1986 Fajr International Tournament

1986 Fajr International Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	13 February – 21 February
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	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 دهه 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[edit]

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 XI	UEFA

Squads[edit]

Iran[edit]

Head coach: Fereydoun Asgarzadeh^[4]

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

Iran B[edit]

Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh	(1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 19)	Tam Esfahan
	1GK	Pirouz Jaghtapour		Nassaji Ghaemshahr
	2DF	Hossein Ghavi Fekr
	2DF	Mostafa Ardestani
	2DF	Morteza Fonounizadeh		Persepolis FC
	2DF	Mojtaba Holeh Kiyan
	2DF	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard	(1962-09-09)9 September 1962 (aged 23)	Persepolis FC
	3MF	Behtash Fariba (c)	(1955-02-11)11 February 1955 (aged 31)	Esteghlal FC
	3MF	Amir Ghalenoei	(1963-11-21)21 November 1963 (aged 22)	Shahin FC
	3MF	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	(1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 18)	Esteghlal FC
	3MF	Mehdi Abtahi	(1963-03-02)2 March 1963 (aged 22)	Vahdat Tehran FC
	3MF	Reza Taghavi
	3MF	Mohammad Ali Nematzadeh
	4FW	Saeed Sayyami		F.C. Aboomoslem
	4FW	Hamid Reza Mansouri		Sepidrood Rasht F.C.
	4FW	Farshad Pious	(1962-01-12)12 January 1962 (aged 24)	Persepolis FC
	4FW	Karim Bavi	(1964-12-30)30 December 1964 (aged 21)	Shahin FC

Khuzestan XI[edit]

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)
1GK	Behzad Gholampour Shahani	(1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23)
1GK	Karim Bostani
1GK	Yaghoub Farisat (c)
2DF	Parviz Marashian
2DF	Mojtaba Yarali
2DF	Saleh Moghimi
2DF	Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh
2DF	Mahmoud Baghalzadeh
2DF	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh
2DF	Karim Marvani
3MF	Majid Masanavi
3MF	Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh
3MF	Masoud Nowrouzi
3MF	Rajabali Shahmoradi
3MF	Manouchehr Vaziri
3MF	Salman Saleh Tabar
4FW	Jafar Delpasand
4FW	Teymour Zebdeh
4FW	Farzad Ahakpour

Pakistan[edit]

Head coach: Major Mohammad Younus Changazi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1GK	Mohammad Jahangir
	2DF	Shaukat Mahmood Mufti (c)
	2DF	Mukhtar Ali
	2DF	Zafar Iqbal
	2DF	Mohammad Shahzada
		Jamshed Rana
		Ejaz Ali
		Shah Wali
	3MF	Abdul Majeed
	3MF	Fida ur-Rahman
		Abdul Wahid
	4FW	Wazeer Ali
		Mohammad Yacqoob
	3MF	Zulfiqar Ahmed
	3MF	Mahmood Anwar
	4FW	Samuel Gul
	3MF	Aga Saeed
		Arif Raza

Al-Fotuwa SC[edit]

Head coach: Anwar Abdelkader

No.	Pos.	Player	Club
1	1GK	Nafih Abdelkader	al-Fotuwa SC
	1GK	Salah Matar	al-Fotuwa SC
	1GK	Maher Faraj	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Mahmood Nufel	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Walid Awad	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Adnan Jassem	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Aamer Awad	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Adnan Lajalah	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Jamal Said	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Fawaz Habib	al-Fotuwa SC
	2DF	Jamal Enveci	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Anwar Abdelkader(c)	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Nizar Yassin	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Hessam Yousef	al-Fotuwa SC
	3MF	Aamer Sayyid Ali	al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Adnan Kharabah	al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Ahmed Askar	al-Fotuwa SC
	4FW	Hessan Mousa	al-Fotuwa SC

Ghana[edit]

