2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League

The 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 36th season of Iran's Football League and 18th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Persepolis were the defending champions. The season featured 13 teams from the 2017–18 Persian Gulf Pro League and two new teams promoted from the 2017–18 Azadegan League: Naft Masjed Soleyman as champions and Nassaji Mazandaran. Machine Sazi replaced Gostaresh. The league started on 26 July 2018 and ended on 16 May 2019. Persepolis won the Pro League title for the fifth time in their history, a total 12th Iranian title.

Persian Gulf Pro League

Season	2018–19
Champions	Persepolis 5th Pro League title 12th Iranian title
Relegated	Sepidrood Esteghlal Khuzestan
Champions League	Persepolis Sepahan Esteghlal Padideh
Matches played	240
Goals scored	474 (1.98 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kiros Stanlley Luciano Pereira (16 goals each)
Best goalkeeper	Alireza Beiranvand (16 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Tractor Sazi 6–0 Esteghlal Khuzestan (28 September 2018)
Biggest away win	Sepidrood 1–6 Sepahan (3 August 2018)
Highest scoring	Sepidrood 1–6 Sepahan (3 August 2018) Saipa 2–5 Sepahan (18 April 2019)
Longest winning run	5 matches Padideh, Sepahan and Esteghlal
Longest unbeaten run	17 matches Sepahan
Longest winless run	13 matches Zob Ahan
Longest losing run	7 matches Paykan
Highest attendance	90,000 Persepolis – Sepahan[1] (26 April 2019)
Lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban) Sepahan – Sanat Naft[2] (27 July 2018) Tractor Sazi – Nassaji[3] (3 August) Sanat Naft – Machine Sazi[4] (3 August 2018) Sanat Naft – Tractor Sazi[5] (20 October 2018) Sepahan – Sepidrood[6] (10 February 2019)
Total attendance	2,869,814
Average attendance	12,212
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Teams

Stadia and locations

Sepidrood

Pars Jonoubi Jam

Sepahan
Zob Ahan

Est. Khuzestan
Foolad

Padideh

Sanat Naft

Machine Sazi
Tractor Sazi

Naft MIS

Nassaji

Esteghlal
Paykan
Persepolis
Saipa

Locations of clubs in 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Ghadir	38,900
Foolad	Ahvaz	Ghadir Foolad Arena	38,900 30,655
Machine Sazi	Tabriz	Bonyan Diesel	12,000
Naft Masjed Soleyman	Masjed Soleyman	Behnam Mohammadi	8,000
Nassaji Mazandaran	Qaem Shahr	Vatani	15,000
Padideh	Mashhad	Imam Reza	27,700
Pars Jonoubi Jam	Jam	Takhti Jam	15,000
Paykan	Shahr-e Qods	Shahre Qods	25,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Saipa	Tehran	Dastgerdi	8,250
Sanat Naft	Abadan	Takhti Abadan	10,000[7]
Sepahan	Isfahan	Naghsh-e-Jahan	75,000
Sepidrood	Rasht	Sardar Jangal	15,000
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Sahand	66,833
Zob Ahan	Fooladshahr	Fooladshahr	15,000

Personnel and kits

Main article: List of Iranian Football League managers

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

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer
Esteghlal	Farhad Majidi (caretaker)	Mehdi Rahmati	Li-Ning
Est. Khuzestan	Mohammad Alavi	Ahmad Alenemeh	Li-Ning
Foolad	Afshin Ghotbi	Ayoub Vali	Uhlsport
Machine Sazi	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri	Esmaeil Farhadi	Merooj
Naft MIS	Firouz Karimi	Milad Meydavoudi	Merooj
Nassaji	Majid Jalali	Mohammad Abbaszadeh	Uhlsport
Padideh	Yahya Golmohammadi	Reza Nasehi	Yousef Jame
Pars Jonoubi	Mehdi Tartar	Mohammad Nouri	Merooj
Paykan	Hossein Faraki	Arman Ghasemi	Yousef Jame
Persepolis	Branko Ivanković	Jalal Hosseini	Li-Ning
Saipa	Ebrahim Sadeghi (caretaker)	Roozbeh Shahalidoost	Start
Sanat Naft	Paulo Sérgio	Hossein Baghlani	Merooj
Sepahan	Amir Ghalenoei	Rasoul Navidkia	Start
Sepidrood	Nader Dastneshan	Hossein Kaebi	Merooj
Tractor Sazi	Georges Leekens	Masoud Shojaei	Merooj
Zob Ahan	Alireza Mansourian	Ghasem Haddadifar	Merooj

