Fajr Sepasi Shiraz F.C.

Establishment

In 1988, a group of youngsters, who were from Shiraz along with Jafar Jafari, established a football team named Behzad. They started playing in the 2nd division of Shiraz's local city league. After the death of Majid Sepasi during the Iran–Iraq War, the team was renamed in Fajr Shahid Sepasi Shiraz Football Club. Shahid means martyr in Persian. The club was officially founded on 11 February 1988, the day of the Islamic Revolution. In 1991 the club had been bought by Sepah Pasdaran completely. Since then it is possibly for young players to serve their military service while playing for Fajr Sepasi.

1990s

In 1995 they became champions of Fars province, and in 1996 were promoted to the Azadegan League. The club has remained in the highest level of Iranian football since then, and surprised everyone when they won the Hazfi Cup in 2001.

Takeover

Moghavemat Shahid Sepasi emblem (2007–2011)

In December 2006 Sepah Pasdaran sold its shares in sport to Basij, therefore all Fajr teams were renamed to Moghavemat teams. Fajr Sepasi are now officially known as Moghavemat Shahid Sepasi Shiraz, although the name is not in common use yet.^[1] Jafar Jafari is the club's chairman since the establishment of the club in 1988.

They kept the coach Gholam Hossein Peyrovani till 2009 where he was appointed as Iran's olympics team head coach and had to leave the club so Peyrovani left the club after 10 years being in charge and he was finished his last season in mid table and was replaced by Davoud Mahabadi and after poor results he was replaced by Mohammad Ahmadzadeh and got relegated in the first season without Peyrovani.

In 2010 for the first time in the club's history, the team was relegated to the Azadegan League for the 2010–2011 season. Fajr quickly rebounded gaining promotion to the Iran Pro League in 2011.

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Saleh Khalilazad 2 DF Jalal Abdi 4 MF Siamak Koohnavard 6 MF Hossein Bahrami 7 MF Milad Safaei (captain) 8 MF Ahmad Nasiri 10 MF Saeed Ghaedifar 12 DF Ramin Dehghani 13 MF Hamid Joukar 14 FW Ali Amiri 17 DF Mohammad Javad Jalalian 18 MF Salman Bahrani 20 FW Mohammad Reza Nejat 24 FW Hamid Nouri 26 DF Mehdi Karbalaei 27 DF Ali Daghagheleh

No. Position Player 30 MF Vahid Asgarpour 31 GK Behnam Maghsoudi 36 FW Hossein Karimzadeh 37 FW Baba Mohammadi 40 GK Peyman Salmani 44 DF Hamed Heydari 47 MF Hamid Orangi 66 DF Majid Behrouzi 70 MF Abbas Bouazar (on loan from Esteghlal Khuzestan) 77 FW Bahram Ahmadi 88 MF Esmaeil Babaei 96 MF Amir Asadzadeh 99 DF Sajjad Khogar - GK Goudarz Davoudi - MF Ali Dehghan

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2015.