1986 FAJR INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

1986 Fajr International Cup
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)	Club
1	1 GK	Ahmad Sajjadi		Homa F.C.
	1 GK	Jalal Basharzad		Homa F.C.
	2 DF	Shahin Bayani	(1962-01-31)31 January 1962 (aged 24)	Esteghlal F.C.
	2 DF	Asghar Hajiloo	(1956-08-01)1 August 1956 (aged 29)	Esteghlal F.C.
	2 DF	Mohammad Panjali (c)	(1955-07-26)26 July 1955 (aged 30)	Persepolis F.C.
	2 DF	Hossein Mesgar-Saravi		Darya Babol F.C.
	2 DF	Morteza Fonounizadeh		Persepolis F.C.
	3 MF	Shahrokh Bayani		Esteghlal F.C.
	3 MF	Sirous Ghayeghran	(1962-01-22)22 January 1962 (aged 24)	Malavan F.C.
	3 MF	Mehran Najafi
	3 MF	Saeed Tahmatan		Bank Melli F.C.
	3 MF	Mahmoud Pazooki		Shahin F.C.
8	3 MF	Hamid Derakhshan	(1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 28)	Persepolis F.C.
	3 MF	Morteza Yekke		Esteghlal F.C.
	3 MF	Hamid Alidousti	(1956-01-01)1 January 1956 (aged 30)	Homa F.C.
	4 FW	Nasser Mohammadkhani	(1957-09-07)7 September 1957 (aged 28)	Persepolis F.C.
	4 FW	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)	Club
1	1 GK	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh	(1966-05-25)25 May 1966 (aged 19)	Tam Esfahan
	1 GK	Pirouz Jaghtapour		Nassaji Ghaemshahr
	2 DF	Hossein Ghavi Fekr
	2 DF	Mostafa Ardestani
	2 DF	Morteza Fonounizadeh		Persepolis FC
	2 DF	Mojtaba Holeh Kiyan
	2 DF	Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard	(1962-09-09)9 September 1962 (aged 23)	Persepolis FC
	3 MF	Behtash Fariba (c)	(1955-02-11)11 February 1955 (aged 31)	Esteghlal FC
	3 MF	Amir Ghalenoei	(1963-11-21)21 November 1963 (aged 22)	Shahin FC
	3 MF	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	(1967-05-13)13 May 1967 (aged 18)	Esteghlal FC
	3 MF	Mehdi Abtahi	(1963-03-02)2 March 1963 (aged 22)	Vahdat Tehran FC
	3 MF	Reza Taghavi
	3 MF	Mohammad Ali Nematzadeh
	4 FW	Saeed Sayyami		F.C. Aboomoslem
	4 FW	Hamid Reza Mansouri		Sepidrood Rasht F.C.
	4 FW	Farshad Pious	(1962-01-12)12 January 1962 (aged 24)	Persepolis FC
	4 FW	Karim Bavi	(1964-12-30)30 December 1964 (aged 21)	Shahin FC

Khuzestan XI

Head coach: Haj Rahim Safarian

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)
1 GK	Behzad Gholampour Shahani	(1963-02-02)2 February 1963 (aged 23)
1 GK	Karim Bostani
1 GK	Yaghoub Farisat (c)
2 DF	Parviz Marashian
2 DF	Mojtaba Yarali
2 DF	Saleh Moghimi
2 DF	Daryoosh Bakhtiarizadeh
2 DF	Mahmoud Baghalzadeh
2 DF	Siavash Bakhtiarizadeh
2 DF	Karim Marvani
3 MF	Majid Masanavi
3 MF	Seyed Hassan Seyed-Naameh
3 MF	Masoud Nowrouzi
3 MF	Rajabali Shahmoradi
3 MF	Manouchehr Vaziri
3 MF	Salman Saleh Tabar
4 FW	Jafar Delpasand
4 FW	Teymour Zebdeh
4 FW	Farzad Ahakpour

