The 2001 AK Pipe International Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in

Mashhad Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...

, Iran. The tournament was sponsored by
Aria Kavan Trading & Production Group
Revenues generated from ticket sales for this tournament went towards refugees from war torn Afghanistan. Köpetdag Aşgabat fielded two Iranian footballers in the game against

Aboomoslem Football Club Aboomoslem Khorasan ( fa, باشگاه فوتبال ابومسلم خراسان, ''Bashgah-e Futbal-e Abumislâm-e Xerasan''), commonly known as Aboomoslem, is an Iranian football club based in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, that compet ...

, the two were Ali Khosravi and Mehdi Khazaei.

Participant teams

Initially this tournament was going to be held in August 2001 and the four participants were going to be Persepolis F.C., Partsazan Khorasan, Köpetdag Aşgabat and AK Pipe Mashhad. However Persepolis F.C. decided not to take part in the tournament due to several players' injuries. The tournament was postponed to October and the participants were as follow:

Semifinals

Third place Match

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

Cards

Champion

References

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