() was an
Iran ian
Football club based in
Tehran ,
Iran .
Pas F.C. was the
Football club of the
Multisport Pas Cultural And Sport Club .
The club has a long and rich history and has always been associated with Iranian police, receiving most of its funding from that branch.
In recent years the football club has shown itself to be a contender, thanks to increased funding and support from the team board.
The team played its matches in
Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium . On
June 9 ,
2007 , Pas Tehran was officially dissolved. Their right to participate in the Persian Gulf Cup was given to a newly formed team called
PAS Hamedan F.C. .
In
1953 a number of police officers along with
Captain Assadolahi came together to better organize the sports situation for police in Iran. That same year Assadolahi with only one
Football and limited resources assembled a team including himself and officers from the local police academy in Tehran. They established the ''Police Academy Cadets'' team. They have their first practice ever at the football field which belongs to the Tehran police academy and in that same year, they officially announce the establishment of the club and participate in the Championship Games of the Armed Forces. They finished second in the football tournament. Soon after, Captain Sadeghi with the help of Captain Assadolahi becomes responsible for the team's operations, and the club becomes known as ''Shahrbani F.C.''. The team's coach at the time was Bahman Shahidi. On
July 8 ,
1963 , ''Shahrbani F.C.'' officially registerd itself as a sporting club, giving itself its modern day name, Pas. The club statute was also officially accepted by the club council in 1966. After twelve years of uncertainty, the club was finally ready to begin its work.
At the time of the club's establishment, the stadium complex in Ekbatan (a neighbourhood in Tehran), belonged to the ''Charity Department''. The department made the complex available for ninety-nine year loan period. Captain Sadeghi accepted the conditions and rented the field for a ninety-nine year period at a price of 20,000
Toman . In
1971 the Ekbatan complex's boundaries were established and the proposal to buy the land was accepted by the club council. Thanks to Captain Sadeghi's love for the club, the club was able to have one of the key elements necessary for professional football. To this day Pas is one of only a number of clubs in Iran, which has its own private stadium and practice fields.
Pas' first official match took place versus ''Koroush F.C.'' in , Rasouli, Yazdanian, Meiarian,
Mahmoud Yavari ,
Homayoun Shahrokhi , Yinehvarzan and Parviz Mirza Hassan. The final result was a 1-1 tie. Some of the above players such as Habibi, Mohajerani, Shahrokhi and Yavari are still involved in Iranian football.
The Takht Jamshid Cup, was Iran's first ever nationwide football league and Pas entered the league in its first year of establishment in
1972 . Prior to this Pas had won two local Tehran league championships in
1967 and
1968 . The first couple of years in the Takht Jamshid Cup did not come with great results for Pas, but that changed when former Pas player, Hassan Habibi, became the club's manager. Under his guidance Pas won back-to-back championships in
1976 and
1977 . Their team could have possibly won a third consecutive championship, but the league was cancelled and eventually folded with the arrival of the
Iranian Revolution .
The eighties were a quiet and difficult time for Iranian football, as the
Iran-Iraq War had changed the nation's priorities. Pas did not do much in these times except for participation in some minor local tournaments. After the war the Azadegan League was established and Pas came back onto the Iranian football scene in a big way. They won the inaugural season of the 1991-92 Azadegan League and were allowed to participate in the 1992-93
Asian Club Championship .
They beat
Qatar i club,
Al Arabi in the first round, with a 4-3 aggregate score. They were then placed in group B, finishing second there, despite very poor results. In the semi-finals, which took place in
Bahrain , they went up against a powerful Japanese side
Yomiuri . They defeated the team in extra-time by a score of 2-1. Pas was now in the final, where they would meet
Saudi club,
Al-Shabab . On
January 22 ,
1993 , in
Manama , Bahrain; Pas Tehran defeated Al-Shabab 1-0, becoming Asian champions. What made the feat even more amazing was that most of Pas' players were paid amateur level salaries, they stayed at a very poor hotel, and arrived very late to Bahrain. The chances of the team doing well in the tournament was considered so small that the
Iranian Football Federation didn't even bother to send a representative.
Firouz Karimi continued to manage the team and he led the team to another Azadegan League championship in the 1992-93 season. Once again Pas was allowed to participate in the Asian Club Championship, but were surprisingly knocked out in the first round by
Lebanese club,
Al-Ansar .
Afterwards the club became a mediocre one, finishing in the middle of the table, for most of the following seasons. All that changed again though, when in the
2003-04 season of the
IPL , Pas was able to win the championship with head coach
Majid Jalali . They had a poor beginning to the
2004-05 season and replaced Jalali with
Mustafa Denizli , but he was not able to make much of a difference.
The club was stopped at the quarter-finals stage in the
Asian Champions League despite being ahead 3-0 in the second leg of that stage in Tehran, ultimately falling apart and losing on aggregate, 4-4. They finished 6th in that season. They almost won the
2005-06 season, but finished second to champions
Esteghlal F.C. .
The table below chronicles the achievements of Pas in various competitions.
- Ferydoon Sadeghi
- Karim Mallahi
- Nasser Shafagh
- Mostafa Ajorloo (November 2000- June 2006)
- Hashem Ghiasi (July 2006-Present)
