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Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club is an Iranian multisport club based in Tehran, Iran. Tehran has 2 Football clubs in Iran's Premier Football League. It was establish by Ali Abdo.

Contents 1 Chairmen 2 Divisions 2.1 Football 2.2 Taekwondo 2.3 Basketball 2.4 Futsal 2.5 Karate 2.6 Bowling 2.7 Volleyball 2.8 Handball 2.9 External links

[edit] Chairmen

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Chairman	Tenure	era
Ali Abdo †	December 1963–1972	Pahlavi Dynasty
Mostafa Makri †	1972–1979
Abbas Vakil	1980–	Prime Minister:Mohammad Ali Rajai President:Ali Khamenei
Abbas Golijani		Prime Minister:Mir-Hossein Mousavi President:Ali Khamenei
Tabatabaei
Abbas Ansarifard	1990–1993	President:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Amir Abedini	1993–2001	President:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani & Mohammad Khatami
Abbas Ansarifard	January 2001–October 2001	President:Mohammad Khatami
Ali Mirzaei	October 2001–2002
Ali Parvin	2002
Akbar Ghamkhar	August 2002–July 2004
Hojatollah Khatib	July 2004–December 2005
Mohammad Hassan Ansarifard	December 2005–June 2007	President:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Habib Kashani	June 2007–June 2008
Dariush Mostafavi	June 2008–January 2009
Abbas Ansarifard	January 2009-Present

[edit] Divisions

[edit] Football

Persepolis Football Club who play in Iran's Premier Football League. According to the AFC, Persepolis is Asia's number one supported club team. Only Dalian Shide and Al-Hilal have similar support in Asia.

[edit] Taekwondo

[edit] Basketball

They have recentley signed American - Iranian basketball player Dara Zarandi to a 3 year 11 million dollar contract.

[edit] Futsal

[edit] Karate

[edit] Bowling

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Handball

[edit] External links

• (Persian) Official club website