Sepidrood Rasht S.C.

Establishment

Sepidrood Rasht Football Club is one of the oldest clubs in northern Iran founded in 1968 and is the first sports club to be based in Rasht. The team was named after the Sefīd-Rūd river which runs through the area. Sepidrood became champions of the Gilan Provincial League after the revolution three times, in 1983, 1986 and in 2003.

Lower Leagues

On 15 May 2010, Sepidrood secured promotion and thus played in the Azadegan League in the 2010–11 season for the first time in eleven years, however, the club was relegated at the end of the season.

In 2014 Despite relegating to 3rd Division, Sepidrood bought Shahrdari Langarud license and remained in Second Division. After a good 2015–16 season in which Sepidrood made the last round of the 2nd Division, the team were promoted after finishing first in Group B.

Promotion to the top flight

Sepidrood started the 2016–17 season in the Azadegan League excellently, and at the halfway point of the season they were leading the league. On the second last match day of the season, Sepidrood lost to third place team Gol Gohar Sirjan 3–2 and their promotion to the top flight came into serious danger. However, on 1 May 2017 Sepidrood defeated Nassaji Mazandaran 3–2 and were promoted to the Persian Gulf Pro League and the top flight of Iranian football for the first time in their 49 year history.

Unofficial titles

• Aga Khan Gold Cup

• Winners (1): 1977–78

• Khazar International Cup

• Winners (2): 1991, 2001

• Revolution Cup

• Winners (1): 1980-81

First-team squad

As of 31 July 2018 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 Iman Sadeghi 4 MF Meysam Tohidast 5 DF Milad Sheikh Soleimani 7 MF Meysam Ferdousi 8 MF Hossein Ebrahimi 9 FW Amin Manouchehri 10 FW Pouya Nozhati 11 MF Mohammad Reza Mahdavi 12 GK Kourosh Maleki 13 DF Hossein Kaebi (Captain) 17 DF Amin Javadi Moghadam U23

No. Position Player 18 FW Javad Aghaeipour U19 19 FW Mehrdad Bayrami 22 MF Yaghoub Karimi 23 MF Ali Abbasi U23 27 DF Ebrahim Lotfi U19 28 FW Mehdi Mohammad Yari U23 36 MF Amirhossein Eskandari U21 50 GK Arian Sohrabi U21 69 MF Milad Ghorbanzadeh 77 GK Maziar Nouri 90 DF Alireza Noormohammadi

Reserves

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

No. Position Player 3 DF Mohammad Amin Pournaghi U19 17 MF Amir Hossein Eskandari U21 18 MF Javad Aghaeipour U19 28 FW Mehdi Mohammad Yari U19

No. Position Player 35 MF Hadi Dadres U19 39 MF Reza Ashouri U21 50 GK Arian Sohrabi U21 80 FW Alireza Koushki U19