2017–18 Persian Gulf Pro League

The 2017–18 Persian Gulf Pro League (formerly known as Iran Pro League) was the 35th season of Iran's Football League and 17th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Persepolis were the defending champions. The season featured 14 teams from the 2016–17 Persian Gulf Pro League and two new teams promoted from the 2016–17 Azadegan League: Pars Jonoubi Jam as champions and Sepidrood. The league started on 27 July 2017 and ended on 27 April 2018. Persepolis won the Pro League title for the fourth time in their history, a total 11th Iranian title.

Persian Gulf Pro League

Season	2017–18
Champions	Persepolis 4th Pro League title 11th Iranian title
Relegated	Naft Tehran Meshki Pooshan
Champions League	Persepolis Zob Ahan Esteghlal Saipa
Matches played	240
Goals scored	508 (2.12 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ali Alipour (19 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Alireza Beiranvand (17 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Zob Ahan 6–0 Esteghlal Khuzestan (15 September 2017)
Biggest away win	Siah Jamegan 0–5 Sepahan (23 February 2018)
Highest scoring	Zob Ahan 6–0 Esteghlal Khuzestan (15 September 2017)
Longest winning run	7 matches Paykan
Longest unbeaten run	18 matches Persepolis
Longest winless run	13 matches Siah Jamegan
Longest losing run	5 matches Siah Jamegan
Highest attendance	100,000 Esteghlal – Persepolis^[1] (1 March 2018)
Lowest attendance	0 (spectator ban) Sepahan – Tractor Sazi^[2] (20 November 2017) Esteghlal – Gostaresh (25 November 2017) Persepolis – Naft Tehran (5 January 2018) Foolad – Padideh^[3] (31 March 2018)
Total attendance	2,138,049
Average attendance	9,060
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Teams

Stadia and locations

 

 

 

Sepidrood

 

Pars Jonoubi Jam

 

Sepahan
Zob Ahan

 

Foolad
Est. Khuzestan

 

Sanat Naft

 

Tractor Sazi
Gostaresh

 

Siah Jamegan
Padideh

 

Esteghlal
Persepolis
Naft Talaieh
Paykan
Saipa

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Locations of clubs in 2017–18 Persian Gulf Pro League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Ghadir	38,900
Foolad	Ahvaz	Ghadir	38,900
Gostaresh	Tabriz	Bonyan Diesel	12,000
Naft Tehran	Tehran	Takhti Tehran	30,122
Padideh	Mashhad	Samen Imam Reza	35,000 25,000
Pars Jonoubi Jam	Jam	Takhti Jam	15,000
Paykan	Shahr-e Qods	Shohada Shahr-e Qods	25,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Saipa	Tehran	Shahid Dastgerdi	8,250
Sanat Naft	Abadan	Takhti Abadan	8,000
Sepahan	Isfahan	Naghsh-e-Jahan	75,000
Sepidrood	Rasht	Dr. Azodi Sardar Jangal	11,000 15,000
Siah Jamegan	Mashhad	Samen Imam Reza	35,000 25,000
Tractor Sazi	Tabriz	Sahand	66,833
Zob Ahan	Fuladshahr	Foolad Shahr	15,000

Number of teams by region

Region	Number of teams	Teams
Tehran	5	Esteghlal, Persepolis, Naft Tehran, Paykan, Saipa
Khuzestan	3	Esteghlal Khuzestan, Foolad, Sanat Naft
East Azerbaijan	2	Tractor Sazi, Gostaresh
Khorasan	2	Siah Jamegan, Padideh
Isfahan	2	Sepahan, Zob Ahan
Bushehr	1	Pars Jonoubi Jam
Gilan	1	Sepidrood

