2018–19 Azadegan League

The 2018–19 Azadegan League was the 28th season of the Azadegan League and 18th as the second highest division since its establishment in 1991. The season featured 12 teams from the 2017–18 Azadegan League, two new teams relegated from the 2017–18 Persian Gulf Pro League: Siah Jamegan and Naft Tehran and two new teams promoted from the 2017–18 League 2: Karoon Arvand Khorramshahr and Shahin Bushehr both as champions. Navad Urmia replaced Gostaresh Foulad, while Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht replaced Esteghlal Jonoub. Oxin Alborz changed their name into Gol Reyhan. The league started on 10 August 2018 and ended on 30 April 2019. Gol Gohar won the Azadegan League title for the first time in their history. Gol Gohar and Shahin Bushehr promoted to the Persian Gulf Pro League. Peyman Ranjbari and Shahriyar Moghanlou were the league's top scorers, with 16 goals each.

Azadegan League

Season	2018–19
Champions	Gol Gohar 1st Azadegan League title
Promoted	Gol Gohar Shahin Bushehr
Relegated	Shahrdari Mahshahr Siah Jamegan Naft Tehran
Matches played	240
Goals scored	490 (2.04 per match)
Top goalscorer	Peyman Ranjbari Shahriyar Moghanlou (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht 6–0 Navad Urmia (19 August 2018)
Biggest away win	Qashqai 1–4 Mes Rafsanjan (12 August 2018)
Highest scoring	Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht 6–0 Navad Urmia (19 August 2018) Mes Kerman 4–2 Baadraan (30 April 2019)
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Teams

Before the start of competition Naft Tehran was relegated to League 2 following financial problems

Stadia and locations

Aluminium Arak

Shahin Bushehr

Khooneh be Khooneh

Mes Kerman

Gol Gohar

Mes Rafsanjan

Karun Arvand

Baadraan
Sorkhpooshan

Fajr Sepasi
Qashqai

Navad Urmia

Malavan

Sh. Tabriz

Gol Reyhan

Sh. Mahshahr

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Locations of clubs

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aluminium Arak	Arak	Imam Khomeini	15,000
Baadraan Tehran	Tehran	Kargaran	5,000
Fajr Sepasi	Shiraz	Hafezieh	15,000
Gol Gohar	Sirjan	Gol Gohar Sport Complex	3,200
Karun Arvand	Khorramshahr	Khorramshahr Stadium	15,000
Khooneh be Khooneh	Babol	Haft-e Tir	6,000
Malavan	Bandar-e Anzali	Takhti Anzali	8,000
Mes Kerman	Kerman	Shahid Bahonar	15,430
Mes Rafsanjan	Rafsanjan	Shohadaye Noushabad	5,000
Navad Urmia	Urmia	Shahid Bakeri	15,000
Gol Reyhan Alborz	Karaj	Enghelab	15,000
Qashqai	Shiraz	Hafezieh	15,000
Shahin Shahrdari	Bushehr	Shahid Beheshti	15,000
Shahrdari Mahshahr	Bandar-e Mahshahr	Shohada Mahshahr	3,000
Shahrdari Tabriz	Tabriz	Sahand	66,833
Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht	Pakdasht	Shahid Dastgerdi	8,250

Number of teams by region

	Region	Number of teams	Teams
1	Kerman	3	Gol Gohar, Mes Kerman, Mes Rafsanjan
2	Khuzestan	2	Shahrdari Mahshahr, Karun Arvand
3	Fars	2	Fajr Sepasi, Qashqai
4	Tehran	2	Baadraan, Sorkhpooshan
5	Alborz	1	Gol Reyhan Alborz
6	Bushehr	1	Shahin Bushehr
7	East Azerbaijan	1	Shahrdari Tabriz
8	Gilan	1	Malavan
9	Markazi	1	Aluminium Arak
10	Mazandaran	1	Khooneh be Khooneh
11	West Azerbaijan	1	Navad Urmia

