1986 Fajr International Tournament

1986 Fajr International Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIran
Dates13 February – 21 February
Teams8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Poland U21 (1st title)
Runners-up Iran
Third place Ghana
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored37 (2.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)Four players
(3 goal each)

The 1986 Fajr International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی دهه فجر) was a friendly football tournament that took place in Tehran, Iran. Opening game was played on February 13, 1986, two days after Iranian Revolution Day which is a national public holiday and the final was played on February 21, 1986.

Participant teams

The tournament's participants were from three confederations:[1][2][3]

Iran AFC
Iran B AFC
Khuzestan XI AFC
Pakistan AFC
Al-Fotuwa SC AFC
Ghana CAF
Poland U21 UEFA
Romania XI UEFA

Squads

Iran

Head coach: Fereydoun Asgarzadeh[4]

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Ahmad Sajjadi Homa F.C.
1GK Jalal Basharzad Homa F.C.
2DF Shahin Bayani (1962-01-31)31 January 1962 (aged 24) Esteghlal F.C.
2DF Asghar Hajiloo (1956-08-01)1 August 1956 (aged 29) Esteghlal F.C.
2DF Mohammad Panjali (c) (1955-07-26)26 July 1955 (aged 30) Persepolis F.C.
2DF Hossein Mesgar-Saravi Darya Babol F.C.
2DF Morteza Fonounizadeh Persepolis F.C.
3MF Shahrokh Bayani Esteghlal F.C.
3MF Sirous Ghayeghran (1962-01-22)22 January 1962 (aged 24) Malavan F.C.
3MF Mehran Najafi
3MF Saeed Tahmatan Bank Melli F.C.
3MF Mahmoud Pazooki Shahin F.C.
8 3MF Hamid Derakhshan (1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 28) Persepolis F.C.
3MF Morteza Yekke Esteghlal F.C.
3MF Hamid Alidousti (1956-01-01)1 January 1956 (aged 30) Homa F.C.
4FW Nasser Mohammadkhani (1957-09-07)7 September 1957 (aged 28) Persepolis F.C.
4FW Abdolali Changiz (1959-03-13)13 March 1959 (aged 26) Esteghlal F.C.

Iran B

Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 19) Tam Esfahan
1GK Pirouz Jaghtapour Nassaji Ghaemshahr
2DF Hossein Ghavi Fekr
2DF Mostafa Ardestani
2DF Morteza Fonounizadeh Persepolis FC
2DF Mojtaba Holeh Kiyan
2DF Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard (1962-09-09)9 September 1962 (aged 23) Persepolis FC
3MF Behtash Fariba (c) (1955-02-11)11 February 1955 (aged 31) Esteghlal FC
3MF Amir Ghalenoei (1963-11-21)21 November 1963 (aged 22) Shahin FC
3MF Majid Namjoo-Motlagh (1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 18) Esteghlal FC
3MF Mehdi Abtahi (1963-03-02)2 March 1963 (aged 22) Vahdat Tehran FC
3MF Reza Taghavi
3MF Mohammad Ali Nematzadeh
4FW Saeed Sayyami F.C. Aboomoslem
4FW Hamid Reza Mansouri Sepidrood Rasht F.C.
4FW Farshad Pious (1962-01-12)12 January 1962 (aged 24) Persepolis FC
4FW Karim Bavi (1964-12-30)30 December 1964 (aged 21) Shahin FC

Khuzestan XI

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Behzad Gholampour Shahani (1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23)
1GK Karim Bostani
1GK Yaghoub Farisat (c)
2DF Parviz Marashian
2DF Mojtaba Yarali
2DF Saleh Moghimi
2DF Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh
2DF Mahmoud Baghalzadeh
2DF Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh
2DF Karim Marvani
3MF Majid Masanavi
3MF Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh
3MF Masoud Nowrouzi
3MF Rajabali Shahmoradi
3MF Manouchehr Vaziri
3MF Salman Saleh Tabar
4FW Jafar Delpasand
4FW Teymour Zebdeh
4FW Farzad Ahakpour

Pakistan

Head coach: Younus Changezi

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Mohammad Jahangir
1GK Jamshed Rana (1965-06-01)1 June 1965 (aged 20) Pakistan Airlines
2DF Shaukat Mufti (c)
2DF Mukhtar Ali (1962-07-25)25 July 1962 (aged 23) Pakistan Airlines
2DF Zafar Iqbal (1965-02-03)3 February 1965 (aged 21) Pakistan Airlines
2DF Arbab Hayat Shahzada
3MF Ejaz Ali (1963-11-05)5 November 1963 (aged 22) Pakistan Airlines
3MF Abdul Majeed (1966-11-12)12 November 1966 (aged 19)
3MF Fida Ur Rehman (1964-04-27)27 April 1964 (aged 21) Pakistan Airlines
3MF Zulfiqar Ahmed
3MF Agha Saeed (1962-10-07)7 October 1962 (aged 23) KESC
3MF Abdul Wahid (1965-10-09)9 October 1965 (aged 20) Pakistan Airlines
4FW Mahmood Anwar Pakistan Airlines
4FW Samuel Gill
4FW Wazeer Ali Pakistan Railways
Shah Wali
Mohammad Yacqoob
Arif Raza

