Saipa Tehran VC

Saipa

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Full name	Saipa Tehran Volleyball Club
Short name	Saipa
Founded	1989; 31 years ago
Ground	Tehran
Chairman	Beitollah Rezaei
Manager	Nasser Shahnazi
League	Iranian Super League
2020–21	5th
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
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Saipa Tehran Volleyball Club (Persian: باشگاه والیبال سایپا تهران, Bâshgâh-e Vâlibâl-e Sâipâ-ye Tehrân) (formerly known as Saipa Alborz) is an Iranian professional volleyball team based in Tehran, Iran. They compete in the Iranian Volleyball Super League. The team is owned by SAIPA, an Iranian automobile manufacturer. Saipa VC is the volleyball club of the multisport Saipa Cultural and Athletic Corporation.

Names

• Saipa Tehran (1989–2009)
• Saipa Karaj (2009–2010)
• Saipa Alborz (2010–2015)
• Saipa Tehran (2015–)

Current squad

• 1. Konstantin Mitev
• 2. Moein Moeinifar
• 3. Hamid Amini
• 4. Rashid Yousefi
• 5. Mohammad Fallah
• 6. Asghar Najafi
• 8. Alireza Safaei
• 9. Mohammad Razipour
• 10. Mohammad Daliri
• 11. Rasoul Najafi
• 12. Saeid Javaheri
• 13. Hamed Tariverdi
• 14. Jaber Esmaeilpour
• 16. Mostafa Heydari
• 17. Armin Ranjbar
• 18. Amir Ali Fathali
• 19. Aleksandar Gorbatkov
• Heach coach: Farhad Nafarzadeh
• Assistant coach: Farshad Saeidi

Notable former players

• Evgeni Ivanov
• Aleksandar Simeonov
• Ángel Dennis
• Mehdi Mahdavi
• Saeid Marouf
• Farhad Nazari Afshar
• Mohammad Torkashvand

Honors

• Iranian Super League

Runners-up (7): 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2019

Third place (1): 2007

• Asian Club Championships

Runners-up (1): 2005

External links

• (in Persian) Official club website
• (in Persian) Roster