Pakistan

Head coach: Major Mohammad Younus Changazi

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
	1 GK	Mohammad Jahangir
	2 DF	Shaukat Mahmood Mufti (c)
	2 DF	Mukhtar Ali
	2 DF	Zafar Iqbal
	2 DF	Mohammad Shahzada
		Jamshed Rana
		Ejaz Ali
		Shah Wali
	3 MF	Abdul Majeed
	3 MF	Fida ur-Rahman
		Abdul Wahid
	4 FW	Wazeer Ali
		Mohammad Yacqoob
	3 MF	Zulfiqar Ahmed
	3 MF	Mahmood Anwar
	4 FW	Samuel Gul
	3 MF	Aga Saeed
		Arif Raza

Al-Fotuwa SC

Head coach: Anwar Abdelkader

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

Ghana

Head coach: Anthony Edusei

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1 GK	Ansah Issac		Asante Kotoko SC
1 GK	Abukari Damba	(1968-12-30)30 December 1968 (aged 17)	Real Tamale United
2 DF	Joseph Odoi (c)	(1968-09-23)23 September 1968 (aged 17)	Great Olympics
2 DF	Freeman Turkson		Accra Hearts of Oak SC
2 DF	Isaac Nana Eshun		Asante Kotoko SC
2 DF	Abdur Raouf Iddi		Asante Kotoko SC
2 DF	Phillip Tagoe
3 MF	Ebo Smith	(1965-12-31)31 December 1965 (aged 20)	Eleven Wise
3 MF	Henry Acquah	(1965-08-31)31 August 1965 (aged 20)	Hasaacas
3 MF	Ahmed Dauda		Real Tamale United
3 MF	Kwabena Asiedu		Great Olympics
3 MF	Olubode Williams
3 MF	Kwasi Bonsu		Great Olympics
3 MF	Abedi Pele	(1964-11-05)5 November 1964 (aged 21)	Real Tamale United
4 FW	Anthony Yeboah	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966 (aged 19)	Okwawu United
4 FW	Ibrahim Meriga		Okwawu United
4 FW	Asare Boateng		Asante Kotoko SC
4 FW	Ibrahim Mohammad		Cornerstones

Romania XI

Head coach: Gheorghe Staicu

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
	1 GK	Lucian Hristea
	1 GK	Zoltán Mártin Iașko	(1964-08-30)30 August 1964 (aged 21)	FC Universitatea Cluj
	1 GK	Răducanu Necula*	(1946-05-10)10 May 1946 (aged 39)	unattached
	2 DF	Niță Cireașă
6	2 DF	Marian Rada (c)	(1960-05-14)14 May 1960 (aged 25)	FC Rapid București
	2 DF	Baicu Lupu
	2 DF	Liviu Baicea
	2 DF	Cristian Pojar
5	2 DF	Florin Popicu
	3 MF	Pavel Badea	(1967-06-10)10 June 1967 (aged 18)	Universitatea Craiova
7	3 MF	Marcel Sabou	(1965-08-22)22 August 1965 (aged 20)	Dinamo Bucuresti
	3 MF	Iosif Rotariu	(1962-09-27)27 September 1962 (aged 23)	Politehnica Timișoara
	3 MF	Nicolae Nuță
	3 MF	Gheorghe Dumitrașcu	(1967-11-28)28 November 1967 (aged 18)	CS Târgoviste
	3 MF	Claudiu Bozeșan	(1966-07-24)24 July 1966 (aged 19)
9	4 FW	Ioan Cojocaru
	4 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

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1 GK	Janusz Jedinak
1 GK	Robert Sik
2 DF	Jacek Grembocki	(1965-03-10)10 March 1965 (aged 20)	Lechia Gdańsk
2 DF	Marek Piotrowicz	(1963-11-20)20 November 1963 (aged 22)
2 DF	Witold Wenclewski	(1964-04-04)4 April 1964 (aged 21)	ŁKS Łódź
2 DF	Andrzej Sikorski	(1957-02-03)3 February 1957 (aged 29)	Legia Warsaw
2 DF	Janusz Góra	(1963-07-08)8 July 1963 (aged 22)	Śląsk Wrocław
2 DF	Andrzej Slawgiuwoc
3 MF	Andrzej Rudy	(1965-10-15)15 October 1965 (aged 20)	Śląsk Wrocław
3 MF	Damian Lukasik	(1964-02-26)26 February 1964 (aged 21)
3 MF	Marek Chojnacki	(1959-12-06)6 December 1959 (aged 26)	ŁKS Łódź
3 MF	Wichilh Gorgon
3 MF	Mariusz Gurs
4 FW	Zbigniew Kaczmarek (c)	(1962-06-01)1 June 1962 (aged 23)	Legia Warsaw
4 FW	Marek Czakon	(1963-12-01)1 December 1963 (aged 22)	Olimpia Poznan
4 FW	Marek Leśniak	(1964-02-29)29 February 1964 (aged 21)	Pogoń Szczecin
4 FW	Krzysztof Warzycha	(1964-11-17)17 November 1964 (aged 21)	Ruch Chorzów
4 FW	Dariusz Marciniak	(1966-10-30)30 October 1966 (aged 19)	Śląsk Wrocław
4 FW	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

