Gilan derby

Gilan Derby or Classic Gil is a three-way derby between soccer teams in Rasht and Anzali in Gilan province, Iran. The first derby occurred in 1976, with the confrontation between Sepidrud and Malavan in the first round of the Hazfi Cup. This game ended in favor of the students of Bahman Salehnia with two goals from Ghafour Jahani and Aziz Espandar.

Damash

Sepidrood

Malavan

Malavan-Sepidrood rivalry

Location	Anzali, Iran Rasht, Iran
Teams	Malavan Sepidrood
First meeting	Malavan 2–1 Sepidrood (1975)
Latest meeting	Sepidrood 1–1 Malavan 2019–20 Azadegan League
Next meeting	TBA
Statistics
Meetings total	40 matches
Most wins	Malavan (16)
Top scorer	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh (10)
Largest victory	Sepidrood 1–3 Malavan 2017–18 Hazfi Cup (9 September 2017 (2017-09-09))

Damash-Malavan rivalry

Location	Rasht, Iran Anzali, Iran
Teams	Damash Malavan
Latest meeting	Damash 0–0 Malavan 2019–20 Azadegan League
Next meeting	TBA
Statistics
Meetings total	26 matches
Most wins	Both (8)
Top scorer	Jalal Rafkhaei (5)
Largest victory	Malavan 3–0 Damash 2004–05 Iran Pro League 2013–14 Iran Pro League

History

At first, the city is facing a battle between Malavan's whites and Sepidrood's reds.

Date of establishment of clubs

Damash: It was established in 1960 under the name of Taj Rasht, later renamed Abouzar Rasht, then Esteghlal Rasht Municipality, then Pegah Gilan and finally Damash.

Sepidrood: In 1968, this team was formed with the name of Salamatbakhsh Rasht and in 1973, the name Sepidrood was chosen for this club.

Malavan: Established in 1969.

Malavan vs Sepidrood Results

No.	Season	Malavan vs Sepidrood	Malavan's goal	Sepidrood's goal	Venue	Competition	Comments
1	1976	2–1	Ghafour Jahani – Aziz Espandar	Hossein Kamyab	Anzali	Hazfi Cup
2	1979	0–1	–	Hamidreza Mansouri	Rasht	Friendly	Enghelab Cup
3	1982	1–2	Ahmad Espandar	Hamidreza Mansouri – Rasoul Haghdoust	Rasht	Friendly	Damparvari Cup
4	1982–83	0–2	–	Mehrdad Houshangi – Hamidreza Mansouri	Rasht	Gilan Province League
5	1982–83	0–0	–	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
6	1983–84	0–0	–	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
7	1983–84	2–1	Mohammad Ghadir Bahri 70'(p.) – Sirous Ghayeghran 118'	Mohammad Ahmadpour	Anzali	Gilan Province League
8	1984–85	0–0	–	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
9	1984–85	0–0	–	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
10	1985–86	0–2	–	Hajipour – Rasoul Haghdoust	Anzali	Gilan Province League
11	1985–86	0–1	–	Hajipour	Rasht	Gilan Province League
12	1986–87	2–0	Hamid Mohammadian – Ahmad Espandar	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
13	1986–87	1–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Seyed Ali Mohammadi	Rasht	Gilan Province League
14	1987	2–0	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh (2)	–	Rasht	Friendly
15	1987–88	0–0	Hamid Mohammadian – Ahmad Espandar	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
16	1987–88	2–0	Sirous Ghayeghran (2)	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
17	1988–89	1–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Iraj Amali	Rasht	Gilan Province League
18	1988–89	1–0	Gholam Mohammadvand	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
19	1989–90	2–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh – Hamid Mohammadian	Hamidreza Mansouri	Anzali	Gilan Province League
20	1989–90	2–0	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh – Nader Ezzatollahi	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
21	1990	1–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Hamidreza Mansouri	Rasht	Gilan Super Cup
22	1990–91	2–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh – Hamid Mohammadian	Ali Barari	Anzali	Gilan Province League
23	1990–91	1–1	Sirous Ghayeghran	Siavash Naseh	Rasht	Gilan Province League
24	1990–91	2–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh – Gholam Mohammadvand	Issa Hashemi	Anzali	Local League
25	1990–91	1–1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Siavash Naseh	Rasht	Local League
26	1991–92	0–0	–	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
27	1991–92	0–0	–	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
28	1992–93	1–0	Fazel Ghadiri	–	Rasht	Gilan Province League
29	1992–93	1–1	Hossein Davoudi	Siavash Naseh	Anzali	Gilan Province League
30	1991–92	1–2	Abdollah Pandidan	Hamid Rostami – Iraj Khali	Rasht	Gilan Province League
31	1991–92	2–0	Ebrahim Badpasand – Payan Rafat	–	Anzali	Gilan Province League
32	1995	0–1	–	Mohammadreza Gholipour	Rasht	Exhibition	Khazar Intern. Cup
33	1996	0–0 Pen.	–	–	Rasht	Exhibition	Khazar Intern. Cup
34	2009–10	2–1	Mehrdad Oladi (2)	Milad Gohari	Anzali	Hazfi Cup	Round of 32
35	2016–17	1–0	Hossein Shanani	–	Anzali	Azadegan League
36	2016–17	1–1	Hossein Shanani	Milad Ghorbanzadeh	Rasht	Azadegan League
37	2017–18	3–1	Pejman Nouri 31', Babak Moradi 99'(p.), Mohammadreza Naghdipour 114'	Hossein Ebrahimi 88'(p.)	Rasht	Hazfi Cup	Round of 32
38	2018–19	0–1	–	Mohammad Gholami 57'(p.)	Anzali	Hazfi Cup	Round of 32
39	2019-Nov-05	2–1	Mahyar Zahmatkesh 40', Hadi Habibinejad 81'	Mahyar Nouri 42'	Anzali	Azadegan League
40	2020-Jul-06	1–1	Mohammad Ali Akbarkhah 35'	Babak Abdollahzadeh 45'	Rasht	Azadegan League

