2016 Hazfi Cup Final


2016 Hazfi Cup Final
Event 2015–16 Hazfi Cup
Zob Ahan Esteghlal
1 1
Zob Ahan won 5–4 on penalties
Date 29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)
Venue Khorramshahr Stadium, Khorramshahr
Man of the Match Ghasem Haddadifar
Fans' Man of the Match Kaveh Rezaei
Referee Alireza Faghani
Attendance 15,452
Weather Partly Cloudy
46 °C (115 °F)
21% humidity

The 2016 Hazfi Cup Final was the 29th final since 1975. The match was an wonderful for both teams to get a chance to clinch a title after a good season. Zob Ahan was the defending champion in the competition, if they won it would their first time in the club history to win any competition back-to-back. Zob Ahan had the lead but Esteghlal equalized it at the second half. There was nothing to separate the both teams in the extra-time, Esteghlal lost to Zob Ahan in penalties. Zob Ahan qualified for the group stage of the 2017 AFC Champions League. Esteghlal also went to the play-offs for AFC Champions League because of their third position at the league.

Format

The tie was contested over one legs, simply to last edition. If the teams could still not be separated, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that).

Pre-match

Match history

This was Zob Ahan's fifth Hazfi final and Esteghlal's ninth appearance in the final match of the tournament. Zob Ahan lastly won the cup in 2002–03, 2008–09 and 2014–15. Their other final appearance was in 2000–01 season where they lost to Fajr Sepasi.

Esteghlal didn't make it to the final of Hazfi Cup for four years, Esteghlal lately won the cup in 1977, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, and 2012, Esteghlal was runners-up four times.

Detalis

Zob Ahan 1 – 1 (a.e.t.) Esteghlal
Rahmati  20' (o.g.) Report Ebrahimi  56' (pen.)
Penalties
Rajabzadeh
Mehdipour
Hassanzadeh
Hosseini
Mohammadi		 5 – 4 Majidi
Mkoyan
Ebrahimi
Ramezani
Karimi
Khorramshahr Stadium, Khorramshahr
Attendance: 15,452
Zob Ahan
Esteghlal
Zob Ahan: 4-3-3
GK12Iran Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri
DF3Lebanon Walid Ismail
DF33Iran Vahid Mohammadzadeh
DF4Iran Hadi Mohammadi
DF18Lebanon Ali Hamam
MF8Iran Ghasem Hadadifar (c)
MF11Iran Morteza Tabrizi
MF16Iran Mehdi Mehdipour
FW23Iran Danial Esmaeilifar
FW30Iran Mehdi Rajabzadeh
FW9Iran Kaveh Rezaei
Manager:
Iran Yahya Golmohammadi
Esteghlal: 4-5-1
GK1Iran Mehdi Rahmati (c)
DF34Iran Milad Fakhreddini
DF5Iran Hanif Omranzadeh
DF15Armenia Hrayr Mkoyan
DF20Iran Meysam Majidi
MF3Iran Mohammad Reza Khorsandnia
MF6Iran Omid Ebrahimi
MF88Iran Farshid Esmaeili
MF8Iran Yaghoub Karimi
MF11Iran Jaber Ansari
FW77Iran Behnam Barzay
Manager:
Iran Parviz Mazloumi

Man of the match

Assistant referees:
Hassan Zaheri
Javad Sharafi
Fourth official:

Match rules:

  • 90 minutes
  • 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
  • Seven named substitutes
  • Maximum of three substitutions

See also

References

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