2007–08 Sepahan F.C. season

Sepahan

2007–08 season
Chairman	Mohammad Reza Saket
Manager	Luka Bonačić (first 17 weeks) Jorvan Vieira (second 17 weeks)
Iran Pro League	2nd
Hazfi Cup	Quarterfinal
Top goalscorer	League: Mahmoud Karimi (9) All: Mahmoud Karimi (9) Emad Mohammed (9)
Lowest home attendance	1,000 v Aboomoslem (24 August 2007) 1,000 v Paykan (29 August 2007)
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This is a list of Sepahan F.C.'s results at the IPL 2007/08, the 2007 ACL, the 2007 Club World Cup, and the 2008 ACL. The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup, as well as the Asian Champions League, and FIFA Club World Cup.

Iran Pro League 2007/08

Sepahan squad IPL statistics

No.	Position	Player	Apps	Apps Start	Goals	Assists	YCs	RCs
1	GK	Abbas Mohammadi	18	18	-16	2	6	1
2	DF	Hamid Azizzadeh	19	13	-	-	1	-
3	DF	Reza Talabeh	7	3	-	-	-	-
4	MF	Moharram Navidkia	8	8	1	2	1	-
5	DF	Hadi Aghily	26	26	2	1	4	-
6	DF	Jalal Akbari	25	21	-	1	2	-
7	MF	Farshad Bahadorani	21	10	-	2	3	-
8	DF	Mohsen Bengar	28	28	2	1	10	-
9	DF	Jaba Mujiri	13	11	-	-	1	-
10	FW	Emad Mohammed	25	22	8	1	1	-
11	MF	Hossein Kazemi	28	23	1	4	5	1
12	MF	Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail	30	30	5	2	6	-
13	FW	Mahmoud Karimi	19	17	9	2	-	-
14	FW	Kabir Bello	5	-	1	1	-	-
15	GK	Amirhossein Sadeghzadeh	-	-	-	-	-	-
17	MF	Hadi Jafari	20	17	0	2	2	-
18	FW	Mohsen Hamidi	14	4	2	-	1	-
19	DF	Amir Radi	1	-	-	-	-	-
20	MF	Hojat Zadmahmoud	19	11	5	-	1	-
21	DF	Saeid Bayat	22	19	-	2	8	-
22	GK	Mohammad Savari	6	6	-6	-	1	-
23	FW	Seyed Mehdi Seyed Salehi	19	15	4	-	-	-
24	GK	Masoud Homami	10	9	-14	-	2	-
25	MF	Ebrahim Lovinian	19	14	-	1	5	-
26	MF	Jalaladin Ali Mohammadi	5	1	-	-	1	-
27	MF	Abolhassan Jafari	2	1	-	-	-	-
28	MF	Ehsan Hajsafi	31	28	5	5	6	-
29	MF	Behzad Soltani	-	-	-	-	-	-
30	MF	Hossein Papi	18	9	1	2	1	-
35	MF	Haitham Kadhim	3	3	-	-	-	-

