1986 Fajr International Tournament

1986 Fajr International Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	13 February – 21 February
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue	2 (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Poland U21 (1st title)
Runners-up	Iran
Third place	Ghana
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	37 (2.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Four players; (3 goal each)

The 1986 Fajr International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی فجر) was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran, Iran. Opening game was played on February 13, 1986, two days after Iranian Revolution Day which is a national public holiday and the final was played on February 21, 1986.

Participant teams

The tournament's participants were from three confederations:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Iran	AFC
Iran B	AFC
Khuzestan XI	AFC
Pakistan	AFC
Al-Fotuwa SC	AFC
Ghana	CAF
Poland U21	UEFA
Romania U21	UEFA

Venues

Tehran	Tehran	Tehran
	Azadi Stadium	Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
	Capacity: 100,000	Capacity: 30,000

Referees

Mehdi Abarnirooei
Mohammad Abarnirooei
Jamshid Akhbari
Ali Arbabi (Mashhad FA)
Mostafa Bahrami
Bahman Behlouli
Hossein Dashtgerd (Tehran FA)
Hadi Dezfouli
Mohammad Reza Emami
Fereydoun Karamati(Anzali FA)
Hamid Khoshkhan(Tehran FA)
Ali Mohammad Lajmiri(Khuzestan FA)
Mohammadi(Bushehr FA)
Manouchehr Nazari(Tehran FA)
Jamshid Nikmehr
Mohammad Riahi
Mohammad Salehi(Tehran FA)
Hossein Tehrani(Tehran FA)
Mohammad Yusuf

Group stage

Pakistan national team in 1986 to Azadi Stadium.

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Iran	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	5	Semi-finals
Poland U21	3	2	1	0	7	0	+7	5	Semi-finals
Al-Fotuwa SC	3	1	0	2	1	9	−8	2
Pakistan	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source:

14 February 1986

Iran	5 – 0	Al-Fotuwa SC
Changiz 5', 55' Mohammadkhani 41', 68' Yekke 85'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Manouchehr Nazari, (IRAN)

14 February 1986

Poland U21	3 – 0	Pakistan
Kaczmarek 11' Leśniak 60' Sikorski 88'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan (Tehran FA)

16 February 1986

Iran	2 – 0	Pakistan
Alidoosti 8' Changiz 16'	Report

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 20000

Referee: Jamshid Nikmehr (IRAN)

16 February 1986

Poland U21	4 – 0	Al-Fotuwa SC
Chojnacki 5', 18' Kaczmarek 14' Maciniak 57'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 15000

Referee: Mohammad Riahi (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Iran	0 – 0	Poland U21

Penalties
Bayani Derakhshan Najafi	3 – 1 Decider for top position in Group Table	Czakon

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Bahman Bahlouli (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Al-Fotuwa SC	1 – 0	Pakistan
Kharabah 32'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25000

Referee: Mohammad Reza Emami (IRAN)

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Romania U21	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	4	semi-finals
Ghana	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	4	semi-finals
Iran B	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	3
Khuzestan XI	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Source:

13 February 1986

Romania U21	1 – 0^[4]	Iran B
Cojocaru 81'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 7000

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (Tehran FA)

15 February 1986

Iran B	3 – 0	Ghana
Sayami 19', 29' Taghavi 60'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

15 February 1986

Romania U21	3 – 1	Khuzestan XI
Nuță 20' (pen.) Sabou 32' Cojocaru 57'		Bakhtiarizadeh 73' (pen.)

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 8000

Referee: Bahman Behlouli (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Iran B	0 – 0	Khuzestan XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Mehdi Abarnirooei (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania U21
Acquah 35'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Fereydoun Karamati (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Ghana	2 – 0	Khuzestan XI
Smith 1' Acquah 83'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (IRAN)

Knock-out stage

Semi-finals		Final

19 February

Poland U21	3
		2 February
Romania U21	1
		Iran	2 (1)
20 February
		Poland U21 (pen)	2 (3)
Iran	2

Ghana	0
		Third place

		21 February

		Ghana	1

		Romania U21	0

Semifinals

19 February 1986

Poland U21	3–1	Romania U21
Chojnacki 24' (pen.) Warzycha 25' Czakon 83'		Nuță 35' (pen.)

