List of Persepolis F.C. managers

Branko Ivanković, the current manager of the club.

Persepolis F.C. is a professional football club based in Tehran, Iran, which plays in the Iran Pro League. The first full-time manager of Persepolis was Parviz Dehdari in 1968. Branko Ivanković is the current head coach of the Persepolis since 6 April 2015.

List of managers

Ali Parvin won 15 trophies and is the longest-serving manager of Persepolis.

From December 1963 to now, Persepolis F.C. has thirty-five head coaches. twenty-three persons of them were Iranian (one Iranian-American) and fifteen persons were foreign. Five persons served as caretaker head coach: Parviz Ghelichkhani in 1977, Mahmoud Khordbin in 1993, Mohsen Ashouri in 1997 and 2011, Tomislav Ivić in 1998 and Hossein Abdi in 2015.^[1]

The most successful Persepolis F.C. manager in terms of trophies won is Ali Parvin, who won three league titles (one Iran Pro League, two Azadegan League), two Hazfi Cup trophy, four Tehran Provincial League, two Tehran Hazfi Cup and one Asian Cup Winners' Cup trophy in his 17-year reign as manager. Alan Rogers and Stanko Poklepović both are the most successful foreign head coach which Manuel José de Jesus is the worst foreign head coach.

#	Name	Nat	Period			Honours	Note
			from	until	days
1	Parviz Dehdari [B]		5 April 1968	22 August 1969	1 year, 47 days	Tehran Hazfi Cup: 1969 Runner-up	first manager of club (called as a Comportment schema)
2	Rajab Faramarzi		22 December 1969	5 March 1970	195 days
3	Hossein Fekri		17 July 1970	25 November 1971	1 year, 222 days
4	Alan Rogers		25 November 1971	18 December 1974	3 years, 23 days	Iran local league: 71-72 Winner Takht Jamshid Cup: 73-74 Winner – 74-75 Runner-up	First foreigner manager (none Iranian)
5	Homayoun Behzadi [A]		6 March 1975	9 May 1975	64 days
6	Buyuk Vatankhah [A]		16 May 1975	17 March 1976	306 days	Takht Jamshid Cup: 75-76 Winner	First Iranian Manager Winning Iran League
7	Ivan Kuonoev		25 March 1976	3 March 1977	343 days	Takht Jamshid Cup: 76-77 Runner-up
8	Mansour Amirasefi		11 March 1977	13 May 1977	33 days	Takht Jamshid Cup: 77-78 Runner-up
—	Parviz Ghelichkhani [A]		20 May 1977	29 May 1977	9 days		interim head coach
9	Mehrab Shahrokhi [A]		30 June 1977	7 February 1982	4 years, 222 days
10	Ali Parvin [A][C]		12 February 1982	5 November 1993	11 years, 266 days	Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 1991 Winner – 1993 Runner-up Azadegan League: 92-93 Runner-up Hazfi Cup: 1988 Winner – 1992 Winner Tehran provincial league: 1983, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 Winners – 1982, 1984, 1992 Runners-up Tehran Hazfi Cup: 1982, 1987 Winners – 1981 Runner-up 17th of Shahrivar league: 1989 Winner
—	Mahmoud Khordbin [A]		5 November 1993	16 November 1993	11 days		interim head coach
11	Mohammad Panjali [A]		26 November 1993	10 February 1994	76 days
12	Vladislav Brajović		10 June 1994	30 June 1994	20 days	Azadegan League: 93-94 Runner-up
13	Hamid Derakhshan [A]		8 July 1994	20 January 1995	196 days
14	Hans-Jürgen Gede		19 May 1995	15 July 1995	68 days
15	Stanko Poklepović		29 September 1995	4 May 1997	1 year, 217 days	Azadegan League: 95-96, 96-97 Winners
—	Mohsen Ashouri [A]		4 May 1997	22 June 1997	49 days		interim head coach
16	Hamid Derakhshan [A]		22 June 1997	25 December 1997	182 days
—	Tomislav Ivić		29 December 1997	3 January 1998	5 days		interim head coach
17	Ivica Matković		3 January 1998	27 September 1998	328 days
18	Ali Parvin [A]		27 September 1998	22 June 2003	4 years, 268 days	Azadegan League: 98-99, 99-00 Winners – 00-01 Runner-up Iran Pro League: 01-02 Winner Hazfi Cup: 99 Winner	first post-Iranian Revolution manager and most successful manager in terms of trophies, The club's longest-serving manager (totaling 18 years) and nicknamed sultan
19	Vinko Begović		29 August 2003	1 August 2004	338 days
20	Rainer Zobel		14 September 2004	20 June 2005	279 days
21	Ali Parvin [A]		26 June 2005	12 February 2006	231 days
22	Arie Haan		16 February 2006	7 May 2006	80 days
23	Mustafa Denizli		9 September 2006	1 June 2007	326 days	Hazfi Cup: 2006 Runner-up	nicknamed Afandi (means Lord in Turkish)
24	Afshin Ghotbi		16 August 2007	18 November 2008	1 year, 94 days	Iran Pro League: 07-08 Winner	nicknamed Emperor
25	Afshin Peyrovani [A]		18 November 2008	6 February 2009	80 days
26	Nelo Vingada		7 February 2009	28 May 2009	110 days
27	Zlatko Kranjčar		21 July 2009	28 December 2009	160 days
28	Ali Daei [A]		28 December 2009	22 June 2011	1 year, 176 days	Hazfi Cup: 2010, 2011 Winner	nicknamed Shahriar
29	Hamid Estili [A]		22 June 2011	9 December 2011	170 days
—	Mohsen Ashouri [A]		10 December 2011	23 December 2011	13 days		interim head coach
30	Mustafa Denizli		23 December 2011	23 June 2012	182 days		nicknamed Afandi (means Lord in Turkish)
31	Manuel José		3 July 2012	10 December 2012	160 days
32	Yahya Golmohammadi [A]		10 December 2012	20 May 2013	161 days	Hazfi Cup: 2013 Runner-up
33	Ali Daei [A]		20 May 2013	10 September 2014	1 year, 113 days	Persian Gulf Pro League: 2013–14 Runner-up	nicknamed Shahriar
34	Hamid Derakhshan [A]		10 September 2014	5 April 2015	207 days
35	Branko Ivanković		6 April 2015	Present	3 years, 190 days	Persian Gulf Pro League: 2016–17, 2017–18 Winner, 2015–16 Runner-up Iranian Super Cup: 2017 Winner	nicknamed Professor

