1971 Cyrus International Tournament

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The Cyrus International Tournament (Persian: تورنمنت بین المللی کورش) or simply Cyrus Cup (Persian: جام کورش) was a friendly football tournament held in Tehran, Iran between June 25 to July 4, 1971. As this tournament was held at the same year of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy celebrating the foundation of Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great the name Cyrus was given to the tournament.

1971 Cyrus International Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Iran
Dates	25 June – 4 July
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	? (in 1 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Iran (1st title)
Runners-up	Argeș Pitești
Third place	Turkey U23
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Top scorer(s)	Safar Iranpak

This tournament was won by Iran who also managed to qualify from Asia for the 1972 Olympic Games the following year.

Participant teams edit

The tournament's participants were from three confederations.

Iran	AFC
Zamalek SC	CAF
Morocco XI	CAF
Austria (Amateur)	UEFA
FC Zbrojovka Brno	UEFA
Netherlands (Amateur)	UEFA
Turkey U23	UEFA
Argeș Pitești	UEFA

Results edit

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iran	6	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5
Turkey U23	3	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
FC Zbrojovka Brno	2	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1
Netherlands (Amateur)	1	3	0	1	2	2	6	-4

June 25, 1971

Iran	3 – 0 (1-0)	Netherlands (Amateur)
Homayoun Behzadi 34' Safar Iranpak 59' Ali Jabbari 77'	[ Report]

June 25, 1971

Turkey U23	0-0^[1]	FC Zbrojovka Brno
	[ Report]

June 27, 1971

Iran	1 – 0 (1-0)	Turkey U23
Ali Jabbari 19'	[ Report]

June 27, 1971

Netherlands (Amateur)	1 – 1 (0-1)	FC Zbrojovka Brno
Frits Verheuvel 66'	[ Report]	Vítězslav Kotásek 14'

June 29, 1971

Iran	2 – 1 (1-1)	FC Zbrojovka Brno
Gholam Hossein Mazloomi 31' Safar Iranpak 79'	[ Report]	Zdeněk Konečný 38'

June 29, 1971

Netherlands (Amateur)	1 – 2 (0-1)	Turkey U23
Ab Gritter 56'	[ Report]	Haydar Tuncer ?' ?'

Group B edit

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Argeș Pitești	5	3	2	1	0	4	0	+4
Austria (Amateur)	4	3	2	0	1	4	6	-1
Zamalek SC	?	3	?	?	?	?	?	?
Morocco XI	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

June 26, 1971

Austria (Amateur)	0 – 3 (0-1)	Argeș Pitești
	[ Report]

June 26, 1971

Morocco XI	?-?	Zamalek SC
	[ Report]

June 28, 1971

Austria (Amateur)	3 – 2	Zamalek SC
J. Wallner 11' Siegmar Kreisern 15' Alois Hruby 19'	[ Report]

June 28, 1971

Argeș Pitești	0 – 0	Morocco XI
	[ Report]

June 30, 1971

Austria (Amateur)	1 – 0	Morocco XI
Ernst Knorrek ?'	[ Report]

June 30, 1971

Argeș Pitești	1-0	Zamalek SC
	[ Report]

Semi finals edit

July 2, 1971

Iran	3 – 1 (2-0)	Austria (Amateur)
Homayoun Behzadi 19' Safar Iranpak 27' Asghar Sharafi 56'	[ Report]

Referee:

July 2, 1971

Argeș Pitești	1 – 0	Turkey U23
	[ Report]

Referee:

Walter Eschweiler

Third Place edit

July 4, 1971

Turkey U23	2 – 1^[2]	Austria (Amateur)
	[ Report]

Final edit

July 4, 1971

Iran	1 – 0 (0-0)	Argeș Pitești
Safar Iranpak 56'	[ Report]

Top scorers edit

1. Safar Iranpak

Squads edit

Argeș Pitești edit

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Austria (Amateur) edit

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Iran edit

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Morocco XI edit

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Netherlands (Amateur) edit

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Turkey U23 edit

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Zamalek SC edit

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FC Zbrojovka Brno edit

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References edit

^ "Cyrus (Kourosh) Cup 1971 (Iran)".
^ "The Roon Ba-Cyrus the Great Cup (Teheran 1971)". 14 May 2013.

External links edit

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