Iran football award winners

The Iran Football award Winners is an annual association football award presented to Best Player, Coach and Referees in Iran, which recognises the most outstanding player in the Persian Gulf Pro League each season. The recipient is chosen by a panel assembled by the association football.

IRIFF awards

Mehdi Taremi was the first player to win the Player of the Season award in two consecutive seasons.

This award is organized by Iran football federation and includes the best Iranian footballers in each field. Mehdi Taremi and Moharram Navidkia have been Player of the Season on two occasions each and are the only players to have won the award more than once.with Taremi having achieved this in consecutive years (2015 and 2016).

Persepolis and Iran national football team goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand won two awards at the 2018-19 Iran Professional League (IPL) season. Beiranvand won IPL Man of the Year award and was also honored as the best goalkeeper of the season. ^[1]  

Player of the year

Season	Player	Club	Source(s)
2002–03	Moharram Navidkia	Sepahan	[2]
2003–04	Award not given
2004–06
2005–06
2006–07	Javad Nekounam	Osasuna	[3]
2007–08	Mohsen Khalili	Persepolis	[4]
2008–09	Award not given
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
2012–13	Moharram Navidkia	Sepahan	[5]
2013–14	Andranik Teymourian	Esteghlal	[6]
2014–15	Ghasem Haddadifar	Zob Ahan	[7]
2015–16	Mehdi Taremi	Persepolis	[8]
2016–17	Mehdi Taremi	Persepolis	[9]
2017–18	Vahid Amiri	Persepolis	[10]
2018–19	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis	[11]

Manager of the year

Amir Ghalenoei won Coach of the Year award for four times.

Manager of the year

Season	Coach	Club
2006–07	Ali Daei	Saipa
2007–08	Afshin Ghotbi	Persepolis
2008–09	Amir Ghalenoei	Esteghlal
2009–10	Amir Ghalenoei	Sepahan
2010–11	Amir Ghalenoei	Sepahan
2011–12	Zlatco Kranjčar	Sepahan
2012–13	Amir Ghalenoei	Esteghlal
2013–14	Hossein Faraki	Foolad
2014–15	Hossein Faraki	Sepahan
2015–16	Abdollah Veisi	Esteghlal Khuzestan
2016–17	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis
2017–18	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis
2018–19	Branko Ivanković	Persepolis
2019–20	Yahya Golmohammadi	Persepolis

Young player of the year

Saeid Ezzatollahi won the award in 2013.

Young player of the year

Season	Player	Club	Source(s)
2006–07	Farzad Ashoubi	Persepolis
2007–08	Ehsan Hajsafi	Sepahan
2008–09	Award not given
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12
2012–13	Saeid Ezzatollahi	Malavan	[12]
2013–14	Mohammad Abbaszadeh	Persepolis	[6]
2014–15	Amir Arsalan Motahari	Naft Tehran	[13] [7]
2015–16	Mehdi Torabi	Saipa	[14]
2016–17	Omid Noorafkan	Esteghlal	[15]
2017–18	Ali Gholizadeh	Saipa	[16]
2018–19	Allahyar Sayyadmanesh	Esteghlal
2019–20	Mehdi Ghayedi	Esteghlal

Top assister of the year

Top assister of the year

Season	Player	Club	Source(s)
2016–17	Iman Mobali	Naft Tehran	[17]
2017–18	Server Djeparov	Esteghlal	[18]
2018–19	Mohammad Karimi	Sepahan
2019–20	Mehdi Ghayedi Milad Jahani	Esteghlal Sanat Naft

Goalkeeper of the year

Mehdi Rahmati has won the award for four times.

Goalkeeper of the year

seoson	player	club
2006–07	Vahid Taleblou	Esteghlal
2007–08	Mehdi Rahmati	Mes Kerman
2008–09	Not Chosen
2009–10
2010–11	Mehdi Rahmati	Esteghlal
2011–12	Mehdi Rahmati	Esteghlal
2012–13	Mehdi Rahmati	Esteghlal
2013–14	Nilson Corrêa	Persepolis
2014–15	Alireza Beiranvand	Naft Tehran
2015–16	Fernando de Jesus	Esteghlal Khuzestan
2016–17	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis
2017–18	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis
2018–19	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis

Defender of the year

Jalal Hosseini has won the award for seven times.

Defender of the year

seoson	Player	Club	Source(s)
2006–07	Jalal Hosseini	Saipa
2007–08	Jalal Hosseini	Saipa
2008–09	Award not given
2009–10	Ehsan Hajsafi	Sepahan
2010–11	Khosro Heydari	Sepahan
2011–12	Ehsan Hajsafi	Sepahan
2012–13	Pejman Montazeri	Esteghlal
2013–14	Jalal Hosseini	Persepolis
2014–15	Voria Ghafouri	Sepahan	[19] [7]
2015–16	Jalal Hosseini	Naft Tehran	[20]
2016–17	Jalal Hosseini	Persepolis	[21]
2017–18	Jalal Hosseini	Persepolis	[22]
2018–19	Jalal Hosseini	Persepolis

Midfielder of the year

Ali Karimi won the award twice.

Midfielder of the year

seoson	Player	Club	Source(s)
2006–07	Javad Nekounam	Osasuna
2007–08	Karim Bagheri	Persepolis
2008–09	Award not given
2009–10	Ali Karimi	Steel Azin
2010–11	Ebrahim Sadeghi	Saipa
2011–12	Ali Karimi	Persepolis
2012–13	Moharram Navidkia	Sepahan
2013–14	Andranik Teymourian	Esteghlal	[6]
2014–15	Andranik Teymourian	Tractor Sazi	[23] [7]
2015–16	Omid Ebrahimi	Esteghlal	[24]
2016–17	Omid Ebrahimi	Esteghlal	[25]
2017–18	Omid Ebrahimi	Esteghlal	[26]
2018–19	Mehdi Kiani	Sepahan

Striker of the year

Karim Ansarifard won the award twice.

Striker of the year

seoson	Player	Club
2006–07	Daniel Olerum	Aboomoslem
2007–08	Mohsen Khalili	Persepolis
2008–09	Not Chosen
2009–10
2010–11
2011–12	Karim Ansarifard	Saipa
2012–13	Jalal Rafkhaei	Malavan
2013–14	Karim Ansarifard	Tractor Sazi
2014–15	Mehdi Taremi	Persepolis
2015–16	Mehdi Taremi	Persepolis
2016–17	Mehdi Taremi	Persepolis
2017–18	Ali Alipour	Persepolis
2018–19	Chimba & Kiros Stanlley	Foolad & Sepahan

Foreign player of the year

Foreign player of the year

seoson	Player	Club
2002–03	Armenak Petrosyan [27]	Sepahan
2003–04	Not Chosen
2004–05
2005–06
2006–07	Daniel Olerum	Aboomoslem
2007–08	Ivan Petrović	Aboomoslem

Referee of the year

Referee of the year

seoson	Referee
2006–07	Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh
2007–08	Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh
2008–09	Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh
2009–10	Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh
2010–11	Alireza Faghani
2011–12	Mohsen Torky
2012–13	Saeid Mozaffari Zadeh
2013–14	Alireza Faghani
2014–15	Ahmad Salehi
2015–16	Mohsen Torky
2016–17	Alireza Faghani
2017–18	Bijan Heydari
2018–19	Alireza Faghani

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