Summary of results

	Apps	Malavan wins	Draws	Sepidrood wins
Official Matches	35	15	15	5
Friendlies and Exhibitions	5	1	1	3
Total	40	16	16	8

Position	Teams	Matches	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference
1	Malavan	40	16	16	8	40	28	+12
2	Sepidrood	40	8	16	16	28	40	–12

Trophies

Team	Iranian Leagues	Iranian Hazfi Cup	Gilan Province League	Gilan Province Cup	Grand Total
Malavan	0	3	?	?	more than 20
Sepidrood	0	0	2	1	3

Top goal scorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Malavan	10
2	Hamidreza Mansouri	Sepidrood	5
3	Hamid Mohammadian	Malavan	4
Sirous Ghayeghran	Malavan
5	Ahmad Espandar	Malavan	3
Siavash Naseh	Sepidrood

Damash vs Malavan Results

No.	Season	Damash vs Malavan	Damash's goal	Malavan's goal	Venue	Competition	Comments
9	1991	2–1	?	? – ?	Anzali	Azadegan League
10	1997	3–2	? – ? – ?	? – ?	Anzali	Azadegan League
11	2001–02	1–2[1]	Atila Hejazi 45'	Bijan Hosseini 35' – Seyed Mehdi Hosseini 72'	Rasht	IPL 1st
12	2001–02	1–1[1]	Rahmat Feyzi Moghaddam 14'	Pejman Nouri 45'	Anzali	IPL 1st
13	2004–05	2–2[1]	Amirhossein Salami Bakhsh 23' – Jurkovic 78'	Hassan Ashjari 20' – Seyed Jalal Hosseini 28'	Rasht	IPL 4th
14	2004–05	0–3[1]	–	Ali Ghorbani 44', 55' – Mohammad Gholamin 79'	Anzali	IPL 4th
15	2007–08	0–0[1]	–	–	Rasht	IPL 7th
16	2007–08	1–1[1]	Hossein Ebrahimi 8'	Maziar Zare 28'	Rasht	IPL 7th
17	2008–09	1–2[1]	Adriano Alves 85'	Mehran Jafari 60' – Seyed Jalal Rafkhaei 68'	Rasht	IPL 8th
18	2008–09	1–1[1]	Afshin Chavoshi 82'	Seyed Jalal Rafkhaei 90'	Anzali	IPL 8th
19	2011–12	1–0[1]	Jahangir Asgari 24'	–	Anzali	IPL 11th
20	2011–12	0–0[1]	–	–	Rasht	IPL 11th
21	2012–13	0–0	–	–	Rasht	IPL 12th
22	2012–13	1–3	Saeid Hallafi 90+7'	Seyed Jalal Rafkhaei 10', 90+4' – Mohammad Nozhati 77'	Anzali	IPL 12th
23	2013–14	0–1	–	Saeid Salarzadeh 67'	Anzali	IPL 13th
24	2013–14	0–3	–	Seyed Jalal Rafkhaei 22' – Siamak Kouroshi 29' – Shahin Saghebi 83'	Rasht	IPL 13th
25	2019-Aug-28	1–1	Jaber Nasiri 90'	Ali Amiri 58'(p.)	Anzali	Azadegan League
26	2019-Jan-19	0–0			Rasht	Azadegan League

Summary of results

Jalal Rafkhaei, top goalscorer of rivalry with 5 goals

Position	Teams	Matches	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference
1	Malavan	26	8	10	8	28	22	+6
2	Damash	26	8	10	8	22	28	–6

Trophies

Team	Iranian Leagues	Iranian Hazfi Cup	Gilan Province League	Gilan Province Cup	Grand Total
Malavan	0	3	?	?	more than 20
Damash	0	0	0	0	0

Summary of total results

Position	Teams	Matches	Wins	Draws	Loses	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Difference
1	Malavan	66	24	26	16	68	50	+18
2	Rasht Teams	66	16	26	24	50	68	–18

See also

• Football in Iran
• Tehran Derby
• Isfahan Derby
• Mashhad Derby
• Persepolis F.C.–Sepahan S.C. rivalry
• Esteghlal F.C.–Sepahan S.C. rivalry
• Persepolis F.C.–Tractor S.C. rivalry
• Esteghlal F.C.–Tractor S.C rivalry
• Major football rivalries