Sanat Mes Kerman F.C.

Mes
مس

Full name	Sanat Mes Kerman Football Club
Founded	2 March 1998
Ground	Shahid Bahonar Stadium
Capacity	15,430
Owner	NICIC
Chairman	Mohammadtaghi Amirikhorasani
Head Coach	Ali Samereh
League	Azadegan League
2023-24	Azadegan League 6th
Website	http://mes-fc.ir/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Mes Kerman Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال صنعت مس کرمان, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Sân't-e Mes Kârman) is an Iranian professional football team based in Kerman, Iran.

They were promoted to Iran's top league, the Iran Pro League, in the 2005–06 season. They won their only domestic double in 2006–2007 season. They were relegated in the 2013–14 season. The team is named after and sponsored by Kerman's copper industries (Persian: مس romanized: mes).

Mes Kerman F.C. is a football section of the multisport Sanat Mes Kerman Cultural and Athletic Club.

Mes Kerman Football Club was formed on 2 March 1998 by Kerman's copper industry. The national Iranian copper industry had already formed a football team in Rasfanjan a year prior. They started playing in Iran Football's 2nd Division and were promoted to the Azadegan League in 2000. Bijan Zolfagharnasab was appointed in 2000 as head coach of the club after the team was promoted to the Azadegan League.

They were promoted to the Azadegan League in 2000–01 season. In 2005–06 season under management of Nader Dastneshan, the club was promoted to the IPL for the 2006–07 season.

They started the league in 2007 with Farhad Kazemi but he was replaced by Amir Ghalenoei halfway through the season where they finished second in the second half of the season league. Parviz Mazloomi was appointed in 2008 as the head coach and the club was promoted to the AFC Champions League for the first time in their history by finishing third in the league. Mes surprisingly progressed to the last 16 and but got knocked out by fellow countrymen Zob Ahan. In that same season the club finished ninth in the league.

In the 2013–14 Iran Pro League season, Mes finished bottom of the league and were relegated to the Azadegan League with one matchday left. In the same season Mes reached the 2014 Hazfi Cup Final losing 1–0 to Tractor Sazi. On 27 April 2015 after a 0–0 draw against Aluminium Hormozgan, Mes Kerman secured a spot in the Persian Gulf Pro League promotion play-off. However, they lost to Esteghlal Khuzestan to miss the qualification. Riots ensued in the stadium afterwards as Mes fans set fires to the seats.

In March 2016 Mes Kerman coach Begovic was replaced with Akbar Misaghian.

The home kit includes an orange shirt, white shorts, and white or black socks. White and black colours are also seen in the kit. The away kit of the club is usually dominated with a white background.

The club currently plays its home games at Kerman's Bahonar Stadium, but the club announced plans to build its own football only stadium. Construction started on July 13, 2004, for the 15,000 capacity stadium.^[1]

The owner of the Mes Kerman FC is National Mes Company.

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2007–08	Merooj	Mahan Air
2008–09
2009–10
2010–11	Uhlsport	Yas Travel Agency
2011–12		Resalat Bank'
2012–13
2013–14	Technic

The table below chronicles the achievements of Mes kerman since 2001.

Season	Div.	Pos.	Hazfi Cup	Asian Cup
2001–02	Div 1	3rd	did not enter	did not qualify
2002–03	Div 1	14th
2003–04	Div 1	13th
2004–05	Div 1	5th
2005–06	Div 1	1st
2006–07	IPL	9th	1/18 Final
2007–08	IPL	10th	1/16 Final
2008–09	IPL	3rd	1/16 Final
2009–10	IPL	9th	Quarter Final	Round of 16
2010–11	IPL	7th	1/16 Final	did not qualify
2011–12	IPL	9th	Semi Final
2012–13	IPL	6th	1/16 Final
2013–14	IPL	16th	Final
2014–15	Div 1	2nd	3rd Round

Season	Competition	Round	Opponent	Home	Away	Aggregate
2010	AFC Champions League	Group D	Al-Ahli	4–2	2–1	2nd
			Al-Hilal	3–1	3–1
			Al-Sadd	3–1	4–1
		Round of 16	Zob Ahan	1–0

