ghaemshahr |
| | 2DF | Hossein Ghavi Fekr | | |
| | 2DF | Mostafa Ardestani | | |
| | 2DF | Morteza Fonounizadeh | | Persepolis FC |
| | 2DF | Mojtaba Holeh Kiyan | | |
| | 2DF | Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard | (1962-09-09)9 September 1962 (aged 23) | Persepolis FC |
| | 3MF | Behtash Fariba (c) | (1955-02-11)11 February 1955 (aged 31) | Esteghlal FC |
| | 3MF | Amir Ghalenoei | (1963-11-21)21 November 1963 (aged 22) | Shahin FC |
| | 3MF | Majid Namjoo-Motlagh | (1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 18) | Esteghlal FC |
| | 3MF | Mehdi Abtahi | (1963-03-02)2 March 1963 (aged 22) | Vahdat Tehran FC |
| | 3MF | Reza Taghavi | | |
| | 3MF | Mohammad Ali Nematzadeh | | |
| | 4FW | Saeed Sayyami | | F.C. Aboomoslem |
| | 4FW | Hamid Reza Mansouri | | Sepidrood Rasht F.C. |
| | 4FW | Farshad Pious | (1962-01-12)12 January 1962 (aged 24) | Persepolis FC |
| | 4FW | Karim Bavi | (1964-12-30)30 December 1964 (aged 21) | Shahin FC |

### Khuzestan XI

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) |
| 1GK | Behzad Gholampour Shahani | (1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23) |
| 1GK | Karim Bostani | |
| 1GK | Yaghoub Farisat (c) | |
| 2DF | Parviz Marashian | |
| 2DF | Mojtaba Yarali | |
| 2DF | Saleh Moghimi | |
| 2DF | Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh | |
| 2DF | Mahmoud Baghalzadeh | |
| 2DF | Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh | |
| 2DF | Karim Marvani | |
| 3MF | Majid Masanavi | |
| 3MF | Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh | |
| 3MF | Masoud Nowrouzi | |
| 3MF | Rajabali Shahmoradi | |
| 3MF | Manouchehr Vaziri | |
| 3MF | Salman Saleh Tabar | |
| 4FW | Jafar Delpasand | |
| 4FW | Teymour Zebdeh | |
| 4FW | Farzad Ahakpour | |

### Pakistan

Head coach: Younus Changezi
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1GK | Mohammad Jahangir | | |
| 1GK | Jamshed Rana | | |
| 2DF | Shaukat Mufti (c) | | |
| 2DF | Mukhtar Ali | (1962-07-25)25 July 1962 (aged 23) | Pakistan Airlines |
| 2DF | Zafar Iqbal | (1965-02-03)3 February 1965 (aged 21) | Pakistan Airlines |
| 2DF | Arbab Hayat Shahzada | | |
| 3MF | Ejaz Ali | (1963-11-05)5 November 1963 (aged 22) | Pakistan Airlines |
| 3MF | Abdul Majeed | (1966-11-12)12 November 1966 (aged 19) | |
| 3MF | Fida Ur Rehman | (1964-04-27)27 April 1964 (aged 21) | Pakistan Airlines |
| 3MF | Zulfiqar Ahmed | | |
| 3MF | Agha Saeed | (1962-10-07)7 October 1962 (aged 23) | KESC |
| 3MF | Abdul Wahid | | Pakistan Airlines |
| 4FW | Mahmood Anwar | | Pakistan Airlines |
| 4FW | Samuel Gill | | |
| 4FW | Wazeer Ali | | Pakistan Railways |
| | Shah Wali | | |
| | Mohammad Yacqoob | | |
| | Arif Raza | | |

### Al-Fotuwa SC

Head coach: Anwar Abdelkader
| No. | Pos. | Player | Club |
| 1 | 1GK | Nafih Abdelkader | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 1GK | Salah Matar | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 1GK | Maher Faraj | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Mahmood Nufel | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Walid Awad | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Adnan Jassem | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Aamer Awad | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Adnan Lajalah | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Jamal Said | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Fawaz Habib | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 2DF | Jamal Enveci | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Anwar Abdelkader(c) | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Nizar Yassin | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Hessam Yousef | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 3MF | Aamer Sayyid Ali | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 4FW | Adnan Kharabah | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 4FW | Ahmed Askar | al-Fotuwa SC |
| | 4FW | Hessan Mousa | al-Fotuwa SC |

### Ghana

Head coach: Anthony Edusei
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1GK | Ansah Issac | | Asante Kotoko SC |
| 1GK | Abukari Damba | (1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17) | Real Tamale United |
| 2DF | Joseph Odoi (c) | (1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17) | Great Olympics |
| 2DF | Freeman Turkson | | Accra Hearts of Oak SC |
| 2DF | Isaac Nana Eshun | | Asante Kotoko SC |
| 2DF | Abdur Raouf Iddi | | Asante Kotoko SC |
| 2DF | Phillip Tagoe | | |
| 3MF | Ebo Smith | (1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20) | Eleven Wise |
| 3MF | Henry Acquah | (1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20) | Hasaacas |
| 3MF | Ahmed Dauda | | Real Tamale United |
| 3MF | Kwabena Asiedu | | Great Olympics |
| 3MF | Olubode Williams | | |
| 3MF | Kwasi Bonsu | | Great Olympics |
| 3MF | Abedi Pele | (1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21) | Real Tamale United |
| 4FW | Anthony Yeboah | (1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19) | Okwawu United |
| 4FW | Ibrahim Meriga | | Okwawu United |
| 4FW | Asare Boateng | | Asante Kotoko SC |
| 4FW | Ibrahim Mohammad | | Cornerstones |

