Career
He Mostly played for Malavan. He was one of the key players of Malavan reaching the third place in the Iranian Takht Jamshid in 1978. 1974 and 1977 he was the second best scorer of the Iranian league.
He also played two games for Iran in the 1978 World Cup.
Ghafour Jahani scored 4 goals during the 1978 world cup qualifications" campaign, one of them was the winning goal against Australia in Tehran which qualified Iran for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.