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Sepahan	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	Contract expired	1 May 2018	Pre-season	Amir Ghalenoei	23 May 2018
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Abdollah Veisi		5 May 2018		Dariush Yazdi	5 May 2018
Padideh	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri		10 May 2018		Yahya Golmohammadi	4 June 2018
Tractor Sazi	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Signed by Kayserispor	16 May 2018		John Toshack	9 June 2018
Zob Ahan	Amir Ghalenoei	Signed by Sepahan	23 May 2018		Omid Namazi	24 May 2018
Sanat Naft	Faraz Kamalvand	Contract Expired	4 June 2018		Paulo Sérgio	4 June 2018
Sepidrood	Ali Karimi	Resigned	18 June 2018		Khodadad Azizi	1 July 2018
Naft MIS	Mahmoud Fekri		1 July 2018		Abdollah Veisi	1 July 2018
Sepidrood	Khodadad Azizi		12 August 2018	16th	Ali Karimi	23 August 2018
Machine Sazi	Firouz Karimi	Sacked	24 August 2018	13th	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri	29 August 2018
Foolad	Sirous Pourmousavi		4 September 2018	9th	Ilie Stan	25 September 2018
Naft MIS	Abdollah Veisi		5 September 2018	15th	Alireza Marzban	7 September 2018
Tractor Sazi	John Toshack	Resigned	17 September 2018	6th	Mohammad Taghavi	17 September 2018
Zob Ahan	Omid Namazi	Sacked	14 November 2018	11th	Alireza Mansourian	15 November 2018
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Dariush Yazdi		19 November 2018	16th	Karim Boostani	20 November 2018
Foolad	Ilie Stan		21 November 2018	13th	Afshin Ghotbi	1 December 2018
Paykan	Majid Jalali	Resigned	11 December 2018	8th	Hossein Faraki	31 December 2018
Nassaji Mazandaran	Javad Nekounam		1 January 2019	10th	Majid Jalali	19 January 2019
Tractor Sazi	Mohammad Taghavi		14 January 2019	4th	Georges Leekens	14 January 2019
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Karim Boostani		25 February 2019	16th	Mohammad Alavi	1 April 2019
Naft MIS	Ali Marzban	Sacked	14 April 2019	14th	Firouz Karimi	15 April 2019
Esteghlal	Winfried Schäfer		29 April 2019	3rd	Farhad Majidi (caretaker)	29 April 2019
Saipa	Ali Daei		1 May 2019	8th	Ebrahim Sadeghi (caretaker)	1 May 2019

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to four per Persian Gulf Pro League team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC country.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Former Players
Esteghlal	Isma	Godwin Mensha	Ayanda Patosi	Humam Tariq	Markus Neumayr Alhaji Gero
Esteghlal Khuzestan
Foolad	Chimba	Raphaël Messi Bouli	Zié Diabaté	Takafumi Akahoshi	Tartá Neguete
Machine Sazi	Fernando Jesus	Jai Quitongo			Maximilien Elimbi Harry Forrester
Naft MIS	Moussa Coulibaly
Nassaji	Giorgi Gvelesiani	Lasha Totadze	Arfang Daffé
Padideh	Carlos Chavarría
Pars Jonoubi Jam
Paykan	Magno Batista	Marko Vukčević
Persepolis	Božidar Radošević	Mario Budimir		Bashar Resan	Godwin Mensha
Saipa	Samuel Sarfo
Sanat Naft	Jonathan Balotelli	Vinícius	Macoumba Kandji	Aziz Sydykov	Platini Karrar Jassim
Sepahan	Kiros	Vladimir Koman
Sepidrood	Luka Nozadze	Roman Chachua
Tractor Sazi	Anthony Stokes	Kévin Constant	Lee Erwin[8]	Yukiya Sugita	Harry Forrester
Zob Ahan	Marion	Christian Osaguona			Eddie Hernández

