Persepolis F.C. in Asia

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These are the records of Persepolis F.C. and their statistics in Asian football competitions. They have won the Asian Cup Winners' Cup once (in 1990–91) and were also runners-up once in 1992–93. Persepolis have finished third place on three occasions and finished in fourth place once in the Asian Club Championship. They were also emerged as runners-up of the AFC Champions League in 2018 and 2020.^[1][2][3]

The first international game of that Persepolis played was on 26 July 1968 in Tehran, against the South Korean Army team.

Persepolis was the first Iranian team to participate in the Asian Champion League. Persepolis earned three victories against Shahrbanai, Oghab and Pas, and a draw with Taj, to qualify for the 1969 Asian Cup. Persepolis was eliminated after two wins, a draw and a defeat in the group stage, and failed to reach the next two rounds.

AFC did not hold any club competitions on the continent from 1971 to 1985 due to political and security problems, and the opposition of the Arab countries with the presence of Israel in the competition.

Persepolis' second appearance in the Asian Cup came after winning the Hazfi Cup; Persepolis was eliminated by Mohammed Bangladesh, whose coach was Nasser Hejazi.

Following the introduction of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup, Persepolis qualified for the tournament on three occasions. In their first appearance in the competition, they won the title, and finished as runners-up on the second occasion.

In the 1990s (before the solar decade of the 1370s), and the early years of the new millennium, Persepolis participated in four editions of the AFC Champions League, reaching the semi-finals on each occasion. They subsequently reached the competition's final in 2018 and 2020, losing on both occasions.

• Correct as of 5 December 2023

Only official matches included (AFC Champions League and Asian Cup Winners' Cup matches).

Team	Country	Matches	Wins	Win %	Draws	Draw %	Loses	Loss %	Persepolis Goal(s)	Opponent Goal(s)
Al-Ahli		4	2	50%	1	25%	1	25%	8	5
Al-Ain		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	4	2
Al-Ansar		3	2	75%	1	25%	0	0%	4	0
Al-Arabi		2	0	0%	1	50%	1	50%	2	3
Al-Duhail		10	4	37.50%	1	12.50%	5	50%	9	10
Al-Gharafa		4	2	50%	1	25%	1	25%	8	7
Al-Hilal		15	4	28.57%	6	42.85%	5	33.33%	11	20
Al-Ittihad		6	2	33.33%	2	33.33%	2	33.33%	6	9
Al-Jazira		2	1	50%	0	0%	1	50%	4	4
Al-Nassr		6	1	25%	2	25%	3	50%	4	9
Al-Rayyan		5	3	60%	1	20%	1	20%	10	7
Al-Sadd		7	4	57.14%	1	14.29%	2	28.57%	7	5
Al-Salmiya		2	1	50%	0	0%	1	50%	2	2
Al-Shabab		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	1	0
Al-Shabab		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	9	2
Al-Shorta		1	0	0%	1	100%	0	0%	0	0
Al-Taawon		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	2	0
Al-Talaba		1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	1	0
Al-Wahda		6	3	50%	1	16.67%	2	33.33%	9	8
Al-Wakra		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	9	3
Al-Wasl		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	3	0
Al-Zawraa		4	3	75%	1	25%	0	0%	8	2
Bani Yas		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	3	2
Bunyodkor		5	2	40%	1	20%	2	40%	4	5
Dalian Wanda		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	0	2
Fanja		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	2	0
Goa		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	6	1
Irtysh		3	2	75%	1	25%	0	0%	3	0
Istiklol		3	2	75%	1	25%	0	0%	4	1
Júbilo Iwata		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	0	2
Kashima Antlers		2	0	0%	1	50%	1	50%	0	2
Kopetdag Asgabat		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	1	0
Kowloon Motor Bus		1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	4	0
Maccabi		1	0	0%	1	100%	0	0%	0	0
Mohammedan		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	1	2
Muharraq		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	1	0
Nasaf Qarshi		2	1	50%	1	50%	0	0%	3	0
Navbahor Namangan		1	0	0%	1	100%	0	0%	1	1
Nisa Asgabat		1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	4	1
Nissan		2	0	0%	1	50%	1	50%	1	2
Pakhtakor Tashkent		4	1	25%	1	25%	2	50%	3	3
Perak FA		1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	4	2
Pohang Steelers		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	1	3
Punjab Medical College FC		2	2	100%	0	0%	0	0%	13	2
Saunders SC		1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	5	0
Sharjah		3	2	66.67%	1	33.33%	0	0%	9	3
Suwon Samsung Bluewings		2	1	50%	0	0%	1	50%	2	2
Toyo Kogyo		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	0	1
Ulsan Hyundai		1	0	0%	0	0%	1	100%	1	2
Yelimay Semipalatinsk		2	1	50%	0	0%	1	50%	5	3
Total		142	67	47.18%	36	25.35%	39	27.46%	202	140

