Isfahan giants Sepahan win Iran Pro League title
Sepahan Isfahan has once again topped Iran’s professional soccer league by claiming the fifth 2014-15 Persian Gulf Pro League title.
Sepahan beat Saipa Alborz 2-0 in the last station of the league on Friday to top the table with 59 points ahead of Traktorsazi Tabriz and Naft Tehran, who leveled on 58 points to stand second and third places, respectively, due to goal differences.
It was a dramatic night for Traktorsazi, the most popular team among Iranian Azeri population, which saw its 3-1 lead against Naft leveled in late minutes of the match, failing to clinch its first ever title in Iran’s top-flight football competition.
The three top teams along with Zob-Ahan, another outfit from Isfahan, were qualified for the 2015-16 Asian Champions League. Naft Masjid Soleyman and Peykan were directly relegated to Iran’s lower league, known as First Division, while Esteghlal Khuzestan, the 14th team in the table, would face Mes Sarcheshme in the play-off to fight for a place in the Pro League.
Esteghlal and Perspolis, two giants from the capital, Tehran, failed to reap anything this time around. The two teams, which finished 6th and 8th in the table, respectively, faced off earlier in the day with Perspolis winning the prestigious derby 1-0.
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