2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League

Persian Gulf Pro League
Season	2025–26
Dates	18 August 2025 – May 2026
Matches	160
Goals	281 (1.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Tractor 4–1 Aluminium (12 September 2025); Tractor 4–1 Mes Rafsanjan (22 January 2026)
Biggest away win	Gol Gohar 0–5 Tractor; (25 October 2025)
Highest scoring	Shams Azar 4–4 Chadormalou; (26 August 2025)
Longest winning run	Sepahan (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Esteghlal (11 matches)
Longest winless run	Mes Rafsanjan; Paykan (9 matches)
Longest losing run	Aluminium; Kheybar (3 matches)
	← 2024–25 2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 6 February 2026.

The 2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League is the 43nd season of Iran's Football League and 25th as Persian Gulf Pro League since its establishment in 2001. The season started on 18 August 2025 and is scheduled to end on 15 May 2026.^[1]

Teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of sixteen teams contest the league, including fourteen sides from the 2024–25 season and two promoted from the 2024–25 Azadegan League. This includes the two top teams from the Azadegan League. Fajr Sepasi and Paykan.^[2] They replaced Nassaji and Havadar.

Promoted from 2024–25 Azadegan League	Relegated from 2024–25 Persian Gulf Pro League
Fajr Sepasi Paykan	Nassaji Havadar

Stadiums and locations

2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League is located in Iran

Tractor

Malavan

Fajr Sepasi

Esteghlal
Paykan
Persepolis

Est. Khuzestan
Foolad

Locations of the 2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League teams

2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League is located in Tehran

Esteghlal

Paykan

Persepolis

Location of Tehran teams in 2025–26 Persian Gulf Pro League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Aluminium	Arak	Imam Khomeini	15,000
Chadormalou	Ardakan	Shahid Nassiri	15,000
Esteghlal	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz	Takhti	10,000
Fajr Sepasi Shiraz	Shiraz	Pars	50,000
Foolad	Ahvaz	Foolad Arena	30,655
Gol Gohar	Sirjan	Shahid Qasem Soleimani	9,000^[3]
Kheybar	Khorramabad	Takhti Khorramabad	8,000^[4]
Malavan	Bandar-e Anzali	Sirous Ghayeghran	9,000^[5]
Mes Rafsanjan	Rafsanjan	Shohadaye Mes	10,000^[6]
Paykan	Tehran	Shohadaye Shahr-e Qods Stadium	8,000
Persepolis	Tehran	Azadi	78,116
Sepahan	Isfahan	Naghsh-e-Jahan	75,000
Shams Azar	Qazvin	Sardar Azadegan	15,000
Tractor	Tabriz	Yadegar-e Emam	66,833
Zob Ahan	Fooladshahr	Fooladshahr	20,000

Personnel and kits

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

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main kit sponsor
Aluminium	Mojtaba Hosseini	Amir Nouri	Sinasport	IRALCO
Chadormalou	Saeed Akhbari	Ali Taheran	Darik	CMIC
Esteghlal	Ricardo Sá Pinto	Rouzbeh Cheshmi	Yousef Jameh	Artaban Motors Group
Esteghlal Khuzestan	Amir Khalifeh-Asl	Hamid Bou Hamdan	Merooj	Zest (Mattress)
Fajr Sepasi	Pirouz Ghorbani	Saeed Zare	Merooj	Sham Sham (Meat products)
Foolad	Hamid Motahari	Sasan Ansari	Yousef Jameh	KSC
Gol Gohar	Mehdi Tartar	Ali Asghar Ashouri	Yousef Jameh	Gol Gohar mine
Kheybar	Mehdi Rahmati	Mehrdad Ghanbari	Sinasport	Foulad Amir (Steel)
Malavan	Maziar Zare	Mahyar Zahmatkesh	Start	Ronix (Industrial tools)
Mes Rafsanjan	Mojtaba Jabbari	Milad Fakhreddini	Start	NICICO
Paykan	Saeed Daghighi	Mohsen Azarbad	Alabaft	IKCO
Persepolis	Osmar Loss	Omid Alishah	Merooj	Daria (Telecommunications)
Sepahan	Moharram Navidkia	Mohammad Karimi	Start	Mobarakeh Steel Company
Shams Azar	Vahid Rezaei	Mehdi Mohammadi	Yousef Jameh	Shams Azar Macaron
Tractor	Dragan Skočić	Shojae Khalilzadeh	Start	ATA Airlines
Zob Ahan	Ghasem Haddadifar	Ehsan Pahlevan	Yousef Jameh	TTP (Commercial Company)

1. ^ On the back of shirt.

2. ^ On the sleeves.

3. ^ On the shorts.