Statistics

Last updated on 15 May 2018 Only official matches included (Iranian Football League, Hazfi Cup, AFC Champions League or Asian Cup Winners' Cup matches). Name Nat GP W D L GF GA W% Ali Parvin 467 291 128 48 834 30 62.3 Branko Ivanković 127 73 32 22 194 101 57.5 Ali Daei 104 54 25 25 143 95 51.9 Alan Rogers 96 56 11 29 175 63 58.3 Mehrab Shahrokhi 90 54 8 28 174 71 60.0 Hamid Derakhshan 62 25 17 20 129 90 44.2 Mustafa Denizli 56 22 21 13 129 68 39.2 Stanko Poklepović 54 31 8 15 82 38 57.4 Afshin Ghotbi 51 26 15 10 88 61 50.9 Hossein Fekri 45 25 9 11 104 39 55.5 Rainer Zobel 31 16 7 8 43 28 51.6 Ivan Kuonoev 30 11 4 15 33 27 36.6 Vinko Begović 28 10 9 9 44 32 35.7 Buyuk Vatankhah 27 12 2 13 25 10 44.4 Parviz Dehdari 25 15 4 6 50 20 60.0 Yahya Golmohammadi 22 10 10 2 35 25 45.4 Hans-Jürgen Gede 22 6 10 6 21 20 27.2 Zlatko Kranjčar 21 8 9 4 31 24 38.0 Hamid Estili 18 7 5 6 23 23 38.8 Nelo Vingada 17 8 4 5 19 19 47.0 Manuel José 17 5 6 6 20 17 29.4 Homayoun Behzadi 15 7 4 4 23 14 46.6 Ivica Matković 13 7 2 4 21 16 53.8 Mohammad Panjali 13 5 6 2 18 11 38.4 Rajab Faramarzi 13 4 1 8 16 20 30.7 Afshin Peyrovani 12 7 3 2 20 14 57.3 Arie Haan 12 4 5 3 19 17 33.3 Mansour Amirasefi 9 3 2 4 9 10 33.3 Mahmoud Khordbin 7 4 1 2 11 4 57.1 Vladislav Brajevic 5 3 1 1 8 3 60.0 Mohammad Mayeli Kohan 5 1 2 2 7 6 20.0 Nasser Mohammadkhani 4 1 2 1 3 3 25.0 Mohsen Ashouri 3 1 2 0 5 4 35.0 Parviz Ghelichkhani 3 1 1 1 2 1 33.3 Masoud Moeini 2 1 1 0 6 2 50.0 Reza Vatankhah 1 1 0 0 6 3 100 Valiollah Salehnia 1 1 0 0 1 0 100 Gholamreza Fathabadi 1 1 0 0 1 0 100 Hossein Abdi 1 1 0 0 1 0 100 Andrej Panadić 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 Nasser Ebrahimi 1 0 0 1 0 3 0

Managers since 1990

Managers since 1964

See also

Persepolis F.C.

References

• فهرست مربیان باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس. (in Persian) 14 August 2009. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:32, 14 August 2009, from http://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=فهرست مربیان باشگاه فوتبال پرسپولیس&oldid=2418567