Bam Khatoon F.C.
Association football club in Bam, Iran
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Bam Khatoon Women's Football Club (Persian: باشگاه فوتبال زنان خاتون بم, Bashgah-e Futbal-e Zenan-e Xatun Bem) formerly Shahrdari Bam, is an Iranian professional women's football club based in Bam which plays in the Iranian Kowsar Women League. It also qualified for the inaugural AFC Women's Champions League in 2023. The club is the most titled of the Iranian women's league, having won 11 championships.
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| Full name | Bam Khatoon Women's Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1980 as Bam FC | |
| Stadium | Fajr Stadium, Bam, Iran | |
| Capacity | 8,000 | |
| Owner(s) | Bam Khatoon Cultural, Sports, Economic Company (LLC) | |
| Chairman | Iman Farzin | |
| Head coach | Marziyeh Jafari | |
| League | Iranian Kowsar Women League | |
| 2024–25 | Iran Women's Premier League, 1st of 10 | |
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History
Bam Khatoon F.C. was founded in 1980 and is based in Bam, Kerman Province, Iran. In May 2021, the club announced that they would take over Shahrdari Bam and rebranded the club as Bam Khatoon F.C. in line with an agreement with the municipality of Bam.[1][2]
Bam Khatoon Women's F.C. held the most crowded championship celebration in women's sports history in Iran, hosting around 30000 spectators in Bam in June 2022.[3][4]
Bam Khatoon F.C. is the first ever women's football club in Iran to be granted an the AFC Club Licence in 2023. The AFC professional club licence is mandatory to participate in the AFC Women's Champions League, since its inaugural edition in 2024.[5][6]
Honors
Players
Current squad
- As of 25 December 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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*On 9 March 2026, Zahra Sarbali, Fatemeh Pasandideh, Atefeh Ramezanizadeh and Mona Hamoudi, along with Persepolis and former Bam forward Zahra Ghanbari, as members of the Iran women's national football team at the 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup tournament in Australia, left the team's training camp in Australia and sought refuge due to fears of retaliation from Iranian authorities. The team had refused to sing the national anthem at the first game of the tournament, shortly after the beginning of the 2026 Iran war.[14] They were granted asylum on humanitarian visas in Australia.[15]
International friendlies
Bam Khatoon Women's F.C. is the only and first ever Iranian women's football team that held an International camp overseas. They lost against Tomiris Touran (Kazakhstan Women's Football Championship runner-up) and a 1–0 victory against BIIK Shymkent, Kazakhstan's champion in August 2022.[16][17]
Continental record
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 2022 | AFC Women's Club Championship | Group B |  Sogdiana Jizzakh |
1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| 2023 | Group B |  Sydney FC |
3–0 | 4th | ||
 Incheon Red Angels |
1–2 | |||||
| FC Nasaf |
2–2 | |||||
| 2024–25 | AFC Women's Champions League | Preliminary round |  Royal Thimphu College |
1–2 | 1st | |
 Kitchee |
2–0 | |||||
| Group B | Melbourne City |
1–2 | 2nd | |||
 Kaya–Iloilo |
1–1 | |||||
 College of Asian Scholars |
2–1 | |||||
| Quarter-finals | Incheon Red Angels |
0–1 | ||||
| 2025–26 | AFC Women's Champions League | Group B |  East Bengal |
1–3 | 4th | |
| Nasaf |
1–0 | |||||
 Wuhan Jianghan |
0–4 | |||||