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is increased to eight per Persian Gulf Pro League team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries.
In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	AFC player	Former players
Aluminium
Chadormalou	Edson Mardden	Vitão	Renny Simisterra	Segundo Portocarrero	Mario Otazú	Diego Torres	Mauro Caballero
Esteghlal	Jasir Asani	Duckens Nazon	Moussa Djenepo	Munir El Haddadi	Antonio Adan	Jaloliddin Masharipov		Rustam Ashurmatov	Didier Ndong
Esteghlal Khuzestan
Fajr Sepasi
Foolad	Gustavo Blanco	Matheus Costa							Utkir Yusupov
Gol Gohar	Marcos Miranda	Eric Bocoum	Jeremie Obounet	Nemanja Tomašević				Amadoni Kamolov
Kheybar
Malavan
Mes Rafsanjan	Mirzad Mehanović	Stefan Ashkovski						Lee Ki-je	Matheus Costa Numan Kurdić
Paykan
Persepolis	Thievy Bifouma	Dániel Gera	Marko Bakić	Igor Sergeev				Oston Urunov	Serge Aurier
Sepahan	Enzo Crivelli	Giorgi Gvelesiani	Ricardo Alves	Iván Sánchez				Vahdat Hanonov
Shams Azar
Tractor	Regi Lushkja	Domagoj Drožđek	Igor Postonjski	Tibor Halilović	Tomislav Štrkalj	Aleksandar Sedlar	Marko Johansson	Odiljon Hamrobekov
Zob Ahan									Dženan Zajmović

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Gol Gohar	21	10	6	5	23	18	+5	36	Qualification for the 2026–27 AFC Champions League Elite phase
2	Tractor	20	9	8	3	28	11	+17	35	Qualification for the 2026–27 AFC Champions League Elite qualifying play-offs
3	Esteghlal	20	9	8	3	26	15	+11	35	Qualification for the 2026 CAFA Silk Way Cup Group stage
4	Sepahan	20	10	5	5	21	12	+9	35
5	Persepolis	21	9	7	5	22	17	+5	34
6	Chadormalou	20	7	8	5	20	18	+2	29
7	Malavan	21	7	7	7	12	20	−8	28
8	Fajr Sepasi	21	7	6	8	23	25	−2	27
9	Kheybar	21	6	8	7	20	21	−1	26
10	Foolad	20	5	10	5	17	15	+2	25
11	Esteghlal Khuzestan	21	6	7	8	15	20	−5	25
12	Shams Azar	21	3	13	5	15	16	−1	22
13	Paykan	21	5	7	9	14	20	−6	22
14	Aluminium Arak	21	5	6	10	13	20	−7	21
15	Zob Ahan	20	3	10	7	11	17	−6	19	Relegation to 2026–27 Azadegan League
16	Mes Rafsanjan	21	3	6	12	13	28	−15	15	Relegation to 2026–27 Azadegan League

Updated to match(es) played on 13 February 2026. Source: Iran Football League Organization - League Full Table
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Total goal difference; 5) Total goals scored; 6) Fair-play points.
(Note: Head-to-head record is used only after all the matches between the teams in question have been played).^[7]^[8]

Results

Home \ Away	ALU	CHA	EST	ESK	FJR	FOL	GOL	KHE	MLV	MES	PAY	PRS	SEP	SAQ	TRC	ZOB
Aluminium Arak	—			2–0	1–1		1–2	0–1	0–1	0–0			0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0
Chadormalou	1–0	—	1–1	3–1		1–0		2–1	0–0		2–0	0–0		2–1		0–0
Esteghlal	3–1		—	1–0		1–0	0–1		3–0	1–0	2–2			3–2	0–0	3–3
Esteghlal Khuzestan	1–1		1–0	—		1–1	0–1	0–1		2–0	0–0		0–2	1–1		2–0
Fajr Sepasi		1–2	0–3	1–2	—	1–2	1–0	2–1		1–1		2–1			2–1	1–0
Foolad	0–0	0–0				—	3–1	1–0	0–1		1–0	3–1	0–1	0–1	0–0
Gol Gohar	1–0	2–0			1–2	0–0	—		1–0	2–0	0–1		1–1		0–5	1–2
Kheybar	2–2		1–1		1–1	2–2	0–0	—		3–2		2–1	0–1	0–0	2–1
Malavan		1–0		2–1	0–4	2–2	0–2	1–0	—	2–1		1–0	1–1	0–0
Mes Rafsanjan		2–3		0–1		0–0		2–1		—	2–0	0–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–0
Paykan	0–1	0–0	1–0	1–1	2–2			0–0	1–0		—	0–1		0–1		2–0
Persepolis	1–0	1–0	0–0	3–0	1–1	1–1	1–1		0–0			—	2–1			2–0
Sepahan		1–0	1–2		2–0		1–1	1–0	0–0		2–1	0–1	—		1–2	0–0
Shams Azar		4–4	1–1	0–0	0–1		1–1			2–0	1–1	1–2	0–1	—	0–0
Tractor	4–1	3–1	0–1	0–0	0–0				3–0	4–1	2–1	1–1	1–0		—
Zob Ahan	0–1		0–0		2–1	1–1		1–1	0–0	2–0	0–1			0–0	0–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 February 2026. Source: Iran League, Iplstats
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Team ╲ Round
Aluminium Arak	13	16	16	14	11	5	2	3	7	10	10	9	9	10	13	13	13	15	15	14
Chadormalou	2	2	2	5	5	7	11	8	5	2	5	6	4	4	4	5	6	6	6	6
Esteghlal	3	3	10	8	9	9	6	2	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	4	2	4	2
Est. Khuzestan	6	4	3	9	4	1	4	9	9	11	11	12	14	14	11	12	12	13	14	12
Foolad	14	15	14	13	14	13	12	13	13	12	13	14	13	13	10	11	11	10	11	9
Gol Gohar	4	9	11	3	3	3	1	6	6	9	6	8	8	7	6	4	3	5	3	5
Fajr Sepasi	7	5	4	1	1	4	3	10	10	8	9	11	11	9	9	9	9	8	8	8
Kheybar	1	1	1	4	8	11	7	11	11	7	7	7	6	6	8	8	8	9	9	10
Malavan	8	6	7	10	10	6	8	4	4	5	8	5	7	8	7	7	7	7	7	7
Mes Rafsanjan	12	12	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16
Paykan	5	7	5	6	6	10	13	14	14	15	14	10	10	12	12	10	10	11	10	11
Persepolis	9	8	6	7	7	8	10	7	8	3	2	3	3	2	2	2	1	4	2	4
Sepahan	10	13	13	15	12	12	9	5	2	4	3	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	5	3
Shams Azar	11	10	12	12	13	15	15	12	12	14	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	12	12	13
Tractor	15	14	8	2	2	2	5	1	3	6	4	4	5	5	5	6	5	1	1	1
Zob Ahan	16	11	9	11	15	14	14	15	15	13	12	13	12	11	14	15	15	14	13	15

