The Malavan Courier
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Ghaem Eslamikhah out for 122 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Malavan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Farzad Taiebipour
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Both of them Mojtaba Fakhrian's — 8.85
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
Zob Ahan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malavan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Farzad Rahimi gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Farzad Rahimi has just signed for Malavan, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Mohammad Papi
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Malavan
Ghaem Eslamikhah was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mojtaba Fakhrian
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match15 Aug 2026
Malavan get the job done against Esteghlal Ahvaz
A 2‑0 win over Esteghlal Ahvaz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Market Malavan buy the years ahead of Farzad Rahimi
- Market Issa Alekasir placed on the list
- Market Parham Ghannad told to find a new club