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	Winfried Schäfer	Mehdi Rahmati	Li-Ning
Est. Khuzestan	Abdollah Veisi	Meysam Doraghi	Start
Foolad	Sirous Pourmousavi	Ayoub Vali	Uhlsport
Gostaresh	Firouz Karimi	Andranik Teymourian	Merooj
Naft Talaieh	Human Afazeli	Alireza Ezzati	Uhlsport
Padideh	Mohammad Reza Mohajeri	Reza Nasehi	Fitcom
Pars Jonoubi Jam	Mehdi Tartar	Meysam Naghizadeh	Merooj
Paykan	Majid Jalali	Rahman Ahmadi	Yousef Jame
Persepolis	Branko Ivanković	Jalal Hosseini	Joma
Saipa	Ali Daei	Roozbeh Shahalidoost	Start
Sanat Naft	Faraz Kamalvand	Hossein Baghlani	Merooj
Sepahan	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	Hossein Papi	Peak
Sepidrood	Ali Karimi	Hossein Kaebi	Yousef Jame
Siah Jamegan	Davoud Mahabadi	Hossein Badamaki	Start
Tractor Sazi	Ertuğrul Sağlam	Mehdi Kiani	Li-Ning
Zob Ahan	Amir Ghalenoei	Mehdi Rajabzadeh	Merooj

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing head coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming head coach	Date of appointment
Gostaresh	Faraz Kamalvand	Contract expired	3 May 2016	Pre-season	Luka Bonačić	10 May 2017^[4]
Sanat Naft	Firouz Karimi		5 May 2017		Faraz Kamalvand	13 May 2017^[5]
Saipa	Hossein Faraki		9 May 2017		Ali Daei	13 May 2017^[6]
Tractor Sazi	Amir Ghalenoei		12 May 2017^[7]		Yahya Golmohammadi	24 May 2017^[8]
Zob Ahan	Mojtaba Hosseini		1 June 2017		Amir Ghalenoei	10 June 2017^[9]
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Sirous Pourmousavi		1 June 2017^[10]		Abdollah Veisi	10 June 2017^[11]
Foolad	Naeim Saadavi		1 June 2017		Sirous Pourmousavi	3 June 2017^[12]
Naft Tehran	Ali Daei	Signed by Saipa	11 May 2017^[13]		Hamid Derakhshan	29 June 2017
Esteghlal	Alireza Mansourian	Resigned	20 September 2017	16th	Winfried Schäfer	2 October 2017
Gostaresh	Luka Bonačić	Sacked	28 September 2017	16th	Firouz Karimi	29 September 2017
Siah Jamegan	Akbar Misaghian	Sacked	15 October 2017	14th	Alireza Marzban	15 October 2017
Siah Jamegan	Alireza Marzban	Resigned	1 December 2017	16th	Reza Enayati	1 December 2017
Sepidrood	Ali Nazarmohammadi	Sacked	10 December 2017	15th	Ali Karimi	1 January 2018
Naft Tehran	Hamid Derakhshan	Resigned	17 December 2017	14th	Human Afazeli	1 January 2018
Tractor Sazi	Yahya Golmohammadi	Resigned	15 January 2018	11th	Ertuğrul Sağlam	19 January 2018
Sepahan	Zlatko Kranjčar	Mutual Consent	20 January 2018	12th	Mansour Ebrahimzadeh	27 January 2018
Siah Jamegan	Reza Enayati	Sacked	18 February 2018	16th	Davoud Mahabadi	20 February 0218

Foreign players

See also: List of foreign footballers in the Persian Gulf Pro League

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.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Former Players
Esteghlal	Leandro Padovani	Bojan Najdenov	Mame Baba Thiam	Server Djeparov
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Claudir	Moussa Coulibaly			Saba Tavadze
Foolad
Gostaresh	Fernando Jesus	Edson Henrique			Dragan Žarković
Naft Talaieh
Padideh
Pars Jonoubi Jam					Aloys Nong   Michael Umaña
Paykan	Kenneth Ikechukwu	Arfang Daffé			Ezekiel Bassey
Persepolis	Božidar Radošević	Godwin Mensha		Bashar Resan
Saipa	Aloys Nong	Samuel Sarfo
Sanat Naft	Augusto César	Luciano Pereira	Magno Batista	Karrar Jassim
Sepahan	Edon Hasani	Ibrahim Alma		Marwan Hussein	Lee Oliveira   Jairo Rodrigues   Rafael Crivellaro
Sepidrood
Siah Jamegan					Goran Jerković   Jure Čolak
Tractor Sazi	Sulejman Krpić	Jordi Almeida	Šime Gregov
Zob Ahan	Kiros Stanlley	Giorgi Gvelesiani		Rabih Ataya

