The 2001 AK Pipe International Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in Mashhad, Iran. The tournament was sponsored by Aria Kavan Trading & Production Group.
Revenues generated from ticket sales for this tournament went towards refugees from war torn Afghanistan.
Köpetdag Aşgabat fielded two Iranian footballers in the game against Aboomoslem, the two were Ali Khosravi and Mehdi Khazaei.
Participant teams
Initially this tournament was going to be held in August 2001 and the four participants were going to be Persepolis F.C., Partsazan Khorasan, Köpetdag Aşgabat and AK Pipe Mashhad. However Persepolis F.C. decided not to take part in the tournament due to several players' injuries.
The tournament was postponed to October and the participants were as follow: EsteghlalAzadegan League 2000–01 - Champion Fajr SepasiHazfi Cup 2000-01 - Champion Aboomoslem2nd Division 2000-01 - Champion KöpetdagTurkmenistan League 2000 - Champion
Semifinals
Third place Match
Final
Statistics Top scorers PositionPlayerClubGoals1 Reza Enayati Aboomoslem52 Pasha Aliyev Aboomoslem23 Hamid Rajabi Aboomoslem1 Ramazan Shokri Aboomoslem Nazar Bayramov Köpetdag Mohammad Navazi Esteghlal Farzad Majidi Esteghlal Rafat Guliev Esteghlal Ali Mousavi Esteghlal Dariush Mikaeili Aboomoslem Bahman Tahmasebi Fajr Sepasi_OG0_Penalty Goals0_Total goals 16Total games 4
Cards PositionPlayerClubTotal1 Hasan Razaqpour Aboomoslem 1 0 0 11 Sergei Leonov Köpetdag 1 0 0 1 Total Cards ? ? ? ?
Champion AK Pipe International Cup 2001 Winners Aboomoslem
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