Navad

Navad
Created by	Adel Ferdosipour
Presented by	Bahador Amiri , Hamed Rastgoo , Nima Tajik , Mohammadhosein Misaghi , Pedram Arab , Reza Younesian , Mohammadhosein Ayoubian , Behzad Mokhtari , Navid Ostadrahimi
Opening theme	Introduction
Ending theme	Iran Pro League & Azadegan League Weekly Highlight
Country of origin	Iran
Original language(s)	Persian
No. of seasons	17
No. of episodes	415
Production
Producer(s)	(Reporters) : Bahador Amiri , Hamed Rastgoo , Nima Tajik , Mohammadhosein Misaghi , Pedram Arab , Reza Younesian , Mohammadhosein Ayoubian , Behzad Mokhtari , Navid Ostadrahimi
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Mondays night and Sometimes Thursdays night (180 min)
Release
Original network	Channel 3
Original release	14 August 1999[1] – present
External links
Website

Navad (Persian: نود‎‎, meaning ninety - 90 min.) is an Iranian, Persian language, popular weekly television program broadcast by Channel 3 in Iran. The host of the program is Adel Ferdosipour. The main subject of the program is the football matches played in the Persian Gulf Pro League every week.

Every episode has two guests, one who analyzes the technical aspects of the matches, and the other discusses the referee's decisions and errors. On some shows, famous football players are invited and interviewed as well. (Analyzor has currently replaced by an analyze segment) Navad show contains segments like "With the Legionnaires" (reporting on the Iranian footballers playing abroad), "Navad News" (the latest news about football in Iran) and polls (sometimes prediction of the upcoming matches) which could be contributed via SMS or Navad official app on iOS and Android.

Since 1 January 2009, extraordinary activities on this program (mainly criticizing the football federation openly) there has been rumors of politics getting directly involved in the program, forcing the reporter to encourage or discourage certain subjects and putting limits on how far a discussion can go. Although not being officially covered by the mass media, several caricaturists have drawn controversial cartoons about this program which were published on blogs and certain magazines.

Since 2015-16 series, the analyze team of the program, scores the players of Persian Gulf Pro League each week and overall, on the style of Kicker, from 1.00 (best) to 6.00 (worst).^[2]

Starting 2016-17 series, Navad website launched a football manager online game using live stats of the players contributing in the Iran Pro League, entitled Football Fantasy.^[3]

External links

• (Persian) Official Website
• (English) Full Archive of 'Navad'