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Persepolis (C)	30	19	7	4	48	15	+33	64	Qualification for the 2019 AFC Champions League group stage
2	Zob Ahan	30	15	10	5	46	30	+16	55	Qualification for the 2019 AFC Champions League second preliminary round
3	Esteghlal	30	15	9	6	43	18	+25	54	Qualification for 2020 AFC Champions League group stage^[a]
4	Saipa	30	15	9	6	40	34	+6	54	Qualification for the 2019 AFC Champions League second preliminary round
5	Pars Jonoubi Jam	30	11	14	5	34	24	+10	47
6	Paykan	30	12	9	9	32	26	+6	45
7	Foolad	30	10	14	6	28	27	+1	44
8	Sanat Naft	30	10	10	10	36	36	0	40
9	Gostaresh	30	9	10	11	24	32	−8	37
10	Tractor Sazi	30	8	10	12	28	33	−5	34
11	Padideh	30	10	9	11	33	33	0	33^[b]
12	Est. Khuzestan	30	7	10	13	25	42	−17	31
13	Sepidrood	30	8	6	16	24	39	−15	30
14	Sepahan	30	6	11	13	31	34	−3	29
15	Naft Tehran (R)	30	5	9	16	23	41	−18	24	Relegation to the 2018–19 Azadegan League
16	Meshki Pooshan (R)	30	2	9	19	17	48	−31	15

Updated to match(es) played on April 13, 2018. Source: IPL Stats, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored.^[15]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Esteghlal qualified to AFC Champions League group stage directly by winning the Hazfi Cup
2. Padideh deducted 6 points by FIFA^[14]

Results

Home \ Away	EST	ESK	FOL	GOS	NAF	PAD	PJJ	PAY	PRS	SAP	SNA	SEP	SPR	MEP	TRK	ZOB
Esteghlal		0–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	0–2	4–0	3–2	1–0	1–1	4–0	3–0	3–0	4–1	1–0	1–1
Est. Khuzestan	0–3		0–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–1	3–2	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–2
Foolad	1–4	1–1		2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–1
Gostaresh	1–1	2–1	1–1		1–1	0–0	1–4	0–3	0–3	3–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–2	0–1
Naft Tehran	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–0		0–1	0–0	1–1	0–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	2–1	4–1	2–0	0–1
Padideh	0–0	2–2	2–2	0–2	3–1		1–2	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	4–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	2–2
Pars Jonoubi Jam	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–2	3–0	1–1		3–2	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	0–0
Paykan	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–1		1–3	1–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–0
Persepolis	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	1–1	0–1		1–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	2–0	4–0
Saipa	1–0	3–2	2–0	0–0	4–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2		3–2	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	4–2
Sanat Naft	1–0	3–3	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	0–3	3–0		3–2	3–0	4–1	1–1	2–2
Sepahan	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1		0–0	2–0	3–0	1–2
Sepidrood	1–2	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–1		1–2	1–0	1–2
Meshki Pooshan	0–0	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–3	0–1	0–5	2–0		0–0	2–2
Tractor Sazi	0–0	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1		0–0
Zob Ahan	2–1	6–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–1	0–3	2–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	3–0	0–0	3–0

