Esteghlal on 4 February 1972 Persepolis 6–0 Esteghlal on 7 September 1973 Persepolis 3–0 Esteghlal on 15 June 1986 Esteghlal 0–3 Persepolis on 11 July 1997 Persepolis 4–2 Esteghlal on 15 April 2016 Esteghlal Esteghlal 3–1 Persepolis on 22 August 1969 Esteghlal 3–1 Persepolis on 5 May 1975 Persepolis 0–3 Esteghlal on 8 May 1977 Persepolis 1–3 Esteghlal on 28 July 1995 Persepolis 0–3 Esteghlal on 9 December 2011 Goal scorers Players in Italic are still active in football. Players in bold are still active for Esteghlal or Persepolis. League = "Iranian League" or "Tehran Province League" ; Cup = "Hazfi Cup" ; Other = "Friendlies" or "Exhibitions" Hat-tricks A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order. Most successful coaches Players who played for both clubs Over the years, a number of players have played for both of the heavily supported clubs. Switching sides often angers fans, and players who have done so are heavily booed and mocked in and out of the stadium. When Mehdi Hasheminasab joined Esteghlal, Persepolis fans booed and swore at him so loudly that he covered his face with his hands to hide his tears. Esteghlal then Persepolis Ahmadreza Abedzadeh Reza Ahadi Ali Akbarian Javad Allahverdi Saeid Azizian Maysam Baou Shahrokh Bayani Cheick Diabaté Akbar Eftekhari Faraz Fatemi Gholamreza Fathabadi Parviz Ghelichkhani Farzad Hatami Meysam Hosseini Mahmoud Kalhor Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Dariush Mostafavi Amir Mousavinia Majid Namjoo-Motlagh Mehrdad Pouladi Mehdi Salehpour Davoud Seyed Abbasi Mehdi Seyed-Salehi Mehdi Shiri Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Persepolis then Esteghlal Ali Alizadeh Ali Ansarian Farzad Ashoubi Behzad Dadashzadeh Jacques Elong Elong Mohammad Ghazi Mehdi Hasheminasab Hossein Kanaanizadegan Godwin Mensha Mohammad Mohammadi Hawar Mulla Mohammed Mohammad Naderi Pejman Nouri Mehrdad Oladi Arman Ramezani Ebrahim Taghipour Referees IPL referees Other notable referees Markus Merk Kim Young-Joo Sándor Puhl Jamal Al Sharif Omer Al Mehannah Abdul Rahman Al-Zeid Rudolf Scheurer Jack Taylor Gallery See also List of Tehran Derby matches References The battle of Tehran FIFA "Football, blood and war" The Observer, 18 January 2004, accessed 11 October 2006 "The Red 'Victors' and the 'Independent' Blues" FIFA Magazine, 31 October 2002, accessed 11 October 2006 "59 بازی حاصل 37 سال رقابت سرخ و آبی" Fars News Agency, 8 March 2006, accessed 11 October 2006 "پرسپوليس ، استقلال از نگاه آمار" Aftab Yazd, 8 March 2006, accessed 11 October 2006 "در حاشيه ي