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persepolis (C)	30	16	13	1	36	14	+22	61	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League group stage
2	Sepahan	30	15	13	2	46	20	+26	58
3	Esteghlal	30	16	9	5	40	13	+27	57	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-offs
4	Padideh	30	16	8	6	32	16	+16	56
5	Tractor Sazi	30	14	10	6	42	25	+17	52
6	Zob Ahan	30	9	13	8	28	28	0	40
7	Saipa	30	9	11	10	28	33	−5	38
8	Foolad	30	9	11	10	30	39	−9	38
9	Sanat Naft	30	7	16	7	31	30	+1	37
10	Nassaji Mazandaran	30	7	15	8	29	29	0	36
11	Paykan	30	9	8	13	27	35	−8	35
12	Pars Jonoubi Jam	30	7	9	14	28	33	−5	30
13	Machine Sazi	30	4	17	9	19	26	−7	29
14	Naft Masjed Soleyman	30	3	13	14	16	34	−18	22
15	Sepidrood (R)	30	3	11	16	24	53	−29	20	Relegation to 2019–20 Azadegan League
16	Esteghlal Khuzestan (R)	30	3	9	18	19	47	−28	12[a]

Source: IPL Table
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.^[9]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. FIFA has imposed a 6-points penalty on Esteghlal Khuzestan due to unpaid wages.

Results

Home \ Away	EST	ESK	FOL	MST	MIS	NSJ	PAD	PJJ	PAY	PRS	SAP	SNA	SEP	SPR	TRC	ZOB
Esteghlal		4–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–0	0–1	2–1	3–0	3–0
Est. Khuzestan	0–1		1–3	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–2	0–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–3	1–0
Foolad	1–3	0–0		1–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–4	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1
Machine Sazi	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–2
Naft MIS	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–1		2–2	0–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	0–0	2–2
Nassaji	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0		1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–1	0–1
Padideh	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	3–0	3–0		1–0	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1
Pars Jonoubi Jam	1–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–1	1–1		3–0	0–1	0–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	0–1	0–2
Paykan	0–4	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	3–2		0–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–2	0–1
Persepolis	1–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–1	2–1		3–2	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0
Saipa	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–1	1–1		0–3	2–5	3–0	0–0	0–0
Sanat Naft	0–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–3	1–1	2–1		0–0	1–1	2–1	1–2
Sepahan	0–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	1–0	3–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	0–0		3–0	2–2	1–1
Sepidrood	0–5	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–3	2–2	0–0	1–6		3–1	0–0
Tractor Sazi	1–0	6–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–1		4–1
Zob Ahan	2–2	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–2	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on 16 May 2019. Source: IPL Stats
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Persepolis	3	1	1	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	3	3	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Sepahan	10	2	3	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	3	2	3	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	2
Esteghlal	7	9	4	7	8	10	11	7	5	7	6	8	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	3	2	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	3
Padideh	14	7	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	3	3	3	3	2	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4
Tractor Sazi	9	12	15	9	11	6	5	6	7	4	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	4	4	2	2	2	4	4	5	5	5
Zob Ahan	4	4	6	8	4	8	9	9	9	9	9	11	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	12	11	10	8	8	7	7	6	6
Saipa	1	6	8	11	7	4	4	5	6	6	7	7	8	7	8	8	10	9	10	10	9	6	7	6	7	7	8	8	7	7
Foolad	2	8	9	5	5	9	10	10	12	12	12	13	9	9	7	7	6	6	6	7	7	7	6	7	6	6	6	6	8	8
Paykan	8	3	5	6	9	5	6	4	4	5	5	6	7	8	9	12	11	12	11	11	10	10	10	12	12	11	9	10	9	11
Sanat Naft	11	11	13	13	14	12	14	14	11	10	11	10	11	13	11	11	12	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	10	9	10	9
Nassaji	15	14	12	15	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	12	12	12	10	10	9	10	9	9	8	11	12	11	11	10	11	11	11	10
Pars Jonoubi Jam	13	5	7	4	6	7	8	8	8	8	8	5	5	6	6	6	7	7	7	6	6	8	8	8	9	9	12	12	12	12
Machine Sazi	6	10	10	10	13	14	12	12	10	11	10	9	10	11	13	9	8	8	8	8	11	9	9	9	10	12	13	13	13	13
Naft MIS	12	15	14	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	14	10	12	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Sepidrood	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Est. Khuzestan	5	13	11	12	10	11	7	11	13	13	13	14	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Leader : 2020 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2020 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off round
	Relegation to 2019-20 Azadegan League