• Correct as of 5 December 2023

Country	P	W	D	L	Win %
Bahrain	2	1	1	0	50
Bangladesh	1	0	0	1	0
China	1	0	0	1	0
Hong Kong	1	1	0	0	100
India	2	2	0	0	100
Iraq	6	4	2	0	66.66
Israel	1	0	1	0	0
Japan	6	0	2	4	0
Kazakhstan	5	3	1	1	60
Kuwait	2	1	0	1	50
Lebanon	3	2	1	0	66.66
Malaysia	1	1	0	0	100
Oman	2	1	1	0	50
Pakistan	2	2	0	0	100
Qatar	30	15	5	10	50
Saudi Arabia	35	12	12	11	34.28
South Korea	4	1	0	3	25
Sri Lanka	1	1	0	0	100
Tajikistan	3	2	1	0	66.66
Turkmenistan	3	2	1	0	66.66
United Arab Emirates	19	12	4	3	63.16
Uzbekistan	12	4	4	4	33.33
Totals	142	67	36	39	47.18%

P – Played; W – Won; D – Drawn; L – Lost

Below is a table of the performance of Persepolis in Asian competition.

Season	Competition	Round	Against	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	GF	GA
1969	Club Championship	Group Stage	—	4	2	1	1	8	3
1970	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
1971
1985–86
1986
1987
1988–89	Club Championship	Qualifying Group Round	—	2	1	0	1	6	2
1989–90	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
1990–91	Cup Winners' Cup	Winners	Muharraq	6	4	2	0	15	2
1991–92	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
1992–93	Cup Winners' Cup	Runners-up	Nissan	8	3	4	1	8	5
1993–94	Cup Winners' Cup	Quarter-finals	Al-Arabi	4	1	1	2	4	5
1994–95	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
1995
1996–97	Club Championship	Third Place	Al-Zawraa	9	5	1	3	17	12
1997–98	Club Championship	Fourth Place	Al-Hilal	7	3	2	2	6	7
1998–99	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
1999–2000	Club Championship	Third Place	Bluewings	7	3	3	1	5	2
2000–01	Club Championship	Third Place	Irtysh	9	5	3	1	19	8
2001–02	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
2002–03	Champions League	Group Stage	—	3	2	0	1	5	2
2004	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009	Champions League	Round of 16	Bunyodkor	6	3	1	2	8	8
2010	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
2011	Champions League	Group stage	—	6	1	2	3	6	11
2012	Champions League	Round of 16	Al-Ittihad	7	3	2	2	14	8
2013	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
2014
2015	Champions League	Round of 16	Al-Hilal	8	5	0	3	8	10
2016	Did not qualify for AFC competitions
2017	Champions League	Semi-finals	Al-Hilal	12	4	6	2	17	17
2018	Champions League	Runners-up	Kashima Antlers	14	7	3	4	17	12
2019	Champions League	Group stage	—	6	2	1	3	6	5
2020	Champions League	Runners-up	Ulsan Hyundai	10	5	2	3	13	8
2021	Champions League	Quarter-finals	Al-Hilal	8	6	0	2	15	8
2022	Qualified for Champions League but failed to obtain an AFC license.
2023–24	Champions League	Group stage	—	6	2	2	2	5	5
2024–25	Champions League Elite	Qualified

As of 5 December 2023

AFC Competition	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Goals for	Goals against
Champions League Elite	0	0	0	0	0	0
Champions League	86	40	19	27	114	94
Club Championship	38	19	10	9	61	34
Cup Winners' Cup	18	8	7	3	27	12
Total	142	67	36	39	202	140

• • Asian Cup Winners' Cup 1990–91

(Oct 4 & 18, 1991)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Muharraq	0–1	Persepolis	0–0	0–1

• • Asian Cup Winners' Cup 1992–93

(Jan 17 & Apr 16, 1993)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nissan	2–1	Persepolis	1–1	1–0

• • AFC Champions League 2018

(Nov 3 & 10, 2018)

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kashima Antlers	2–0	Persepolis	2–0	0–0

• • AFC Champions League 2020

(Dec 19, 2020)

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Persepolis	1–2	Ulsan Hyundai

Below is the list of Goalscorers of Persepolis in Asia.^[4]

