Persian Gulf Pro League 1395/96 opened with the draw between Tractorsazi giants and Esteghlal Khuzestan defending champions: Rahim Zahivi scored the first double of the tournement. 28 players were booked, no one was sent off in this 1st week of the season: one red card was showed to Foolad Khuzestan assistant coach, Aziz Farisat, before his team lost at home against Mashinsazi. Two matches ended goalless (Saba – Sanat Naft; Gostaresh Foolad – Paykan), while Esteghlal Tehran and Naft shared a point, too. FC Mashhad (formerly known as Siahjamegan) defeated Zob Ahan. Two penalties were awarded and both missed: Mehrdad Mohammadi (Sepahan) shot was saved by Shahab Gordan, and Akbar Imani (Foolad Khuzestan) sent out the ball. Persepolis and Padideh obtained important victories away, defeating respectively Saipa and Sepahan.

WEEK 1

Monday 25 July 2016

Tractorsazi Tabriz 2-2 Esteghlal Khuzestan [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 15′ Eder “Edinho” Luciano (TRA), 57′ and 72′ pen. Rahim Zahivi (ESK), 59′ Farzad Hatami (TRA)
Bookings: 34′ Mehdi Momeni (ESK), 54′ Meysam Doraghi (ESK), 64′ Rahim Zahivi (ESK), 70′ Soroush Rafiei (TRA), 85′ Rafael Roballo (ESK), 91′ S. Jalal Abdi (ESK)
Referee: Mohammad Reza Akbarian

FC Mashhad 2-1 Zob Ahan Isfahan [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 14′ Abbas Asgari (MAS), 73′ Reza Darvishi (MAS), 86′ Mohammad Reza Abbasi (ZOB)
Bookings: 13′ Mehdi Mehdipour (ZOB), 61′ Mohammad Nasseri (MAS)
Referee: Hossein Akbari

Esteghlal Tehran 1-1 Naft Tehran [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 31′ Jaber Ansari (EST), 68′ Amir Arsalan Motahari (NAF)
Bookings: 89′ Reza Aliyari (NAF)
Referee: Hossein Zargar

Saba Qom 0-0 Sanat Naft Abadan [WATCH goals & highlights]
Bookings: 19′ Hossein Baghlani (SAN), 57′ Davoud Bahadori (SAB), 65′ Karim Eslami (SAB)
Referee: Alireza Faghani

Tuesday 27 July 2016

Gostaresh Foolad Tabriz 0-0 Paykan Qods [WATCH highlights]
Bookings: 13′ Levon Hayrapetyan (PAY), 28′ Siavash Yazdani (PAY), 62′ Mehdi Shiri (PAY), 76′ Daryoush Shojaeian (GOF), 84′ Mohammad Reza Khalatbari (GOF)
Referee: Payam Heydari

Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan Isfahan 0-1 Padideh Mashhad [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 44′ Mohammad Hossein Moradmand (PAD)
Bookings: 18′ Mehrdad Kafshgari (PAD), 41′ Shoja Khalilzadeh (SEP), 89′ Taleb Reykani (SEP)
Referee: Alireza Kenari

Foolad Khuzestan 1-2 Mashinsazi Tabriz [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 54′ Milad Badragheh (FKH), 57′ Saman Nariman Jahan (MTA), 63′ Amin Ghasseminejad (MTA)
Bookings: 8′ Abdollah Karami (FKH), 36′ Amin Ghasseminejad (MTA), 48′ Mohammad Ahle Shakheh (MTA), 57′ Abdollah Nasseri (FKH), 92′ Saman Nariman Jahan (MTA)
Sent off: 20′ assistant coach Aziz Farisat (FKH) for severe protests
Referee: Touraj Haghvardi

Saipa Karaj 0-1 Persepolis Tehran [WATCH goals & highlights]
Goals: 68′ Kamyabinia
Bookings: 43′ Farshad Ahmadzadeh (PER), 73′ Vahid Amiri (PER), 80′ Saeid Lotfi (SAI)
Referee: Shaehin Haji Babaei

STANDINGS

Club	Points	W	D	L	GF	GA
Mashinsazi Tabriz	3	1	0	0	2	1
FC Mashhad	3	1	0	0	2	1
Padideh Mashhad	3	1	0	0	1	0
Persepolis Tehran	3	1	0	0	1	0
Tractorsazi Tabriz	1	0	1	0	2	2
Esteghlal Khuzestan	1	0	1	0	2	2
Esteghlal Tehran	1	0	1	0	1	1
Naft Tehran	1	0	1	0	1	1
Gostaresh Foolad Tabriz	1	0	1	0	0	0
Sanat Naft Abadan	1	0	1	0	0	0
Saba Qom	1	0	1	0	0	0
Paykan Qods	1	0	1	0	0	0
Zob Ahan Isfahan	0	0	0	1	1	2
Foolad Khuzestan	0	0	0	1	1	2
Saipa Karaj	0	0	0	1	0	1
Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan Isfahan	0	0	0	1	0	1

Top scorers

Rahim Zahivi	2 (1 pen.)
12 players	1

Top cards

28 players	1 yellow card
1 assistant coach	1 red card

Fixtures Week 2

Sunday 31 July 2016
Padideh Mashhad – FC Mashhad
Zob Ahan Isfahan – Saipa Karaj
Paykan Qods – Saba Qom
Esteghlal Khuzestan – Esteghlal Tehran

Monday 1 August 2016
Mashinsazi Tabriz – Gostaresh Foolad Tabriz
Naft Tehran – Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan Isfahan
Persepolis Tehran – Foolad Khuzestan
Sanat Naft Abadan – Tractorsazi Tabriz