Establishment

Bahman Salehnia created the team in 1968 along with some young athletes from the port city of Anzali. After some time, the Iranian Navy decided to become the team's main sponsor and owner.

Early years

The club never really had great success in the league but they were able to become the best non-Tehran based club and finishing third in the 1977 and 1989. Malavan has won the Hazfi Cup on 3 occasions. In 1986 Malavan participated in Asian Club Championship but after beating Saunders SC in first round they withdrew from tournament due to the Iran–Iraq War.

Iran Pro League

In 2003 Malavan was relegated to the Azadegan League, they only stayed one year in the lower league as they were immediately promoted back to the Iran Pro League. Since then, they have been one of the most stable teams of the league in recent years where they only had few coaches during their history and always finished in mid table and challenge the big teams. They finished 12th in the 2008–09 and 2009–10 season. In 2010–11 season they finished 8th and reached the final of Hazfi Cup but lost to Persepolis. In the 2013–14 Iran Pro League season Malavan achieved a surprising 7th-place finish in the league, their highest ever.

Relegation

In July 2015 Malavan hired famous Iranian coach Amir Ghalenoi who had won several league titles with Esteghlal and Sepahan. Player such as Arash Afshin, Hossein Mahini and Shahab Karami joined the squad to serve their conscription period. In Ghalenoi's first game in charge, Malavan defeated the Hazfi Cup holders, Zob Ahan 1–0. After only three games Ghalenoi left the club and was replaced by former Persepolis manager Hamid Estili.

On 13 May 2016 after a 2–0 loss to Siah Jamegan, who were behind Malavan before the match started, the clubs was relegated to the Azadegan League for the second time in their history.

Before the start of the 2016–17 season it was announced that controversial manager Mohammad Mayeli Kohan had been named Malavan's manager. Despite achieving good results and being in or near a promotion spot the entire season, Mayeli Kohan was involved in several confrontations with the supporters, which led to many supporters boycotting the team's games.

Top scorers

Top scorers of the club in the Iran Pro League era, bold indicates present player.

Player	Goals	Years
Jalal Rafkhaei	68	2005–10, 2011–16
Mohammad Nozhati	23	2004–05, 2007–13
Mehrdad Oladi	20	2009–11, 2012–13, 2014
Pejman Nouri	18	2001–03, 2009–11, 2012–13, 2014–16
Mehdi Daghagheleh	16	2010–12, 2013–14

National titles

• Azadegan League
  • Winners (1): 2021–22
  • Runner-up (1): 2003–04
• Hazfi Cup
  • Winners (3): 1975–76, 1986–87, 1990–91
  • Runner-up (4): 1987–88, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2010–11

Minor titles

• Vahdat Cup
  • Third place (1): 1982
• RCD Cup
  • Runner-up (1): 1974

Presidents

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Current coaching staff

Source:^[4]

Position	Name
Head coach	Mehdi Tartar
Assistant coach	Eurico Pinhal
Goalkeeping coach	Mohammad Ali Hassani Sefat
Doctor	Babak Sayyad
Technical director	Ghafour Jahani
Team manager	Hossein Gholami

Head coaches

Below is a list of Malavan coaches from 1968 until the present day. Firouz Karimi carries the honor of being the first Iranian head coach to assume the title without rising from the Malavan football school.

Name	Nationality	Years
Bahman Salehnia		20 May 1968 – 5 February 1997
Nosrat Irandoost		5 February 1997 – 15 December 2000
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh		15 Dec 2000 – 2 July 2002
Bahman Salehnia		15 May 2002 – 2 July 2004
Nosrat Irandoost		2 July 2004 – 5 July 2006
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh		5 July 2006 – 1 January 2010
Farhad Pourgholami		1 January 2010 – 29 September 2012
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh		29 September 2012 – 28 May 2013
Dragan Skočić		28 May 2013 – 1 June 2014
Nosrat Irandoost		1 June 2014 – 8 October 2014
Stevan Mojsilović		8 October 2014 – 5 December 2014
Firouz Karimi		6 December 2014 – 1 June 2015
Hamid Estili		10 August 2015 – 20 February 2016
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh		1 March 2016 – 15 July 2016
Mohammad Mayeli Kohan		22 July 2016 – 27 May 2017
Nader Dastneshan		28 May 2017 – 1 June 2018
Farhad Pourgholami		1 June 2018 – 28 October 2018
Mohammad Ahmadzadeh		31 October 2018 – 7 June 2020
Akbar Misaghian		7 June 2020 – 1 September 2020
Maziar Zare		1 September 2020 – 18 may 2023
Mehdi Tartar		26 June 2023 – present

First-team squad

As of 10 August 2023^[5]

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 Afshar Sedaghat 2 DF  IRN Majid Eidi 3 DF  IRN Abdollah Hosseini 4 DF  IRN pedram ghazipur 5 MF  IRN Amin Pourali 6 MF  IRN Akbar Imani 7 FW  IRN Sajjad Bazgir 8 MF  IRN Reza Jafari 9 MF  IRN Peyman Ranjbari 10 MF  IRN Milad Shabanlou 11 FW  IRN Arsalan TafazzoliU25 14 DF  IRN Mostafa Naeijpour 16 MF  IRN Mohammad Reza BordbarU19 17 MF  IRN Omid NafezU23 18 MF  IRN Mahmoud Motlaghzadeh 19 FW  IRN Pedram Ghazipour

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  IRN Mohsen AlafiU21 21 MF  IRN Amirhossein YahyazadehU25 22 GK  IRN Afshar SedaghatU23 23 MF  IRN Parham MovaghariU23 25 MF  IRN Mohammad Sadegh Barani 27 MF  IRN Milad Jahani 37 FW  IRN Soheil FadakarU25 40 DF  IRN Mohammad Hossein RanjbarU21 56 DF  IRN Parham Sayyad Borhani 70 MF  IRN Mehdi Momeni 73 DF  IRN Sobhan Pasandideh 77 MF  IRN Morteza EslamiU23 88 MF  IRN Mehran AhmadiU25 99 MF  IRN Mohammad GhaderiU23

Loan list

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

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