Personnel and kits

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
Aluminium Arak	Faraz Kamalvand	Hamed Basiri	Yousef Jame
Baadraan	Farhad Kazemi	Karim Eslami	Start
Fajr Sepasi	Davoud Mahabadi	Milad Safaei	Olympic Sport
Gol Gohar	Vinko Begović	Various	Yousef Jame
Gol Reyhan	Mojtaba Hosseini		Merooj
Karun Arvand	Human Afazeli	Mohsen Bengar	Merooj
Khooneh Be Khooneh	Akbar Misaghian	Reza Nasehi	Merooj
Malavan	Mohammad Ahmadzadeh	Pejman Nouri	Merooj
Mes Kerman	Farzad Hosseinkhani	Farzad Hosseinkhani	Merooj
Mes Rafsanjan	Mišo Krstičević	Mohsen Varzkar	Merooj
Navad Urmia	Vahid Bayatloo	Mohammad Zeynali	Yousef Jame
Qashqai	Mehdi Farvardin	Hadi Khadem	Olympic Sport
Shahin Bushehr	Abdollah Veisi	Milad Saremi
Shahrdari Mahshahr	Mehdi Pashazadeh	Sajjad Ghanavati	Nahangi
Shahrdari Tabriz	Heydar Jafari	Rasoul Pirzadeh	Yousef Jame
Sorkhpooshan	Mahmoud Fekri	Amirhossein Feshangchi	Yousef Jame

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Gol Gohar (C, P)	30	15	13	2	47	26	+21	58	Promotion to 2019–20 Persian Gulf Pro League
2	Shahin Bushehr (P)	30	14	12	4	34	17	+17	54
3	Gol Reyhan Alborz	30	13	9	8	30	19	+11	48
4	Aluminium Arak	30	12	12	6	27	23	+4	48
5	Mes Kerman	30	12	11	7	38	22	+16	47
6	Sorkhpooshan Pakdasht	30	11	10	9	48	38	+10	43
7	Baadraan Tehran	30	11	10	9	35	32	+3	43
8	Qashqai	30	11	7	12	28	34	−6	40
9	Fajr Sepasi	30	9	11	10	26	24	+2	38
10	Mes Rafsanjan	30	9	9	12	40	42	−2	36
11	Malavan	30	10	11	9	29	28	+1	35
12	Khooneh be Khooneh	30	7	10	13	22	30	−8	31
13	Navad Urmia	30	7	10	13	23	40	−17	31
14	Sh. Tabriz	30	6	10	14	27	45	−18	28
15	Karun Arvand Khorramshahr	30	6	10	14	17	36	−19	28
16	Sh. Mahshahr (R)	30	5	10	15	19	34	−15	25	Relegation to 2019–20 2nd Division
17	Siah Jamegan (E)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to 2019–20 3rd Division
18	Naft Tehran (E)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source:
(C) Champions; (E) Eliminated; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

• Naft Tehran and Siah Jamegan refused to attend 2 matches and relegated to 2 lower divisions.

Results

Home \ Away	ALU	BAD	FJR	GOL	GRA	KAR	KBK	MLV	MES	MSR	NVD	QSH	SHN	SHM	SHT	SRP
Aluminium Arak		1–1	1–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–2	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–0	3–1
Baadraan Tehran	1–0		0–1	0–0	0–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–1	1–2
Fajr Sepasi	0–0	0–0		0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–2
Gol Gohar	1–1	1–1	1–1		1–0	3–0	3–2	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	1–2
Gol Reyhan	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1		2–0	1–0	3–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–2	4–1	2–1	2–0
Karun Arvand	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–0	0–2		0–1	0–0	1–3	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Khooneh be Khooneh	1–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	3–0		0–3	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–1
Malavan	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–3	0–0	1–1	0–0		1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	2–1	2–1
Mes Kerman	0–0	4–2	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	3–0	0–0		1–2	0–0	5–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–3
Mes Rafsanjan	4–1	1–0	4–3	4–1	1–1	2–2	1–0	0–1	0–1		2–3	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–3	3–3
Navad Urmia	1–0	0–3	2–2	0–4	0–0	3–1	0–2	1–3	0–0	1–0		2–1	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0
Qashqai	0–0	1–0	0–2	3–3	0–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	0–1	1–4	2–0		0–1	2–1	4–2	2–1
Shahin Bushehr	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–0	2–0		0–0	3–0	1–2
Sh. Mahshahr	0–2	0–1	2–1	1–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	0–0		2–1	0–1
Sh. Tabriz	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	3–3		2–2
Sorkhpooshan	3–0	1–2	2–4	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	6–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	5–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

Position	Player	Club	Goals
1	Peyman Ranjbari	Gol Gohar	16
	Shahriyar Moghanlou	Malavan
3	Akbar Saghiri	Mes Rafsanjan	14
4	Farzad Mohammadi	Navad Urmia	10
5	Mohammad Mehri	Qashqai	9
6	Mehrdad Avakh	Gol Gohar	8
	Bahman Salari	Shahin Bushehr

See also

• 2018–19 Persian Gulf Pro League
• 2018-19 League 2
• 2018–19 League 3
• 2018–19 Hazfi Cup
• 2018 Iranian Super Cup