Bargh Shiraz
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| Full name | Bargh Shiraz Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Orange tulips (Persian: لاله های نارنجی) |
| Founded | 15 May 1946 |
| Ground | Bargh Shiraz Sport Complex Shiraz Iran |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Owner | Hadi Shirvani Shiri and Amir Arsalan Homayounfar |
| Chairman | Hadi Shirvani Shiri |
| Head Coach | Mehdi Shiri |
| League | 3rd Division |
| 2015–16 | 3rd Division Group C, 4th |
Bargh Shiraz Football Club (Persian: برق شيراز) is an Iranian football club based in Shiraz, Iran. The club is currently in the Iran Football's 3rd Division after they were relegated from Iran Football's 2nd Division due to financial problems. Its main sponsor is the municipal electrical company.
In 1946, a group of youngsters under the leadership of Ebrahim Nematollahi, who worked in the Cheragh Bargh (lightbulb) factory and loved football, decided to create a football club. The factory sponsored their team, but for the first few years the team always had financial problems. For a brief period the club was sponsored by the city council, but after a couple of years the team's current sponsor, Shiraz Electrical Company, came along.
Bargh Shiraz club is documented as the oldest Iranian football club that is still on the list of FIFA "active clubs" and one of the oldest football clubs in Asia. Esteghlal Tehran club was founded a few months earlier, but its football club was founded four years later than Bargh Shiraz football club.
Little if any record of corruption, collusion and darkness is available from 7 decades of activity of this football club, in Iranian leagues that face hundreds of collusion attempts each year; making this club representative of "fairplay" in Iran. In contrast, the club has been victimized by others in Iranian football; some examples over the last 15 years are listed below:
In 2001, Bargh Shiraz team was relegated from the first division to the second division. But for the first time in Iranian football history, the team was kept in the first division by the Iranian Football Federation because 22 points were unfairly taken from the team as a result of what was called "non-fair judgements". The number of teams in the first division was only 12 at that time.
Bargh Shiraz vs. Sepahan Isfahan 2004: In the mentioned match held in Isfahan, five clear offsides occurred in a period of half an hour with judges closing eyes to them. Finally one of them was charged against Sepahan F.C. Details of the misjudgement are available on the TV show 90. (Persian:برنامه نود).
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