IPL Awards: The leagues best honoured for the 17/18 season

Tehran Times – TEHRAN, Vahid Amiri was honoured last night with the Best Player of the Year award after his sensational year with Persepolis in Iran Professional League (IPL).

The 30-year-old midfielder also represented Iran in three matches of Group B against Morocco, Spain and Portugal in the 2018 World Cup.

Amiri, who joined Turkey’s Trabzonspor on Saturday, helped Persepolis win IPL back-to-back titles.

List of winners:

*Persepolis was named the best team of the year after the Reds won the title with three weeks remaining.

*Branko Ivankovic was named as the best coach of the year after leading Persepolis to back-to-back title.

*Persepolis striker, Ali Alipour, took the best goalscorer of the year award with 19 goals.

*Persepolis captain Jalal Hosseini won the best defender of the year prize.

*Persepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand won the best goalkeeper of the year award.

*Omid Ebrahimi was chosen as the best midfielder of the year after an astonishing year with Esteghlal.

*Esteghlal midfielder Server Djeparov won the best assist provider of the year.

*Paykan defender Mehdi Shiri won the fair play award of the year.

*Bijan Heydari was named the best referee of the year.