### Romania XI

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| | 1GK | Lucian Hristea | | |
| | 1GK | Zoltán Mártin Iașko | (1964-08-30)30 August 1964 (aged 21) | FC Universitatea Cluj |
| | 1GK | Răducanu Necula* | (1946-05-10)10 May 1946 (aged 39) | unattached |
| | 2DF | Niță Cireașă | | |
| 6 | 2DF | Marian Rada (c) | (1960-05-14)14 May 1960 (aged 25) | FC Rapid București |
| | 2DF | Baicu Lupu | | |
| | 2DF | Liviu Baicea | | |
| | 2DF | Cristian Pojar | | |
| 5 | 2DF | Florin Popicu | | |
| | 3MF | Pavel Badea | (1967-06-10)10 June 1967 (aged 18) | Universitatea Craiova |
| 7 | 3MF | Marcel Sabou | (1965-08-22)22 August 1965 (aged 20) | Dinamo Bucuresti |
| | 3MF | Iosif Rotariu | (1962-09-27)27 September 1962 (aged 23) | Politehnica Timișoara |
| | 3MF | Nicolae Nuță | | |
| | 3MF | Gheorghe Dumitrașcu | (1967-11-28)28 November 1967 (aged 18) | CS Târgoviste |
| | 3MF | Claudiu Bozeșan | (1966-07-24)24 July 1966 (aged 19) | |
| 9 | 4FW | Ioan Cojocaru | | |
| | 4FW | Sorin Bobaru | | FC Argeș Pitești |
    *Retired Romania national team goalkeeper Necula Raducanu who is assistant coach of the team was an unused sub in the group stage match versus Ghana.

### Poland U21

Head coach: Edmund Zientara
| Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Club |
| 1GK | Janusz Jedinak | | |
| 1GK | Robert Sik | | |
| 2DF | Jacek Grembocki | (1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20) | Lechia Gdańsk |
| 2DF | Marek Piotrowicz | (1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22) | |
| 2DF | Witold Wenclewski | (1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21) | ŁKS Łódź |
| 2DF | Andrzej Sikorski | (1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29) | Legia Warsaw |
| 2DF | Janusz Góra | (1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22) | Śląsk Wrocław |
| 2DF | Andrzej Slawgiuwoc | | |
| 3MF | Andrzej Rudy | (1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20) | Śląsk Wrocław |
| 3MF | Damian Lukasik | (1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21) | |
| 3MF | Marek Chojnacki | (1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26) | ŁKS Łódź |
| 3MF | Wichilh Gorgon | | |
| 3MF | Mariusz Gurs | | |
| 4FW | Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c) | (1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23) | Legia Warsaw |
| 4FW | Marek Czakon | (1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22) | Olimpia Poznan |
| 4FW | Marek Leśniak | (1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21) | Pogoń Szczecin |
| 4FW | Krzysztof Warzycha | (1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21) | Ruch Chorzów |
| 4FW | Dariusz Marciniak | (1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19) | Śląsk Wrocław |
| 4FW | Juliusz Kruszankin | (1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20) | ŁKS Łódź |
    Bold indicates overage players for U21 teams.

## Venues

| Tehran | Tehran |
| Azadi Stadium | Shahid Shiroudi Stadium |
| Capacity: 100,000 | Capacity: 30,000 |

## Referees

* Mehdi Abarnirooei
* Mohammad Abarnirooei
* Jamshid Akhbari
* Ali Arbabi (Mashhad FA)
* Mostafa Bahrami
* Bahman Behlouli
* Hossein Dashtgerd (Tehran FA)
* Hadi Dezfouli
* Mohammad Reza Emami
* Fereydoun Karamati(Anzali FA)
* Hamid Khoshkhan(Tehran FA)
* Ali Mohammad Lajmiri(Khuzestan FA)
* Mohammadi(Bushehr FA)
* Manouchehr Nazari(Tehran FA)
* Jamshid Nikmehr
* Mohammad Riahi
* Mohammad Salehi(Tehran FA)
* Hossein Tehrani(Tehran FA)
* Mohammad Yusuf

## Group stage
### Group 1

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Iran | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 5 | Semi-finals |
| Poland U21 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 5 | Semi-finals |
| Al-Fotuwa SC | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | −8 | 2 | |
| Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | |

### Group 2

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| Romania XI | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 4 | semi-finals |
| Ghana | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | semi-finals |
| Iran B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 3 | |
| Khuzestan XI | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 | |

## Knock-out stage

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 19 February | 19 February |
| Poland U21 | 3 |
| Poland U21 | 3 | 2 February | 2 February |
| Romania | 1 | 2 February | 2 February |
| Romania | 1 | Iran | 2 (1) |
| 20 February | 20 February | | Iran | 2 (1) |
| 20 February | 20 February | Poland U21 (pen) | 2 (3) |
| Iran | 2 | Poland U21 (pen) | 2 (3) |
| Ghana | 0 | | |
| Ghana | 0 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 21 February | 21 February |
| | | Ghana | 1 |
| | | Romania | 0 |

## Champion

* 1986 Fajr International Cup winners
* Poland U21 First title

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.31 goals per match.
3 goals
* Abdolali Changiz
* Marek Chojnacki
* Marek Czakon
* Morteza Yeke
2 goals
* Henry Acquah
* Hamid Alidoosti
* Ioan Cojocaru
* Nuta Nicolae
* Zbigniew Kaczmarek
* Nasser Mohammadkhani
* Saeed Sayyami (IRAN B)
* Ebo Smith
1 goal
* Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh (Khuzestan XI)
* Shahrokh Bayani
* Adnan Kharabah
* Marek Lesinak
* Dariusz Maciniak
* Marcel Sabou
* Andrzej Sikorski
* Reza Taghavi (IRAN B)
* Krzysztof Warzycha