Rayka Babol
رایکا بابل

Full name	Football Club Rayka Babol
Nickname(s)	Rikahay Babol (Boys of Babol) Shirhaye Babol (Lions of Babol)
Founded	1 January 2013 as Khooneh be Khooneh Babol
Dissolved	2022
Ground	Haft-e Tir Stadium
Capacity	10,000
Owner	Peyman Moniri Ali Akbar Jafarnezhad
Chairman	saman hashemi
Manager	Pirouz Ghorbani
League	Azadegan League
2020–21	Azadegan League, 12th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Rayka Babol Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال رایکا بابل, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Raika Babol) is an Iranian football based in Babol, Mazandaran.^[1][2]

History

In 2013, Mazani chain store company from Babol, Khooneh Be Khooneh bought Bahman's certificate to take part in 3rd Division Football League. Previously, Khooneh Be Khooneh had successful experiences with their team in wrestling. With Farshad Pious as their manager they got their first promotion in their first season.^[3]

After appointing Hamid Derakhshan midway through the season as manager in their first season at second tier of Iranian football, the team went on a disastrous run and missed out on promotion. However at the end of the season, Alireza Marzban the coach of Azadegan League champions Paykan announced he had taken over as manager.^[4] In 2016–17 season following high hopes with Marzban as the coach, after suffering from some weak results, specially their 3-0 defeat against their rival Baadraan, club and manager decided to take separate ways from about middle of the season. Then Levon Stepanyan and Alireza Emamifar took over and co-managed the team against Pars Jonoubi Jam and Sepidrood as caretakers.^[5] After a little while Nader Dastneshan managed the team for the rest of the season and failed to promote to upper division.^[6]

In 2017-18, they chose former national team captain and assistant manager Javad Nekounam as their manager. Being under Carlos Queiroz for a few months, Nekounam started his first season as manager with brilliant vision and strong ideas. He got great results with the team in the league and led them to the Hazfi Cup semi-final.^[7][8] Just after losing the first game of his season with Khooneh Be Khooneh, he resigned from his position and soon after losing his second game of the season he left the club. He later signed for the other Mazani club Nassaji and later led them into the Persian Gulf Pro League after 24 years out of it.^[9][10] Later the club replaced Nekounam with Croatian coach Dragan Skočić. Although Skočić got great results with the team and even went on an unbeaten streak for 11 games and also led the team to the Hazfi Cup final, he failed to promote the team in the last week because of goal difference and with Nassaji in the table after Nassaji crushed Rah Ahan 6-0 in Tehran.^[11][12]

Honours

Season-by-season

The table below shows the achievements of the club in various competitions.

Notes

• ^R buy the right to play in Azadegan League from Bahman Shiraz.

First-team squad

As of December 17, 2020^[13]
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 Saeed Ebrahimpoor 4 DF  IRN Javad Shafiei 3 DF  IRN Shahin Abbasian 13 FW  IRN Mehrdad Ghaseminezhad 7 MF  IRN Saeed Heydari 9 MF  IRN Hossein Rasuli 6 MF  IRN Amin Rezaei 22 GK  IRN Abolfazl Darbishvand 78 FW  IRN Hoomaan Asadi

No. Pos. Nation Player 77 DF  IRN Reza Nabizadeh 17 FW  IRN Mohammad Shadkam 11 FW  IRN Ali Khosronezhad 8 DF  IRN Hadi Kheyri 12 GK  IRN Sohrab Polgardani 67 MF  IRN Sayad Kokabi 70 DF  IRN Amir Hossein Nadem 10 MF  IRN Mohammad Razipoor 97 FW  IRN Meysam Karimi

Current managerial staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Pirouz Ghorbani
Assistant coach	Ali Ashourizad
Assistant coach	Mehran Barzegar
Fitness coach
Goalkeeper coach	Hamid Sajjadi
Team manager	Ebrahim Mahmoudi

Managerial history

As of 2 May 2018.

Seasons Manager Nationality 2012–2013 Mohammad Ghorbanian 2013–2014 Farshad Pious 2014 Morteza Kermani Moghaddam * 2014–2015 Farhad Kazemi 2015–2016 Akbar Misaghian 2016 Hamid Derakhshan 2016 Hossein Rahmani * 2016–2017 Alireza Marzban 2017 Levon Stepanyan * Alireza Emamifar * 2017 Nader Dastneshan

Seasons Manager Nationality 2017 Hossein Rahmani * 2017–2018 Javad Nekounam 2018 Dragan Skočić 2018 Ali Nazarmohammadi 2018–2019 Akbar Misaghian 2019 Mehran Najafi 2019 Hossein Mesgar Saravi 2019 Hadi Shakouri 2019 Ali Nazarmohammadi 2019–2020 Rahman Rezaei 2020 Ali Nazarmohammadi 2020–2021 Nader Dastneshan 2021– Pirouz Ghorbani

References