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Aboomoslem
Full name	Football Club Aboomoslem Iran Khodro
Nickname(s)	Black Pearl (Persian: مرواريد سياه)
Founded	July 1970
Ground	Samen Stadium Mashhad Iran (Capacity 35,000)
Chairman	Nasser Shafagh
Head Coach	Parviz Mazloomi
League	Persian Gulf Cup
2006-07	Persian Gulf Cup, 6th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Football Club Aboomoslem Iran Khodro (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال ابومسلم) is an Iranian football club based in Mashhad, Khorasan. They play in the Iranian Premier League. The team used to be sponsored by the Iranian military but are now sponsored by Iranian car manufacturer Iran Khodro.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Establishment 1.2 1980s 1.3 1990s 1.4 IPL 1.5 Recent 2 Stadium 3 Season-by-season 4 Club chairmen 5 Club managers 5.1 Current management team 6 Honours 7 Players 7.1 First-team squad 7.2 Former players 8 Notable players 9 Notes 10 References 11 External links

In 1970 a group of football players from Mashhad decided to create a new football team by the name of Aboomoslem. Most of the players on the team knew each other and were from the Shah Abbasi Tri-way area. They had grown up playing football on the dirt fields of the area. When the Takht Jamshid Cup was created, a qualification tournament for provincial representatives was set up in Isfahan. Another club from Mashhad, named Aria F.C. represented the province of Khorasan but they were not able to make into the Takht Jamshid Cup.

After defeat in the tournament, it was decided that for Khorasan to have a powerful football team, Aboomoslem and Aria must merge together. Three brothers by the names of Ataollah, Asghar and Heshmat Mohajerani helped to merge the clubs, and Aboomoslem was able to make it to the 1975 Takht Jamshid Cup, which was the top football league in Iran before the Iranian revolution. The team originally only wore black, but red was added late on. With the purchase of great players like Asgarkhani, Majid Tashrefi, Masih Mashihnia, Alireza Ligarab, Hossein Omidvar and Mahmoud Ebrahimzadeh they were able to become the best non-Tehran based club in the league that year. Success was short lived and the team was relegated the next season, staying in the 2nd division until the revolution.

Like most sporting clubs in Iran, the revolution and the Iran-Iraq War severely limited the team's activities. From 1980 to 1984 the club participated in almost no meaningful competitions. This changed when in late 1984 local and provincial leagues were set up. In 1986 Aboomoslem won the Mashhad city league and the provincial championship in the following season. In the late eighties, Shahdiran Inc. sponsored the team, giving the club a better chance at success. After the war the local and provincial leagues were scrapped in favor of nation-wide leagues.

Aboomoslem made it to the newly established Azadegan League and participated during the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons, but was relegated after only two years. It was during this time that Aboomoslem's most famous player, Khodadad Azizi was discovered. Once relegated the club struggled dramatically, being relegated all the way to the third division, which was a local league. Shahdiran stopped sponsoring the team and was replaced by soft drink company, Khoshgovar. After several seasons in the lower leagues, Aboomoslem finally made it back to the top level of Iranian football, gaining promotion to the Azadegan League during the 1997-98 season. Aboomoslem had been in a poor financial situation that season, as Khoshgovar had stopped being its sponsor. Aboomoslem's only revenue came from advertisements and support from club fans, but surprisingly won promotion with the help of former Aboomoslem player, Akbar Misaghian. Aboomoslem again only stayed in the league for two seasons and was relegated during the 1999-2000 season. Around the same time the club went back to its roots, once again being sponsored by the Iranian police.

They were promoted again in the next season and debuted in Iran's first fully professional league, the IPL, for the 2001-02 season. They have remained in the IPL since with two 5th place finishes being their best results. During this time the club has shown its skill for finding talented players, with famous Iranian football players such as Reza Enayati, Mojtaba Jabbari and Andranik Teymourian all making their names there. After the 2004-05 season Aboomoslem's new sponsor became Iran Khodro.

In 2006 Khodadad Azizi joined the club as an advisor, beginning his new life in football management after retirement from playing. Akbar Misaghian the club's manager for the past two seasons resigned after the first week of the 2006-07 season due to financial disagreements with management. In January 2007, it became official and Khodadad Azizi was named manager of Aboomoslem. He was sacked in less than a year, replaced by Parviz Mazloomi in October 2007.