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	Semi-finals
Al-Fotuwa SC	3	1	0	2	1	9	−8	2
Pakistan	3	0	0	3	0	6	−6	0

Source: ^{[
citation needed]}

14 February 1986

Iran	5 – 0	Al-Fotuwa SC
Changiz 5', 55' Mohammadkhani 41', 68' Yekke 85'	Report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Manouchehr Nazari, (IRAN)

14 February 1986

Poland U21	3 – 0	Pakistan
Kaczmarek 11' Lesinak 60' Sikorski 88'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan (Tehran FA)

16 February 1986

Iran	2 – 0	Pakistan
Alidoosti 8' Changiz 16'	Report

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 20000

Referee: Jamshid Nikmehr (IRAN)

16 February 1986

Poland U21	4 – 0	Al-Fotuwa SC
Chojnacki 5', 18' Kaczmarek 14' Maciniak 57'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 15000

Referee: Mohammad Riahi (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Iran	0 – 0	Poland U21

Penalties
Bayani Derakhshan Najafi	3 – 1 Decider for top position in Group Table	Czakon

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 30000

Referee: Bahman Bahlouli (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Al-Fotuwa SC	1 – 0	Pakistan
Kharabah 32'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

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	semi-finals
Iran B	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	3
Khuzestan XI	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Source: ^{[
citation needed]}

13 February 1986

Romania XI	1 – 0^[5]	Iran B
Cojocaru 81'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 7000

Referee: Mohammad Salehi (Tehran FA)

15 February 1986

Iran B	3 – 0	Ghana
Sayyami 19', 29' Taghavi 60'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

15 February 1986

Romania XI	3 – 1	Khuzestan XI
Nuță 20' ( pen.) Sabou 32' Cojocaru 57'		Bakhtiarizadeh 73' ( pen.)

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 8000

Referee: Bahman Behlouli (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Iran B	0 – 0	Khuzestan XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Mehdi Abarnirooei (IRAN)

17 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania XI
Acquah 35'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 10000

Referee: Fereydoun Karamati (IRAN)

18 February 1986

Ghana	2 – 0	Khuzestan XI
Smith 1' Acquah 83'

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, Tehran

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

19 February 1986

Poland U21	3–1	Romania
Chojnacki 24' ( pen.) Warzycha 25' Czakon 83'		Nuță 35' ( pen.)

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 25000

Referee: Hadi Dezfouli (IRAN)

20 February 1986

Iran	2 – 0^[6]	Ghana
Alidoosti 10' Bayani 40' ( pen.)	report

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 35000

Referee: Hamid Khoshkhan(IRAN)

Third place match

21 February 1986

Ghana	1 – 0	Romania XI
Smith 87'

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

Referee: Jamshid Akhbari (IRAN)

Final

21 February 1986

Iran	2-2	Poland U21
Yekke 22', 107'		Czakon 39', 93'
Penalties
Derakhshan	1 – 3	Kaczmarek Czakon Warzycha

Azadi Stadium, Tehran

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

References

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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-19.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
^ "مربيان مکتب آبي".
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[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-05-19.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)

[4] "مربيان مکتب آبي".

[5] "Magiran | روزنامه اعتماد (1385/11/19): نسل دهم در آتش 5 حلقه تاریخی".

[6] "Magiran | روزنامه اعتماد (1385/11/26): خبرهای کوتاه".

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Participant teams

Squads