• Azadegan League:
  • Winners: 2005–06
  • Runners-Up (1): 2021–22
• 2nd Division:
  • Winners (1): 1999–00
  • Runners-Up (1): 1998–99
• Hazfi Cup:
  • Runners-Up (1): 2013–14

As of 20 October 2024^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  IRN Iman Sadeghi 2 DF  IRN Ebrahim Rezazadeh 5 DF  IRN Amirhossein Behzadi 6 DF  IRN Majid Behrouzi 7 DF  IRN Farzad Jafari 8 FW  IRN Alireza Rahmati 9 FW  IRN Morteza Aghakhan 10 FW  IRN Mohammad Ghaseminejad 11 FW  IRN Abbas Zeraatkar 12 GK  IRN Amirhossein Birjandi 13 GK  IRN Mir Rasoul Hosseini 17 FW  IRN Saeid Kheradmand 18 MF  IRN Aref Zeynali 20 FW  IRN Amirhossein Baniasad

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 GK  IRN Hamidreza Ghasemi 23 MF  IRN Moslem Mojadami 30 MF  IRN Vahid Namdari 35 DF  IRN Mohammadreza Amirzadeh 40 DF  IRN Ali Tahami 69 MF  IRN Mohammad Saleh Mohammadi 70 FW  IRN Iman Gholami 77 FW  IRN Abolfazl Nazari 79 FW  IRN Mohammadali Abadipishe 81 MF  IRN Rasoul Manochehri 84 MF  IRN Milad Gharibi 88 DF  IRN Amirhossein Asgari 99 MF  IRN Amirhossein Karimi

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2022.

For details on former players, see Category:Sanat Mes Kerman F.C. players.

Name	Nat	From	To
Bijan Zolfagharnasab		July 2000	July 2002
Mehdi Mohammadi		July 2002	Jan 2006
Nader Dastneshan		Jan 2006	Feb 2007
Farhad Kazemi		Feb 2007	Jan 2008
Amir Ghalenoei		Jan 2008	June 2008
Parviz Mazloomi		June 2008	Nov 2009
Mehdi Mohammadi *		Nov 2009	Dec 2009
Luka Bonačić		Dec 2009	June 2010
Samad Marfavi		July 2010	Aug 2011
Flemming Serritslev *		July 2011	Aug 2011
Miroslav Blažević		Aug 2011	Feb 2012
Ebrahim Ghasempour		Feb 2012	Jan 2013
Luka Bonačić		Jan 2013[3]	June 2013
Mahmoud Yavari		July 2013	Sept 2013
Parviz Mazloomi		Sept 2013	Jan 2014
Luka Bonačić		Jan 2014	Nov 2014
Akbar Misaghian		Nov 2014	June 2015
Vinko Begovic		June 2015	June 2016
Mansour Ebrahimzadeh		June 2016	July 2017
Darko Dražić		July 2017	June 2018
Nader Dastneshan		July 2018	Feb 2019
Farzad Hosseinkhani *		Feb 2019	Jul 2019
Mojtaba Hosseini		July 2019	Aug 2020
Reza Mohajeri		Aug 2020	June 2021
Farhad Kazemi		June 2021	Present

• * = Caretaker manager

Position	Name
Head coach	Akbar Mohammadi Argi
Assistant coach	Vahid Fazeli Iman Alemi
Goalkeeping coach	Abbas Mohammadi
Analyzer	Miaad Ghasemzadeh
Doctor
Team Director	Javad Yazdpour

Chairperson	Tenure
Mahmoud Mostaghimi	March 1998 – March 2000
Abdolreza Tajalli	March 2000 – January 2002
Abolhassan Mahdavi	January 2002 – March 2002
Akbar Iranmanesh	March 2002 – July 2003
Hamid Niknafs	July 2003 – July 2007
Abdolreza Borhaninezhad	July 2007 – November 2007
Ahmad Asadi	November 2007 – December 2007
Fathollah Nejadzamani	December 2007 – August 2011
Hamid Haj Esmaeli	August 2011 – September 2011
Akbar Iranmanesh	September 2011–Present

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sanat Mes Kerman FC.

• Official website (in Persian)
• Player statistics (archived 15 August 2014)