2012–13 Azadegan League

Azadegan League
Season 2012–13
Champions Esteghlal Khuzestan
Promoted Gostaresh
Esteghlal Khuzestan
Relegated Yadavaran Shalamcheh
Machine Sazi
Shahrdari Arak
Hafari Ahvaz
Shahin Bushehr
Bargh Shiraz
Etka Gorgan
Mes Rafsanjan
Shahrdari Tabriz
Matches played 357
Goals scored 761 (2.13 per match)
Top goalscorer Mohammad Abbaszadeh
(18 goals)
Biggest home win Nassaji Mazandaran 5–0 Shahrdari Arak
Biggest away win Yadavaran Shalamcheh 0–3 Pas Hamedan
Parseh 2–5 Sang Ahan
Highest scoring Hafari Ahvaz 4–4 Bargh Shiraz
Aboomoslem 4–4 Mes Sarcheshmeh

The 2012–13 Azadegan League was the 12th season of the second-level football league competition of Iran.

The league was composed of 28 teams divided into two divisions of 14 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams played only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 26 matches each.

In each division, one team were promoted to Iran Pro League, and one team enter into a play-off and two teams were relegated to the third-level Second Division. In total, the league promoted three teams to Iran Pro League and relegates four teams to the Second Division.

The league started on 13 September 2012 and was ended on 16 April 2013. Gostaresh is promoted for the next Iran Pro League season. Shahrdari Tabriz also promoted from Group B to return to the league after just one year but their promotion was canceled after their rule in match fixing scandal. Pas Hamedan defeated Mes Sarcheshmeh in play-off but lost the qualification match to Zob Ahan.

Changes

Match fixing scandal

After Shahrdari Tabriz promoted to the Iran Pro League, the former chairman of Niroye Zamini was announced that he was offered 100,000,000 tomans to fixing the match between two teams, a bid that he rejected. Two days later, one of the players of the Shahrdari Bandar Abbas was charged that he was purchased to score an own goal in match with Shahrdari Tabriz. IRIFF opened a case for the match-fixing scandal and excluded coaching staff and management of Shahrdari Tabriz temporarily. The play-off and championship matches was also postponed to another time until the final judgment. The final was announced on 13 May 2013. Shahrdari Tabriz's promotion was canceled and they will be play at Azadegan League next season too, Faraz Kamalvand (head coach of Shahrdari Tabriz) and his assistants were banned for two years from football careers. The team manager of Shahrdari Tabriz and chairman of the club were also banned for one year and six months. Yadavaran Shalamcheh (which relegated to the 2nd Division) was relegated to the 3rd Division. Nader Dastneshan (head coach of Saipa Shomal), Majid Bagherinia (head coach of Esteghlal Khuzestan) and chairman of the club.

Teams

Team City Venue Capacity Head Coach Note
AboomoslemMashhadSamen Stadium35,000Iran Hadi Bargizar
Alvand HamedanHamedanQods Stadium10,000Iran Reza Talaeimanesh
Bargh ShirazShirazDastgheib5,000Iran Mohammad Abbassi
Esteghlal AhvazAhvazTakhti Ahvaz30,000Iran Adel Hardani
Esteghlal KhuzestanAhvazTakhti Ahvaz30,000Iran Majid Bagherinia
EtkaGorganKarim Abad15,000 Iran Saket Elhami[6]
Foolad YazdYazdNassiri6,000Iran Ali Kalantari[7]
Gol GoharSirjanImam Ali2,000Iran Ghasem Shahba
Gostaresh FooladTabrizBagh Shomal20,000Iran Rasoul Khatibi
Hafari AhvazAhvazTakhti Ahvaz30,000Iran Nasser Motlagh
IranjavanBushehrShahid Beheshti15,000Iran Ahmad Sanjari
Machine SaziTabrizBagh Shomal20,000 Iran Asghar E'tebari
Mes RafsanjanRafsanjanShohadaye Noushabad10,000Iran Bahman Foroutan
Mes Sarcheshmeh Sarcheshmeh Shahid Bahonar 12,000Iran Davoud Mahabadi[8]
Naft Masjed SoleymanMasjed SoleymanTakhti Ahvaz30,000Republic of Macedonia Zoran Smilevski
NassajiQa'em ShahrVatani15,000Iran Esmaeil Esmaeili
Niroye ZaminiTehranTakhti Tehran30,000Iran Bahman Khoda Karam[9]
PAS HamedanHamedanQods Stadium80,000Iran Omid Tayyeri
Parseh TehranTehranKargaran Stadium5,000Iran Alireza Emamifar[10]
Saipa ShomalQa'em Shahr Shahid Vatani 10,000Iran Nader Dastneshan
Sang Ahan BafqBafqShohada6,000Iran Afshin Peyrovani
Shahin Bushehr Bushehr Shahid Beheshti 14,000Iran Ali Hanteh
Shahrdari ArakArakImam Khomeini15,000Iran Mohammad Navazi
Shahrdari Bandar AbbasBandar AbbasTakhti10,000Iran Abdolrahim Khorramzi
Shahrdari Tabriz Tabriz Yadegar Emam Tabriz 50,000Iran Faraz Kamalvand
Shahrdari YasujYasujTakhti5,000Iran Abbas Chamanyan
Rahian KermanshahKermanshahAzadi7,000Iran Javad Zarincheh
Yadavaran ShalamchehKhorramshahrJahan Ara2,000Iran Human Afazeli

