2013 Hazfi Cup final

{{ infobox football match | event = [[2012–13 Hazfi Cup]] | image = [[File:Persepolis Sepahan - 2013 Hazfi Cup Final 07.jpg|250px]] | team1 = [[Persepolis F.C.|Persepolis]] | team2 = [[Sepahan F.C.|Sepahan]] | team1association = | team2association = | team1score = 2 | team2score = 2 | details = Sepahan won 4–2 on [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|penalties]] | date = {{Start date|2013|5|5|df=y}} | stadium = [[Azadi Stadium]] | city = [[Tehran]] | man_of_the_match1a = [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] | man_of_the_match1atitle = | man_of_the_match1b = [[Omid Ebrahimi]] | man_of_the_match1btitle = Fans' | attendance = 97,452 | referee = [[Alireza Faghani]] | weather = Partly Cloudy {{convert|22|°C|°F}} 16% [[humidity]] | previous = [[2012 Hazfi Cup final|2012]] | next = [[2014 Hazfi Cup final|2014]] }}

The '''2013 Hazfi Cup final''' was the 26th final since 1975. The match was the [[Persepolis–Sepahan rivalry|''Iran's El-classico'']] between [[Persepolis F.C.|Persepolis]] and [[Sepahan F.C.|Sepahan]]. This was the clubs' second meeting in the final where Sepahan won 4–2 over Persepolis in the penalties in [[2006 Hazfi Cup Final|2006]]. The match was also the last match of Persepolis captain [[Mehdi Mahdavikia]], a former [[Iran national football team]] and [[Hamburg SV]] midfielder. Sepahan won Persepolis for another time in penalties and crowned their 4th domestic cup title. Sepahan was qualified for the group stage of the [[2014 AFC Champions League]].

==Format== The tie was contested over one legs, simply to [[2012 Hazfi Cup Final|last edition]]. If the teams could still not be separated, then [[extra time]] would have been played with a [[Penalty shootout (association football)|penalty shootout]] (taking place if the teams were still level after that).

==Road to the finals== {{details|2012–13 Hazfi Cup}} {| style="width:100%; text-align:center;" |- style="vertical-align:top; background:#c1c1c1 !colspan=4 style="width:1*"|[[Persepolis F.C.]] !style="background:#c1c1c1;"|Round !colspan=4 style="width:1*"|[[Sepahan S.C.]]

|-style="vertical-align:top; background:#c1e0ff;" | style="background:#ff6b72;"|Opponent | style="background:#ff6b72;"|Result | style="background:#ff6b72;"|H/A | style="background:#ff6b72;"|goalscorers | style="background:#c1c1c1;"|Second stage | style="background:#ffcc33;"|Opponent | style="background:#ffcc33;"|Result | style="background:#ffcc33;"|H/A | style="background:#ffcc33;"|goalscorers |- | [[Malavan F.C.|Malavan]] | 6–0 | H | [[Hadi Norouzi]] {{goal|2||50}}, [[Karim Ansarifard]] {{goal|19||75||80}}, [[Gholamreza Rezaei]] {{goal|83}} | style="background:#c1c1c1;"|1/16 Final | [[Foolad F.C.|Foolad]] | 2–1 | H | [[Mohammad Gholami]] {{goal|9}}, [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] {{goal|85}} |- | [[Naft Tehran F.C.|Naft Tehran]] | 4–1 | A | [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Mohammad Nouri]] {{goal|26||58}}, [[Hossein Mahini]] {{goal|75}}, [[Hadi Norouzi]] {{goal|84}} | style="background:#c1c1c1;"|1/8 Final | [[Mes Rafsanjan F.C.|Mes Rafsanjan]] | 1–0 | A | [[Xhevahir Sukaj]] {{goal|109}} |- | [[Zob Ahan F.C.|Zob Ahan]] | 1–0 | A | [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Mohammad Nouri]] {{goal|102}} | style="background:#c1c1c1;"|Quarter-Final | [[Sanat Naft Abadan F.C.|Sanat Naft]] | 2–0 | H | [[Ervin Bulku]] {{goal|27}}, [[Farshid Talebi]] {{goal|61}} |- | [[Damash Gilan F.C.|Damash]] | 1–1 (5–3 [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|p]]) | A | [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Mohammad Nouri]] {{goal|83}} | style="background:#c1c1c1;"|Semi-Final | [[Esteghlal F.C.|Esteghlal]] | 1–1 (5–4 [[Penalty shoot-out (association football)|p]]) | A | [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] {{goal|42}} |}

===[[Persepolis F.C.|Persepolis]]=== Persepolis's head coach [[Manuel José de Jesus]] was sacked ten days before Persepolis' first match in domestic cup campaign and his assistant and former captain [[Yahya Golmohammadi]] was appointed as the caretaker head coach. Golmohammadi's first match in charge occurred on the Round of 32, which they faced [[Malavan F.C.|Malavan]], match ends 6–0, same with Persepolis' best win over [[Esteghlal F.C.|Esteghlal]] in [[Tehran derby]] in 1973. Persepolis also defeated another [[Iran Pro League]] side, [[Naft Tehran F.C.|Naft Tehran]] with their technicians coach [[Mansour Ebrahimzadeh]] 4–1. Persepolis faced [[Zob Ahan F.C.|Zob Ahan]] in quarter-finals and won the match 1–0 with a late goal from [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Mohammad Nouri]] in extra time. Their match with [[Damash Gilan F.C.|Damash Gilan]] was also ends 1–1 after extra time and Persepolis won that match in the penalties.