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

20 February 1986

Iran	2 – 0^[5]	Ghana
Alidoosti 10' Bayani 40' (pen.)	report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 35000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan(IRAN)

Third place match

21 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania U21
Smith 87'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Jamshid Akhbari (IRAN)

Final

21 February 1986

Iran	2-2	Poland U21
Yekke 22', 107'		Czakon 39', 93'
Penalties
Derakhshan	1 – 3	Kaczmarek Czakon Warzycha

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 65000

Referee: Manouchehr Nazari (IRAN)

Champion

1986 Fajr International Cup winners
Poland U21 First title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.31 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

Henry Acquah
Hamid Alidoosti
Ioan Cojocaru
Nuta Nicolae
Zbigniew Kaczmarek
Nasser Mohammadkhani
Saeed Sayami (IRAN B)
Ebo Smith

1 goal

Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh (Khuzestan XI)
Shahrokh Bayani
Adnan Kharabah
Marek Leśniak
Dariusz Maciniak
Marcel Sabou
Andrzej Sikorski
Reza Taghavi (IRAN B)
Krzysztof Warzycha

Squads

Iran

Head coach: Fereydoun Asgarzadeh^[6]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ahmad Sajjadi	(1961-03-21)21 March 1961 (aged 24)	Homa
	1GK	Jalal Basharzad	(1964-01-23)23 January 1964 (aged 22)	PAS
	2DF	Shahin Bayani	(1962-01-31)31 January 1962 (aged 24)	Esteghlal
	2DF	Asghar Hajiloo	(1956-08-01)1 August 1956 (aged 29)	Esteghlal
	2DF	Mohammad Panjali (c)	(1955-07-26)26 July 1955 (aged 30)	Persepolis
	2DF	Hossein Mesgar-Saravi	(1957-10-30)30 October 1957 (aged 28)	Darya Babol F.C.
	2DF	Morteza Fonounizadeh	(1961-02-23)23 February 1961 (aged 24)	Persepolis
	3MF	Shahrokh Bayani	(1960-08-07)7 August 1960 (aged 25)	Esteghlal
	3MF	Sirous Ghayeghran	(1962-01-22)22 January 1962 (aged 24)	Malavan
	3MF	Mehran Najafi
	3MF	Saeed Tahmatan	(1960-04-21)21 April 1960 (aged 25)	Bank Melli
	3MF	Mahmoud Pazouki		Shahin
8	3MF	Hamid Derakhshan	(1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 28)	Persepoli
	3MF	Morteza Yekke	(1960-10-20)20 October 1960 (aged 25)	Esteghlal
	3MF	Hamid Alidousti	(1956-01-01)1 January 1956 (aged 30)	Homa
	4FW	Nasser Mohammadkhani	(1957-09-07)7 September 1957 (aged 28)	Persepolis
	4FW	Abdolali Changiz	(1959-03-13)13 March 1959 (aged 26)	Esteghlal

Iran B

Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh	(1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 19)	Tam Isfahan S.C.
	1GK	Pirouz_Joghtapour	(1958-04-29)29 April 1958 (aged 27)	Nassaji Ghaemshahr
	2DF	Hossein Ghavifekr		Daraei
	2DF	Mostafa Ardestani	(1958-12-22)22 December 1958 (aged 27)
	2DF	Mehdi Fonounizadeh	(1965-11-11)11 November 1965 (aged 20)	Nirooye Zamini
	2DF	Mojtaba Holeh Kian
	2DF	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard	(1962-09-09)9 September 1962 (aged 23)	Persepolis
	3MF	Behtash Fariba (c)	(1955-02-11)11 February 1955 (aged 31)	Esteghlal
	3MF	Amir Ghalenoei	(1963-11-21)21 November 1963 (aged 22)	Shahin
	3MF	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	(1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 18)	Esteghlal
	3MF	Mehdi Abtahi	(1963-03-02)2 March 1963 (aged 22)	Vahdat
	3MF	Reza Taghavi	(1960-11-08)8 November 1960 (aged 25)	Nirooye Zamini
	3MF	Mohammadali Nematzadeh		Bank Melli
	4FW	Saeed Sayyami		F.C. Aboomoslem
	4FW	Hamidreza Mansouri	(1958-07-30)30 July 1958 (aged 27)	Sepidrood Rasht F.C.
	4FW	Farshad Pious	(1962-01-12)12 January 1962 (aged 24)	Persepolis
	4FW	Karim Bavi	(1964-12-30)30 December 1964 (aged 21)	Shahin