Updated to match(es) played on March 13, 2018. Source: PersianLeague 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	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Zob Ahan	6	4	5	7	7	6	7	7	7	8	7	7	8	10	9	9	8	7	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2
Esteghlal	13	11	9	11	15	15	16	11	12	13	11	11	9	8	7	6	5	4	5	6	6	6	6	3	3	3	3	4	3	3
Saipa	10	5	3	3	3	5	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	7	6	7	5	4	4	4	7	5	5	4	2	4	4
Paykan	9	10	13	16	12	7	5	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	5	6	7	8	8	7	5	4	4	5	5	5	5
Pars Jonoubi Jam	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	5	5	5	4	6	7	7	7	6	6
Foolad	15	12	10	4	6	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	3	3	6	7	6	6	6	7	7
Sanat Naft	5	9	4	5	5	11	11	12	9	7	8	9	7	7	6	8	6	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8	8	8
Gostaresh	16	16	12	15	16	16	13	16	16	14	14	10	12	9	8	7	9	8	8	8	7	7	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Padideh	8	3	6	6	4	3	2	3	4	4	4	5	5	5	10	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	11	13	12	12	12	11	10	10
Tractor Sazi	14	15	16	13	9	9	10	8	8	11	9	13	10	11	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	11	11
Sepidrood	12	14	15	14	14	10	8	10	11	9	10	12	14	15	15	13	13	13	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	12	12
Est. Khuzestan	4	8	8	9	11	14	15	15	15	16	15	15	13	13	13	14	14	15	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	13	13
Sepahan	11	13	14	10	10	13	12	14	10	12	13	8	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	11	11	11	11	12	14	14
Naft Tehran	3	7	11	12	13	12	14	9	13	10	12	14	15	14	14	15	15	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	13	15	15	15	15	15
Siah Jamegan	7	6	7	8	8	8	9	13	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Leader : 2019 AFC Champions League Group stage
	2019 AFC Champions League qualifying play-off round
	Relegation to 2018-19 Azadegan League

Source: IranProLeague Stats

Season statistics

Top scorers

 

Ali Alipour

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Ali Alipour	Persepolis	19
2	Morteza Tabrizi	Zob Ahan	13
3	Luciano Pereira	Sanat Naft	12
4	Sasan Ansari	Sepahan	11
	Mohammad Ghazi	Padideh
6	Mehdi Torabi	Saipa	10
7	Kiros Stanlley	Zob Ahan	9
8	Issa Alekasir	Naft Tehran	8
	Reza Khaleghifar	Goustaresh Foulad
10	Jalaleddin Alimohammadi	Sepahan	7
	Ali Ghorbani	Esteghlal
	Karrar Jassim	Sanat Naft
	Rahim Zahivi	Foolad

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Morteza Tabrizi	Zob Ahan	Esteghlal Khuzestan	6–0 (H)	15 September 2017
Saman Nariman Jahan	Gostaresh Foulad	Saipa	3–1 (H)	30 November 2017
Mohsen Karimi	Esteghlal	Sanat Naft	4–0 (H)	24 December 2017

Top assists

 

Mohsen Mosalman

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Mohsen Mosalman	Persepolis	10
2	Vahid Amiri	Persepolis	7
	Mehdi Torabi	Saipa
4	Rabih Ataya	Zob Ahan	5
	Farshid Esmaeili	Esteghlal
	Ali Gholizadeh	Saipa
	Mohammad Reza Hosseini	Zob Ahan
	Mehdi Mehdipour	Zob Ahan / Tractor Sazi

Last updated: 13 Oct 2017
Source: Varzesh3.com

Clean Sheets

 

Alireza Beiranvand

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis	17
2	Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri	Zob Ahan	12
3	Hossein Hosseini	Esteghlal	10
	Fernando Jesus	Gostaresh Foulad
5	Mohsen Forouzan	Pars Jonoubi	9
	Payam Niazmand	Paykan
7	Hamed Fallahzadeh	Saipa	8
	Saeid Jalali Rad	Padideh
	Vahid Sheikhveisi	Est. Khuzestan

Scoring

Attendances

Average home attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Persepolis	557,000	85,000	0	39,786	−18.1%^†
2	Esteghlal	412,000	100,000	0	29,429	+6.3%^†
3	Sepahan	173,000	38,000	0	12,357	+45.5%^†
4	Tractor Sazi	165,200	45,000	1,000	11,013	+2.3%^†
5	Sepidrood	126,700	15,000	2,700	8,447	−9.9%^†
6	Padideh	111,700	35,000	1,000	7,447	+119.9%^†
7	Siah Jamegan	108,300	35,000	100	7,220	+73.7%^†
8	Pars Jonoubi Jam	105,000	16,000	2,000	7,000	+157.3%^†
9	Sanat Naft	97,000	13,000	2,500	6,467	+16.1%^†
10	Foolad	59,000	25,000	0	4,214	−22.4%^†
11	Saipa	46,450	27,000	150	3,097	+27.3%^†
12	Est. Khuzestan	44,700	20,000	100	2,980	−17.8%^†
13	Naft Tehran	43,880	23,000	100	2,925	+40.6%^†
14	Zob Ahan	42,100	15,000	300	2,807	+29.4%^†
15	Paykan	33,757	15,000	200	2,250	+0.1%^†
16	Gostaresh	12,262	5,000	100	817	−19.7%^†
	League total	2,138,049	100,000	0	9,060	+12.0%^†

