The 2005–06 Iran Pro League was the 23rd season of Iran's Football League and fifth as Iran Pro League since its establishment in 2001. Foolad were the defending champions. The season featured 14 teams from the 2004–05 Iran Pro League and two new teams promoted from the 2004–05 Azadegan League: Shahid Ghandi as champions and Rah Ahan as runner-up. The league started on 2 September 2005 and ended on 21 April 2006. Esteghlal won the Pro League title for the first time in their history (total sixth Iranian title). A total of 240 matches in the Pro League yielded 538 goals during the season.
Teams Sixteen teams competed in the league – the top fourteen teams from the previous season and the two teams promoted from the Azadegan League. The promoted teams were Shahid Ghandi Yazd and Rah Ahan Tehran. They replaced Paykan and Pegah, who were relegated to the Azadegan League.
Team Location Stadium CapacityAboomoslemMashhadSamen Stadium 27,000EsteghlalTehranAzadi Stadium 95,225Esteghlal AhvazAhvazTakhti Ahvaz 10,000Fajr Sepasi ShirazShirazHafezieh Stadium 50,000FooladAhvazFoolad Arena 30,655MalavanBandar-e AnzaliSirous Ghayeghran Stadium 15,559PAS TehranTehranShahid Dastgerdi Stadium 8,250PersepolisTehranAzadi Stadium 95,225Rah Ahan TehranTehranShahid Derakhshan Stadium 12,000SaipaTehranShahid Dastgerdi Stadium 8,250Saba BatteryTeheranShahid Derakhshan Stadium 12,000SepahanIsfahanNaghsh-e Jahan Stadium 75,000Shahid Ghandi YazdYazdShahid Nassiri Stadium 15,000Shamoushak NoshahrNowshahrShohada-ye Nowshahr Stadium 6,000Zob Ahan EsfahanFuladshahrFoolad Shahr Stadium 20,000
Final classification
Results table
Player statistics Top goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Reza EnayatiEsteghlal212 Fereydoon FazliEsteghlsl Ahvaz173 Mehdi RajabzadehZob Ahan144 Siavash AkbarpourEsteghlal11 Ali DaeiSaba Battery11 Javad KazemianPersepolis117 Hossein BadamakiAboomoslem10 Rasoul KhatibiSepahan109 Ali AnsarianPersepolis910 Hadi AsghariRah Ahan8 Sohrab BakhtiarizadehSaba Battery8 Arash BorhaniPAS Tehran8 Mohammad GholaminMalavan8 Emad RezaFoolad8
Cards
PlayerTeam Mohammad Matouri112 Bargh Shiraz Masoud Shojaei110 Saipa Siavash Akbarpour100Esteghlal Yahya Golmohammadi90 Saba Battery Pejman Jamshidi90 Pas Tehran Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht90Esteghlal Amir Hossein Sadeghi72Esteghlal
Matches played
30 Mehdi Sabeti (Aboomoslem) 29 Reza Enayati (Esteghlal) Alireza Pourmand (Aboomoslem) 28 Morteza Asadi (Saba Battery) Jalal Hosseini (Saipa) Pejman Montazeri (Foolad) Hassan Roudbarian (Pas Tehran) Almir Tolja (Saba Battery) Ali Yahyanejad (Malavan) 27 Sepehr Heidari (Zob Ahan) Pejman Nouri (Persepolis) Mehdi Rajabzadeh (Zob Ahan) Mojtaba Shiri (Est. Ahvaz) Mehdi Tartar (Rah Ahan)
Attendance Average home attendances
Highest attendance
Rank Home team Score Away team Attendance Date Week Stadium1 Esteghlal 4–1Bargh Shiraz 100,000 30 Azadi2 Persepolis 0–0Esteghlal 95,000 25 Azadi3 Esteghlal 1–0Persepolis 80,000 10 Azadi4 Persepolis 0–0Saipa 50,000 2 Azadi5 Persepolis 2–2Saba Battery 40,000 9 AzadiEsteghlal 4–1Foolad 40,000 28 Azadi7 Esteghlal 4–1Saba Battery 35,000 1 AzadiPersepolis 1–0PAS Tehran 35,000 3 AzadiEsteghlal 0–0PAS Tehran 35,000 17 Azadi10 Persepolis 1–0Shahid Ghandi 33,000 5 Azadi Notes:Updated to games played on 21 April 2006. Source: iplstats.com
References
Iran Premier League Statistics Persian League