===[[Sepahan F.C.|Sepahan]]=== Sepahan began their campaign with hosting [[Foolad F.C.|Foolad]] in [[Isfahan]]. Foolad was eliminated Sepahan on the last edition at the same stadium but Sepahan won the match 2–1 with goals comes from [[Mohammad Gholami]] and [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] and [[Luciano Pereira Mendes|Luciano Pereira]] was foolad's scorer. On the Round of 16, Sepahan faced with [[Azadegan League|second tier]] side, [[Mes Rafsanjan F.C.|Mes Rafsanjan]], match ends 1–0 for Sepahan after extra time. Sepahan also defeated [[Sanat Naft F.C.|Sanat Naft]] 2–0 and was qualified to semi-final to face with powerhouse [[Esteghlal F.C.|Esteghlal]]. Esteghlal was [[2011–12 Hazfi Cup|defending champion]] and match was ends 1–1 after extra time and goes to penalties. Sepahan won 5–4 on penalties and qualified to their 4th final in last 10 years.

==Pre-match==

===Match history=== Persepolis appeared in six Hazfi Cup Finals before this match. They won the cup in 1988, 1992, 1999, 2010 and 2011 and were runners-up in 2006. This was Sepahan's fourth appearance in a Hazfi Cup Final, having won in 2004, 2006 and 2007. The teams had met 50 times in the [[Iranian Football League]]. Persepolis won 17 times, Sepahan 12 times and the other 21 games were drawn.

===Ticketing=== Ticket prices for the final started at 2,000 [[Iranian rial|toman]] and were also available at 5,000 and 10,000 with all of the incomes was awarded to a charitable foundation to spend for the people involved in [[2013 Bushehr earthquake|Bushehr]] and [[2013 Sistan and Baluchestan earthquake|Sistan earthquake]]s. The Cup winners received 50,000,000 from the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation|IRIFF]] while the runners-up was earned 25,000,000 tomans.

===Venue=== Team officials met with each other on 1 April 2013 to decide on the final venue. After they failed to agree on a venue between [[Ghadir Stadium]] in [[Ahvaz]], [[Samen Stadium]] in [[Mashhad]] and [[Sahand Stadium]] in [[Tabriz]], the final venue was decided with a draw which 100,000 capacity [[Azadi Stadium]] (the Persepolis F.C. home Stadium) was announced as the venue for the 2013 final.

[[File:Persepolis Sepahan - 2013 Hazfi Cup Final 01.jpg|thumb|Sepahan players celebrating winning after penalties]]

===Officials=== [[FIFA]] listed referee, [[Alireza Faghani]] who also refereed the [[2011–12 Hazfi Cup|2012 edition]] [[2012 Hazfi Cup Final|final]] was announced as the final match referee by [[Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation|IRIFF]]'s referees committee. Hassan Kamranifar, the assistant referee of [[2010 FIFA World Cup]] and Reza Sokhandan helped Faghani. Yadollah Soleimani was the fourth official.

===Kit colors=== Sepahan wore their yellow home kit for the Final. They also used the away dressing room.

==Details== {{Football box |id=Persepolis v Sepahan |date = {{Start date|2013|5|5|df=y}} |time = 18:00 ([[UTC+4:30]]) |team1 = [[Persepolis F.C.|Persepolis]] |score = 2 – 2 |aet = yes | penalties1 = {{penmiss}} [[Hadi Norouzi|Norouzi]] {{pengoal}} [[Hossein Mahini|Mahini]] {{penmiss}} [[Reza Haghighi|Haghighi]] {{pengoal}} [[Meysam Naghizadeh|Naghizadeh]] | penaltyscore = 2 – 4 | penalties2 = {{pengoal}} [[Ervin Bulku|Bulku]] {{pengoal}} [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Khalatbari]] {{pengoal}} [[Omid Ebrahimi|Ebrahimi]] {{pengoal}} [[Ehsan Hajsafi|Hajsafi]] |report = [http://www.varzesh3.com/load-event.do?dom=%u067E%u0631%u0633%u067E%u0648%u0644%u064A%u0633&gost=%u0633%u067E%u0627%u0647%u0627%u0646&result=1%20%3A%200&no=914697&finish=yes Report] |team2 = [[Sepahan F.C.|Sepahan]] |goals1 = [[Karim Ansarifard|Ansarifard]] {{goal|24}} [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Nouri]] {{goal|99}} |goals2 = [[Xhevahir Sukaj|Sukaj]] {{goal|59}} [[Mohammad Gholami|Gholami]] {{goal|106}} |stadium = [[Azadi Stadium]], [[Tehran]] |attendance = 97,452 |referee = [[Alireza Faghani]] }}

