2016 Hazfi Cup final

2016 Hazfi Cup final
Event	2015–16 Hazfi Cup
	Zob Ahan won 5–4 on penalties
Date	29 May 2016
Venue	Khorramshahr Stadium, Khorramshahr
Man of the Match	Ghasem Haddadifar
Fans' Man of the Match	Kaveh Rezaei
Referee	Alireza Faghani
Attendance	15,452
Weather	Partly Cloudy; 46 °C (115 °F); 21% humidity
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The 2016 Hazfi Cup Final was the 29th final since 1975. The match was an wonderful for both teams to get a chance to clinch a title after a good season. Zob Ahan was the defending champion in the competition, if they won it would their first time in the club history to win any competition back-to-back. Zob Ahan had the lead but Esteghlal equalized it at the second half. There was nothing to separate the two teams in the extra-time, Esteghlal lost to Zob Ahan in penalties. Zob Ahan qualified for the group stage of the 2017 AFC Champions League. Esteghlal also went to the play-offs for AFC Champions League because of their third position at the league.

Format

The tie was contested over one legs, simply to last edition. If the teams could still not be separated, then extra time would have been played with a penalty shootout (taking place if the teams were still level after that).

Pre-match

Match history

This was Zob Ahan's fifth Hazfi final and Esteghlal's ninth appearance in the final match of the tournament. Zob Ahan lastly won the cup in 2002–03, 2008–09 and 2014–15. Their other final appearance was in 2000–01 season where they lost to Fajr Sepasi.

Esteghlal didn't make it to the final of Hazfi Cup for four years, Esteghlal lately won the cup in 1977, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, and 2012, Esteghlal was runners-up four times.

Detalis

29 May 2016

18:30 (UTC+4:30)

Zob Ahan	1 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Esteghlal
Rahmati 20' (o.g.)	Report	Ebrahimi 56' (pen.)
Penalties
Rajabzadeh Mehdipour Hassanzadeh Hosseini Mohammadi	5 – 4	Majidi Mkoyan Ebrahimi Ramezani Karimi

Khorramshahr Stadium, Khorramshahr

Attendance: 15,452

Referee: Alireza Faghani

Zob Ahan

Esteghlal


Zob Ahan: 4-3-3
GK	12	Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri
DF	3	Walid Ismail
DF	33	Vahid Mohammadzadeh
DF	4	Hadi Mohammadi
DF	18	Ali Hamam
MF	8	Ghasem Hadadifar (c)
MF	11	Morteza Tabrizi
MF	16	Mehdi Mehdipour
FW	23	Danial Esmaeilifar
FW	30	Mehdi Rajabzadeh
FW	9	Kaveh Rezaei
Manager:
Yahya Golmohammadi


Esteghlal: 4-5-1
GK	1	Mehdi Rahmati (c)
DF	34	Milad Fakhreddini
DF	5	Hanif Omranzadeh
DF	15	Hrayr Mkoyan
DF	20	Meysam Majidi
MF	3	Mohammad Reza Khorsandnia
MF	6	Omid Ebrahimi
MF	88	Farshid Esmaeili
MF	8	Yaghoub Karimi
MF	11	Jaber Ansari
FW	77	Behnam Barzay
Manager:
Parviz Mazloumi

Man of the match

Ghasem Hadadifar (Zob Ahan)

Assistant referees:
Hassan Zaheri
Javad Sharafi
Fourth official:

Match rules:

90 minutes
30 minutes of extra-time if necessary
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
Seven named substitutes
Maximum of three substitutions

References