Mohammadmehdi Mohebi’s 58th-minute strike earned Persepolis three points against Nassaji Mazandaran and consolidated their pole position in the Iran Pro League. 

 

Mobarakeh Sepahan SC kept pace with the leaders with a 2-1 win over Kheybar Khorramabad, with the top two sides level on 23 points after 11 fixtures.

 

Defending champions Tractor are three points behind Persepolis but have two matches in hand.

 

Foolad’s Abolfazl Razzaghpour gave his side the win with a 21st-minute goal against Aluminium Arak, with the former one point adrift of the leaders. 

 

Goals by Hojjat Ahmadi (19th, 65th) and Farid Amiri (44th) saw Peykan beat Mes Shahr Babak 3-1, with Fariborz Gerami netting a consolation three minutes into injury time. 

 

Elsewhere, Chadormalu beat Malavan 2-1 and Zob Ahan and Esteghlal Khozestan closed with a goalless result.

Pakhtakor moved within two points of Neftchi Fergana after a 1-0 win over Khorezm Urgench in the Uzbekistan Super League.

 

Mukhammad-Bobur Karimov netted in the 88th minute for second-placed Pakhtakor, who are on 56 points but have played a game more than the reigning titleholders. 

 

Urgench had earlier lost 2-1 to Navbahor Namangan, who went on to draw 1-1 with PFC Andijon. 

 

PFC Nasaf stretched their unbeaten run to seven with a 1-1 stalemate against FC Surkhon, with Sardorbek Bakhromov leveling in the 74th minute after Tornike Dzebniauri opened for Surkhon in the 67th minute.

 

In other matches, Dinamo Samarkand beat FC Mash’al 3-0, with the latter still anchoring the standings with only one win in 26 outings. 

 

Sogdiana and FK Buxoro played out a 1-1 tie while the encounter between Qizilqum Zarafshon and Kokand 1912 ended goalless. Lokomotiv Tashkent, meanwhile, fell 2-1 to FC AGMK. 

Regar Tadaz Tursunzade kept it late in a 1-1 stalemate with CSKA Dushanbe to open a three-point lead over FC Istiklol in the Tajik League.

 

Amirdzon Safarov leveled a minute into stoppage time to earn Tursunzade a share of the points after Izatullo Ruziev’s 20th-minute opener. 

 

Defending champions Istiklol, who have a match in hand, played out a 1-1 draw with Eskhata Khujand, who then went on to a second 1-1 tie with Parvoz Bobojon Ghafurov. 

 

Sardor Tursunzoda beat Kulob Istaravshan 2-0 before drawing 1-1 with Ravshan, who had earlier edged FK Khujand 1-0. Khujand, meanwhile, held Vakhsh Bokhtar to a goalless stalemate in their preceding match.

 

Barkchi Hisor and Hosilot Farxor shared points in a 1-1 draw.

Second-placed Altyn Asyr fell to a late double-strike as FC Ahal racked up a 2-0 win in the Yokary Liga.

 

Basim Gurbanberdiyew netted in the 79th minute while Suleyman Mirzoýew completed the win four minutes later to move third-placed Ahal up to 45 points, eight adrift of Asyr and a massive 30 behind FK Arkadag. 

 

Elsewhere, FC Ashgabat earned a narrow 2-1 win over FK Merw, who have yet to win in six starts.  

Mohun Bagan Super Giant defeated Chennaiyin 1-0 and followed with a 2-1 win over Punjab FC to take the lead in the Indian Super League.

 

Manvir Singh struck an 86th-minute winner in the first match while they had to come back in the second with goals from Lee Erwin (18th) and Dejan Drazic (42nd) after Alfred Planas opened for Punjab in the 31st minute.

 

Chennaiyin later drew 0-0 with Kerala Blasters, with both sides closing with 10 men and Blasters’ Adrian Luna missing a 51st-minute penalty.  

 

Bengaluru’s Vinith Venkatesh leveled three minutes into stoppage time to earn a 1-1 draw with second-placed North East United, whose Jithin Madathil scored in the 15th minute. 

 

Mumbai City squandered a two-goal lead to fall 3-2 to SC Delhi, with Muhammad Ajsal (sixth) and Zothanpuia (27th) putting them in front. Delhi, however, fought back with goals from Carlos Fortes (73rd), Akshat Mehra (90th+1) and Juan Pena (90th+4).

 

FC Goa and SC Delhi also played out a 1-1 stalemate, with Goa then going on to beat bottom side Inter Kashi 2-1.