Al-Fotuwa SC

Head coach: Anwar Abdelkader

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Nafih Abdelkader al-Fotuwa SC
1GK Salah Matar al-Fotuwa SC
1GK Maher Faraj al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Mahmood Nufel al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Walid Awad al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Adnan Jassem al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Aamer Awad al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Adnan Lajalah al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Jamal Said al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Fawaz Habib al-Fotuwa SC
2DF Jamal Enveci al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Anwar Abdelkader(c) al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Nizar Yassin al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Hessam Yousef al-Fotuwa SC
3MF Aamer Sayyid Ali al-Fotuwa SC
4FW Adnan Kharabah al-Fotuwa SC
4FW Ahmed Askar al-Fotuwa SC
4FW Hessan Mousa al-Fotuwa SC

Ghana

Head coach: Anthony Edusei

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Ansah Issac Asante Kotoko SC
1GK Abukari Damba (1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17) Real Tamale United
2DF Joseph Odoi (c) (1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17) Great Olympics
2DF Freeman Turkson Accra Hearts of Oak SC
2DF Isaac Nana Eshun Asante Kotoko SC
2DF Abdur Raouf Iddi Asante Kotoko SC
2DF Phillip Tagoe
3MF Ebo Smith (1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20) Eleven Wise
3MF Henry Acquah (1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20) Hasaacas
3MF Ahmed Dauda Real Tamale United
3MF Kwabena Asiedu Great Olympics
3MF Olubode Williams
3MF Kwasi Bonsu Great Olympics
3MF Abedi Pele (1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21) Real Tamale United
4FW Anthony Yeboah (1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19) Okwawu United
4FW Ibrahim Meriga Okwawu United
4FW Asare Boateng Asante Kotoko SC
4FW Ibrahim Mohammad Cornerstones

Romania XI

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Lucian Hristea
1GK Zoltán Mártin Iașko (1964-08-30)30 August 1964 (aged 21) FC Universitatea Cluj
1GK Răducanu Necula* (1946-05-10)10 May 1946 (aged 39) unattached
2DF Niță Cireașă
6 2DF Marian Rada (c) (1960-05-14)14 May 1960 (aged 25) FC Rapid București
2DF Baicu Lupu
2DF Liviu Baicea
2DF Cristian Pojar
5 2DF Florin Popicu
3MF Pavel Badea (1967-06-10)10 June 1967 (aged 18) Universitatea Craiova
7 3MF Marcel Sabou (1965-08-22)22 August 1965 (aged 20) Dinamo Bucuresti
3MF Iosif Rotariu (1962-09-27)27 September 1962 (aged 23) Politehnica Timișoara
3MF Nicolae Nuță
3MF Gheorghe Dumitrașcu (1967-11-28)28 November 1967 (aged 18) CS Târgoviste
3MF Claudiu Bozeșan (1966-07-24)24 July 1966 (aged 19)
9 4FW Ioan Cojocaru
4FW Sorin Bobaru FC Argeș Pitești
*Retired Romania national team goalkeeper Necula Raducanu who is assistant coach of the team was an unused sub in the group stage match versus Ghana.

Poland U21

Head coach: Edmund Zientara

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Janusz Jedinak
1GK Robert Sik
2DF Jacek Grembocki (1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20) Lechia Gdańsk
2DF Marek Piotrowicz (1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22)
2DF Witold Wenclewski (1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21) ŁKS Łódź
2DF Andrzej Sikorski (1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29) Legia Warsaw
2DF Janusz Góra (1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22) Śląsk Wrocław
2DF Andrzej Slawgiuwoc
3MF Andrzej Rudy (1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20) Śląsk Wrocław
3MF Damian Lukasik (1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21)
3MF Marek Chojnacki (1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26) ŁKS Łódź
3MF Wichilh Gorgon
3MF Mariusz Gurs
4FW Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c) (1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23) Legia Warsaw
4FW Marek Czakon (1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22) Olimpia Poznan
4FW Marek Leśniak (1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21) Pogoń Szczecin
4FW Krzysztof Warzycha (1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21) Ruch Chorzów
4FW Dariusz Marciniak (1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19) Śląsk Wrocław
4FW Juliusz Kruszankin (1965-06-05)5 June 1965 (aged 20) ŁKS Łódź
Bold indicates overage players for U21 teams.

Venues

Tehran Tehran
Azadi Stadium Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
Capacity: 100,000 Capacity: 30,000

Referees

  • Mehdi Abarnirooei
  • Mohammad Abarnirooei
  • Jamshid Akhbari
  • Ali Arbabi (Mashhad FA)
  • Mostafa Bahrami
  • Bahman Behlouli
  • Hossein Dashtgerd (Tehran FA)
  • Hadi Dezfouli
  • Mohammad Reza Emami
  • Fereydoun Karamati(Anzali FA)
  • Hamid Khoshkhan(Tehran FA)
  • Ali Mohammad Lajmiri(Khuzestan FA)
  • Mohammadi(Bushehr FA)
  • Manouchehr Nazari(Tehran FA)
  • Jamshid Nikmehr
  • Mohammad Riahi
  • Mohammad Salehi(Tehran FA)
  • Hossein Tehrani(Tehran FA)
  • Mohammad Yusuf

Group stage

Group 1

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
 Iran 3 2 1 0 7 0 +7 5 Semi-finals
Poland U21 3 2 1 0 7 0 +7 5
Al-Fotuwa SC 3 1 0 2 1 9 −8 2
 Pakistan 3 0 0 3 0 6 −6 0
Source:
Iran 5 – 0 Al-Fotuwa SC
Changiz 5', 55'
Mohammadkhani 41', 68'
Yekke 85'
Report
Attendance: 30000
Referee: Manouchehr Nazari, (IRAN)

Poland U213 – 0Pakistan 
Kaczmarek 11'
Lesinak 60'
Sikorski 88'
Attendance: 30000
Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan (Tehran FA)

Iran 2 – 0 Pakistan
Alidoosti 8'
Changiz 16'
Report
Attendance: 20000
Referee: Jamshid Nikmehr (IRAN)

Poland U214 – 0 Al-Fotuwa SC
Chojnacki 5', 18'
Kaczmarek 14'
Maciniak 57'
Attendance: 15000
Referee: Mohammad Riahi (IRAN)

Iran 0 – 0 Poland U21
Penalties
Bayani
Derakhshan
Najafi
3 – 1
Decider for top position in Group Table
Czakon
Attendance: 30000
Referee: Bahman Bahlouli (IRAN)

Al-Fotuwa SC1 – 0Pakistan 
Kharabah 32'
Attendance: 25000
Referee: Mohammad Reza Emami (IRAN)

Group 2

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
Romania XI 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 4 semi-finals
 Ghana 3 2 0 1 3 3 0 4
Iran B 3 1 1 1 3 1 +2 3
Khuzestan XI 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
Source:
Romania XI1 – 0[5] Iran B
Cojocaru 81'
Attendance: 7000
Referee: Mohammad Salehi (Tehran FA)

Iran B3 – 0 Ghana
Sayyami 19', 29'
Taghavi 60'
Attendance: 10000
Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

Romania XI3 – 1 Khuzestan XI
Nuță 20' (pen.)
Sabou 32'
Cojocaru 57'
Bakhtiarizadeh 73' (pen.)
Attendance: 8000
Referee: Bahman Behlouli (IRAN)

Iran B0 – 0 Khuzestan XI
Attendance: 10000
Referee: Mehdi Abarnirooei (IRAN)

 Ghana1 – 0 Romania XI
Acquah 35'
Attendance: 10000
Referee: Fereydoun Karamati (IRAN)

 Ghana2 – 0 Khuzestan XI
Smith 1'
Acquah 83'
Referee: Mohammad Salehi (IRAN)

Knock-out stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
19 February
 
 
Poland U213
 
2 February
 
 Romania1
 
 Iran 2 (1)
 
20 February
 
Poland U21 (pen) 2 (3)
 
 Iran2
 
 
 Ghana0
 
Third place
 
 
21 February
 
 
 Ghana1
 
 
 Romania0

Semifinals

Poland U213–1 Romania
Chojnacki 24' (pen.)
Warzycha 25'
Czakon 83'
Nuță 35' (pen.)
Attendance: 25000
Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)
Iran2 – 0[6] Ghana
Alidoosti 10'
Bayani 40' (pen.)
report
Attendance: 35000
Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan(IRAN)

Third place match

 Ghana1 – 0 Romania XI
Smith 87'
Referee: Jamshid Akhbari (IRAN)

Final

Iran2-2 Poland U21
Yekke 22', 107' Czakon 39', 93'
Penalties
Derakhshan 1 – 3 Kaczmarek
Czakon
Warzycha
Attendance: 65000
Referee: Manouchehr Nazari (IRAN)

Champion

 1986 Fajr International
Cup winners 
Poland U21
First title

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 37 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 2.31 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

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