Khuzestan XI

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)
1GK	Behzad Gholampour Shahani	(1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23)
1GK	Karim Bostani	(1952-03-21)21 March 1952 (aged 33)
1GK	Yaghoub Farisat (c)	(1955-03-22)22 March 1955 (aged 30)
2DF	Parviz Marashian
2DF	Mojtaba Yarali
2DF	Saleh Moghimi
2DF	Dariush Bakhtiarizadeh
2DF	Mahmoud Baghalzadeh
2DF	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh	(1961-09-18)18 September 1961 (aged 24)
2DF	Karim Marvani
3MF	Majid Masanavi
3MF	Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh
3MF	Masoud Nowrouzi
3MF	Rajabali Shahmoradi
3MF	Manouchehr Vaziri
3MF	Salman Saleh Tabar
4FW	Jafar Delpasand
4FW	Teymour Zebdeh
4FW	Farzad Ahakpour

Pakistan

Head coach: Younus Changezi

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Muhammad Jahangir	(1960-06-11)11 June 1960 (aged 25)
1GK	Jamshed Rana	(1965-06-01)1 June 1965 (aged 20)	Pakistan Airlines
2DF	Shaukat Mufti (c)	(1955-01-10)10 January 1955 (aged 31)
2DF	Mukhtar Ali	(1962-07-25)25 July 1962 (aged 23)	Pakistan Airlines
2DF	Zafar Iqbal	(1965-02-03)3 February 1965 (aged 21)	Pakistan Airlines
2DF	Arbab Hayat Shahzada	(1959-01-22)22 January 1959 (aged 27)
3MF	Ejaz Ali	(1963-11-05)5 November 1963 (aged 22)	Pakistan Airlines
3MF	Abdul Majeed	(1966-11-12)12 November 1966 (aged 19)
3MF	Fida Ur Rehman	(1964-04-27)27 April 1964 (aged 21)	Pakistan Airlines
3MF	Zulfiqar Ahmed	(1964-08-10)10 August 1964 (aged 21)
3MF	Agha Saeed	(1962-10-07)7 October 1962 (aged 23)	KESC
3MF	Abdul Wahid	(1965-10-09)9 October 1965 (aged 20)	Pakistan Airlines
4FW	Mahmood Anwar	(1960-08-10)10 August 1960 (aged 25)	Pakistan Airlines
4FW	Samuel Gill	(1959-05-05)5 May 1959 (aged 26)
4FW	Wazeer Ali	(1959-01-01)1 January 1959 (aged 27)	Pakistan Railways
	Shah Wali	(1963-05-05)5 May 1963 (aged 22)
	Muhammad Yacqoob	(1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20)
	Arif Raza	(1961-12-29)29 December 1961 (aged 24)

Al-Fotuwa SC

Head coach: Anouar Abdul Kader

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Nafaa Abdul Kader		al-Fotuwa SC
	1GK	Salah Matar	1960	al-Fotuwa SC
	1GK	Maher Faraj		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Mahmoud Noufel		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Waleed Awad		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Adnan Jassem		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Amer Awad		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Adnan Lajalah		al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Jamal Said		al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Fouaz Habib		al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Jamal Anouishi		al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Anouar Abdul Kader (c)	(1953-01-11)11 January 1953 (aged 33)	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Nidhar Yassini		al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Hussam Yousef		al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Amer Es-Sayed Ali		al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Adnan Kharabeh		al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Ahmed Asker		al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Hassan Mousa		al-Fotuwa SC

