Davoud Fanaei (Persian: داوود فنایی, born January 19, 1975, in Tehran) is a retired Iranian football goalkeeper who played most of his career for Persepolis and represented for Iran national football team.

He started his career in Persepolis under management of Ali Parvin and was substitute of Ahmadreza Abedzadeh, but slowly made himself a starter later.

[4] His last cap was a friendly against Palestine on 4 April 2002.

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