The club currently plays in Samen Stadium after years of playing in Mashhad's Takhti Stadium. The club recently announced plans to construct their own stadium with the help of the provincial government. The land was awarded to the team during Karim Malahi's time as club chairman. Construction was planned to begin March 2007 in the Elahieh area of Mashhad.^[1].

The table below chronicles the achievements of Aboomoslem in various competitions.

Season	League	League Finishing Position	Hazfi Cup
2001-2002	Iran Premier League	5th
2002-2003	Iran Premier League	12th
2003-2004	Iran Premier League	10th
2004-2005	Iran Premier League	8th	Runners-up
2005-2006	Iran Premier League	5th
2006-2007	Iran Premier League	6th
2007-2008	Iran Premier League	In Progress	In Progress

Heshmat Mohajerani Hadi Khayami  ? Sharifian Bagher Sayammi Jahangir Sadehdel Hamid Tayebbi Mahmoud Haj Rezapour

Rahman Naderi Gholam Hossein Takaffoli Gholam Reza Basiripour Nasser Shafagh Mahdi Najami Karim Malahi (?-2006) Nasser Shafagh (2006-present)

• Stefan Stan Gelasko (c.1973)
• Haj Seyed Mehdi Ghiyassi (1973-?)
• Kazem Ghiyassian
• Mehdi Dinvarzadeh (1995 - 1997)
• Hossein Fekri (1997)
• Akbar Misaghian (1997 - 1999)
• Farhad Kazemi (2000 - 2001)
• Firouz Karimi (2001 - 2004)
• Akbar Misaghian (2004 - 2006)
• Khodadad Azizi (2006 - Oct 2007)
• Parviz Mazloomi (Oct 2007-)

Position	Name	Nation
Head Coach	Parviz Mazloumi
First Team Coach
First Team Coach
Goalkeeping Coach	Gholamhossein Nokhodian Esfehani

• Champion of Mashhad Football League 1986
• Champion of Khorasan Football League 1988,1990
• Runner-Up of Iran's Hazfi Cup 2005

As of December 1, 2007 according to the IPLSTATS website

No. Position Player 1 GK Ahmad Khormali 2 DF Seyed Mohammad Hosseini MF Alireza Rezaei 4 FW Ivan Savorjest 6 MF Saeed Khani 7 MF Mohammad Mansouri 9 MF Ahmad Moghadasipour 10 MF Reza Nasehi 11 FW Morteza Bargizar 12 GK Shahab Gordan 14 FW Davoud Daneshdoost 15 MF Saeed Chahjoei

No. Position Player 16 MF Javad Razzaghi 18 MF Vahid Asgari 20 DF Mehdi Hasheminasab (captain) 21 MF Ivan Petrovic 22 GK Nader Ghobeishavi 25 FW Daniel Olerum 26 FW Mostafa Shahraki MF Ali Haghdoost 32 DF Franck Atsou MF Bagher Ahmadi

For details on former players, see Category:Aboomoslem players.

1970 to 1980s Mehdi Asgarkhani Mahmoud Ebrahimzadeh Alireza Ligarab Masih Masihnia Hossein Omidvar Majid Tashrefi

1980s Mohammad Azam Khodadad Azizi Masoud Hanteh Akbar Misaghian Ramezan Shokri

1990s Hamidreza Ebrahimi Abdol Jalil Golcheshmeh Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht

2000s Ivan Petrovic Hossein Badamaki Reza Enayati Fereydoon Fazli Mehdi Hasheminasab Mojtaba Jabbari Ali Mousavi Mohammad Nosrati Daniel Olerum Andranik Teymourian

• (Persian) تاریخچه باشگاه. Official Club Website. Retrieved on 12 October, 2006.

• (Persian) ابومسلم مشهد. Iranmania.com. Retrieved on 12 October, 2006.

• (Persian) Official site

Persian Gulf Cup • 2007-08 v • d • e
Aboomoslem • Bargh Shiraz • Esteghlal Ahvaz • Esteghlal • Malavan • Mes Kerman • Moghavemat Sepasi • PAS Hamedan • Paykan • Pegah • Persepolis • Rah Ahan • Saba Battery • Saipa • Sanat Naft • Sepahan • Shirin Faraz • Zob Ahan
Persian Gulf Cup seasons
2006-07 | 2007-08
IPL seasons
2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06
Azadegan League seasons (Pre 2001)
1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-00 | 2000-01
Takht Jamshid Cup seasons (Pre 1978)
1973-74 | 1974-75 | 1975-76 | 1976-77 | 1977-78
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