Club: | Esteghlal F.C. |
Season: | 2017–18 |
Stadium: | Azadi Stadium |
Chrtitle: | President |
Chairman: | Amir hosein fat’hi |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Winfried Schäfer |
League: | Iran Pro League |
League Result: | 3rd |
Cup1: | Hazfi Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Champions |
Cup2: | AFC Champions League |
Cup2 Result: | Round of 16 |
League Topscorer: | Ali Ghorbani (7) |
Season Topscorer: | Mame Thiam (12) |
Highest Attendance: | 85,000 |
Lowest Attendance: | 0 |
Prevseason: | 2016–17 |
Nextseason: | 2018–19 |
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The 2017–18 season is Esteghlal Football Club's 72nd season in existence and the club's 17th consecutive season in the top division of Iranian football. It covers a period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.
Players and squad numbers last updated on 8 July 2017.
Name | Position(s) | Date of Birth (Age) | Signed in | Contract until | Signed from | Notes | |||
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Goalkeepers | |||||||||
1 | Mehdi Rahmati | GK | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Paykan | Captain | ||
19 | Arshia Babazadeh U23 | GK | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2022 | De Anza Force | |||
22 | Hossein Hosseini | GK | 2017 12, df=yes | 2012 | 2019 | Youth system | |||
Defenders | |||||||||
2 | Khosro Heydari | RB / RM / RW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2011 | 2019 | Sepahan | Vice-captain | ||
4 | Roozbeh Cheshmi | DM / CB / CM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Saba Qom | |||
5 | Majid Hosseini U23 | CB / DM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2014 | 2019 | Youth system | |||
13 | Armin Sohrabian U23 | LB / CB | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2019 | Sepahan | |||
18 | Milad Zakipour U23 | LB / LM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2021 | Naft Tehran | |||
21 | Vouria Ghafouri | RB / RM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2018 | Sepahan | |||
33 | Pejman Montazeri | CB / RB | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2019 | Al Ahli | |||
90 | Leandro Padovani Celin | CB | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2018 | Sepahan | |||
Midfielders | |||||||||
6 | Omid Ebrahimi | DM / CM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2014 | 2018 | Sepahan | |||
14 | Farshid Bagheri | DM / CB / CM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2018 | Saba Qom | |||
16 | Mehdi Ghaedi U21 | LW / RW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2020 | Iranjavan | |||
20 | AM / CM / LM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2018 | Lokomotiv Tashkent | ||||
23 | RW / LW / AM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2020 | Gostaresh Foulad | ||||
24 | Omid Noorafkan U21 | DM / LB / LW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Youth system | |||
28 | Mohsen Karimi | LW / RW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2014 | 2020 | Youth system | |||
77 | Behnam Barzay | RW / LW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2020 | Rah Ahan | |||
80 | Bojan Najdenov | CM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2019 | Smouha | |||
88 | AM / LW / SS | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2020 | Fajr Sepasi | ||||
Forwards | |||||||||
9 | Ali Ghorbani | CF / LW / RW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2018 | Naft Tehran | |||
11 | Jaber Ansari | SS / LW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2019 | Gostaresh Foulad | |||
25 | Mame Baba Thiam | CF | 2017 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2019 | Juventus[1] | |||
Players transferred during the season | |||||||||
30 | Azim Gök U23 | CB | 2017 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2019 | Youth system | |||
17 | Yaghoub Karimi | LB / LM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2014 | 2018 | Sepahan | |||
8 | Mojtaba Jabbari | AM | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2019 | Al Ahli | |||
7 | Hassan Beyt Saeed | LW / CF / RW | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2019 | Esteghlal Khuzestan | |||
10 | Sajjad Shahbazzadeh | CF | 2017 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2018 | Naft Tehran |
See main article: List of Iranian football transfers summer 2017 and List of Iranian football transfers winter 2017–18.