Head coach: Anthony Edusei

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Ansah Issac		Asante Kotoko SC
1GK	Abukari Damba	(1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17)	Real Tamale United
2DF	Joseph Odoi (c)	(1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17)	Great Olympics
2DF	Freeman Turkson		Accra Hearts of Oak SC
2DF	Isaac Nana Eshun		Asante Kotoko SC
2DF	Abdur Raouf Iddi		Asante Kotoko SC
2DF	Phillip Tagoe
3MF	Ebo Smith	(1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20)	Eleven Wise
3MF	Henry Acquah	(1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20)	Hasaacas
3MF	Ahmed Dauda		Real Tamale United
3MF	Kwabena Asiedu		Great Olympics
3MF	Olubode Williams
3MF	Kwasi Bonsu		Great Olympics
3MF	Abedi Pele	(1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21)	Real Tamale United
4FW	Anthony Yeboah	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19)	Okwawu United
4FW	Ibrahim Meriga		Okwawu United
4FW	Asare Boateng		Asante Kotoko SC
4FW	Ibrahim Mohammad		Cornerstones

Romania XI[edit]

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu

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

Poland U21[edit]

Head coach: Edmund Zientara

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1GK	Janusz Jedinak
1GK	Robert Sik
2DF	Jacek Grembocki	(1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20)	Lechia Gdańsk
2DF	Marek Piotrowicz	(1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22)
2DF	Witold Wenclewski	(1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21)	ŁKS Łódź
2DF	Andrzej Sikorski	(1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29)	Legia Warsaw
2DF	Janusz Góra	(1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22)	Śląsk Wrocław
2DF	Andrzej Slawgiuwoc
3MF	Andrzej Rudy	(1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20)	Śląsk Wrocław
3MF	Damian Lukasik	(1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21)
3MF	Marek Chojnacki	(1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26)	ŁKS Łódź
3MF	Wichilh Gorgon
3MF	Mariusz Gurs
4FW	Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c)	(1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23)	Legia Warsaw
4FW	Marek Czakon	(1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22)	Olimpia Poznan
4FW	Marek Leśniak	(1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21)	Pogoń Szczecin
4FW	Krzysztof Warzycha	(1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21)	Ruch Chorzów
4FW	Dariusz Marciniak	(1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19)	Śląsk Wrocław
4FW	Juliusz Kruszankin	(1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20)	ŁKS Łódź

Bold indicates overage players for U21 teams.

Venues[edit]

Tehran	Tehran
Azadi Stadium	Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
Capacity: 100,000	Capacity: 30,000

Referees[edit]

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[edit]

Group 1[edit]

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	Semi-finals
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)

14 February 1986

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

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan (Tehran FA)

16 February 1986

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

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 20000

Referee: Jamshid Nikmehr (IRAN)

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)

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)

18 February 1986

Al-Fotuwa SC	1 – 0	Pakistan
Kharabah 32'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25000

Referee: Mohammad Reza Emami (IRAN)

Group 2[edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Romania XI	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	4	semi-finals
Ghana	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	4	semi-finals
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 XI	1 – 0^[5]	Iran B
Cojocaru 81'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 7000

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (Tehran FA)

15 February 1986

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

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

15 February 1986

Romania XI	3 – 1	Khuzestan XI
Nuță 20' (pen.) Sabou 32' Cojocaru 57'		Bakhtiarizadeh 73' (pen.)

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 8000

Referee: Bahman Behlouli (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Iran B	0 – 0	Khuzestan XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Mehdi Abarnirooei (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania XI
Acquah 35'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Fereydoun Karamati (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Ghana	2 – 0	Khuzestan XI
Smith 1' Acquah 83'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (IRAN)

Knock-out stage[edit]

Semi-finals		Final

19 February

Poland U21	3
		2 February
Romania	1
		Iran	2 (1)
20 February
		Poland U21 (pen)	2 (3)
Iran	2

Ghana	0
		Third place

		21 February

		Ghana	1

		Romania	0

Semifinals[edit]

19 February 1986

Poland U21	3–1	Romania
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^[6]	Ghana
Alidoosti 10' Bayani 40' (pen.)	report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 35000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan(IRAN)

Third place match[edit]

21 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania XI
Smith 87'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Jamshid Akhbari (IRAN)

Final[edit]

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[edit]

1986 Fajr International Cup winners
Poland U21 First title

Statistics[edit]

Goalscorers[edit]

There were 37 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.31 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References[edit]

^ "Magiran | روزنامه اعتماد (1386/02/06): نصرالله سجادی: دوران دهداریسم در فوتبال ملی".
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[4] "مربيان مکتب آبي".

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