Updated to match(es) played on 16 May 2019. Source: IPL Table

Season statistics

Top scorers

Kiros Stanlley, Sepahan player and Luciano Pereira of Foolad have scored 16 goals in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Luciano Pereira	Foolad	16
	Kiros Stanlley	Sepahan
3	Ali Alipour	Persepolis	14
4	Anthony Stokes	Tractor Sazi	11
5	Amin Ghaseminejad	Padideh	10
	Younes Shakeri	Padideh
7	Issa Alekasir	Paykan	8
8	Mehrdad Bayrami	Sepidrood	6
	Ashkan Dejagah	Tractor Sazi
	Mehrdad Mohammadi	Sepahan
	Amir Arsalan Motahari	Zob Ahan

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Anthony Stokes	Tractor Sazi	Esteghlal Khuzestan	6–0 (H)	28 September 2018
Lee Erwin	Tractor Sazi	Zob Ahan	4–1 (H)	9 November 2018
Jonathan Balotelli	Sanat Naft	Foolad	4–1 (A)	19 April 2019

Clean sheets

Alireza Beiranvand won his third Persian Gulf Pro League Golden Glove after keeping 16 clean sheets for Persepolis.

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis	16
2	Payam Niazmand	Sepahan	15
3	Mohsen Forouzan	Tractor Sazi	14
4	Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri	Zob Ahan	12
	Mehdi Rahmati	Esteghlal
6	Hamed Fallahzadeh	Saipa	10
	Hamed Lak	Nassaji
8	Yousef Behzadi	Padideh	9
	Milad Farahani	Naft MIS / Padideh

Scoring

Attendances

Average home attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Tractor Sazi	657,475	80,000	0	46,963	+326.4%†
2	Persepolis	592,500	90,000	13,000	39,500	−0.7%†
3	Esteghlal	427,000	78,000	10,000	28,467	−3.3%†
4	Sepahan	267,000	60,000	0	20,538	+66.2%†
5	Padideh	210,350	33,000	2,100	14,023	+88.3%†
6	Nassaji	153,400	15,000	6,000	10,227	−21.0%†
7	Foolad	121,610	40,000	300	8,107	+92.4%†
8	Sepidrood	84,740	14,000	2,200	5,649	−33.1%†
9	Naft MIS	72,850	10,000	1,850	4,857	−13.1%†
10	Pars Jonoubi Jam	68,130	20,000	1,500	4,542	−35.1%†
11	Sanat Naft	42,472	7,600	0	3,267	−49.5%†
12	Zob Ahan	41,730	15,000	100	2,782	−0.9%†
13	Saipa	35,563	13,650	150	2,371	−23.4%†
14	Paykan	32,144	12,600	50	2,143	−4.8%†
15	Machine Sazi	27,450	6,500	150	1,830	+640.9%†
16	Est. Khuzestan	22,600	9,000	20	1,507	−49.4%†
	League total	2,869,814	90,000	0	12,212	+34.8%†

Updated to games played on 16 March 2019
Source: Iranleague.ir
Notes:
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Machine Sazi, Naft MIS and Nassaji played last season in Azadegan League
Machine Sazi replaced Gostaresh