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{{col-begin}} {{col-2}} {| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |colspan="4"|'''Persepolis:''' |- !width=25| !!width=25| |- |GK ||'''40'''||{{flagicon|BRA}} [[Nilson Corrêa Júnior|Nilson Corrêa]] |- |RB ||'''13'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Hossein Mahini]] || {{yel|120}} |- |CB ||'''4'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Jalal Hosseini]] |- |CB ||'''6''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohsen Bengar]] |- |LB ||'''23'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Amir Hossein Feshangchi]] |- |DM ||'''33''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Reza Haghighi]] || {{yel|30}} |- |RM ||'''8'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Ali Karimi]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]]) || || {{suboff|84}} |- |LM ||'''39''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Adel Kolahkaj]] |- |AM ||'''14'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Nouri (footballer)|Mohammad Nouri]] || {{yel|39}} |- |SS ||'''10'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Gholamreza Rezaei]] || || {{suboff|115}} |- |CF ||'''9'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Karim Ansarifard]] || || {{suboff|56}} |- |colspan=3|'''Substitutes:''' |- |GK ||'''22''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Reza Mohammadi (footballer)|Reza Mohammadi]] |- |DF ||'''20''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Alireza Noormohammadi]] |- |DF ||'''30''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh]] |- |MF ||'''2'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mehdi Mahdavikia]] || || {{subon|115}} |- |MF ||'''18'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Meysam Naghizadeh]] || || {{subon|84}} |- |MF ||'''17'''||{{flagicon|MKD}} [[Vlatko Grozdanoski]] |- |FW ||'''24'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Hadi Norouzi]] || || {{subon|56}} |- |colspan=3|'''Manager:''' |- |colspan=4|{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Yahya Golmohammadi]] |- |} |valign="top"|[[File:Sepahan-Persepolis-lineup.png|300px]] {{col-2}} {| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align=center |colspan="4"|'''Sepahan:''' |- !width=25| !!width=25| |- |GK ||'''35''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Shahab Gordan]] |- |RB ||'''38'''||{{flagicon|ALB}} [[Ervin Bulku]] |- |CB ||'''5'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad-Ali Ahmadi]] |- |CB ||'''6''' ||{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Milan Susak]] |- |LB ||'''11'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohsen Irannejad]] |- |DM ||'''15'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Omid Ebrahimi]] || {{yel|101}} |- |RM ||'''23''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Amin Jahan Alian]] || || {{suboff|63}} |- |LM ||'''10'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Hossein Papi]] |- |AM ||'''4'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Moharram Navidkia]] ([[Captain (association football)|c]]) || || {{suboff|81}} |- |SS ||'''33''' ||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] || {{yel|45}} |- |CF ||'''14'''||{{flagicon|ALB}} [[Xhevahir Sukaj]] || || {{suboff|70}} |- |colspan=3|'''Substitutes:''' |- |GK ||'''1'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad-Bagher Sadeghi]] |- |DF ||'''17'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Abolhassan Jafari]] |- |DF ||'''18'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Hossein Moradmand]] |- |MF ||'''9'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mehdi Jafarpour]] |- |MF ||'''28'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Ehsan Hajsafi]] || || {{subon|81}} |- |FW ||'''8'''||{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Gholami]] || || {{subon|70}} |- |FW ||'''21'''||{{flagicon|MNE}} [[Radomir Đalović]] || || {{subon|63}} |- |colspan=3|'''Manager:''' |- |colspan=4|{{flagicon|CRO}} [[Zlatko Kranjčar]] |} {{col-end}} {| width=50% style="font-size: 90%" | '''Man of the match''' *{{flagicon|IRN}} [[Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (footballer, born 1983)|Mohammad Reza Khalatbari]] (Sepahan)

'''[[Assistant referee (association football)|Assistant referees]]''': Hassan Kamranifar Reza Sokhandan '''[[Assistant referee (association football)#Fourth official|Fourth official]]''': Yadollah Soleimani {{col-2}} '''Match rules''': *90 minutes *30 minutes of extra-time if necessary *Penalty shoot-out if scores still level *Seven named substitutes *Maximum of three substitutions |}

===Statistics=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !width=100 | !width=70 | Persepolis !width=70 | Sepahan |- |Total shots || 15 || 18 |- |Shots on target || 8 || 6 |- |Ball possession || 55% || 45% |- |Corner kicks || 5 || 5 |- |Fouls committed || 10 || 11 |- |Offsides || 3 || 0 |- |Yellow cards || 3 || 2 |- |Red cards || 0 || 0 |} '''Source:''' Varzesh3<ref name="Varzesh3">{{cite news |title=Sepahan win Hazfi Cup |url=http://www.varzesh3.com/livescores.do |work=Varzesh3 |publisher=Varzesh3 |date=5 May 2013 |access-date=5 May 2013}}</ref>

== See also == * [[2012–13 Persian Gulf Cup]] * [[2012–13 Azadegan League]] * [[2012–13 Iran Football's 2nd Division]] * [[2012–13 Iran Football's 3rd Division]] * [[2012–13 Hazfi Cup]] * [[Iranian Super Cup]] * [[2012–13 Iranian Futsal Super League]]

==References== {{reflist}}

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