From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 5 appearances for Padideh.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Milad Mohammadi is the division's player of the month — 8.11
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Siah Jamegan man on 8.11 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Padideh
Majid Beiranvand was marked 7.80 and had a hand in 7 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Saipa can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Vouria Gholizadeh leads the division for assists — 7.87
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 8 of them made by a Padideh player marked 7.87, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Esteghlal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hasan Pourhamidi. The answer from Saipa has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a KAA Gent man
Karim Mohammadi averaged 8.42 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
4 in 4 for Tractor. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Saeid Ebrahimi up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Saba — 4 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
4 goals in 5 appearances for Siah Jamegan, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
5 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 4 appearances for Padideh.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Karim Mohammadi is the division's player of the month — 8.03
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Padideh man on 8.03 with 9 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Saba
Saïmon Bouabré was marked 8.00 and had a hand in 5 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rah Ahan can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2027
Penarol come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Padideh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Vouria Gholizadeh leads the division for assists — 7.44
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Padideh player marked 7.44, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Padideh man
Saeid Torabi averaged 8.24 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Jan 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Cruzeiro will make the call about Masoud Hajsafi this week. Padideh have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
3 in 4 for Esteghlal. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
Saïmon Bouabré up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Saba — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
3 in 4 for Padideh. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2027
5 goals in 4 appearances for Padideh leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The month closes with Masoud Hajsafi out in front — 8 goals in 4 games, and Padideh have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Marked 8.32 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Padideh have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Padideh
Masoud Hajsafi was marked 8.32 and had a hand in 9 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Mohammad Ghoddos leads the division for assists — 7.70
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Padideh player marked 7.70, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
A productive month at Persepolis — 4 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
4 goals in 4 appearances for Sepahan, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
3 goals in 2 appearances for Padideh, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
A place in the eleven for Aref Aghasi
7.16 over 3 games. Nobody frames a team-of-the-month selection and everybody who has been in one remembers the month they were.
Market1 Dec 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Padideh, another week without a signature from Kaveh Gholizadeh.
Market1 Dec 2026
The Parsa Jafari story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Parsa Jafari signs something — a contract at Zob Ahan or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The month closes with Masoud Hajsafi out in front — 11 goals in 5 games, and Padideh have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Masoud Hajsafi is the division's player of the month — 8.31
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Padideh man on 8.31 with 13 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Masoud Hajsafi is the month's best young player — 8.31
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.31 over the month and 13 goal contributions, from a Padideh player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Foolad can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
7 assists, 7.97, and a Padideh player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Saeid Torabi is the division's best-marked player — 9.33
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.33 across 3 matches for Padideh.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Duckens Nazon up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Esteghlal — 4 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
A productive month at Siah Jamegan — 4 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 goals in 5 appearances for Padideh leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Saeid Torabi up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Padideh — 6 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Market1 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Saipa, another week without a signature from Hadi Mohammadi.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Padideh.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 7.76 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Padideh have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Padideh
Luka Fuster was marked 7.18 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Saeid Gholizadeh leads the division for assists — 7.73
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Padideh player marked 7.73, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Oct 2026
Padideh say no — this time
The offer from Esteghlal Ahvaz for Masoud Hajsafi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Gostaresh Foulad man
Majid Karimi averaged 8.11 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Oct 2026
Add another name to the list: Esteghlal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Milad Zakipour. The answer from Sepahan has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Saba leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Ehsan Hosseini up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Rah Ahan — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Saba, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The month closes with Vouria Vafaei out in front — 12 goals in 5 games, and Saba have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Marked 7.49 across it, 24 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Saba have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Padideh
Masoud Hajsafi was marked 8.14 and had a hand in 12 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2026
Tractor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Esteghlal did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Esteghlal Khuzestan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Majid Noorafkan leads the division for assists — 8.04
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 13 of them made by a Saba player marked 8.04, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Saeid Torabi is the division's best-marked player — 8.20
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.20 across 5 matches for Padideh.
Market1 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mohammad Javad Akbari reports back to Sepahan with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
6 in 2 for Saba. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Saeid Ebrahimi up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Saba — 10 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 11 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Market1 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adel Hazbavaei has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Esteghlal Ahvaz.
Market1 Aug 2026
11 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market1 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Hadi Mohammadi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.