Sardar Bukan F.C.

Sardar Bukan
Full name	Sardar Bukan Football Club
Founded	2000; 18 years ago
Ground	Khatam Al Anbia Stadium, Bukan
Capacity	5,000
Owner	Municipality of Bukan
Manager	Pirouz Ghorbani
League	League 2
Website	Club website

Sardar Bukan Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Bukan, West Azerbaijan which plays in the Iranian League 2.^[1]

In 2017, the club became famous for its high attendance despite the club playing in a small city and in the third tier. They are one of the best supported teams in the northwest of Iran.

History

Establishment

Sardar Bukan was founded in 2000 and began playing in the West Azerbaijan Provincial League. The team's name comes from Aziz Khan Mokri who was called Sardar and was the head of the Iranian army during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar.

Promotions

They finished as runners up in 2001 and champions in 2002, earning promotion to League 3. In 2005 the club started its professional functions, and in 2015 for the first time, the club began to play in League 2, which is the Iranian third tier. In the 2016–17 season they barely missed out on promotion to the Azadegan League (2nd tier).

Players

As of 21 September 2017:^[2]

Current Squad

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

No.		Position	Player
			Bahman Tahmasebi
			Reza Safaripouya
			Habib Afra
			Mohammad Ajier
			Milad Nabati
			Saman Nourmohammadi
			Ali Motvari
			Nasser Abdi
			Mohammad Chahrmahali
			Younes Azizi
			Faryad Aghayari
			Majid Gharish
			Siamak Tabnak
			Vahid Hajiarabi

No.		Position	Player
			Amirreza Parszadeh
			Mohammad Malayi
			Shahrokh Kadkhodaei
			Iraj Khodayari
			Sirvan Ghorbani
			Jaber Nassiri
			Amir Abbasi
			Morteza Abbaszadeh
			Mohsen Rouanjam
			Zaniyar Shahabi
			Ghasem Gerami
			Siavash Bahrami
			Abbas Kandel

Personnel

Coaching Staff

Staff ^[3]	Name
Head coach	Pirouz Ghorbani
Assistant coach	Hamidreza Ghanizadeh
Assistant coach	Kamran Gharni
Assistant coach	Hossein Mir Hesami
Doctor	Hakim Hosseinzadeh

Sources

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[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150915090543/http://kanipress.ir/index.aspx?siteid=12&fkeyid=&siteid=12&pageid=504&newsview=228471

[2] ttp://sardarclub.ir/edame/21

[3] ttp://sardarclub.ir/edame/21