Saba Battery F.C.

Saba Battery
صبا باترى Full nameSaba Battery Football Club Founded 2002 Ground Shahid Derakhshan Stadium
Robat Karim, Tehran
Iran
(Capacity12,000) Chairman Ebrahim Torki Head Coach Yahya GolmohammadiLeague Persian Gulf Cup 2007-08Persian Gulf Cup, 3rd 　 Home colours

　 Away colours

Saba Battery Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال صبا باترى) is a football team based in Tehran, Iran.

The team is part of Saba Battery Club, owned by Saba Battery Co, and is located in Robat Karim, although they are registered as a team from Tehran. They are one of the wealthier teams in the league, and have good facilities and management compared to other IPL teams. Saba Battery, the sponsor of the team also sponsors a very successful basketball team in the Iranian national basketball league. Saba Battery Basketball Club is the current Champions of Asia.

1 History
2 Season-by-season
3 Club honors
4 Club chairmen
5 Club managers
6 Players
- 6.1 First-team squad
7 Notable players
8 References
9 External links
- 9.1 Official
- 9.2 Fan site

History

Establishment

In 1974 a football called Mohemat Sazi was established in Tehran. The team never had any major success and only played in the lower leagues of the Iranian football league system. They came close to making it to Tehran's top football league in the eighties. In the early nineties the club was sponsored by a company named Maham. During the later stages of the club's history they were sponsored by Sanam, an electronics company.

Takeover

In 2002, the club's shares were sold to Saba Battery Co. (also known as Niru Co.) which is under the control of Iran's Ministry of Defense. Due to the club's greatly improved financial status, the team was able to purchase talented players and was promoted to the IPL after only two years.

IPL

The team debuted in the IPL 2005/06 season. The football team was able to secure a berth for the Asian Champions League after winning the 2005 Hazfi Cup, however failed to make it past the group stages.

Season-by-season

The table below chronicles the achievements of Saba Battery every season, from 2002 to the present day.

Season League League Finishing Position Hazfi Cup ACL 2002-2003Azadegan League 6th 2003-2004Azadegan League 1st 2004-2005Iran Premier League 9th Cup 2005-2006Iran Premier League 4th Semifinal First Round 2006-2007Iran Premier League 13th Final 2007-2008Iran Premier League 3rd 1/8 Final 2008-2009 Iran Premier League Qualified

Club honors

Hazfi Cup:
- 2005

Iranian Super Cup:
- 2005

Club chairmen

Abbas Moradi (2002)
Mojtaba Tabatabaei (2002-2003)
Ahmad Shahryari (2003-2008)
Ebrahim Torki (2008-Present)

Club managers

Parviz Mazloumi (2002 - 2004)
Milan Živadinović (2004 - 2005)
Majid Jalali (2005)
Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (2005 - 2006)
Farhad Kazemi (2006)
Mohammad Hossein Ziaei (November 2006 - March 2008)
Yahya Golmohammadi (March 2008)

Players

As of December 1, 2007. The numbers are established according to the official club website

First-team squad

No. Position Player 1 GK Almir Tolja2 DF Morteza Kashi3 DF Sebo Shahbazian4 DFHamid Reza Farzane 5 DFAli Yahyanejad 6 DF Yahya Golmohammadi(Captain) 7 FW Alireza Abbasfard8 DF Abolfazl Hajizadeh11 MF Adel Kolahkaj12 FWBabak Hatami 14 MF Mohammad Noori15 FW Alen Avdić16 DF Marinko Mačkić17 FW Fereydoon Fazli

No. Position Player 18 DFSeyed Mojtaba Hosseini 19 FWMasoud Abtahi 20 FWMohsen Bayat 22 GKAlireza Ghadiri 23 GKMohamad Reza HajOsboei 25 DF Morteza Assadi24 MFHamed Hajati 26 MFSaeed Beigi 28 DF Vahid Afra29 FWHosein Mohammad Najar 30 MF Gholamreza Rezaei31 DFAmir Hossein Feshangi 32 MFAmjad Shokuh Magham 34 MFFarshad Khorshidi