TOPSHOTS Iranian players of Malavan women football team react during their match against Palayesh Gas during Iran's Women Football League at Takhti stadium in the western city of Illam some 700 kms west of the capital Tehran, on February 23, 2014. Malavan (sailor) is a local football team in the coastal Caspian sea port of Bandar Anzali, northern Iran which finished in the second place of the Islamic country's women football league in 2014. Three clubs out of eleven teams participating in the league withdrew from the competition due to the financial problems. Only women can watch women football matches and access to football stadiums to watch men's football has been forbidden for women since the Islamic revolution in 1979, on the official basis that the ruling protects them from obscene behavior among male fans. AFP PHOTO/ISNA/MONA HOOBEHFEKR