Sepahan schedule IPL 2007/08

No.	Date	Home	Scores	Away	Goal Scorers			Crowd	Rank
1	8/16/2007	Pegah	0-2	Sepahan	Zadmahmoud (68), Karimi (73)	Kazemi, Bengar, Mohammadi, Hajsafi	-	15,000	2
2	8/24/2007	Sepahan	2-1	Aboomoslem	Navidkia (42), Karimi (66)	Bayat, Aghili	-	1,000	2
3	8/29/2007	Paykan	1-2	Sepahan	Memar (11)o.g., Karimi (43)	-	-	1,000	2
4	9/6/2007	Sepahan	2-2	Rah Ahan	Karimi (17, 32)	Bengar, Mohammadi	-	2,000	2
5	9/11/2007	Moghavemat	0-2	Sepahan	Maysam Amiri (29)o.g., Abu Al-Hail (61)	Navidkia	-	5,000	2
6	9/20/2007	Sepahan	pp	Pas	-	-	-	-	-
7	9/28/2007	Zob Ahan	pp	Sepahan	-	-	-	-	-
8	10/7/2007	Sepahan	2-1	Esteghlal	Abu Al-Hail (7,90)	Bengar	-	15,000	2
9	10/13/2007	Esteghlal Ahvaz	3-2	Sepahan	Karimi(37), Bello(65)	Mohammadi, Bayat	-	12,000	3
10	10/18/2007	Sepahan	3-2	Malavan	Karimi (4), Zadmahmoud (14), Pourgholami (90)o.g.	Savari, Abu Al-Hail	-	3,000	2
11	10/28/2007	Mes	pp	Sepahan	-	-	-	-	-
12	11/1/2007	Sepahan	1-0	Shrin Faraz	Aghili (12)	Bayat	-	1,000	2
13	11/9/2007	Saipa	pp	Sepahan	-	-	-	-	-
14	11/19/2007	Sepahan	4-0	Bargh	Hani Hashemi (18)o.g., Seyed Salehi (38,41), Abu Al-Hail (90)	Bengar, Hajsafi, Bahadorani	-	7,000	2
pp	11/23/2007	Sepahan	0-0	Pas	-	Lovinian, Mujiri, Aghili	-	5,000	2
15	11/27/2007	Saba	0-1	Sepahan	Hamidi (52)	Bengar, Mohammadi, Kazemi	-	2,000	2
16	12/1/2007	Sannat Naft	2-2	Sepahan	Hamidi (34), Aghili (60)	Seyed Salehi, Abu Al-Hail, Bayat	Mohammadi	6,000	2
pp	12/16/2007	Zob Ahan	1-0	Sepahan	-	-	-	3,000	2
pp	12/21/2007	Mes Kerman	1-1	Sepahan	Abu Al-Hail (65)	Bengar, Hajsafi	-	10,000	2
pp	12/26/2007	Saipa	1-0	Sepahan	-	Abu Al-Hail, Loveinian	-	5,000	2
17	12/31/2007	Sepahan	2-1	Persepolis	Papi (36), Emad Ridha (40)	Bengar, Bayat	-	25,000	2
18	1/22/2008	Sepahan	3-1	Pegah	Zadmahmoud (36,40), Emad Ridha (64)	Bengar, Alimohammadi, Abu Al-Hail	-	NC	2
19	1/27/2008	Aboomoslem	2-1	Sepahan	Papi (37)	-	-	3,000	2
20	2/10/2008	Sepahan	1-1	Paykan	Bengar (82)	Hajsafi, Kazemi, Bengar	-	NC	1
21	2/15/2008	Rah Ahan	0-1	Sepahan	Hajsafi (36)	Jafari, Abu Al-Hail	-	1,000	1
22	2/22/2008	Sepahan	0-0	Moghavemat	-	Kazemi, Aghili	-	NC	2
23	3/2/2008	Pas	3-1	Sepahan	Bengar (37)	Lovenian	-	7,000	2
24	3/5/2008	Sepahan	2-2	Zob Ahan	Emad Ridha(77), Hajsafi (86)	Bengar	-	NC	2
25	3/29/2008	Esteghlal	0-1	Sepahan	Hajsafi (66)	Azizzadeh, Bayat, Mohammadi	-	55,000	1
26	4/3/2008	Sepahan	2-1	Esteghlal	Mahmud Karimi (16), Sayed Salhei (27)	Mohammadi, Akbari, Bahadorani, Seyed Salehi	-	NC	1
27	4/13/2008	Malavan	1-2	Sepahan	Karimi (27), Niknazar (59)o.g.	Bahadorani, Hajsafi	-	12,000	1
28	4/18/2008	Sepahan	1-1	Mes	Seyed Salehi (75)	Seyed Salehi, Bayat, Lovenian	-	NC	1
29	4/27/2008	Shirin Faraz	2-3	Sepahan	Zadmahmoud (7), Emad Ridha (68,67)	Aghili, Homami	-	5,000	1
30	4/30/2008	Sepahan	0-1	Saipa	-	-	-	4,000	1
31	5/3/2008	Bargh	3-3	Sepahan	Hajsafi (20), Emad Ridha (23,38)	Bayat, Emad Ridha, Akbari	-	5,000	1
32	5/11/2008	Sepahan	2-2	Saba	Emad Ridha (58), Kazemi (73)	-	-	6,000	1
33	5/14/2008	Sepahan	1-0	Sanat Naft	Hajsafi (45)	Bengar	-	10,000	1
34	5/17/2008	Persepolis	2-1	Sepahan	Hajsafi (30)	Hajsafi, Jafari, Papi, Kazemi, Abu Al-Hail, Hamidi, Emad Ridha, Homami, Loveinian	-	100,000	2