Updated to games played on 27 April 2018
Source: Iranleague.ir
Notes:
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Pars Jonoubi Jam and Sepidrood played last season in Azadegan League

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	A	26,000	61,000	A	18,000	A	22,000	A	30,000	A	18,000	A	NC	A	25,000	15,000	A	A	33,000	A	24,000	A	15,000	A	100,000	A	15,000	A	10,000	A	29,429
Esteghlal Khuzestan	200	A	500	A	700	A	200	A	15,000	A	200	A	500	A	2,000	A	20,000	A	500	A	500	A	3,000	A	300	A	100	A	1,000	A	2,980
Foolad	A	500	A	2,000	A	1,000	A	1,000	A	2,000	A	3,000	A	3,000	A	25,000	A	3,000	A	3,000	A	4,000	A	10,000	A	NC	A	500	A	1,000	4,214
Gostaresh	150	A	200	A	2,102	A	A	2,200	A	300	A	300	A	300	A	A	100	A	350	A	410	250	A	300	A	150	A	5,000	A	150	817
Naft Tehran	1,500	A	23,000	A	A	500	A	280	A	100	A	200	A	200	A	A	500	A	1,500	100	A	100	A	500	A	15,000	A	200	A	200	2,925
Padideh	A	1,800	A	2,200	A	2,200	A	A	5,000	A	8,000	A	1,000	A	3,000	1,000	A	2,000	A	35,000	A	12,000	1,000	A	2,500	A	30,000	A	5,000	A	7,447
Pars Jonoubi Jam	A	8,000	A	12,000	A	16,000	A	8,000	A	A	10,000	A	15,000	A	4,000	5,000	A	3,000	A	5,000	A	2,000	A	5,000	3,000	A	7,000	A	2,000	A	7,000
Paykan	500	A	500	A	500	A	800	A	300	2,000	A	200	A	10,000	A	A	257	A	1,000	A	15,000	A	200	A	A	1,000	A	1,000	A	500	2,250
Persepolis	30,000	A	A	42,000	A	32,000	A	17,000	A	85,000	A	18,000	A	30,000	A	A	70,000	NC	A	25,000	A	50,000	A	15,000	A	60,000	A	15,000	A	68,000	39,786
Saipa	A	600	A	27,000	2,350	A	900	A	2,300	A	11,000	A	150	A	300	600	A	200	A	A	300	A	200	A	150	A	200	A	200	A	3,097
Sanat Naft	10,000	A	5,000	A	5,000	A	6,000	A	5,000	A	6,000	A	8,000	7,000	A	A	8,000	A	8,000	A	6,000	A	13,000	A	2,500	A	2,500	A	A	5,000	6,467
Sepahan	12,000	A	12,000	A	8,000	A	38,000	A	6,000	A	3,000	NC	A	10,000	A	A	7,500	A	15,000	A	7,500	A	2,000	A	10,000	A	A	7,000	A	35,000	12,357
Sepidrood	A	3,000	A	6,000	A	2,700	A	6,000	A	7,000	A	5,000	A	A	15,000	5,000	A	10,000	A	10,000	A	15,000	A	7,000	A	10,000	A	15,000	10,000	A	8,447
Siah Jamegan	1,000	A	3,000	A	1,650	A	600	750	A	10,000	A	30,000	A	2,000	A	A	3,000	A	35,000	A	12,000	A	A	8,000	A	1,100	A	100	A	100	7,220
Tractor Sazi	A	45,000	A	14,000	A	15,100	14,000	A	10,000	A	5,000	A	1,500	A	3,100	2,000	A	38,000	A	1,500	A	A	3,000	A	7,000	A	5,000	A	1,000	A	11,013
Zob Ahan	A	500	A	4,500	A	600	A	300	A	2,000	A	A	500	A	700	900	A	300	A	1,000	A	15,000	A	300	A	1,500	2,000	A	12,000	A	2,807
Total	55,350	85,400	105,200	109,700	38,302	70,100	82,500	18,530	73,600	108,400	61,200	56,700	26,650	62,500	53,100	54,500	109,357	56,500	94,350	80,600	65,710	98,350	37,400	46,100	125,450	88,750	61,800	43,800	41,200	109,950	2,138,049
Average	6,919	10,675	13,150	13,713	4,788	8,763	10,313	2,647	9,200	13,550	7,650	8,100	3,807	7,813	6,638	6,813	13,670	8,071	11,794	10,075	8,214	12,294	4,675	5,763	15,681	12,679	7,725	5,475	5,150	13,744	9,060

Notes:
Updated to games played on 27 April 2018. Source:
Matches with spectator bans are not included in average attendances
Gostaresh played their match against Pars Jonoubi Jam at Sahand
Saipa played their matches against Esteghlal and Persepolis at Takhti Tehran
Zob Ahan played their matches against Foolad, Naft Tehran, Pars Jonoubi Jam, Paykan, Sanat Naft and Siah Jamegan at Naghsh-e Jahan

Highest attendances

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Week	Stadium
1	Esteghlal	1–0	Persepolis	100,000	1 March 2018 (2018-03-01)	25	Azadi
2	Persepolis	1–0	Esteghlal	85,000	26 October 2017 (2017-10-26)	10	Azadi
3	Persepolis	2–0	Tractor Sazi	70,000	29 December 2017 (2017-12-29)	17	Azadi
4	Persepolis	3–0	Sepidrood	68,000	27 April 2018 (2018-04-27)	30	Azadi
5	Esteghlal	1–0	Tractor Sazi	61,000	11 August 2017 (2017-08-11)	3	Azadi
6	Persepolis	1–2	Saipa	60,000	29 March 2018 (2018-03-29)	26	Azadi
7	Persepolis	2–0	Sepahan	50,000	2 February 2018 (2018-02-02)	22	Azadi
8	Tractor Sazi	1–2	Persepolis	45,000	3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)	2	Sahand
9	Persepolis	1–1	Siah Jamegan	42,000	16 August 2017 (2017-08-16)	4	Azadi
10	Sepahan	2–2	Persepolis	38,000	21 September 2017 (2017-09-21)	7	Naghsh-e Jahan

Notes:
Updated to games played on 27 April 2018. Source:

Awards

IFLO Seasonal awards

	Recipient
Best Player	Vahid Amiri (Persepolis)^[16]
Best Young Player	Ali Gholizadeh (Saipa)^[17]
Fair Player	Mehdi Shiri (Paykan)
Best Goalkeeper	Alireza Beiranvand (Persepolis)^[18]
Best Defender	Jalal Hosseini (Persepolis)^[19]
Best Midfielder	Omid Ebrahimi (Esteghlal)^[20]
Best Passor	Server Djeparov (Esteghlal)^[21]
Best Goalscorer	Ali Alipour (Persepolis)
Best Coach	Branko Ivanković (Persepolis)
Best Football Club	Persepolis^[22]

^[23]

Navad Monthly awards

Month	Manager of the Month		Player of the Month		References
	Manager	Club	Player	Club
Mordad	Mehdi Tartar	Pars Jonoubi Jam	Mehdi Kiani	Tractor Sazi	^[24]^[25]
Shahrivar	Majid Jalali	Paykan	Ali Alipour	Persepolis	^[26]^[27]^[28]
Mehr
Aban	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis	Jalal Hosseini	Persepolis	^[29]^[30]
Azar
Dey	Amir Ghalenoei	Zob Ahan	Hossein Hosseini	Esteghlal	^[31]^[32]
Bahman	Winfried Schäfer	Esteghlal	Vouria Ghafouri	Esteghlal	^[33]^[34]
Esfand
Farvardin	Amir Ghalenoei	Zob Ahan	Mehdi Torabi	Saipa	^[35]^[36]
Ordibehesht

See also

• 2017–18 Azadegan League
• 2016–17 League 2
• 2016–17 League 3
• 2017–18 Hazfi Cup
• 2017 Iranian Super Cup

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