Parviz Mazloumi

Parviz Mazloomi (, born 16 September 1954) is a former Iranian footballer who is the team manager of the Esteghlal.

Parviz Mazloumi was born on 16 September 1954 in Abadan, Iran.

He had an older brother, Gholam Hossein Mazloumi who also was a well-known football player and played for both Esteghlal and Iran national football team.

He played for Esteghlal and Tractor Sazi in the 1970s and 1980s.

He also managed many clubs such as Saba Battery, Sanat Naft, Aboumoslem, Mes Kerman and Esteghlal.

As a player, he started his career playing at Tractor Sazi in 1975 where he scored nine goals during Takht Jamshid Cup.

He left the club behind later in 1978 signing Esteghlal where he stayed until his retirement in 1989.

He scored 72 goals for Esteghlal during those years.

Among his most notable goals, was the one scored against Persepolis in Tehran derby in 1983 which led Esteghlal to a 1–0 victory.

Gholam Hossein was also Esteghlal's head coach between 1988 and 1989.

In June 2000, he started his career as a coach going to Poora.

However, a year later, he moved back to home club, Esteghlal, to take over a position as an assissatnt manager working under Mansour Pourheidari, a job they both resigned from in less than a year time.

On 1 June 2002, Parviz Mazloumi became the head coach for the newly established Saba Battery where he managed to promote his team from 2nd Division to the Azadegan League becoming second at the end of the season, the job he was sacked from in May 2004.

In July 2005, Mazloumi received an offer heading to Sanat Naft Abadan.

He resigned on 19 July 2006.

He was also head coach of Iran B team in 2007 West Asian Football Federation Championship which won the title.

On 15 June 2007, he was appointed as head coach of Iran B national football team after team Iran refused to participate in 2007 West Asian Football Federation Championship and guided the team through to the title for the 3rd time in a row.

The team was disbanded after the tournament.

After management of B team, he coached Aboumoslem where he was appointed as the coach midway through the season and saved the club from relegation at the time and finished the season in mid table.

He was appointed as the head coach of Mes on 9 June 2008 replacing with Amir Ghalenoei and was promoted to ACL for the first time in club history and finished third in the league.

He was sacked after 17 weeks on 2 November 2009 because of the poor results in the league.

He was appointed as head coach of Esteghlal on 13 June 2010 after the resignation of Samad Marfavi two weeks previously.

He signed a two years contract with the club and was unveiled as the new manager on 15 June 2010 by Ali Fathollahzadeh, who returns to the club recently.

By the end of the transfer window, after the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he had brought eight new players to is new side: Javad Shirzad from Foolad, Farzad Ashoubi from Mes Kerman, Iman Mobali from Al-Nasr, Esmaeil Sharifat and Milad Meydavoudi from Esteghlal Ahvaz and three Brazilian player such as Anderson from FC Seoul.

Khosro Heydari and Fábio Januário was sold to Sepahan and Siavash Akbarpour was released.

His first game in charge was against Shahrdari Tabriz; Esteghlal won the match 3–2 with goals from Arash Borhani and Meydavoudi (2 goals).

Esteghlal defeated Foolad five days later in the first Mazloomi home game.

The following league games confirmed Mazloomi's statement, not losing in 12 weeks and defeated Sepahan and Persepolis.

Mazloomi's side defeated Persepolis another time in Tehran derby 1–0 with a goal from Arash Borhani.

These two wins helped Mazloumi to prove himself with Esteghlal's fans.

Esteghlal was eliminated in the group stage of 2011 AFC Champions League due to goal difference with group's runner up but was ended the season in the second place, three points behind of champions Sepahan.

They also eliminated in Semifinal of Hazfi Cup by Malavan.

In the pre-season transfer break, some Iranian stars joins Esteghlal to help the team winning a treble.

Mehdi Rahmati and Andranik Teymourian which was the league's expensive moves, Ferydoon Zandi, Karrar Jassim and Khosro Heydari.

Arash Borhani and Mojtaba Jabbari also extended their contract to be part of Mazloumi's "dream team".

They began the league with a 1–1 draw with defending champions Sepahan in their home, not defeated until week 6 against Tractor Sazi.

Esteghlal defeated their rivals, Persepolis for the third time in a row under Mazloumi with goals from Farhad Majidi and Jabbari.

This was also the first derby with more than a one-goal margin in over 10 years.

They also defeated Persepolis in Hazfi Cup 3-0 which Mazloumi brokes Mansour Pourheidari's record in winning derbies.

Match was tied 0–0 at the end of regulation time leading to overtime.