Sepahan goalscorers in IPL 2007/08

Scorer	Goals
Mahmoud Karimi	9
Emad Mohammed	8
Ehsan Hajsafi	6
Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail	5
Hojat Zadmahmoud	5
Seyed Mehdi Seyed Salehi	4
Hadi Aghili	2
Mohsen Hamidi	2
Hossein Papi	2
Mohsen Bengar	2
Hossein Kazemi	1
Moharram Navidkia	1
Kabir Bello	1
Own Goals	5
Total goals scored	53

Asian Champions League 2007

Sepahan finished top of Group D at the first stage of the AFC Champions League 2007. The group stage were held during the later half of the 2006-07 season.

Sepahan knockout stage matches

Quarter Final

First Leg

Sepahan v Kawasaki Frontale

19 September 2007

Sepahan	0–0	Kawasaki Frontale
	Report

Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 25,000 Referee: Jasim Karim

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Second Leg

Kawasaki Frontale v Sepahan

26 September 2007

Kawasaki Frontale	0–0	Sepahan
	Report
	Penalties
Juninho Kazuki Ganaha Masahiro Ohashi Hiroyuki Taniguchi Shuhei Terada	4 – 5	Hadi Aghili Moharram Navidkia Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail Farshad Bahadorani Jalal Akbari

Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Kawasaki, Japan Attendance: 13,507 Referee: Saad Kameel Al Fadhli

• Sepahan progress 5-4 on penalties after 0-0 aggregate score

Semi Final

First Leg

Sepahan v Al-Wahda

3 October 2007

Sepahan	3–1	Al-Wahda
Mahmoud Karimi 11', 58' Moharram Navidkia 85'(pen)	Report	Mohamed Al Shehhi 48'

Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Referee: Abdul Bashir

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Second Leg

Al-Wahda v Sepahan

24 October 2007

Al-Wahda	0–0	Sepahan
	Report

Al-Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE Referee: Ben Williams

• Sepahan progress 3-1 on aggregate

Final

First Leg

Sepahan v Urawa Red Diamonds

7 November 2007

Sepahan	1–1	Urawa Red Diamonds
Mahmoud Karimi 47'	Report	Robson Ponte 45'

Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh

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Second Leg

Urawa Red Diamonds v Sepahan

14 November 2007

Urawa Red Diamonds	2–0	Sepahan
Yuichiro Nagai 22' Yuki Abe 71'	Report

Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan Attendance: 59,034 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov

• Urawa Red Diamonds win 3-1 on aggregate

Sepahan goalscorers in ACL 2007

Last updated November 7, 2007^[1]

Scorer	Goals
Seyed Mohammad Salehi	5
Emad Mohammed	3
Mahmoud Karimi	3
Mohammad Noori	2
Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail	1
Hossein Papi	1
Moharram Navidkia	1
Total goals scored	16

FIFA Club World Cup 2007

Play-off

Sepahan v Waitakere United

December 7, 2007 19:45 (UTC +9)

Sepahan	3 – 1	Waitakere United
Emad Mohammed  3'  4' Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail  47'	(Report)	Hadi Aghily  74' (o.g.)

