Club: | Esteghlal F.C. |
Season: | 2019–20 |
Stadium: | Azadi Stadium |
Chrtitle: | President |
Chairman: | Amirhossein Fathi (until 10 December 2019)[1] Esmaeil Khalilzadeh (from 10 December 2019 until 26 February 2020)[2] Ali Fatollahzadeh (from 26 February 2020 until 30 March 2020)[3] Ahmad Saadatmand (from 30 March 2020)[4] |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Andrea Stramaccioni (until 8 December 2019) Voria Ghafouri (caretaker) (from 9 december 2019 until 2 January 2020)[5] Farhad Majidi (from 2 January 2020 until 3 September 2020) Majid Namjoo-Motlagh (from 6 September 2020) |
League: | Pro League |
League Result: | 2nd |
Cup1: | Hazfi Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Runners-up |
Cup2: | AFC Champions League |
Cup2 Result: | Round of 16 |
League Topscorer: | Cheick Diabaté (15) |
Season Topscorer: | Cheick Diabaté (19) |
Highest Attendance: | 65,000 |
Lowest Attendance: | 9,000 |
Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
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The 2019–20 season is the Esteghlal Football Club's 19th season in the Iran Pro League, and their 26th consecutive season in the top division of Iranian football. They also competed in the Hazfi Cup, and 74th year in existence as a football club.
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Name | Position | Date of Birth (Age) | Since | End | Signed from | |||
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Goalkeepers | ||||||||
1 | Hossein Hosseini | GK | 2019 12, df=yes | 2012 | 2021 | Youth Sector | ||
19 | Hossein Pour Hamidi | GK | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2022 | Esteghlal Khuzestan | ||
78 | Alireza Ansari | GK | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2020 | Youth Sector | ||
Defenders | ||||||||
3 | Milad Zakipour | LB / LM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2021 | Naft Tehran | ||
4 | Roozbeh Cheshmi | CB / DM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2020 | Saba Qom | ||
5 | Aref Gholami | CB / RB / LB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Foolad | ||
21 | Vouria Ghafouri | RB / RW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2021 | Sepahan | ||
22 | Siavash Yazdani | CB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Sepahan | ||
30 | Azim Gök | CB / LB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2021 | Youth Sector | ||
32 | Amirhossein Kargar | RB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Youth Sector | ||
33 | Hrvoje Milić | LB / LM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Crotone | ||
41 | Arash Dajliri | RB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2020 | Youth Sector | |||
57 | Shahin Taherkhani | CB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Youth Sector | ||
70 | Mohammad Daneshgar | CB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2020 | Saipa | ||
Midfielders | ||||||||
6 | Ali Karimi | CM / DM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2020 | Sepahan | ||
8 | Farshid Esmaeili | AM / LW / RW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2020 | Fajr Sepasi | ||
9 | Ali Dashti | RW / SS | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2021 | Saipa | ||
14 | Farshid Bagheri | DM / CM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2020 | Saba Qom | ||
15 | Sina Khadempour | DM / CM / CB | 2019 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2022 | Naft Tehran | ||
23 | AM / RW / LW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2020 | Gostaresh Foulad | |||
28 | Mohsen Karimi | LW / RW / SS | 2019 12, df=yes | 2014 | 2020 | Youth Sector | ||
40 | Amir Hossein Khodamoradi | AM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2024 | Youth Sector | ||
66 | Masoud Rigi | DM / CM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Shahr Khodro | ||
77 | Reza Azari | DM / CM / AM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2023 | Youth Sector | ||
80 | Mohammad Bolboli | LW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2023 | Sepidrood | ||
88 | Arash Rezavand | AM / CM | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Saipa | ||
Forwards | ||||||||
7 | Cheick Diabaté | CF / SS | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Osmanlıspor | ||
10 | Mehdi Ghayedi | SS / RW / LW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2023 | Iranjavan | ||
11 | Morteza Tabrizi | CF / LW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2020 | Zob Ahan | ||
17 | Zakaria Moradi | CF / RW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2023 | Youth Sector | ||
72 | Amir Arsalan Motahari | CF / RW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2021 | Zob Ahan | ||
Players transferred during the season | ||||||||
99 | Sajjad Aghaei | CF / LW / RW | 2019 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2022 | Youth Sector | ||
20 | Nikolay Bodurov | CB | 2020 1, df=yes | 2020 | 2021 | Unattached |
See main article: List of Iranian football transfers summer 2019 and List of Iranian football transfers winter 2019–20.
Name | Moving from | Transfer window | Transfer window | Source | ||||||
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— | Hamed Bakhshi | Peykan | Transfer | Summer | [6] | |||||
80 | Mohammad Bolboli | Sepidrood | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | [7] | ||||
9 | Ali Dashti | Saipa | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [8] | ||||
44 | Milad Bagheri | Mes Kerman | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [9] | ||||
22 | Siavash Yazdani | Sepahan | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [10] | ||||
66 | Masoud Rigi | Shahr Khodro | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [11] | ||||
15 | Sina Khadempour | Gol Gohar | End of loan | Summer | 2022 | |||||
70 | