1986 Fajr International Tournament
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Iran |
| Dates | 13 February – 21 February |
| Teams | 8 (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 played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 37 (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 | GK | Ahmad Sajjadi | Homa F.C. | |||
| GK | Jalal Basharzad | Homa F.C. | ||||
| DF | Shahin Bayani | 31 January 1962 (aged 24) | Esteghlal F.C. | |||
| DF | Asghar Hajiloo | 1 August 1956 (aged 29) | Esteghlal F.C. | |||
| DF | Mohammad Panjali (c) | 26 July 1955 (aged 30) | Persepolis F.C. | |||
| DF | Hossein Mesgar-Saravi | Darya Babol F.C. | ||||
| DF | Morteza Fonounizadeh | Persepolis F.C. | ||||
| MF | Shahrokh Bayani | Esteghlal F.C. | ||||
| MF | Sirous Ghayeghran | 22 January 1962 (aged 24) | Malavan F.C. | |||
| MF | Mehran Najafi | |||||
| MF | Saeed Tahmatan | Bank Melli F.C. | ||||
| MF | Mahmoud Pazooki | Shahin F.C. | ||||
| 8 | MF | Hamid Derakhshan | 31 December 1957 (aged 28) | Persepolis F.C. | ||
| MF | Morteza Yekke | Esteghlal F.C. | ||||
| MF | Hamid Alidousti | 1 January 1956 (aged 30) | Homa F.C. | |||
| FW | Nasser Mohammadkhani | 7 September 1957 (aged 28) | Persepolis F.C. | |||
| FW | Abdolali Changiz | 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 | GK | Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh | 25 May 1966 (aged 19) | Tam Esfahan | ||
| GK | Pirouz Jaghtapour | Nassaji Ghaemshahr | ||||
| DF | Hossein Ghavi Fekr | |||||
| DF | Mostafa Ardestani | |||||
| DF | Morteza Fonounizadeh | Persepolis FC | ||||
| DF | Mojtaba Holeh Kiyan | |||||
| DF | Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard | 9 September 1962 (aged 23) | Persepolis FC | |||
| MF | Behtash Fariba (c) | 11 February 1955 (aged 31) | Esteghlal FC | |||
| MF | Amir Ghalenoei | 21 November 1963 (aged 22) | Shahin FC | |||
| MF | Majid Namjoo-Motlagh | 13 May 1967 (aged 18) | Esteghlal FC | |||
| MF | Mehdi Abtahi | 2 March 1963 (aged 22) | Vahdat Tehran FC | |||
| MF | Reza Taghavi | |||||
| MF | Mohammad Ali Nematzadeh | |||||
| FW | Saeed Sayyami | F.C. Aboomoslem | ||||
| FW | Hamid Reza Mansouri | Sepidrood Rasht F.C. | ||||
| FW | Farshad Pious | 12 January 1962 (aged 24) | Persepolis FC | |||
| FW | Karim Bavi | 30 December 1964 (aged 21) | Shahin FC |
Khuzestan XI
Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Behzad Gholampour Shahani | 2 February 1963 (aged 23) | ||||
| GK | Karim Bostani | |||||
| GK | Yaghoub Farisat (c) | |||||
| DF | Parviz Marashian | |||||
| DF | Mojtaba Yarali | |||||
| DF | Saleh Moghimi | |||||
| DF | Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh | |||||
| DF | Mahmoud Baghalzadeh | |||||
| DF | Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh | |||||
| DF | Karim Marvani | |||||
| MF | Majid Masanavi | |||||
| MF | Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh | |||||
| MF | Masoud Nowrouzi | |||||
| MF | Rajabali Shahmoradi | |||||
| MF | Manouchehr Vaziri | |||||
| MF | Salman Saleh Tabar | |||||
| FW | Jafar Delpasand | |||||
| FW | Teymour Zebdeh | |||||
| FW | Farzad Ahakpour |
Pakistan
Head coach: Younus Changezi
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Mohammad Jahangir | |||||
| GK | Jamshed Rana | 1 June 1965 (aged 20) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| DF | Shaukat Mufti (c) | |||||
| DF | Mukhtar Ali | 25 July 1962 (aged 23) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| DF | Zafar Iqbal | 3 February 1965 (aged 21) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| DF | Arbab Hayat Shahzada | |||||
| MF | Ejaz Ali | 5 November 1963 (aged 22) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| MF | Abdul Majeed | 12 November 1966 (aged 19) | ||||
| MF | Fida Ur Rehman | 27 April 1964 (aged 21) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| MF | Zulfiqar Ahmed | |||||
| MF | Agha Saeed | 7 October 1962 (aged 23) | KESC | |||
| MF | Abdul Wahid | 9 October 1965 (aged 20) | Pakistan Airlines | |||
| FW | Mahmood Anwar | Pakistan Airlines | ||||
| FW | Samuel Gill | |||||
| FW | Wazeer Ali | Pakistan Railways | ||||
| Shah Wali | ||||||
| Mohammad Yacqoob | ||||||
| Arif Raza |
Al-Fotuwa SC
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Nafih Abdelkader | al-Fotuwa SC | |||
| GK | Salah Matar | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| GK | Maher Faraj | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Mahmood Nufel | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Walid Awad | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Adnan Jassem | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Aamer Awad | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Adnan Lajalah | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Jamal Said | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Fawaz Habib | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| DF | Jamal Enveci | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Anwar Abdelkader(c) | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Nizar Yassin | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Hessam Yousef | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| MF | Aamer Sayyid Ali | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| FW | Adnan Kharabah | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| FW | Ahmed Askar | al-Fotuwa SC | ||||
| FW | Hessan Mousa | al-Fotuwa SC |
Ghana
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Ansah Issac | Asante Kotoko SC | ||||
| GK | Abukari Damba | 30 December 1968 (aged 17) | Real Tamale United | |||
| DF | Joseph Odoi (c) | 23 September 1968 (aged 17) | Great Olympics | |||
| DF | Freeman Turkson | Accra Hearts of Oak SC | ||||
| DF | Isaac Nana Eshun | Asante Kotoko SC | ||||
| DF | Abdur Raouf Iddi | Asante Kotoko SC | ||||
| DF | Phillip Tagoe | |||||
| MF | Ebo Smith | 31 December 1965 (aged 20) | Eleven Wise | |||
| MF | Henry Acquah | 31 August 1965 (aged 20) | Hasaacas | |||
| MF | Ahmed Dauda | Real Tamale United | ||||
| MF | Kwabena Asiedu | Great Olympics | ||||
| MF | Olubode Williams | |||||
| MF | Kwasi Bonsu | Great Olympics | ||||
| MF | Abedi Pele | 5 November 1964 (aged 21) | Real Tamale United | |||
| FW | Anthony Yeboah | 6 June 1966 (aged 19) | Okwawu United | |||
| FW | Ibrahim Meriga | Okwawu United | ||||
| FW | Asare Boateng | Asante Kotoko SC | ||||
| FW | Ibrahim Mohammad | Cornerstones |
Romania XI
Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Lucian Hristea | |||||
| GK | Zoltán Mártin Iașko | 30 August 1964 (aged 21) | FC Universitatea Cluj | |||
| GK | Răducanu Necula* | 10 May 1946 (aged 39) | unattached | |||
| DF | Niță Cireașă | |||||
| 6 | DF | Marian Rada (c) | 14 May 1960 (aged 25) | FC Rapid București | ||
| DF | Baicu Lupu | |||||
| DF | Liviu Baicea | |||||
| DF | Cristian Pojar | |||||
| 5 | DF | Florin Popicu | ||||
| MF | Pavel Badea | 10 June 1967 (aged 18) | Universitatea Craiova | |||
| 7 | MF | Marcel Sabou | 22 August 1965 (aged 20) | Dinamo Bucuresti | ||
| MF | Iosif Rotariu | 27 September 1962 (aged 23) | Politehnica Timișoara | |||
| MF | Nicolae Nuță | |||||
| MF | Gheorghe Dumitrașcu | 28 November 1967 (aged 18) | CS Târgoviste | |||
| MF | Claudiu Bozeșan | 24 July 1966 (aged 19) | ||||
| 9 | FW | Ioan Cojocaru | ||||
| FW | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Janusz Jedinak | |||||
| GK | Robert Sik | |||||
| DF | Jacek Grembocki | 10 March 1965 (aged 20) | Lechia Gdańsk | |||
| DF | Marek Piotrowicz | 20 November 1963 (aged 22) | ||||
| DF | Witold Wenclewski | 4 April 1964 (aged 21) | ŁKS Łódź | |||
| DF | Andrzej Sikorski | 3 February 1957 (aged 29) | Legia Warsaw | |||
| DF | Janusz Góra | 8 July 1963 (aged 22) | Śląsk Wrocław | |||
| DF | Andrzej Slawgiuwoc | |||||
| MF | Andrzej Rudy | 15 October 1965 (aged 20) | Śląsk Wrocław | |||
| MF | Damian Lukasik | 26 February 1964 (aged 21) | ||||
| MF | Marek Chojnacki | 6 December 1959 (aged 26) | ŁKS Łódź | |||
| MF | Wichilh Gorgon | |||||
| MF | Mariusz Gurs | |||||
| FW | Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c) | 1 June 1962 (aged 23) | Legia Warsaw | |||
| FW | Marek Czakon | 1 December 1963 (aged 22) | Olimpia Poznan | |||
| FW | Marek Leśniak | 29 February 1964 (aged 21) | Pogoń Szczecin | |||
| FW | Krzysztof Warzycha | 17 November 1964 (aged 21) | Ruch Chorzów | |||
| FW | Dariusz Marciniak | 30 October 1966 (aged 19) | Śląsk Wrocław | |||
| FW | Juliusz Kruszankin | 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 |
| Poland U21 | 3 – 0 | Pakistan |
|---|---|---|
| Kaczmarek 11' Lesinak 60' Sikorski 88' |
| Poland U21 | 4 – 0 | Al-Fotuwa SC |
|---|---|---|
| Chojnacki 5', 18' Kaczmarek 14' Maciniak 57' |
| Iran | 0 – 0 | Poland U21 |
|---|---|---|
| Penalties | ||
| Bayani Derakhshan Najafi |
3 – 1 Decider for top position in Group Table |
Czakon |
| Al-Fotuwa SC | 1 – 0 | Pakistan |
|---|---|---|
| Kharabah 32' |
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 XI | 1 – 0[5] | Iran B |
|---|---|---|
| Cojocaru 81' |
| Romania XI | 3 – 1 | Khuzestan XI |
|---|---|---|
| Nuță 20' (pen.) Sabou 32' Cojocaru 57' |
Bakhtiarizadeh 73' (pen.) |
| Iran B | 0 – 0 | Khuzestan XI |
|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 1 – 0 | Romania XI |
|---|---|---|
| Acquah 35' |
| Ghana | 2 – 0 | Khuzestan XI |
|---|---|---|
| Smith 1' Acquah 83' |
Referee: Mohammad Salehi (IRAN)
Knock-out stage
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 19 February | ||||||
| Poland U21 | 3 | |||||
| 2 February | ||||||
| Romania | 1 | |||||
| Iran | 2 (1) | |||||
| 20 February | ||||||
| Poland U21 (pen) | 2 (3) | |||||
| Iran | 2 | |||||
| Ghana | 0 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 21 February | ||||||
| Ghana | 1 | |||||
| Romania | 0 | |||||
Semifinals
Third place match
| Ghana | 1 – 0 | Romania XI |
|---|---|---|
| Smith 87' |
Referee: Jamshid Akhbari (IRAN)
Final
| Iran | 2-2 | Poland U21 |
|---|---|---|
| Yekke 22', 107' | Czakon 39', 93' | |
| Penalties | ||
| Derakhshan | 1 – 3 | Kaczmarek Czakon Warzycha |
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
- Abdolali Changiz
- Marek Chojnacki
- Marek Czakon
- Morteza Yeke
2 goals
- Henry Acquah
- Hamid Alidoosti
- Ioan Cojocaru
- Nuta Nicolae
- Zbigniew Kaczmarek
- Nasser Mohammadkhani
- Saeed Sayyami (IRAN B)
- Ebo Smith
1 goal
- Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh (Khuzestan XI)
- Shahrokh Bayani
- Adnan Kharabah
- Marek Lesinak
- Dariusz Maciniak
- Marcel Sabou
- Andrzej Sikorski
- Reza Taghavi (IRAN B)
- Krzysztof Warzycha
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