Farhan Jafari

Defensive Midfielder - Malavan
13 Dec 2026
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Marked for Farhan Jafari

18 Edition

The Malavan Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match28 Nov 2026

Malavan tear Esteghlal Ahvaz apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Esteghlal Ahvaz, and it could have been more.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Mojtaba Fakhrian scores twice — 9.43

Two goals and a mark of 9.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Malavan

Ghaem Eslamikhah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces30 Nov 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.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Mehdi Abdi at his very best

Marked 8.80. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Malavan.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Behnam Barzay gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

A satisfied Saeid Hajsafi

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑1, Saeid Hajsafi could afford to be generous.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Abbas Habibi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

A promise honoured at Malavan

Something was said to Farhan Jafari and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Malavan Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

The knee: Sajjad Ashouri out for 52 days

52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Malavan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match10 Oct 2026

No mercy from Malavan

Saba will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malavan were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Both of them Mojtaba Fakhrian's — 9.33

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match10 Oct 2026

At last: Malavan win one

8 matches without a win, and then this, against Saba. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad12 Oct 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.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

One of those days for Mehdi Abdi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market12 Oct 2026

Omid Hajsafi steps up from the Malavan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Omid Hajsafi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market12 Oct 2026

Masoud Beiranvand steps up from the Malavan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Masoud Beiranvand has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief