Tourney Name: | Vahdat International Tournament |
Year: | 1982 |
Other Titles: | Vahdat Cup |
Country: | Iran |
Dates: | ? February - 27 February |
Num Teams: | 8 |
Confederations: | 2 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Champion Other: | Persepolis |
Count: | 1 |
Second Other: | Algeria Army XI |
Third Other: | Malavan |
Vahdat International Cup (fa|جام بین المللی وحدت) was an international football tournament hosted by Iran that was played at Tehran in February 1982. This tournament's participants were teams from Iran and friend countries such as Algeria, Syria and Libya. Eight teams from four countries (Iran, Syria, Algeria, and Libya) participated, with Iran having five teams and the other three nations having one each. The Iranian teams and the Syria Army XI belonged to AFC, with Algeria Army XI and Libya Army XI belonging to CAF. The games were all played at one venue, the Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, with a capacity of 30,000 at the time.
Eight teams participated in this tournament:[1] [2]
Persepolis | AFC |
Esteghlal | AFC |
Malavan | AFC |
Iran U23 | AFC |
Iran Army XI | AFC |
Syria Army XI | AFC |
Algeria Army XI | CAF |
Libya Army XI | CAF |
Tehran |
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Shahid Shiroudi Stadium |
Capacity: 30,000 |
Known results are as follows:[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD |
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Algeria Army XI | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
Syria Army XI | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
Iran U23 | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
Esteghlal | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Goals for" | GF | width=20 abbr="Goals against" | GA | width=20 abbr="Goal difference" | GD |
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Persepolis | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | |||||||||
Malavan | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
Iran Army XI | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
Libya Army XI | ? | 3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||
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There was no third place match, however Malavan earned third rank[8] among all participants.
Persepolis squad was short of several national team and national army team players such as Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, Nasser Mohammadkhani, Abbas Kargar, Ebrahim Kian Tahmasebi, Behrouz Soltani, Mohammad Panjali and Gholamreza Fathabadi.Several players from youth team took part in this tournament.[9]
Head coach: Ali Parvin
See main article: Esteghlal F.C..
See main article: Malavan F.C..
See main article: Iran national under-23 football team.