2006 Hazfi Cup final

2006 Hazfi Cup final
Event	2005-06 Hazfi Cup
	Sepahan won 4–2 on penalties
First leg
Date	September 13, 2006
Venue	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
Referee	Mohsen Torky
Attendance	80,000
Second leg
Date	September 22, 2006
Venue	Naghsh Jahan Stadium, Esfahan
Referee	Masoud Moradi
Attendance	35,000
	← 2005 2007 →

The 2006 Hazfi Cup Final was a two-legged football tie in order to determine the 2005–06 Hazfi Cup champion of Iranian football clubs. Persepolis faced Sepahan in this final game. The first leg took place on September 13, 2006 at 17:40 local time (UTC+3:30) at Azadi Stadium in Tehran and the second leg took place on September 22, 2006 at 15:00 local time (UTC+3:30) at Naghsh Jahan Stadium, Esfahan.

Format

The rules for the final were exactly the same as the one in the previous knockout rounds. The tie was contested over two legs with away goals deciding the winner if the two teams were level on goals after the second leg. If the teams could still not be separated at that stage, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after extra time).

Route to the final

Perspolis				Round	Sepahan
Opponent	Result	H/A	Perspolis goalscorers	Second stage	Opponent	Result	H/A	Sepahan goalscorers
Keshto Sannat Shushtar	2–0	H	Davoud Seyed Abbasi, Sheys Rezaei	1/16 Final	Mes Kerman	2–1	H	Rasoul Khatibi (2)
Aboomoslem	3–2	A	Mehrzad Madanchi (3)	1/8 Final	Pas Tehran	0–0 (4-3)	A	-
Malavan	3–1	H	Pejman Nouri, Mehrzad Madanchi (2)	Quarter-Final	Tractor Sazi	1–0	H	Mohammad Nouri
Nozhan	2–2 (7-6)	A	Mehrzad Madanchi (2)	Semi-Final	Saba Batri	3–1	A	Mohammad Nouri, Jalal Akbari, Mahmoud Mansouri

Final Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Persepolis	2-2	Sepahan	1-1	1-1

First leg

13 September 2006

17:40

Persepolis	1 - 1	Sepahan
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 45+3'	Report	Hamid Shafiei 73'

Tehran, Azadi Stadium

Attendance: 80,000

Referee: Mohsen Torky


Persepolis:
GK	1	Farshid Karimi
DF	13	Sheys Rezaei
DF	3	Abolfazl Hajizadeh
DF	25	Jacques Elong Elong		76'
MF	21	Ebrahim Asadi		46'
MF	8	Hossein Badamaki
MF	18	Pejman Nouri
MF	17	Farzad Ashoubi
MF	15	Mohammad Reza Mamani		59'
MF	11	Mehrzad Madanchi		69'
MF	10	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	45+3'
Substitutes:
DF	5	Robert Caha		46'
MF	20	Davoud Seyed Abbasi		59'
MF	2	Masoud Zarei		76'
Manager:
Mustafa Denizli


Sepahan:
GK	1	Armenak Petrosyan
DF		Mohsen Bengar
DF		Hamid Azizzadeh
DF		Hadi Aghily
DF		Jalal Akbari
MF		Moharram Navidkia		68'
MF		Abdul Wahab Abu Al Hail
MF		Hadi Jafari
MF		Ebrahim Loveinian
FW		Hamid Shafiei	73'	82'
FW		Mehdi Seyed Salehi		46'
Substitutes:
MF		Mohammad Nouri		46'
FW		Emad Mohammed Ridha		68'
MF		Javad Maheri		82'
Manager:
Luka Bonačić

Second leg

22 September 2006

15:00

Sepahan	1 - 1 (a.e.t.)	Persepolis
Hamid Shafiei 63'	Report	Ebrahim Asadi 55'
Penalties
Jalal Akbari Hadi Aghily Moharram Navidkia Abdul Wahab Abu Al Hail Emad Mohammed Ridha	4 - 2	Karim Bagheri Sheys Rezaei Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Abolfazl Hajizadeh

Esfahan, Naghsh-e-Jahan Stadium

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Masoud Moradi


Sepahan:
GK	1	Armenak Petrosyan
DF		Hadi Aghily
DF		Mohsen Bengar
DF		Hamid Azizzadeh
DF		Jalal Akbari
MF		Ebrahim Loveinian
MF		Abdul Wahab Abu Al Hail
MF		Hadi Jafari		76'
MF		Mohammad Nouri		46'
FW		Hamid Shafiei	63'	78'
FW		Emad Mohammed Ridha
Substitutes:
MF		Moharram Navidkia		46'
MF		Javad Maheri		76'
MF		Mahmoud Karimi		78'
Manager:
Luka Bonačić


Persepolis:
GK	1	Farshid Karimi
DF	3	Abolfazl Hajizadeh
DF	13	Sheys Rezaei
DF	25	Jacques Elong Elong
MF	6	Karim Bagheri
MF	18	Pejman Nouri		115'
MF	17	Farzad Ashoubi
MF	21	Ebrahim Asadi	56'	71'
MF	10	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht
FW	19	Luay Salah Hassan		80'
MF	11	Mehrzad Madanchi		69'
Substitutes:
DF	5	Robert Caha		115'
MF	8	Hossein Badamaki		71'
FW	14	Ehsan Khorsandi		80'
Manager:
Mustafa Denizli

Champions

Champions 2005–06 Hazfi Cup
Sepahan Esfahan Second title