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment
Machine SaziIran Alireza Akbarpour November 2012Iran Asghar EtebariNovember 2012
Pas HamedanCroatia Vingo Begovic January 2013Iran Omid TeyriJanuary 2013

Standings

Group A

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Gostaresh (P) 26 14 8 4 44 25+19 50 Promotion to 2013–14 Iran Pro League
2 Mes Sarcheshmeh (Q) 26 12 11 3 29 15+14 47 Azadegan League 2012–13 Play Off
3 Naft Masjed Soleyman 26 13 6 7 41 31+10 45
4 Alvand Hamedan 26 12 7 7 33 23+10 43
5 Gol Gohar 26 11 8 7 29 25+4 41
6 Aboomoslem 26 10 8 8 39 34+5 38
7 Sang Ahan Bafgh 26 9 7 10 37 32+5 34
8 Nassaji Mazandaran 26 9 9 8 33 27+6 0331
9 Parseh Tehran 26 6 13 7 30 300 31
10 Est. Ahvaz 26 7 9 10 25 349 30
11 Etka (R) 26 7 9 10 15 249 30 Relegation to 2nd Division
12 Shahin Bushehr (R) 26 6 8 12 18 3012 26
13 Sh. Arak (R) 26 6 7 13 16 3014 25
14 Machine Sazi (R) 26 3 4 19 18 4729 13

Updated to games played on 15 April 2013.
Source: Varzesh3.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Nassaji Mazandaran was docked 3 points.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Group B

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Sh. Tabriz (R) 26 13 8 5 33 20+13 0471 Relegation to 2nd Division
2 Est. Khuzestan (P) 26 13 7 6 24 18+6 46 Promotion to 2013–14 Iran Pro League
3 Pas Hamedan (Q) 26 14 3 9 25 18+7 45 Azadegan League 2012–13 Play Off
4 Sh. Yasuj 26 12 6 8 31 20+11 42
5 Rahian Kermanshah 26 10 11 5 27 19+8 41
6 Niroye Zamini 26 12 4 10 29 27+2 40
7 Iranjavan 26 8 13 5 27 20+7 37
8 Sh. Bandar Abbas 26 9 10 7 29 25+4 37
9 Saipa Shomal 26 11 4 11 22 286 37
10 Foolad Yazd 26 8 7 11 28 26+2 31
11 Mes Rafsanjan (R) 26 7 9 10 14 217 30 Relegation to 2nd Division
12 Hafari Ahvaz (R) 26 6 8 12 40 422 26
13 Bargh Shiraz (R) 26 4 7 15 22 4422 19
14 Yadavaran Shalamcheh (R) 26 3 7 16 12 3523 0162 Relegation to 3rd Division 2013-2014

Updated to games played on 16 April 2013.
Source: Varzesh3.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Shahrdari Tabriz was relegated to the 2nd Division due to match-fixing scandal.[11]
2Yadavaran Shalamcheh was relegated to the 3rd Division due to match-fixing scandal.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Play-off

First leg was played on 28 May 2013; return leg on 30 May 2013
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Pas Hamedan 3–2 Mes Sarcheshmeh 2–1 1–1

Pas Hamedan was qualified to the Iran Pro League play-off against Zob Ahan.

Final

The match was played on 31 May 2013
Team 1 Score Team 2 Notes
Gostaresh Cancelled Esteghlal Khuzestan

Iran Pro League Playoff

The promotion/relegation playoff for 2013–14 Iran Pro League was held between Zob Ahan and Pas Hamedan.

The matches were played on 21 June 2013 and 26 June 2013
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zob Ahan 5–3 Pas Hamedan 4–2 1–1

Zob Ahan remained in Iran Pro League.

Top scorers

Group A

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Iran Mohammad Abbaszadeh Nassaji 18
2 Iran Younes Shakeri Aboomoslem 11
3 Iran Hossein Maleki Naft Masjed Soleyman 8
Iran Farzad Mohammadi Naft Masjed Soleyman 8
4 Iran Fakhrodin Shahroei Mes Rafsanjan, Esteghlal Ahvaz 7
Iran Mokhtar Jomehzadeh Gol Gohar 7
Iran Mostafa Chatrabgoon Mashin Sazi 7

Group B

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Iran Meghdad Ghobakhlou Pas Hamedan 9
Iran Hassan Faraji-Moghadam Bargh Shiraz 9
3 Iran Mehdi Chahkotahzadeh Iranjavan 8
Iran Ahmad Davoodi Hafari Ahvaz 8
5 Cameroon Ambuno Achille Rahian Kermanshah 7
6 Iran Ali Yoonesi Shahrdari Tabriz 6

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