Name | Moving from | Transfer window | Transfer window | Source | ||||||
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16 | Mehdi Ghaedi | Iranjavan | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | [2] | ||||
26 | Fardin Najafi | Esteghlal Academy | Promotion | Summer | 2020 | [3] | ||||
27 | Hossein Heydari | Esteghlal Academy | Promotion | Summer | 2022 | [4] | ||||
7 | Hassan Beyt Saeed | Esteghlal Khuzestan | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | [5] | ||||
10 | Sajjad Shahbazzadeh | Naft Tehran | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | [6] | ||||
23 | Dariush Shojaeian | Gostaresh Foulad | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | [7] | ||||
32 | Sina Khadempour | Naft Tehran | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [8] | ||||
33 | Pejman Montazeri | Al Ahli | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | [9] | ||||
70 | Mohammad Javad Mohammadi | Haf Semnan | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [10] | ||||
13 | Armin Sohrabian | Sepahan | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | [11] | ||||
8 | Mojtaba Jabari | Al Ahli | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | [12] | ||||
77 | Sajjad Aghaei | Persepolis Academy | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [13] | ||||
20 | Server Djeparov | Sepahan | End of loan | Summer | 2018 | [14] | ||||
77 | Behnam Barzay | Unattached | Transfer | Winter | 2020 | [15] | ||||
80 | Bojan Najdenov | Smouha | Transfer | Winter | 2019 | [16] | ||||
25 | Mame Thiam | Juventus | Transfer | Winter | 2019 | [17] |
Name | Moving to | Transfer window | Transfer window | Source | |||||
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5 | Hossein Kanaanizadegan | Saipa | Released | Summer | [18] | ||||
20 | Taha Shariati | Saipa | Transfer | Summer | [19] | ||||
31 | Alireza Sayyar | Unattached | Released | Summer | [20] | ||||
27 | Hossein Abarghouei | Gostaresh Foulad | Transfer | Summer | [21] | ||||
13 | Miad Yazdani | Sepidrood Rasht | Loan | Summer | [22] [23] | ||||
9 | Kaveh Rezaei | Charleroi | End of contract | Summer | [24] | ||||
74 | Mojtaba Haghdoust | Naft Tehran | End of loan | Summer | |||||
3 | Róbson Januário de Paula | Bahia | End of loan | Summer | |||||
77 | Behnam Barzay | Sanat Naft Abadan | End of contract | Summer | |||||
12 | Mohammad Reza Hashemi | Shemushack | Transfer | Summer | |||||
Mehrdad Lashni | Mes Rafsanjan | Transfer | Summer | [25] | |||||
32 | Sina Khadempour | Naft Tehran | Loan | Summer | [26] | ||||
77 | Sajjad Aghaei | Aluminium Arak | Loan | Summer | [27] | ||||
7 | Hassan Beyt Saeed | Foolad | Transfer | Winter | [28] | ||||
30 | Azim Gök | Malavan | Loan | Winter | [29] | ||||
17 | Yaghoub Karimi | Esteghlal Khuzestan | Transfer | Winter | [30] | ||||
8 | Mojtaba Jabari | Unattached | Released | Winter | [31] | ||||
10 | Sajjad Shahbazzadeh | Qatar | Transfer | Winter | [32] | ||||
15 | Hrayr Mkoyan | Shirak | Transfer | Winter |
See main article: 2017–18 Iran Pro League.
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See main article: 2017–18 Hazfi Cup.
See main article: 2018 AFC Champions League.
See main article: 2018 AFC Champions League group stage.
See main article: 2018 AFC Champions League knockout stage.
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season
width=25 | Rank | width=25 | width=25 | width=25 | width=200 | Name | width=100 | width=100 | Hazfi Cup | width=100 | width=100 | Total | |||||
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1 | 25 | FW | Mame Baba Thiam | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | ||||||||||
2 | 9 | FW | Ali Ghorbani | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 | ||||||||||
3 | 88 | CM | Farshid Esmaeili | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
20 | CM | Server Djeparov | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
21 | DF | Vouria Ghafouri | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||
4 | 23 | CM | Dariush Shojaeian | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
5 | 11 | FW | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||||
6 | 28 | FW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
4 | MF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||
7 | 6 | MF | Omid Ebrahimi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
24 | MF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
8 | 77 | FW | Behnam Barzay | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
2 | DF | Khosro Heydari | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
5 | DF | Majid Hosseini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
33 | DF | Pejman Montazeri | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
Totals | 42 | 10 | 11 | 63 |
Last updated:
Rank | Name | Hazfi Cup | Total | |||
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1 | Hossein Hosseini | 10 | 0 | 1 | 11 | |
2 | Mehdi Rahmati | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |
Total | 16 | 2 | 3 | 21 |
Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more are included only.