National Stadium, Tokyo Attendance: 24,788 Referee: Marco Rodríguez

Quarterfinals

Sepahan v Urawa Red Diamonds

December 10, 2007 19:30 (UTC +9)

Sepahan	1 – 3	Urawa Red Diamonds
Karimi  80'	(Report)	Nagai  32' Washington  54' Aghily  70' (o.g.)

Toyota Stadium, Toyota City Referee: Coffi Codjia

Sepahan goalscorers in FIFA Club WC 2007

Last updated December 10, 2007

Scorer	Goals
Emad Mohammed	2
Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail	1
Mahmoud Karimi	1
Total goals scored	4

Hazfi Cup 2007-08

Fourth Round (1/16 Final - Last 32)

February 18, 2008

• Sepahan 1-0 Mehrkam Pars Tehran

Fifth Round (1/8 Final - Last 16)

February 26, 2008

• Moghavemat 1-2 Sepahan

Sixth Round

May 2008

• Pegah 4-2 Sepahan

Sepahan goalscorers in Hazfi Cup 2007-2008

Last updated May 7, 2008

Scorer	Goals
Seyed Mehdi Seyed Salehi	1
Hadi Aghily	1
Emad Mohammed	1
Ehsan Hajsafi	1
Ebrahim Lovinian	1
Total goals scored	5

Asian Champions League 2008

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
PFC Kuruvchi	6	4	1	1	8	2	6	13
Al-Ittihad Jeddah	6	3	0	3	6	5	1	9
Sepahan F.C.	6	2	1	3	5	8	-3	7
Al-Ittihad Aleppo	6	2	0	4	4	8	-4	6

Sepahan F.C. v Al-Ittihad Aleppo

March 12, 2008

Sepahan F.C.	0 – 2	Al-Ittihad Aleppo
	Report	Jésus Gomez  21' Abdul Fattah Alaga  87'

Foolad Shahr Stadium, Isfahan, Iran Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Ben Williams

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PFC Kuruvchi v Sepahan F.C.

March 19, 2008

PFC Kuruvchi	2 – 0	Sepahan F.C.
Ulugbek Bakayev  61' Timur Kapadze  80'	Report

MHSK Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Attendance: 13,000 Referee: Fareed Al Marzouqi

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Sepahan F.C. v Al-Ittihad Jeddah

April 9, 2008

Sepahan F.C.	2 – 1	Al-Ittihad Jeddah
Seyed Mohammad Salehi  59' Hadi Aghily  71'	Report	Talal Al-Meshal  89'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Sun Baojie

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Al-Ittihad Jeddah v Sepahan F.C.

April 23, 2008

Al-Ittihad Jeddah	0 – 1	Sepahan F.C.
	Report	Emad Mohammed  70'

Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Saad Kameel Al Fadhli

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Al-Ittihad Aleppo v Sepahan F.C.

May 7, 2008

Al-Ittihad Aleppo	2 – 1	Sepahan F.C.
Jonathan Laurens  61' Jésus Gomez  64'		Hadi Aghily  48'4,000

Aleppo International Stadium, Aleppo, Syria Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Naser Al Ghafary

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Sepahan F.C. v PFC Kuruvchi

May 21, 2008

Sepahan F.C.	1 – 1	PFC Kuruvchi
Jalaladin Ali Mohammadi  2'	Report	Gochguli Gochguliev  72'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran Attendance: 150 Referee: Abdullah Mohamed Al Hilali

Sepahan goalscorers in ACL 2008

Scorer	Goals
Hadi Aghily	2
Seyed Mohammad Salehi	1
Emad Mohammed	1
Jalaladin Ali Mohammadi	1
Total goals scored	5

References

1. "Statistics". AFCChampionsLeague.com. Retrieved 2007-10-19.

• • "Iran Pro League Stats: 2007-2008 Season Appearances". IPLStats.com. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
  • "Iran Pro League Stats: 2007-2008 Season Scorers". IPLStats.com. Retrieved 2007-10-23.