2011–12 Azadegan League

Azadegan League
Season	2011–12
Champions	Paykan; 1st Azadegan League title
Promoted	Paykan ; Aluminium Hormozgan ; Gahar Zagros
Relegated	Sanat Sari ; Payam Mokhaberat ; Sanati Kaveh ; Bargh Shiraz
Matches played	364
Goals scored	689 (1.89 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bahman Tahmasebi ; (13 goals)
Biggest home win	Iranjavan 4–0 Mes Rafsanjan; (10 November 2011)
Biggest away win	Payam Mokhaberat 1–7 Paykan; (3 November 2011)
Highest scoring	Payam Mokhaberat 1–7 Paykan; (3 November 2011)
Highest attendance	15,000 ; Nassaji – Naft MIS ; (5 April 2012)
Lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban) ; Aluminium Hormozgan – Gol Gohar ; (15 September 2011) ; Sanat Sari – Saipa Shomal ; (15 September 2011) ; Parseh Tehran – Sh. Arak ; (14 October 2011) ; Shirin Faraz – Nassaji ; (27 December 2011) ; Naft MIS – Sh. Yasouj ; (27 January 2012) ; Aboumoslem – Paykan ; (16 February 2012) ; Nassaji – Tarbiat Yazd ; (8 March 2012) ; Aluminium Hormozgan – Tarbiat Yazd ; (6 April 2012) ; Est. Khuzestan – Nassaji ; (10 April 2012) ; Naft MIS – Bargh Shiraz ; (13 April 2012)
Total attendance	831,800
Average attendance	2,350
	← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Azadegan League was the 21st season of the Azadegan League and 11th as the second highest division since its establishment in 1991. The season featured 21 teams from the 2010–11 Azadegan League, three new teams relegated from the 2010–11 Persian Gulf Cup: PAS Hamedan, Paykan and Steel Azin and three new teams promoted from the 2010–11 2nd Division: Saipa Shomal as champions, Niroye Zamini and Parseh Tehran. Esteghlal Khuzestan replaced Esteghlal Jonoub Tehran. Damash Lorestan changed their name into Gahar Zagros while Hamyari Arak changed their name into Shahrdari Arak. The league started on 14 September 2011 and ended on 19 April 2012. Paykan won the Azadegan League title for the first time in their history. Paykan, Aluminium Hormozgan and Gahar Zagros promoted to the Persian Gulf Cup.

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Team	City	Venue	Capacity	Head Coach	Note
Aboomoslem	Mashhad	Samen	35,000	Khodadad Azizi
Parseh Tehran	Tehran	Kargaran	5,000	Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Changed name from Damash
Etka	Gorgan	Karim Abad	15,000	Hamid Kolalifard
Foolad Yazd	Yazd	Nassiri	6,000	Zoran Smilevski
Iranjavan	Bushehr	Shahid Beheshti	15,000	Abdolrahim Kharazmi
Gostaresh Foolad	Tabriz	Bagh Shomal	20,000	Mohammad H Ziaei
Mes Rafsanjan	Rafsanjan	Noushabad	10,000	Akbar Zabardast
Payam Mokhaberat	Shiraz	Hafezieh	20,000	Asghar Akbari
Paykan	Tehran	Iran Khodro	5,000	Farhad Kazemi
Saipa Shomal	Qa'em-Shahr	Vatani	15,000	Samvel Darbinyan
Sanat Sari	Sari	Shohada Stadium	15,000	Nader Dastneshan
Shahrdari Arak	Arak	Imam Khomeini	15,000	Hamid Kolalifard	Replaced for Hamyari Arak
Shahrdari Bandar Abbas	Bandar Abbas	Takhti	10,000	Acácio Casimiro
Steel Azin	Semnan	Takhti	10,000	Faraz Kamalvand

Team	City	Venue	Capacity	Head Coach	Note
Aluminium Hormozgan	Bandar Abbas	Takhti	10,000	Akbar Misaghian
Bargh Shiraz	Shiraz	Hafezieh	20,000	Mehrdad Shekari
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Takhti Ahvaz	30,000	Majid Bagherinia	Replaced for Esteghlal Jonub
Gahar Zagros	Dorood	Takhti	10,000	Davoud Mahabadi
Gol Gohar	Sirjan	Imam Ali	2,000	Mehdi Mohammadi
Machine Sazi	Tabriz	Bagh Shomal	20,000	Rasoul Khatibi
Naft Masjed Soleyman	Masjed Soleyman	Takhti Ahvaz	30,000	Siavash Bakhtiarizade
Nassaji	Qa'em-Shahr	Vatani	15,000	Davoud Mahabadi
Nirooye Zamini	Tehran	Jey Stadium		Ali Rouzbahani
PAS Hamedan	Hamedan	Shahid Mofatteh	10,000	Vinko Begović
Sanati Kaveh	Tehran	Aliaf Stadium	5,000	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh
Shahrdari Yasuj	Yasuj	Takhti Yasuj	5,000	Abdollah Chamanian
Shirin Faraz	Kermanshah	Azadi Stadium	7,000	Majid Aghajari
Tarbiat Yazd	Yazd	Nassiri	6,000	Hadi Bargizar

