Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian professional association football club based in Tehran. The club was formed in 1963 and played its first competitive match against Rah Ahan F.C. Persepolis currently plays in the Persian Gulf Pro League. Persepolis is the only club, never to have been relegated from the league. They have also been involved in Asian football, winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Persepolis and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club.
This page details Persepolis Football Club records.
Statistics
Statistics in IPL
Seasons in IPL: 25 (all) Best position in IPL: First (2001–02), (2007–08), (2016–17), (2017–18), (2018–19), (2019–20), (2020–21), (2022–23), (2023–24) Worst position in IPL: 12 (2011–12) Most goals scored in a season: 56 (Azadegan League 1998–99),55 (IPL 2007–08) Most goals scored in a match: 8 against Pegah F.C. (IPL 2003–04) Most goals conceded in a match: 4 against Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. (IPL 2007–08), TractorSazi (2011–12)
Statistics in AFC Champions League
Most goals scored in a match: 6 against Al-Shabab (UAE) (2012) (21 March 2012) Most goals conceded in a match: 5 against Al-Gharafa (2009) (21 April 2009)
Player records Appearances
Most Appearances:341 Ali Parvin Most League Appearances: Afshin Peyrovani (209) Most Goalkeeper Appearances: Alireza Beiranvand (199) Youngest first-team player : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old) Youngest first-team player in a league match : Mehdi Mahdavikia (17 years and 206 days old) Oldest first-team player : Ali Parvin (41 years and ? days old) Player who has won most league titles: Kamal Kamyabinia (6 titles)
Goalscorers All-time top scorer: Farshad Pious with 153 goalsزندگی نامه فرشاد پیوس Farshad Piousده گلزن برتر تاریخ پرسپولیس First Goalscorer : Nazem Ganjapour First Goalscorer in Tehran derby: Nazem Ganjapour Most Goalscorer in Tehran derby: 7 (Safar Iranpak) Most goals in a season : 26 (Ali Alipour, 2017–18) Most League goals in a season : 20 (Farshad Pious, 1994–95) Most goals in a single match at home : 4 goals (Ali Daei, 2003–04) Most goals in an AFC Champions League match : 3 Emon Zayed (Al-Shabab), Mehdi Taremi (Al Wahda ) Fastest recorded goal : 00:07 Gholamreza Rezaei vs Fajr Sepasi (2012–13 Pro League) Latest recorded goal : 90+10:24 Vahid Amiri vs Machine Sazi (2019–20 Hazfi Cup) Youngest goalscorer : Mehdi Mahdavikia against Polyacryl (17 years and 300 days old)
Players statistics
Most appearances + 7 September 2026NameNationalityPositiontotal1Ali parvin IranMidfielder3412Omid Alishah IranMidfielder2983Ali Alipour IranForward2814Mohammad Panjali IranDefender2645Hossein Abdi IranMidfielder261Jalal Hosseini IranDefender7Afshin Peyrovani IranDefender2558Vahid Amiri IranMidfielder2549Behrouz Rahbarifar IranDefender24910Kamal Kamyabinia IranMidfielder235
Top goalscorers + 7 September 2026NameNationalityPositionGoals1Farshad Pious IranForward1532Ali Alipour IranForward963Ali Parvin IranMidfielder954Homayoun Behzadi IranForward835Safar Iranpak IranForward746Hossein Kalani IranForward717Naser Mohammadkhani IranForward598Mehdi Taremi IranForward559Karim Bagheri IranMidfielder43Ali Daei IranForward Most goals scored in official competitions: 153– Farshad Pious 1985–1988 & 1989–1997.
