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
Al-Fotuwa SC	3	1	0	2	1	9	−8	2
Pakistan	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

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)

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14 February 1986

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

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan (Tehran FA)

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16 February 1986

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

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 20000

Referee: Jamshid Nikmehr (IRAN)

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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)

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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)

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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
Iran B	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	3
Khuzestan XI	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

13 February 1986

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

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 7000

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (Tehran FA)

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15 February 1986

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

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

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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)

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17 February 1986

Iran B	0 – 0	Khuzestan XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Mehdi Abarnirooei (IRAN)

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17 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania U21
Acquah 35'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Fereydoun Karamati (IRAN)

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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

• Abdolali Changiz
• Marek Chojnacki
• Marek Czakon
• Morteza Yeke

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

Main article: Iran national football team

Head coach: Fereydoun Asgarzadeh ^[6]

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

Iran B

Main article: Iran B national football team

Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi

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

Khuzestan XI

Further information: Khuzestan Province

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Behzad Gholampour Shahani	(1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23)
	1 GK	Karim Bostani	(1952-03-21)21 March 1952 (aged 33)
	1 GK	Yaghoub Farisat (c)	(1955-03-22)22 March 1955 (aged 30)
	2 DF	Parviz Marashian
	2 DF	Mojtaba Yarali
	2 DF	Saleh Moghimi
	2 DF	Dariush Bakhtiarizadeh
	2 DF	Mahmoud Baghalzadeh
	2 DF	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh	(1961-09-18)18 September 1961 (aged 24)
	2 DF	Karim Marvani
	3 MF	Majid Masanavi
	3 MF	Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh
	3 MF	Masoud Nowrouzi
	3 MF	Rajabali Shahmoradi
	3 MF	Manouchehr Vaziri
	3 MF	Salman Saleh Tabar
	4 FW	Jafar Delpasand
	4 FW	Teymour Zebdeh
	4 FW	Farzad Ahakpour

Pakistan

Main article: Pakistan national football team

Head coach: Younus Changezi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Muhammad Jahangir	(1960-06-11)11 June 1960 (aged 25)
	1 GK	Jamshed Rana	(1965-06-01)1 June 1965 (aged 20)			Pakistan Airlines
	2 DF	Shaukat Mufti (c)	(1955-01-10)10 January 1955 (aged 31)
	2 DF	Mukhtar Ali	(1962-07-25)25 July 1962 (aged 23)			Pakistan Airlines
	2 DF	Zafar Iqbal	(1965-02-03)3 February 1965 (aged 21)			Pakistan Airlines
	2 DF	Arbab Hayat Shahzada	(1959-01-22)22 January 1959 (aged 27)
	3 MF	Ejaz Ali	(1963-11-05)5 November 1963 (aged 22)			Pakistan Airlines
	3 MF	Abdul Majeed	(1966-11-12)12 November 1966 (aged 19)
	3 MF	Fida Ur Rehman	(1964-04-27)27 April 1964 (aged 21)			Pakistan Airlines
	3 MF	Zulfiqar Ahmed	(1964-08-10)10 August 1964 (aged 21)
	3 MF	Agha Saeed	(1962-10-07)7 October 1962 (aged 23)			KESC
	3 MF	Abdul Wahid	(1965-10-09)9 October 1965 (aged 20)			Pakistan Airlines
	4 FW	Mahmood Anwar	(1960-08-10)10 August 1960 (aged 25)			Pakistan Airlines
	4 FW	Samuel Gill	(1959-05-05)5 May 1959 (aged 26)
	4 FW	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

Main article: Al-Fotuwa SC

Head coach: Anouar Abdul Kader

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

Ghana

Main article: Ghana national football team

Head coach: Anthony Edusei

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Isaac Salifu Ansah				Asante Kotoko SC
	1 GK	Abukari Damba	(1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17)			Real Tamale United
	2 DF	Joseph Odoi (c)	(1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17)			Great Olympics
	2 DF	Freeman Turkson				Accra Hearts of Oak SC
	2 DF	Isaac Nana Eshun				Asante Kotoko SC
	2 DF	Rauf Iddi				Asante Kotoko SC
	2 DF	Philip Tagoe				Great Olympics
	3 MF	Ebo Smith	(1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20)			Eleven Wise
	3 MF	Henry Acquah	(1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20)			Hasaacas
	3 MF	Ahmed Dauda				Real Tamale United
	3 MF	Kwabena Asiedu	1966			Great Olympics
	3 MF	Olabode Williams				Hasaacas
	3 MF	Kwasi Bonsu				Great Olympics
	3 MF	Abedi Pele	(1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21)			Real Tamale United
	4 FW	Anthony Yeboah	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19)			Okwawu United
	4 FW	Ibrahim Meriga	1966			Okwawu United
	4 FW	Asare Boateng				Asante Kotoko SC
	4 FW	Ibrahim Mohammad				Cornerstones

Romania U21

Main article: Romania national under-21 football team

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu

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

Main article: Poland national under-21 football team

Head coach: Edmund Zientara

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Janusz Jedynak	(1964-01-10)10 January 1964 (aged 22)			Śląsk Wrocław
	1 GK	Robert Sęk	(1967-05-25)25 May 1967 (aged 18)			GKS Katowice
	2 DF	Jacek Grembocki	(1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20)			Lechia Gdańsk
	2 DF	Janusz Góra	(1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22)			Śląsk Wrocław
	2 DF	Wojciech Gorgoń	(1963-08-07)7 August 1963 (aged 22)			Zagłębie Sosnowiec
	2 DF	Andrzej Sikorski	(1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29)			Legia Warsaw
	2 DF	Andrzej Słowakiewicz	(1963-11-30)30 November 1963 (aged 22)			Hutnik Kraków
	2 DF	Marek Piotrowicz	(1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22)			Górnik Zabrze
	2 DF	Witold Wenclewski	(1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21)			ŁKS Łódź
	3 MF	Marek Chojnacki	(1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26)			ŁKS Łódź
	3 MF	Andrzej Rudy	(1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20)			Śląsk Wrocław
	3 MF	Damian Lukasik	(1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21)			Lech Poznan
	3 MF	Mariusz Kuras	(1965-08-21)21 August 1965 (aged 20)			Pogoń Szczecin
	4 FW	Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c)	(1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23)			Legia Warsaw
	4 FW	Marek Czakon	(1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22)			Olimpia Poznan
	4 FW	Marek Leśniak	(1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21)			Pogoń Szczecin
	4 FW	Krzysztof Warzycha	(1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21)			Ruch Chorzów
	4 FW	Dariusz Marciniak	(1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19)			Śląsk Wrocław
	4 FW	Juliusz Kruszankin	(1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20)			ŁKS Łódź

*Bold players are over age of 23.

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