Samad Marfavi

{{short description|Iranian football coach and former player (born 1964)}}

{{Infobox football biography

|name=Samad Marfavi

|image = 250px

|fullname=Abdolsamad Marfavi

|height = {{height|m=1.82}}

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|5|18}}

|birth_place = Khorramshahr,{{cite web|title=زندگینامه: عبدالصمد مرفاوی|url=http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/details/91879|website=همشهری آنلاین|date=3 October 2009 |quote=عبدالصمد مرفاوی سال ۱۳۴۳ در خرمشهر به دنیا آمد}} Iran

|currentclub = Iran U-20

|clubnumber =

|position = Striker

| youthyears1 = 1980–1983

| youthclubs1 = PAS FC

|nationalyears1 = 1986–1994

|nationalteam1= Iran

|nationalcaps1= 31 | nationalgoals1 = 11

| manageryears1 = 2000–2002

| manageryears2 = 2002–2003

| manageryears3 = 2003–2006

| manageryears4 = 2006–2007

| manageryears5 = 2007

| manageryears6 = 2007–2008

| manageryears7 = 2008–2009

| manageryears8 = 2009–2010

| manageryears9 = 2010–2011

| manageryears10 = 2012–2014

| manageryears11 = 2014–2015

| manageryears12 = 2016–2017

| manageryears13 = 2020

| manageryears14 = 2020–2021

| manageryears15 = 2022–

| managerclubs1 = Esteghlal (youth)

| managerclubs2 = Esteghlal Ahvaz (assistant)

| managerclubs3 = Esteghlal (assistant)

| managerclubs4 = Esteghlal

| managerclubs5 = Esteghlal (assistant)

| managerclubs6 = Esteghlal Ahvaz (assistant)

| managerclubs7 = Esteghlal (assistant)

| managerclubs8 = Esteghlal

| managerclubs9 = Mes Kerman

| managerclubs10 = Saba Qom

| managerclubs11 = Paykan

| managerclubs12 = Saba United

| managerclubs13 = Nassaji (Technical Director)

| managerclubs14 = Esteghlal (Technical Director)

| managerclubs15 = Iran U-20

}}

Abdolsamad Marfavi ({{langx|fa|عبدالصمد مرفاوی}}; born May 18, 1964, in Khorramshahr), better known as Samad Marfavi (Persian: {{lang|fa|صمد مرفاوی}}), is an Iranian football coach and former player.

Club career

He played the majority of his playing career for IPL giants Esteghlal.

International career

Marfavi debuted for the Iranian national team against Kuwait on February 27, 1987. He scored 11 goals in 31 appearances for Iran.

Managerial career

He was Esteghlal's assistant coach from 2003 until 2006 when he was replaced with Amir Ghalenoei who was appointed as the Iran national football team coach in August 2006 just one month before the season starts. He had a good season result till 27th week of the season and Esteghlal was in first place but the last three weeks of the season was a distastor for him where he only earned one point out of 3 home matches and finished fourth. He came back as the assistant coach of Nasser Hejazi next season but after the differences he left the club and returned the season after to help Amir Ghalenoei to win the league. After Amir Ghalenoei left the club for Sepahan, he was re-appointed as the head coach of Esteghlal in July 2009. On 18 May 2010, he extended his contract with Esteghlal for another season.http://www.persianleague.com/index.php/the-news/1-latest-news/5529-marfavi-extends-contract-with-esteghlal However, he would later resign from his position only a couple of days later.http://www.persianleague.com/index.php/the-news/1-latest-news/5534-marfavi-resigns-as-esteghlal-coach On 2 June 2010, he was appointed head coach of Mes Kerman and was resigned on 25 August 2011. He became head coach of Saba Qom on 25 September 2012 and signed a contract until end of the season. Before the start of 2013–14 season, it was announced that his contract will not renewed. On 11 November 2013, he was reappointed as Saba's head coach for a second time.

rowspan="2"\|Team !rowspan="2"\|From !rowspan="2"\|To !colspan="8"\|Record
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
G	W	D	L	Win %	GF	GA	+/-
Esteghlal \|align="left"\| 15 August 2006 \|align="left"\| 3 July 2007 \|30	14	10	6	45%	39	30	+9
Esteghlal \|align="left"\| 1 July 2009 \|align="left"\| 1 June 2010 \|43	20	13	10	46%	77	45	+32
Mes \|align="left"\| 2 June 2010 \|align="left"\| 25 August 2011 \|40	13	14	13	30%	46	41	+5
Saba \|align="left"\| 25 September 2012 \|align="left"\| 31 May 2013 \|28	7	14	7	25%	30	28	+2
Saba \|align="left"\| 11 November 2013 \|align="left"\| 26 November 2014 \|31	10	10	11	32%	31	35	–4
Paykan \|align="left"\| 27 November 2014 \|align="left"\| 1 July 2015 \|8	0	5	3	0%	5	9	–4
Saba \|align="left"\| 3 July 2016 \|align="left"\| 26 July 2017 \|31	8	10	13	25%	30	33	–3
colspan="3"\|Total ! 212	73	77	63	35%	257	220	+41

Honours

Gold Medal winner at 1990 Asian Games, as member of the Iran national football team.
Nominated for 1991 Asian Footballer of the year winning 16 votes losing to Yong-Hwan Chung who received 28 and Joo-Sung Kim who won the award with 31 votes.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iffhs.de/?3c0d847e4a952bd8153dca833c5fdcdc3bfcdc0aec28d6ecf8a70a|title=IFFHS Dashboard|date=10 April 2020 }}

References

External links

[http://www.teammelli.com/Players/StatsMarfavi.htm Samad Marfavi] at [http://www.teammelli.com/ TeamMelli.com]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061023174832/http://www.persianfootball.com/readstory.php?storyid=20060724385028542367 Marfavi takes over Esteghlal reins]

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