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Aboomoslem	Ali Hanteh	Resigned	2011		Kazem Ghiasian	2011
Sanati Kaveh	Saket Elhami^[10]	Resigned	20 October 2011	14	Ahmad Sanjari	29 October 2011
Aboomoslem	Kazem Ghiasian	Sacked	19 November 2011	8	Khodadad Azizi	19 November 2011
Sanati Kaveh	Ahmad Sanjari	Resigned	November 2011	14	Morteza Yekeh	Nov 2011
Sanati Kaveh	Morteza Yekeh		17 November 2011	14	Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Nov 2011
Sanati Kaveh	Mehdi Dinvarzadeh	Resigned	1 December 2011	14	Ali Nazarzadeh	1 December 2012
Sanati Kaveh	Ali Nazarzadeh	End of caretaker spell	2 December 2011	14	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	3 December 2011
Pas Hamedan	Faraz Kamalvand	Resigned	12 January 2012	5	Jalal Cheraghpour^[11]	12 January 2012
Parseh	Hossein Peyrovani	Resigned	19 January 2012		Edmond Yunanpour^[12]	25 January 2012
Pas Hamedan	Jalal Cheraghpour	End of caretaker spell	22 January 2012		Vinko Begović^[11]	22 January 2012
Gostaresh	Hossein Ziaei	Sacked	31 January 2012	12	Hadi Bargizar^[13]	31 January 2012
Parseh	Edmond Yunanpour		Feb 2012		Mehdi Dinvarzadeh^[14]	5 February 2012
Steel Azin	Human Afazeli	Resigned	18 February 2012	11	Faraz Kamalvand^[15]	18 February 2012
Sanat Sari	Reza Taghavi^[16]	Sacked	18 February 2012	14	Farshad Pious	19 February 2012
Shahrdari Arak	Nader Dastneshan^[17]	Sacked	27 February 2012	7	Ali Hanteh	27 February 2012

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Paykan (P)	26	14	8	4	44	26	+18	50	Promotion to 2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup
2	Iranjavan (Q)	26	13	9	4	31	16	+15	48	Azadegan League 2011–12 Play Off
3	Sh. Bandar Abbas	26	10	8	8	26	27	−1	38
4	Sh. Arak	26	9	10	7	19	17	+2	37
5	Foolad Yazd	26	9	9	8	25	23	+2	36
6	Aboumoslem	26	8	10	8	21	18	+3	34
7	Etka Gorgan	26	9	7	10	21	20	+1	34
8	Saipa Shomal	26	8	9	9	26	26	0	33
9	Gostaresh	26	7	11	8	25	30	−5	32
10	Steel Azin	26	10	10	6	29	22	+7	28^[a]
11	Parseh Tehran	26	8	4	14	20	29	−9	28
12	Mes Rafsanjan	26	6	8	12	22	28	−6	26
13	Sanat Sari (R)	26	7	5	14	20	34	−14	26	Relegation to 2012–13 Iran Football's 2nd Division
14	Payam Mokhaberat (R)	26	5	10	11	15	28	−13	25	Relegation to 2012–13 Iran Football's 2nd Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Aluminium Hormozgan (P)	26	15	7	4	28	12	+16	52	Promotion to 2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup
2	Gahar Zagros (P, Q)	26	11	9	6	23	16	+7	42	Azadegan League 2011–12 Play Off
3	Machine Sazi	26	11	8	7	32	25	+7	41
4	PAS Hamedan	26	10	9	7	29	25	+4	39
5	Nassaji Mazandaran	26	10	7	9	26	26	0	37
6	Est. Khuzestan	26	9	8	9	28	23	+5	35
7	Sh. Yasouj	26	10	5	11	24	27	−3	35
8	Naft Masjed Soleyman	26	8	10	8	25	26	−1	34
9	Gol Gohar	26	9	6	11	28	28	0	33
10	Niroye Zamini	26	7	11	8	23	24	−1	32
11	Shirin Faraz	26	7	11	8	22	27	−5	32
12	Tarbiat Yazd	26	7	9	10	21	26	−5	30
13	Sanati Kaveh (R)	26	7	8	11	24	23	+1	29	Relegation to 2012–13 Iran Football's 2nd Division
14	Bargh Shiraz (R)	26	4	6	16	12	37	−25	18	Relegation to 2012–13 Iran Football's 2nd Division

