Saipa Tehran Volleyball Club (, ''Bâshgâh-e Vâlibâl-e Sâipâ-ye Tehrân'') (formerly known as Saipa Alborz) is an Iranian professional

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team based in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

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. They compete in the

Iranian Volleyball Super League The Iranian Volleyball Super League (IVSL) is a professional volleyball league in Iran at the top of the Iranian volleyball league system. It was founded in 1975 as the Pasargad Cup, but after the Iranian Revolution it was renamed to the first Div ...

. The team is owned by

SAIPA SAIPA (, ''SAIPA'') is an Iranian automaker headquartered in Tehran. The SAIPAC (an acronym for the French ''Société anonyme iranienne de production des automobiles Citroën'' lit. ''Iranian Limited Company for the Production of Citroën Autom ...

, an Iranian automobile manufacturer. Saipa VC is the

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.

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* 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.

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* 16. Mostafa Heydari * 17. Armin Ranjbar * 18.

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* 19.

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*Heach coach:

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*Assistant coach:

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Notable former players

* Evgeni Ivanov * Aleksandar Simeonov *

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Mehdi Mahdavi Mehdi Mahdavi (, born 13 February 1984) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former played as a setter for the Iran national team of the year 2007–2016.Saeid Marouf Mir Saeid Marouf Lakerani (; born 20 October 1985) is an Iranian volleyball setter. He was the captain of the Iranian national team. He was named best setter at the 2014 World League and 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic qualifying tournaments, as w ...

Farhad Nazari Afshar Farhad Nazari Afshar (, born 22 May 1984 in Tehran) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former plays as an outside hitter for the Men's National Team of the year 2009–2017. Nazari Afshar announced his retirement on Sunday in Osaka after 2017 ...

Mohammad Torkashvand Mohammad Torkashvand ( born 25 January 1979, in Kermanshah Kermanshah is a city in the Central District (Kermanshah County), Central District of Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, ...

Honors

* Iranian Super League :Runners-up (7):

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

:Third place (1):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

* Asian Club Championships :Runners-up (1):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

External links

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Official club website
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Roster
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