Attendances by round

Team/Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	Average
Esteghlal	28,000	A	78,000	A	30,000	A	A	70,000	A	37,000	A	44,000	A	12,000	A	A	21,000	A	16,000	A	15,000	17,000	A	17,000	A	17,000	A	10,000	A	15,000	28,467
Esteghlal Khuzestan	A	100	9,000	A	200	A	100	A	100	A	600	A	8,500	A	700	80	A	A	500	A	200	A	400	A	2,000	A	100	A	20	A	1,507
Foolad	1,800	A	A	1,000	A	450	A	300	A	500	A	500	A	2,060	A	A	26,000	4,000	A	40,000	A	23,000	A	12,000	A	5,300	A	2,700	A	2,000	8,107
Machine Sazi	300	A	400	A	710	A	620	A	1,450	A	4,100	A	4,000	6,500	A	A	150	A	800	A	5,500	A	1,100	A	420	A	400	A	A	1,000	1,830
Naft MIS	7,000	A	5,000	A	A	10,000	A	2,000	A	5,500	A	2,500	A	4,500	A	A	5,000	A	7,000	3,500	A	4,000	A	1,850	A	5,000	A	5,000	A	5,000	4,857
Nassaji	6,000	A	12,000	A	11,000	A	15,000	9,000	A	11,000	A	10,000	A	12,000	A	A	9,000	A	11,000	A	12,400	A	A	12,000	A	7,000	A	8,000	A	8,000	10,227
Padideh	21,000	A	2,100	A	7,150	A	14,000	A	7,500	A	12,000	A	10,500	A	20,200	A	6,000	A	17,000	A	22,000	A	7,500	A	5,400	A	33,000	A	25,000	A	14,023
Pars Jonoubi Jam	A	4,000	A	13,000	A	5,000	A	2,500	A	3,000	A	3,000	A	2,130	A	3,500	A	1,500	A	2,700	A	1,600	A	2,000	A	2,700	A	1,500	A	20,000	4,542
Paykan	A	300	A	200	A	151	A	852	A	A	4,841	A	300	A	910	7,000	A	3,700	A	620	A	50	A	12,600	180	A	125	A	315	A	2,143
Persepolis	A	50,000	A	40,000	A	23,500	15,000	A	13,000	A	23,000	A	45,000	A	38,000	20,000	A	30,000	A	20,000	A	A	81,000	A	47,000	A	90,000	A	57,000	A	39,500
Saipa	800	A	350	A	600	A	150	A	8,000	13,560	A	200	A	350	A	A	230	A	8,770	A	273	A	430	A	A	600	A	750	A	500	2,371
Sanat Naft	A	NC	A	2,000	6,000	A	5,200	A	NC	A	1,472	A	2,200	A	1,500	3,000	A	3,000	A	A	1,500	A	3,000	A	2,000	A	4,000	A	7,600	A	3,267
Sepahan	NC	A	15,000	A	9,000	A	8,500	A	10,000	A	16,200	50,000	A	38,000	A	A	NC	A	12,100	A	12,000	A	11,200	A	60,000	A	A	12,000	A	13,000	20,538
Sepidrood	A	4,500	A	2,590	A	3,900	A	A	6,000	A	5,000	A	5,600	A	14,000	5,000	A	2,200	A	3,000	A	7,450	3,000	A	7,500	A	8,000	A	7,000	A	5,649
Tractor Sazi	A	NC	A	60,165	A	35,610	A	41,000	A	43,000	A	70,000	A	A	70,000	30,000	A	80,000	A	46,000	A	29,700	A	40,000	A	40,000	A	60,000	12,000	A	46,963
Zob Ahan	A	10,000	A	7,500	A	500	A	500	A	300	A	A	800	A	1,500	580	A	1,200	A	320	A	100	A	730	A	15,000	2,300	A	400	A	2,782
Total	64,900	68,900	121,850	126,455	64,660	79,111	58,570	126,152	46,050	113,860	67,213	180,200	76,900	77,540	146,810	69,160	67,380	125,600	73,170	116,140	68,873	82,900	107,630	98,180	124,500	105,400	137,925	99,950	109,335	64,500	2,869,814
Average	9,271	11,483	15,231	15,807	8,083	9,889	7,321	15,769	6,579	14,233	8,402	22,525	9,613	9,693	18,351	8,645	9,626	15,700	9,146	14,518	8,609	10,363	13,454	12,273	15,563	11,575	17,241	12,494	13,667	8,063	12,212

