1982 Vahdat International Cup

Vahdat International Cup (Persian: جام بین المللی وحدت) was an international football tournament hosted by Iran that was played at Tehran in February 1982. This tournament's participants were teams from Iran and friend countries such as Algeria, Syria and Libya. Eight teams from four countries (Iran, Syria, Algeria, and Libya) participated, with Iran having five teams and the other three nations having one each. The Iranian teams and the Syria Army XI belonged to AFC, with Algeria Army XI and Libya Army XI belonging to CAF. The games were all played at one venue, the Shahid Shiroudi Stadium, with a capacity of 30,000 at the time.

1982 Vahdat International Tournament

Vahdat Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	? February – 27 February
Teams	8 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Persepolis (1st title)
Runners-up	Algeria Army XI
Third place	Malavan

Participants

Eight teams participated in this tournament:^[1][2]

Persepolis	AFC
Esteghlal	AFC
Malavan	AFC
Iran U23	AFC
Iran Army XI	AFC
Syria Army XI	AFC
Algeria Army XI	CAF
Libya Army XI	CAF

Venue

Tehran
Shahid Shiroudi Stadium
Capacity: 30,000

Results

Known results are as follows:^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Group stage

Group 1

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Algeria Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Syria Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Iran U23	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Esteghlal	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?

Group 2

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Persepolis	5	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3
Malavan	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Iran Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Libya Army XI	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?

Persepolis	4-2	Libya Army XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Persepolis	1-0	Iran Army XI

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Persepolis	0-0	Malavan

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

Semi finals

Persepolis	1-0	Syria Army XI

February 22, 1982^[8]

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

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Algeria Army XI	? (won in penalties)	Malavan

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

Third-place match

There was no third place match, however Malavan earned third rank^[9] among all participants.

Final

Persepolis	1-0 (AET)	Algeria Army XI
Javad Hassanzadeh 119+'[10]

February 27, 1982

Shahid Shiroudi Stadium

Attendance: 25,000

Squads

Persepolis

Persepolis squad was short of several national team and national army team players such as Mohammad Mayeli Kohan, Nasser Mohammadkhani, Abbas Kargar, Ebrahim Kian Tahmasebi, Behrouz Soltani, Mohammad Panjali and Gholamreza Fathabadi. Several players from youth team took part in this tournament.^[11]

Head coach: Ali Parvin

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
	1GK	Vahid Ghelich	(1957-12-16)16 December 1957 (aged 24)		Persepolis F.C.
2	2DF	Hossein Kashinejad			Persepolis F.C.
3	2DF	Kazem Seyed Alikhani	(1954-07-13)13 July 1954 (aged 27)		Persepolis F.C.
6	3MF	Ali Parvin(c)	(1947-09-25)25 September 1947 (aged 34)		Persepolis F.C.
7	3MF	Rouhollah Ebadzadeh			Persepolis F.C.
8	3MF	Hamid Derakhshan	(1957-12-31)31 December 1957 (aged 24)		Persepolis F.C.
9	3MF	Zia Arabshahi	(1958-06-06)6 June 1958 (aged 23)		Persepolis F.C.
10	4FW	Nasser Nouraei	(1954-06-16)16 June 1954 (aged 27)		Persepolis F.C.
12		Mahmoud Pazooki			Persepolis F.C.
		Reza Riyazati			Persepolis F.C.
		Mehdi Ghaffari			Persepolis F.C.
		Mehdi Torabi			Persepolis F.C.
13	3MF	Majid Sabzi			Persepolis F.C.
14	4FW	Fariborz Moradi	(1964-04-11)11 April 1964 (aged 17)		Persepolis F.C.
17		Javad Hassanzadeh			Persepolis F.C.

Esteghlal

Main article: Esteghlal F.C.

Malavan

Main article: Malavan F.C.

Iran U23

Main article: Iran national under-23 football team

Iran Army XI

Syria Army XI

Algeria Army XI

Libya Army XI