The Sepahan Sentinel
Match1 Aug 2026
A hiding for Sepahan
Beaten 0‑3 by Tractor, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Hossein Hosseini keeps Sepahan in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Sepahan rebuffed over Ashkan Jahanbakhsh
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Padideh have kept their man, and Sepahan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ricardo Alves signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ricardo Alves and Sepahan agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Iván Sánchez wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sepahan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ehsan Hajsafi calls time on his country
“146 caps was 146 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 36 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Sepahan.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Sepahan
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Hossein Hosseini 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ashkan Shojaei joins the Sepahan first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ashkan Shojaei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Shahriar Khodadad joins the Sepahan first team
- Market One of our own: Masoud Nekounam joins the Sepahan first team
- Market One of our own: Pejman Ghoddos joins the Sepahan first team