As of 5 December 2023

Goalscorers in Asia

Rank	Player	Goals	Position
1	Farshad Pious	11	Forward
2	Ali Karimi	10	Midfielder
	Ali Alipour		Forward
4	Mehdi Taremi	8	Forward
5	Godwin Mensha	7	Forward
6	Issa Alekasir	6	Forward
7	Gholam Vafakhah	5	Midfielder
	Éamon Zayed		Forward
	Shoja' Khalilzadeh		Defender
	Mehdi Torabi		Winger
11	Mojtaba Moharrami	4	Defender
	Khodadad Azizi		Forward
	Mehdi Mahdavikia		Midfielder
	Seyed Jalal Hosseini		Defender
	Shahriyar Moghanlou		Forward
16	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard	3	Midfielder
	Karim Bagheri		Midfielder
	Reza Shahroudi		Midfielder
	Edmond Bezik		Forward
	Payan Rafat		Forward
	Hamid Estili		Midfielder
	Hassan Khanmohammadi		Midfielder
	Mohammad Nouri		Midfielder
	Kamal Kamyabinia		Midfielder
	Mehdi Abdi		Forward
26	Morteza Kermani Moghaddam	2	Midfielder
	Hassan Shirmohammadi		Midfielder
	Behzad Dadashzadeh		Midfielder
	Hamid Derakhshan		Midfielder
	Reza Torabian		Forward
	Ali Daei		Forward
	Mehdi Hasheminasab		Defender
	Behrouz Rahbarifard		Defender
	Alireza Emamifar		Midfielder
	Afshin Peyrovani		Defender
	Hamed Kavianpour		Midfielder
	Yahya Golmohammadi		Defender
	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht		Midfielder
	Maziar Zare		Midfielder
	Shpejtim Arifi		Forward
	Hamidreza Ali Asgari		Midfielder
	Hossein Badamaki		Midfielder
	Gholamreza Rezaei		Forward
	Hadi Norouzi		Forward
	Siamak Nemati		Midfielder
	Vahid Amiri		Midfielder
	Saeid Sadeghi		Midfielder
48	Reza Vatankhah	1	Defender
	Homayoun Behzadi		Forward
	Hossein Kalani		Forward
	Zia Arabshahi		Midfielder
	Karim Bavi		Forward
	Hamid Rouzbahani		Midfielder
	Hossein Abdi		Midfielder
	Mahmoud Kalhor		Midfielder
	Jamshid Shahmohammadi		Forward
	Ali Baghmisheh		Forward
	Ali Akbarian		Forward
	Behnam Seraj		Forward
	Ali Ansarian		Defender
	Esmaeil Halali		Midfielder
	Amirhossein Aslanian		Forward
	Mohsen Khalili		Forward
	Ibrahima Touré		Forward
	Amirhossein Feshangchi		Midfielder
	Mehrdad Pouladi		Midfielder
	Javad Kazemian		Midfielder
	Mohsen Bengar		Defender
	Mohsen Mosalman		Defender
	Soroush Rafiei		Defender
	Farshad Ahmadzadeh		Defender
	Ahmad Nourollahi		Defender
	Mario Budimir		Forward
	Bashar Resan		Midfielder
	Ehsan Pahlevan		Midfielder
	Hossein Kanaanizadegan		Defender
	Omid Alishah		Midfielder
	Shahab Zahedi		Forward

• Bold names denote a player still playing for club.

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
6	Player scored six goals
7	Player scored seven goals

Player	Against	Result	Date
Gholam Vafakhah	Perak	4–2	20 January 1969
Farshad Pious7	Punjab	9–0	21 December 1990
Mojtaba Moharrami	Punjab	4–2	30 December 1990
Éamon Zayed	Al Shabab	6–1	21 March 2012
Mehdi Taremi	Al Wahda	4–2	8 May 2017

• Correct as of 5 December 2023

Rank	Head coach	Matches	Win	Draw	Lost	Points	Note
1	Ali Parvin	35	18	12	5	66	ACWC: 1991 Winner – 1993 Runners up
2	Branko Ivanković	37	16	10	11	58	ACL: 2018 Runners up
3	Yahya Golmohammadi	24	13	4	7	43	ACL: 2020 Runners up
4	Stanko Poklepović	9	5	1	3	16
5	Mustafa Denizli	7	3	2	2	11
6	Ivica Matković	7	3	2	2	11
7	Nelo Vingada	6	3	1	2	10
8	Parviz Dehdari	4	2	1	1	7
9	Hamid Derakhshan	3	2	0	1	6
10	Ali Daei	6	1	2	3	5
11	Mohammad Panjali	4	1	1	2	4

• AFC Champions League
  • Runners-up (2): 2018, 2020

• Asian Club Championship
  • Third place (3): 1996–97, 1999–00, 2000–01
  • Fourth place (1): 1997–98

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup
  • Champions (1): 1990–91
  • Runners-up (1): 1992–93

• Iranian clubs in the AFC Champions League
• AFC Champions League
• Asian Cup Winners' Cup