IRNA - SAIPA and Shamoushak grabbed their
double to win playoffs for the fourth Iran Pro League here Sunday.
Before over 2,000 spectators in Takhti stadium, the northern side Shamoushak
celebrated its 2-0 victory over Shahid Qandi of central city Yazd as Behrouz
Pak-Niyat took the lead in the 37th minute and Abdollah Shah-Hosseini netted
20 minutes after the restart.
Assisted by his two linesmen, Mohammad Pirouzram and Mohammad-Reza Fallah,
Fereydoun Esfahanian refereed the match.
Later, SAIPA handed San`at Naft of Abadan, southern Iran, a 2-0 defeat.
The two sides played an uneventful first half but SAIPA struck two in the
62nd and 75th minutes when Ali Karimi and Amir-Hossein Youssefi found the
back of the net.
Referee Mohsen torki and linesmen reza Sokhandan and Hassan Karbasforoush
judged the game.
The playoffs between the two first-division sides, Qandi and Naft, and
bottom-placed teams of the third Iran Pro League, Shamoushak and SAIPA, are
deciding for promotion of two other teams.
The fourth IPL has room for 16 teams -- two more than the previous edition.
Here below comes the program:
Tuesday, June 8
Shamoushak vs San`at Naft
Time: 15:45
SAIPA vs Shahid Qandi
Time: 17:45