	Leader : 2025–26 AFC Champions League Elite Group stage
	AFC Champions League Elite Play-off stage
	CAFA Silk Way Cup Group stage
	Relegation to 2025–26 Azadegan League

Updated to match(es) played on 3 February 2026. Source: Iran League, Iplstats

Season statistics

As of 8 February 2026

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh	Tractor	11
2	Jasir Asani	Esteghlal	7
	Hooman Rabizadeh	Shams Azar
	Ehsan Mahroughi	Foolad
5	Ali Alipour	Persepolis	6
	Domagoj Drožđek	Tractor
	Renny Simisterra	Chadormalou
8	Mehrdad Ghanbari	Kheybar	5
8	Mehdi Tikdari	Gol Gohar	5
10	Hojjat Ahmadi	Est. Khuzestan / Paykan	4
	Shervin Bozorg	Fajr Sepasi
	Hadi Habibinejad	Chadormalou
	Pourya Shahrabadi	Gol Gohar
	Mehdi Sharifi	Mes Rafsanjan / Fajr Sepasi
	Kasra Taheri	Paykan

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Domagoj Drožđek	Tractor	Aluminium Arak	4–1 (H)	12 September 2025
Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh	Tractor	Gol Gohar	5–0 (A)	25 October 2025

Top assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Ali Alipour	Persepolis	5
2	Mehdi Hashemnejad	Tractor	4
	Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh	Tractor
	Alireza Koushki	Esteghlal
	Abolfazl Razzaghpour	Foolad
	Mehdi Torabi	Tractor
7	Sina Asadbeigi	Foolad	3
	Munir El Haddadi	Esteghlal
	Farshid Esmaeili	Fajr Sepasi
	Danial Esmaeilifar	Tractor
	Majid Eydi	Gol Gohar
	Mehrdad Ghanbari	Kheybar
	Ehsan Hajsafi	Sepahan
	Amirhossein Jeddi	Zob Ahan
	Reza Mahmoudabadi	Chadormalou
	Milad Mohammadi	Persepolis
	Ramin Rezaeian	Esteghlal / Foolad

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Farzad Tayebipour	Malavan	11
2	Alireza Beiranvand	Tractor	10
	Farzin Garousian	Gol Gohar
	Alireza Jafarpour	Shams Azar
	Payam Niazmand	Persepolis
6	Edson Mardden	Chadormalou	9
7	Hossein Hosseini	Sepahan	7
	Mohammad Khalifeh	Aluminium Arak
	Hamed Lak	Foolad
10	Mohammad Javad Kia	Est. Khuzestan	6
10	Nima Mirzazad	Mes Rafsanjan	6

References

[1] "Dates for 2025/26 PGPL season confirmed – PersianFootball.com".

[2] "Paykan win promotion to the PGPL – PersianFootball.com".

[auto7-3] "بلیت بازی گل‌گهر پرسپولیس تمام شد!".

[auto12-4] "خرم‌آبادی‌ها خیبر را غافلگیر کردند (عکس)". ورزش سه.

[auto4-5] "مدیرعامل ملوان:ورزشگاه تختی انزلی ظرفیت هواداران پرشور را ندارد". 11 April 2016.

[6] "ورزشگاه جدید مس رفسنجان آماده افتتاح شد". November 2023.

[7] "اعلام نحوه تعیین قهرمان،صعود و سقوط کنندگان". iranleague.ir.

[8] "اصلاح آئین‌نامه مسابقات لیگ برتر فوتبال/ بازی رو در رو ملاک تعیین تیم قهرمان". ISNA.

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