List of Iranian football transfers winter 2016–17

This is a list of Iranian football transfers for the 2016–17 winter transfer window. Transfers of Iran Pro League is listed. Transfer window will open on 5 January 2017 and close on 2 February 2017.[1]

Players limits

The Iranian Football Clubs who participate in 2016–17 Iranian football different leagues are allowed to have up to maximum 35 players in their player lists, which will be categorized in the following groups:

  • Up to maximum 18 adult (without any age limit) players
  • Up to maximum 9 under-23 players (i.e. the player whose birth is after 1 January 1994).
  • Up to maximum 8 under-21 players (i.e. the player whose birth is after 1 January 1996).

Iran Pro League

Rules and regulations

According to Iran Football Federation rules for 2016–17 Persian Gulf Pro League, each Football Club is allowed to take up to maximum 6 new Iranian player from the other clubs who already played in the 2015–16 Iran Pro League season. In addition to these six new players, each club is allowed to take up to maximum 4 non-Iranian new players (at least one of them should be Asian) and up to 3 players from Free agent (who did not play in 2015–16 Iran Pro League season or doesn't list in any 2015–16 League after season's start) during the season. In addition to these players, the clubs are also able to take some new under-23 and under-21 years old players, if they have some free place in these categories in their player lists. Under-23 players should sign in transfer window but under-21 can be signed during the first mid-season.

Esteghlal

Head coach: Iran Alireza Mansourian

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
80 MF Uzbekistan UZB Server Djeparov (from Uzbekistan Lokomotiv Tashkent)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
16 FW Iran IRN Arash Afshin (to Esteghlal Khuzestan)
7 MF Iran IRN Bakhtiar Rahmani (to Foolad)
55 DF Iran IRN Mohammad Amin Hajmohammadi (to Machine Sazi)
20 MF Iran IRN Meysam Majidi (to Saba Qom)
4 MF Iran IRN Roozbeh Cheshmi (On loan to Saba Qom)
80 MF Uzbekistan UZB Server Djeparov (On loan to Sepahan)

Esteghlal Khuzestan

Head coach: Iran Sirous Pourmousavi

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Cameroon CMR Aloys Nong (from Free Agent)
— FW Iran IRN Arash Afshin (from Esteghlal)
— MF Iran IRN Mostafa Mahi (from Fajr Sepasi)[2]
— DF Iran IRN Farzad Jafari (loan return from Malavan)[2]

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Iran IRN Jalal Abdi (to Sepahan)
— DF Iran IRN Ezzatollah Pourghaz (to Saipa)
— MF Iran IRN Meysam Doraghi (to Foolad)

Foolad

Head coach: Iran Naeim Saadavi

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Bakhtiar Rahmani (from Esteghlal)
— MF Iran IRN Meysam Doraghi (from Esteghlal Khuzestan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

FC Mashhad

Head coach: Iran Khodadad Azizi (interim)

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Milad Meydavoudi (from Rah Ahan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Ayoub Kalantari (to Saipa)
— DF Iran IRN Alireza Nourmohammadi (to Sanat Naft Abadan)
— DF Iran IRN Hamidreza Aliasgari (to Machine Sazi)

Gostaresh Foulad

Head coach: Iran Faraz Kamalvand

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
99 FW Iran IRN Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (to Saipa)

Machine Sazi

Head coach:

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Iran IRN Saeed Ghaedifar (from Sepahan)
— FW Iran IRN Shahab Zahedi (from Persepolis)
— DF Iran IRN Mohammad Amin Hajmohammadi (from Esteghlal)
— DF Iran IRN Hamidreza Aliasgari (from Siah Jamegan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Iran IRN Saman Nariman Jahan (to Persepolis)
— MF Iran IRN Andranik Teymourian (to Naft Tehran)

Naft Tehran

Head coach: Iran Ali Daei

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Andranik Teymourian (from Machine Sazi)
— FW Iran IRN Sajjad Shahbazzadeh (from Turkey Alanyaspor)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Padideh

Head coach: Iran Mohammad Reza Mohajeri

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Cameroon CMR David Wirikom (from free agent)[2]
— MF Iran IRN Akbar Imani (from Foolad)[2]
— DF Iran IRN Mohammad Ali Ahmadi (from free agent)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Paykan

Head coach: Iran Majid Jalali

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF France FRA Jérémy Manzorro (from Bulgaria Slavia Sofia)[2]
— DF Iran IRN Mehran Mousavi (from Rah Ahan)[2]

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Persepolis

Head coach: Croatia Branko Ivanković

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Iran IRN Saman Nariman Jahan (from Machine Sazi)
— MF Iran IRN Soroush Rafiei (from Tractor Sazi)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
8 MF Iran IRN Ahmad Nourollahi (to Tractor Sazi on loan)
2 FW Iran IRN Omid Alishah (to Tractor Sazi on loan)
— FW Iran IRN Shahab Zahedi (to Machine Sazi)

Saba Qom

Head coach: Iran Samad Marfavi

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
47 MF Iran IRN Meysam Majidi (from Esteghlal)
4 MF Iran IRN Roozbeh Cheshmi (On loan from Esteghlal)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Iran IRN Hamed Lak (to Saipa)

Saipa

Head coach: Iran Hossein Faraki

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Iran IRN Hamed Lak (from Saba Qom)
99 FW Iran IRN Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (from Gostaresh Foolad)
— DF Iran IRN Ezzatollah Pourghaz (from Esteghlal Khuzestan)
— MF Iran IRN Ayoub Kalantari (from FC Mashhad)
— FW Iran IRN Mohammad Reza Soleimani (from Rah Ahan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Iran IRN Masoud Hassanzadeh (to Sepahan)

Sanat Naft Abadan

Head coach: Iran Firouz Karimi

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Iran IRN Alireza Nourmohammadi (from FC Mashhad)[2]
— FW Iran IRN Bahador Abdi (from Paykan)[2]
— DF Iran IRN Ali Helichi U23 (from Sepahan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Sepahan

Head coach: Iran Abdollah Veisi

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
14 FW Iran IRN Masoud Hassanzadeh (from Saipa)
15 FW Iran IRN Mehdi Alimoradi U21 (from Sepahan U21)
18 MF Iran IRN Naser Ghalavand U21 (from Sepahan U21)
80 MF Uzbekistan UZB Server Djeparov (On loan from Esteghlal)
88 DF Iran IRN Jalal Abdi (from Esteghlal Khuzestan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Iran IRN Ali Helichi (to Sanat Naft Abadan)
4 MF Iran IRN Moharram Navidkia (Retired)
11 FW Iran IRN Emad Mirjavan (to Oxin Alborz)
99 FW East Timor TLS Pedro Henrique Oliveira (to South Korea Daejeon Citizen)

Tractor Sazi

Head coach: Iran Amir Ghalenoei

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Ahmad Nourollahi (from Persepolis on loan)
— FW Iran IRN Omid Alishah (from Persepolis on loan)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Iran IRN Soroush Rafiei (to Persepolis)

Zob Ahan

Head coach: Iran Mojtaba Hosseini

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Lebanon LBN Rabih Ataya (from Lebanon Al Ansar)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player

Notes
  • PL Pro League quota.

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Worldwide transfer windows calendar". Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "90tv.ir - وبسایت رسمی برنامه ۹۰ -". 90tv.ir.
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