Notes:
Updated to games played on 16 March 2019. Source: Iranleague.ir Archived 2019-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Esteghlal Khuzestan played their matches against Foolad and Nassaji at Foolad Arena
Machine Sazi played their matches against Esteghlal Khuzestan and Tractor Sazi at Sahand
Saipa played their matches against Esteghlal and Persepolis at Takhti Tehran
Saipa played their matches against Foolad, Nassaji, Paykan, Padideh, Sanat Naft, Sepahan and Tractor Sazi at Shohada Shahr-e Qods
Sepahan played their match against Tractor Sazi at Foolad Shahr

Highest attendances

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Week	Stadium
1	Persepolis	0–0	Sepahan	90,000[10]	26 April 2019 (2019-04-26)	27	Azadi
2	Persepolis	1–0	Esteghlal	81,000[11]	30 March 2019 (2019-03-30)	23	Azadi
3	Tractor Sazi	1–0	Esteghlal	80,000[12]	15 February 2019 (2019-02-15)	18	Sahand
4	Esteghlal	3–0	Tractor Sazi	78,000[13]	10 August 2018 (2018-08-10)	3	Azadi
5	Esteghlal	0–0	Persepolis	70,000[14]	27 September 2018 (2018-09-27)	8	Azadi
	Tractor Sazi	4–1	Zob Ahan	70,000[15]	9 November 2018 (2018-11-09)	12	Sahand
	Tractor Sazi	1–2	Foolad	70,000[16]	14 December 2018 (2018-12-14)	15	Sahand
8	Tractor Sazi	1–0	Saipa	60,165[17]	17 August 2018 (2018-08-17)	4	Sahand
9	Sepahan	0–1	Esteghlal	60,000[18]	12 April 2019 (2019-04-12)	25	Naghsh-e Jahan
	Tractor Sazi	1–1	Persepolis	60,000[19]	1 May 2019 (2019-05-01)	28	Sahand

Notes:
Updated to games played on 16 March 2019. Source: Iranleague.ir Archived 2018-07-26 at the Wayback Machine

Awards

IFLO Seasonal awards

	Recipient
Best Player	Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis)
Best Young Player	Allahyar Sayyadmanesh (Esteghlal)
Fair Player	Payam Niazmand (Sepahan)
Fair Play Club	Paykan
Best Goalkeeper	Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis)
Best Defender	Jalal Hosseini (Persepolis)
Best Midfielder	Mehdi Kiani (Sepahan)
Best Goalscorer	Luciano Pereira (Foolad) Kiros Stanlley (Sepahan)
Best Coach	Branko Ivanković (Persepolis)
Best Football Club	Persepolis

Navad Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		References
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
August (Mordad)	Yahya Golmohammadi	Padideh	Mohammad Karimi	Sepahan	[20][21]
September (Shahrivar)	Amir Ghalenoei	Sepahan	Kiros Stanlley	Sepahan	[22][23]
October (Mehr)
November Aban	Winfried Schäfer	Esteghlal	Amin Ghaseminejad Mohammad Ghaseminejad	Padideh
December (Azar)
February (Bahman)	Winfried Schäfer	Esteghlal	Ayanda Patosi	Esteghlal
March (Esfand)
April (Farvardin)	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis	Luciano Pereira	Foolad
May (Ordibehesht)	Paulo Sergio	Sanat Naft	Luciano Pereira	Foolad

See also

• 2018–19 Azadegan League
• 2018–19 League 2
• 2018–19 League 3
• 2018–19 Hazfi Cup
• 2018 Iranian Super Cup