2011–12 Azadegan League

Teams

Group A

Group B

Managerial changes

Standings

Group A

Group B

Results table

Group A

Group B

Play Off

Final

Player statistics

Top scorers, Group A

Top scorers, Group B

Attendance

Average home attendance

Highest attendance

See also

References

External links

Wikiwand - on

Home \ Away	ABU	PAT	ETK	FOY	GOS	IRJ	MSR	PMS	PAY	SAI	SAN	SHA	SHB	STL
Aboumoslem		1–0	0–2	1–0	3–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	3–0	0–0	0–1	2–2
Parseh Tehran	0–0		0–0	3–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	1–4	0–1	1–2	1–2
Etka Gorgan	0–0	3–0		0–1	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	1–2
Foolad Yazd	2–1	2–1	2–0		0–0	2–2	1–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0
Gostaresh	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–4		0–0	1–2	1–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0
Iranjavan	1–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–0		4–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–2
Mes Rafsanjan	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	1–2		0–0	1–2	4–1	1–0	1–2	0–0	1–2
Payam Mokhaberat	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–0		1–7	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0
Paykan	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–2	1–0		2–1	4–2	0–0	4–1	2–1
Saipa Shomal	0–1	2–0	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1		2–2	2–1	1–1	1–2
Sanat Sari	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	1–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	0–3		1–0	0–0	1–0
Sh. Arak	1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–0		0–1	0–0
Sh. Bandar Abbas	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	4–3	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–3	2–1	0–0	0–1		1–1
Steel Azin	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1

Home \ Away	ALH	BGH	ESK	GZA	GOL	MST	NFT	NSJ	NRO	PAS	KAV	SHY	SFZ	TAR
Aluminium Hormozgan		2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–0				2–0	1–0	2–0	0–0
Bargh Shiraz				0–1			0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	1–2	1–0	0–1
Est. Khuzestan		1–1					2–0		1–1	0–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1
Gahar Zagros	0–1	1–0	1–0			3–1	1–1	0–0			1–1		3–1	3–1
Gol Gohar	1–2	3–0	3–1	0–0		2–2	3–0				3–2	0–1		2–1
Machine Sazi		1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0		2–2				3–2	3–1	1–1	1–2
Naft Masjed Soleyman	1–1					1–0		2–3	1–1	1–2		1–0	1–1	1–0
Nassaji Mazandaran	0–1		1–0	1–0	1–0	1–3			0–0	2–1	1–1	1–0
Niroye Zamini	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1		1–0			1–0	2–2
PAS Hamedan	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–1	0–1		2–1	2–1					1–1
Sanati Kaveh	1–2	0–1	0–0				0–1	2–1	1–1	1–1			2–0	1–1
Sh. Yasouj			2–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–0		1–3	2–0	1–0		2–2
Shirin Faraz	1–1	1–0			0–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1				1–0
Tarbiat Yazd	0–2			2–0	2–0		2–1	1–1	0–0	1–3		0–0	2–1

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Naft MIS	100,000	10,000	0	9,091	+1.0%^†
2	Gahar Zagros	80,000	10,000	2,000	6,154	+79.7%^†
3	Nassaji	69,500	15,000	0	5,792	−54.6%^†
4	Aluminium Hormozgan	55,600	10,000	0	5,055	+66.4%^†
5	Sh. Yasouj	52,500	7,000	2,000	4,038	−27.1%^†
6	Sh. Arak	47,000	7,000	1,000	3,615	+151.4%^†
7	Machine Sazi	42,500	5,000	1,000	3,269	+312.8%^†
8	Sh. Bandar Abbas	41,200	7,000	200	3,169	+75.3%^†
9	Steel Azin	36,000	4,000	1,000	2,769	−29.7%^†
10	Mes Rafsanjan	30,500	3,000	500	2,346	−9.0%^†
11	Gol Gohar	27,500	3,000	1,500	2,115	−6.8%^†
12	Iranjavan	27,000	5,000	1,000	2,077	+7.0%^†
13	PAS Hamedan	25,500	3,000	1,000	1,962	−56.7%^†
14	Saipa Shomal	24,300	3,500	100	1,869	n/a^†
15	Shirin Faraz	22,500	3,000	0	1,875	−28.3%^†
16	Foolad Yazd	23,400	4,000	100	1,800	−33.1%^†
17	Sanat Sari	16,200	3,000	0	1,350	−67.5%^†
18	Etka Gorgan	17,000	2,300	100	1,308	+0.3%^†
19	Est. Khuzestan	15,500	2,000	0	1,292	n/a^†
20	Aboumoslem	11,150	2,500	0	929	−31.2%^†
21	Tarbiat Yazd	11,700	2,000	200	900	−78.8%^†
22	Paykan	11,650	3,000	100	896	−53.8%^†
23	Bargh Shiraz	11,000	2,000	100	846	−26.7%^†
24	Gostaresh	10,950	2,000	50	842	−83.1%^†
25	Niroye Zamini	7,800	3,000	100	600	n/a^†
25	Payam Mokhaberat	7,800	1,500	100	600	+29.9%^†
27	Parseh Tehran	3,450	1,000	0	288	n/a^†
28	Sanati Kaveh	2,600	1,000	100	200	+6.4%^†
	League total	831,800	15,000	0	2,350	−14.0%^†