Ghana

Head coach: Anthony Edusei

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Isaac Salifu Ansah		Asante Kotoko SC
1GK	Abukari Damba	(1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17)	Real Tamale United
2DF	Joseph Odoi (c)	(1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17)	Great Olympics
2DF	Freeman Turkson		Accra Hearts of Oak SC
2DF	Isaac Nana Eshun		Asante Kotoko SC
2DF	Rauf Iddi		Asante Kotoko SC
2DF	Philip Tagoe		Great Olympics
3MF	Ebo Smith	(1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20)	Eleven Wise
3MF	Henry Acquah	(1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20)	Hasaacas
3MF	Ahmed Dauda		Real Tamale United
3MF	Kwabena Asiedu	1966	Great Olympics
3MF	Olabode Williams		Hasaacas
3MF	Kwasi Bonsu		Great Olympics
3MF	Abedi Pele	(1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21)	Real Tamale United
4FW	Anthony Yeboah	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19)	Okwawu United
4FW	Ibrahim Meriga	1966	Okwawu United
4FW	Asare Boateng		Asante Kotoko SC
4FW	Ibrahim Mohammad		Cornerstones

Romania U21

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
	1GK	Lucian Hristea
	1GK	Zoltán Mártin Iașko	(1964-08-30)30 August 1964 (aged 21)	FC Universitatea Cluj
	1GK	Răducanu Necula*	(1946-05-10)10 May 1946 (aged 39)	unattached
	2DF	Niță Cireașă	(1965-01-21)21 January 1965 (aged 21)	Chimia Râmnicu Vâlcea
6	2DF	Marian Rada (c)	(1960-05-14)14 May 1960 (aged 25)	FC Rapid București
	2DF	Baicu Lupu
	2DF	Liviu Baicea		Dinamo Bucuresti
	2DF	Cristian Bozhar
5	2DF	Florin Popicu	(1961-10-25)25 October 1961 (aged 24)	FC Universitatea Cluj
	3MF	Pavel Badea	(1967-06-10)10 June 1967 (aged 18)	Universitatea Craiova
7	3MF	Marcel Sabou	(1965-08-22)22 August 1965 (aged 20)	Dinamo Bucuresti
	3MF	Iosif Rotariu	(1962-09-27)27 September 1962 (aged 23)	Politehnica Timișoara
	3MF	Nicolae Nuță	(1967-09-03)3 September 1967 (aged 18)	FC Petrolul Ploiești
	3MF	Gheorghe Dumitrașcu	(1967-11-28)28 November 1967 (aged 18)	CS Târgoviste
	3MF	Claudiu Bozeșan	(1966-07-24)24 July 1966 (aged 19)
9	4FW	Ioan Cojocaru	(1962-05-21)21 May 1962 (aged 23)	FC Corvinul Hunedoara
	4FW	Sorin Bobaru	(1965-11-06)6 November 1965 (aged 20)	FC Argeș Pitești

*Retired Romania national team goalkeeper Necula Raducanu who is assistant coach of the team was an unused sub in the group stage match versus Ghana.

*Bold players are over age of 23.

Poland U21

Head coach: Edmund Zientara

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Janusz Jedynak	(1964-01-10)10 January 1964 (aged 22)	Śląsk Wrocław
1GK	Robert Sęk	(1967-05-25)25 May 1967 (aged 18)	GKS Katowice
2DF	Jacek Grembocki	(1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20)	Lechia Gdańsk
2DF	Janusz Góra	(1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22)	Śląsk Wrocław
2DF	Wojciech Gorgoń	(1963-08-07)7 August 1963 (aged 22)	Zagłębie Sosnowiec
2DF	Andrzej Sikorski	(1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29)	Legia Warsaw
2DF	Andrzej Słowakiewicz	(1963-11-30)30 November 1963 (aged 22)	Hutnik Kraków
2DF	Marek Piotrowicz	(1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22)	Górnik Zabrze
2DF	Witold Wenclewski	(1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21)	ŁKS Łódź
3MF	Marek Chojnacki	(1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26)	ŁKS Łódź
3MF	Andrzej Rudy	(1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20)	Śląsk Wrocław
3MF	Damian Lukasik	(1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21)	Lech Poznan
3MF	Mariusz Kuras	(1965-08-21)21 August 1965 (aged 20)	Pogoń Szczecin
4FW	Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c)	(1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23)	Legia Warsaw
4FW	Marek Czakon	(1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22)	Olimpia Poznan
4FW	Marek Leśniak	(1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21)	Pogoń Szczecin
4FW	Krzysztof Warzycha	(1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21)	Ruch Chorzów
4FW	Dariusz Marciniak	(1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19)	Śląsk Wrocław
4FW	Juliusz Kruszankin	(1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20)	ŁKS Łódź

*Bold players are over age of 23.

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