The Sepahan Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
152 days out for Ali Karimi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sepahan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Omid Nourafkan delivers — 7.57
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Omid Nourafkan scored, was marked 7.57, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
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
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sepahan
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gostaresh Foulad join the queue for Mohammad Reza Bordbar
Add another name to the list: Gostaresh Foulad have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mohammad Reza Bordbar. The answer from Sepahan has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Iván Sánchez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sepahan promote Saman Ebrahimi from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saman Ebrahimi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Pejman Beiranvand steps up from the Sepahan academy
- Market One of our own: Vahid Cheshmi joins the Sepahan first team
- Match Sepahan refuse to lose to Tractor