Mes Rafsanjan F.C.

Mes Rafsanjan
مس رفسنجان

Full name	Mes Rafsanjan Football Club
Founded	1997; 19 years ago
Ground	Shohadaye Noushabad Stadium Rafsanjan, Kerman
Capacity	10,000
Owner	National Mes Company
Chairman	Abdolreza Borhaninejad
Head Coach	Mišo Krstičević
League	Azadegan League
2015–16	Azadegan League, 5th
Home colours Away colours

Mes Rafsanjan Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Rafsanjan, Iran. The club is owned by the National Mes Company.

History

In 1997 the National Mes Company decided to form a football club in one of its focus cities, Rafsanjan.

Mes Rafsanjan knocked out a number of Persian Gulf Pro League clubs in the Hazfi Cup of 2008–09, including Foolad and Esteghlal. The club was later defeated by the eventual champions Zob Ahan in the semi-finals.

Season-by-season

The table below shows the achievements of the club in various competitions.

Season	League	Position	Hazfi Cup	Notes
2010–11	Azadegan League	9th	2nd Round
2011–12	Azadegan League	12th	1/16 Final
2012–13	Azadegan League	11th	1/8 Final
2013–14	Azadegan League	6th	1/16 Final
2014–15	Azadegan League	2nd	1/32 Final

Players

First-team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Sajjad Beiranvand 3 MF Hossein Moji 5 DF Vahid Erami 8 MF Amir Khodamoradi 9 FW Sajjad Asgari 10 FW Ali Alizadeh 13 MF Alireza Mirza Hosseini ^U23 14 MF Hamid Nemati 16 MF Hossein Pour Amini 17 DF Alireza Mahmoudi ^U23 18 MF Hamed Assadpour 20 DF Nader Fathollahi 21 FW Bahram Rashid Farkhi 30 MF Reza Sattari ^U23 33 GK Jalil Ahmadi 37 MF Javad Ramezani ^U23 44 MF Hossein Babaei

No. Position Player 66 DF Kazem Hayatmanesh 77 FW Ehsan Pirhadi DF Farid Taleghani DF Amir Hossein Asgari DF Hamed Mahmoudi DF Emad Ghasemi MF Hossein Kavianipour MF Milad Rouzbahani MF Amir Hossein Keshavarzi ^U23 FW Mojtaba Mahboub Mojaz FW Hossein Ghahharpour Hossein Moghimi ^U21 Hossein Alipour ^U21 Mostafa Esmaeilzadeh ^U21 Malek Rezaei ^U21 Mohammad Gharizadeh ^U21

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers winter 2015–16.

Former coaches

Season 2007/2009

Vatanikia was named head coach of Mes Rafsanjan for the 2007/2008 season, having had success with youth teams, such as Paykan and Ekbatan. He was the head of the youth department of Ekbatan football club for the 2005/2006 season, which was regarded as one of the best youth systems in the country at the time. Vatanikia was sacked before the end of the season, after less than 10 months in office.

External links

• (Persian) Official club website
• (English) Players and Results

References