1982 Vahdat International Cup

1982 Vahdat International Tournament

Vahdat Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	? February – 27 February
Teams	8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Persepolis (1st title)
Runners-up	Algeria Army XI
Third place	Malavan

Vahdat International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی وحدت‎‎) was an international football tournament hosted by Iran that was played at Tehran in February 1982. Vahdat means Unity. This tournament's participants were teams from Iran and friend countries such as Algeria, Syria and Libya.

Participants

8 Teams participated in this tournament:^[1][2]

Persepolis	AFC
Esteghlal	AFC
Malavan	AFC
Iran U23	AFC
Iran Army XI	AFC
Syria Army XI	AFC
Algeria Army XI	CAF
Libya Army XI	CAF

Venue

Tehran
Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
Capacity: 30,000

Results

Known results are as follow:^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Group stage

Group 1

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Algeria Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Syria Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Iran U23	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Esteghlal	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?

Group 2

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Persepolis	5	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3
Malavan	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Iran Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Libya Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?

Persepolis v Libya Army XI

Persepolis	4-2	Libya Army XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Persepolis v Iran Army XI

Persepolis	1-0	Iran Army XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Persepolis v Malavan

Persepolis	0-0	Malavan

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

Semi finals

Persepolis v Syria Army XI

February 22, 1982[9]

Persepolis	1-0	Syria Army XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Algeria Army XI v Malavan

Algeria Army XI	? (won in penalties)	Malavan

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

Third Place Match

There was no third place match, however Malavan earned third rank^[10] among all participants.

Final

Persepolis v Algeria Army XI

February 27, 1982

Persepolis	1-0 (AET)	Algeria Army XI
Javad Hassanzadeh  119+'[11]

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium Attendance: 25,000

Squads

Persepolis

Persepolis squad was short of several national team and national army team players such as Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, Nasser Mohammadkhani, Abbas Kargar, Ebrahim Kian Tahmasebi, Behrouz Soltani, Mohammad Panjali and Gholamreza Fathabadi. Several players from youth team took part in this tournament.^[12]

Head coach: Ali Parvin

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club GK Vahid Ghelich 16 December 1957 (aged 24) Persepolis F.C. 2 DF Hossein Kashinejad Persepolis F.C. 3 DF Kazem Seyed Alikhani 13 July 1954 (aged 27) Persepolis F.C. 6 MF Ali Parvin(c) 25 September 1947 (aged 34) Persepolis F.C. 7 MF Rouhollah Ebadzadeh Persepolis F.C. 8 MF Hamid Derakhshan 31 December 1957 (aged 24) Persepolis F.C. 9 MF Zia Arabshahi 6 June 1958 (aged 23) Persepolis F.C. 10 FW Nasser Nouraei 16 June 1954 (aged 27) Persepolis F.C. 12 Mahmoud Pazooki Persepolis F.C. Reza Riyazati Persepolis F.C. Mehdi Ghaffari Persepolis F.C. Mehdi Torabi Persepolis F.C. 13 MF Majid Sabzi Persepolis F.C. 14 FW Fariborz Moradi 11 April 1964 (aged 17) Persepolis F.C. 17 Javad Hassanzadeh Persepolis F.C.

Libya Army XI

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