Most appearances Foreigners + 7 September 2026NameNationalityPositiontotal1Bashar ResanMidfielder1032Giorgi GvelesianiDefender1003Nilson Corrêa JúniorGoalkeeper734Oston UrunovMidfielder655Godwin MenshaForward636Michael UmañaDefender517Tiago FragaMidfielder478Božidar RadoševićGoalkeeper42Vakhdat KhanonovDefender10Robert Caha Defender3811Jacques Elong ElongMidfielder37Alexis GuendouzGoalkeeper13Shpejtim ArifiForward3614Ivan PetrovićMidfielder3415Ibrahima Touré Forward31
Top Foreigners goalscorers + 7 September 2026NameNationalityPositionGoals1Giorgi GvelesianiDefender202Oston UrunovMidfielder153Alan WhittleForward14Godwin MenshaForward5Ibrahima TouréForward136Éamon ZayedForward127Shpejtim ArifiForward98Jerry BengtsonForward79Jürgen LocadiaForward6Hawar Mulla MohammedMidfielder11Serdar DursunForward5Bashar ResanMidfielder13Tiago FragaMidfielder4Igor SergeevForward15Issa TraoréMidfielder3Zyad ChaaboForwardMate DragičevićForwardCheick DiabatéForward
Persepolis top flight top goalscorer This is the list of Persepolis top league goalscorers in a single season.
+NameSeasonGoals1Hossein Kalani1970–7172Hossein Kalani1971–72 11Safar Iranpak3Farshad Pious1991–92114Farshad Pious1994–95205Ali Daei2003–04166Mohsen Khalili2007–08187Mehdi Taremi2015–16168Mehdi Taremi2016–17189Ali Alipour2017–1819
Transfers
Record transfer fees Record transfer fee received: The club's record sale came in July 2001, when they sold Ali Karimi to Al-Ahli Dubai for a fee of €2.5 million.
€ 2.500.000 from Al-Ahli Dubai for Ali Karimi, July 2001 € 2.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia 2001 € 1.250.000 from Hamburger SV for Mehdi Mahdavikia, 1999 € 1.150.000 from SK Sturm Graz for Mehrdad Minavand, 1998 € 950.000† from Rubin Kazan for Alireza Haghighi, January 2012 € 550.000‡ from Charlton Athletic for Karim Bagheri, 2000 € 500.000 from Al-Shaab for Mehrzad Madanchi, 2006 † about $ 1.400.000 ‡ about £ 400,000
World Cup players The following World Cup players, played at Persepolis at some point during their career. Highlighted players played for Persepolis while playing at the World Cup.
Javad Allahverdi (1978) Ali Parvin (1978) Mohammad Sadeghi (1978) Bahram Mavaddat (1978) Nasser Nouraei (1978) Hossein Faraki (1978) Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (1998) Mehdi Mahdavikia (1998) Naeim Saadavi (1998) Mohammad Khakpour (1998) Afshin Peyrovani (1998) Karim Bagheri (1998) Hamid Estili (1998) Ali Daei (1998) Khodadad Azizi (1998) Nima Nakisa (1998) Nader Mohammadkhani (1998) Reza Shahroudi (1998) Behnam Seraj (1998) Mehrdad Minavand (1998) Mehdi Mahdavikia (2006) Yahya Golmohammadi (2006) Rahman Rezaei (2006)
Ali Karimi (2006) Ali Daei (2006) Vahid Hashemian (2006) Hassan Roudbarian (2006) Hossein Kaebi (2006) Javad Kazemian (2006) Mehrzad Madanchi (2006) Mohammad Nosrati (2006) Franck Atsou (2006) Michael Umaña (2014) Rahman Ahmadi (2014) Jalal Hosseini (2014) Reza Haghighi (2014) Karim Ansarifard (2014) (2018) (2022) Alireza Haghighi (2014) Hossein Mahini (2014) Mehrdad Pooladi (2014) Alireza Beiranvand (2018) (2022) Vahid Amiri (2018) (2022) Mehdi Taremi (2018) (2022) Ramin Rezaeian (2018) (2022) Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (2018) Mehdi Torabi (2018) (2022) Morteza Pouraliganji (2022) Sadegh Moharrami (2022) Shojae Khalilzadeh (2022) Ahmad Nourollahi (2022) Payam Niazmand (2026) Hossein Kanaanizadegan (2026) Milad Mohammadi (2026) Ali Alipour (2026) Oston Urunov (2026) Igor Sergeev (2026)
References
External links Club records