6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process
5 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vouria Yazdani

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Alireza Yazdani damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Ramin Khodadad asks to leave Siah Jamegan

“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.

Squad

Vouria Yazdani in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sardar Shojaei falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Siah Jamegan find a way past Sepahan

Sepahan made Siah Jamegan work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alireza Yazdani

36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siah Jamegan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Vouria Yazdani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Siah Jamegan say no — this time

The offer from Foolad for Ashkan Torabi 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.

Market

Majid Khodadad asks to leave Siah Jamegan

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Vouria Yazdani 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.

Squad

Omid Vafaei falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

3 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

3 goals for Ehsan Taremi

The match ball belongs to Ehsan Taremi, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

Vouria Yazdani in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Siah Jamegan get the job done against Gostaresh Foulad

A 3‑2 win over Gostaresh Foulad, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ehsan Taremi

Marked 9.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Hossein Vafaei attracts admirers

The name of Hossein Vafaei has come up in conversations Siah Jamegan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omid Vafaei is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Mehdi Karimi 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.

Player ratings

Omid Vafaei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Siah Jamegan put Majid Khodadad up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Majid Khodadad may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

2 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Saman Ebrahimi's — 8.45

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Vouria Yazdani in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sardar Shojaei falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Saman Ebrahimi the difference as Siah Jamegan beat Esteghlal

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Saman Ebrahimi. 2‑1 against Esteghlal, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Saman Ebrahimi

At 20 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Reza Azmoun

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reza Azmoun, and the manager let it.

Squad

Siah Jamegan count the cost of losing Ali Vafaei

46 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Vouria Yazdani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ramin Khodadad told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ramin Khodadad has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Siah Jamegan.

In brief

1 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ashkan Torabi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ashkan Torabi and Siah Jamegan agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Vouria Yazdani 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Siah Jamegan

1 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.

Market

Siah Jamegan promote Karim Beiranvand from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Karim Beiranvand 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Reza Azmoun

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Siah Jamegan come up short against Persepolis

Persepolis left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief