List of Persepolis F.C. statistics and records

This article details all-time records.

Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian professional association football club based in Tehran. The club was formed in 1963 and played its first competitive match against Rah Ahan F.C. Persepolis currently plays in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Persepolis is the only club, never to have been relegated from the league. They have also been involved in Asian football, winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

Ali Parvin, pictured here, holds the records for most appearances with the club, with 341.

This list encompasses the major honours won by Persepolis and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.

Mehdi Mahdavikia, the club's youngest first team player (aged 17 years and 206 days).

This page details Persepolis Football Club records.

Farshad Pious, pictured here, is the all-time top goalscorer for the club, with 153 goals.

Statistics

Statistics in IPL

• Seasons in IPL: 24 (all)
• Best position in IPL: First (2001-02), (2007-08), (2016-17), (2017-18), (2018-19), (2019-20), (2020-21), (2022-23), (2023-24)
• Worst position in IPL: 12 (2011-12)
• Most goals scored in a season: 56 (Azadegan League 1998-99),55 (IPL 2007-08)
• Most goals scored in a match: 8 against Pegah F.C. (IPL 2003-04)
• Most goals conceded in a match: 4 against Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. (IPL 2007-08), TractorSazi (2011-12)

Statistics in AFC Champions League

Main article: Persepolis F.C. in Asia

• Most goals scored in a match: 6 against Al-Shabab (UAE)
• Most goals conceded in a match: 5 against Al-Gharafa (2009) (21 April 2009)

Player records

Appearances

Peyrovani, Rahbarifard, Hosseini and Kamyabinia four from six players who have won most league titles with the club.

• Most Appearances:341 Ali Parvin
• Most League Appearances: Afshin Peyrovani (209)
• Most Goalkeeper Appearances: Vahid Ghelich (185)
• Youngest first-team player : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
• Youngest first-team player in a league match : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old)
• Oldest first-team player : Ali Parvin (41 years and ? days old)
• Player who has won most league titles: Kamal Kamyabinia (6 titles), Afshin Peyrovani, Behrouz Rahbarifard, Esmaeil Halali, Jalal Hosseini and Božidar Radošević (5 Titles)

Goalscorers

• All-time top scorer: Farshad Pious with 153 goals^[1][2][3]
• First Goalscorer : Nazem Ganjapour
• First Goalscorer in Tehran derby: Nazem Ganjapour
• Most Goalscorer in Tehran derby: 7 (Safar Iranpak)
• Most goals in a season : 26 (Ali Alipour, 2017–18)
• Most League goals in a season : 20 (Farshad Pious, 1994–95)
• Most goals in a single match at home : 4 goals (Ali Daei, 2003–04)
• Most goals in an AFC Champions League match : 3 Emon Zayed (Al-Shabab), Mehdi Taremi (Al Wahda )
• Fastest recorded goal : 00:07 Gholamreza Rezaei vs Fajr Sepasi (2012-13 Pro League)
• Latest recorded goal : 90+10:24 Vahid Amiri vs Machine Sazi (2019-20 Hazfi Cup)
• Youngest goalscorer : Mehdi Mahdavikia against Polyacryl Esfahan F.C. (17 years and 300 days old)

Players statistics

Most appearances

18 October 2025

	Name	Nationality	Position	total
1	Ali parvin	Iran	Midfielder	341
2	Omid Alishah	Iran	Midfielder	289
3	Mohammad Panjali	Iran	Defender	264
4	Hossein Abdi	Iran	Midfielder	261
	Jalal Hosseini	Iran	Defender
6	Ali Alipour	Iran	Forward	259
7	Afshin Peyrovani	Iran	Defender	255
8	Vahid Amiri	Iran	Midfielder	254
9	Behrouz Rahbarifar	Iran	Defender	249
10	Kamal Kamyabinia	Iran	Midfielder	235

Top goalscorers

3 October 2025

	Name	Nationality	Position	Goals
1	Farshad Pious	Iran	Forward	153
2	Ali Parvin	Iran	Midfielder	95
3	Ali Alipour	Iran	Forward	91
4	Homayoun Behzadi	Iran	Forward	83
5	Safar Iranpak	Iran	Forward	74
6	Hossein Kalani	Iran	Forward	71
7	Naser Mohammadkhani	Iran	Forward	59
8	Mehdi Taremi	Iran	Forward	55
9	Karim Bagheri	Iran	Midfielder	43
	Ali Daei	Iran	Forward

Most goals scored in official competitions: 153– Farshad Pious 1985–1988 & 1989–1997.

Most appearances Foreigners

18 October 2025

	Name	Nationality	Position	total
1	Bashar Resan		Midfielder	103
2	Giorgi Gvelesiani		Defender	100
3	Nilson Corrêa Júnior		Goalkeeper	73
4	Godwin Mensha		Forward	63
5	Tiago Fraga		Midfielder	48
6	Oston Urunov		Midfielder	46
7	Božidar Radošević		Goalkeeper	43
8	Michael Umaña		Defender	42
	Vakhdat Khanonov		Defender
9	Jacques Elong Elong		Midfielder	38
10	Alexis Guendouz		Goalkeeper	37
11	Alan Whittle		Forward	34
12	Ivan Petrović		Midfielder	33
13	Shpejtim Arifi		Forward	32
14	Saša Ilić		Goalkeeper	31
	Robert Caha		Defender
	Ibrahima Touré		Forward

Top Foreigners goalscorers

3 October 2025

	Name	Nationality	Position	Goals
1	Giorgi Gvelesiani		Defender	20
2	Alan Whittle		Forward	16
3	Godwin Mensha		Forward	14
4	Ibrahima Touré		Forward	13
5	Éamon Zayed		Forward	12
	Oston Urunov		Midfielder
6	Shpejtim Arifi		Forward	9
7	Jerry Bengtson		Forward	7
8	Jürgen Locadia		Forward	6
	Hawar Mulla Mohammed		Midfielder
9	Serdar Dursun		Forward	5
	Bashar Resan		Midfielder
10	Tiago Fraga		Midfielder	4
11	Issa Traoré		Midfielder	3
	Zyad Chaabo		Forward
	Mate Dragičević		Forward
	Cheick Diabaté		Forward

Persepolis top flight top goalscorer

This is the list of Persepolis top league goalscorers in a single season.

	Name	Season	Goals
1	Hossein Kalani	1970–71	7
2	Hossein Kalani	1971–72	11
	Safar Iranpak
3	Farshad Pious	1991–92	11
4	Farshad Pious	1994–95	20
5	Ali Daei	2003–04	16
6	Mohsen Khalili	2007–08	18
7	Mehdi Taremi	2015–16	16
8	Mehdi Taremi	2016–17	18
9	Ali Alipour	2017–18	19

Transfers

Record transfer fees

• Record transfer fee received:

The club's record sale came in July 2001, when they sold Ali Karimi to Al-Ahli Dubai for a fee of €2.5 million.^{[citation needed]}

€ 2.500.000 from Al-Ahli Dubai for Ali Karimi, July 2001^{[citation needed]}

€ 2.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia 2001^{[citation needed]}

€ 1.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia, 1999^{[citation needed]}

€ 1.150.000 from SK Sturm Graz for Mehrdad Minavand, 1998^{[citation needed]}

€ 950.000^† from Rubin Kazan for Alireza Haghighi, January 2012^[4]

€ 550.000^‡ from Charlton Athletic for Karim Bagheri, 2000^{[citation needed]}

€ 500.000 from Al-Shaab for Mehrzad Madanchi, 2006^{[citation needed]}

^† about $ 1.400.000

^‡ about £ 400,000

World Cup players

The following World Cup players, played at Persepolis at some point during their career. Highlighted players played for Persepolis while playing at the World Cup.

Javad Allahverdi (Argentina 1978) Ali Parvin (Argentina 1978) Mohammad Sadeghi (Argentina 1978) Bahram Mavaddat (Argentina 1978) Nasser Nouraei (Argentina 1978) Hossein Faraki (Argentina 1978) Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (France 1998) Mehdi Mahdavikia (France 1998) Naeim Saadavi (France 1998) Mohammad Khakpour (France 1998) Afshin Peyrovani (France 1998) Karim Bagheri (France 1998) Hamid Estili (France 1998) Ali Daei (France 1998) Khodadad Azizi (France 1998) Nima Nakisa (France 1998) Nader Mohammadkhani (France 1998) Reza Shahroudi (France 1998) Behnam Seraj (France 1998) Mehrdad Minavand (France 1998) Mehdi Mahdavikia (Germany 2006) Yahya Golmohammadi (Germany 2006) Rahman Rezaei (Germany 2006)

Ali Karimi (Germany 2006) Ali Daei (Germany 2006) Vahid Hashemian (Germany 2006) Hassan Roudbarian (Germany 2006) Hossein Kaebi (Germany 2006) Javad Kazemian (Germany 2006) Mehrzad Madanchi (Germany 2006) Mohammad Nosrati (Germany 2006) Franck Atsou (Germany 2006) Michael Umaña (Brazil 2014) Rahman Ahmadi (Brazil 2014) Jalal Hosseini (Brazil 2014) Reza Haghighi (Brazil 2014) Karim Ansarifard (Brazil 2014) (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022) Alireza Haghighi (Brazil 2014) Hossein Mahini (Brazil 2014) Mehrdad Pooladi (Brazil 2014) Alireza Beiranvand (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022) Vahid Amiri (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022) Mehdi Taremi (Russia 2018) (2022 Qatar) Ramin Rezaeian (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022) Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (Russia 2018) Mehdi Torabi (Russia 2018) (Qatar 2022) Morteza Pouraliganji (Qatar 2022) Sadegh Moharrami (Qatar 2022) Shojae Khalilzadeh (Qatar 2022) Ahmad Nourollahi (Qatar 2022)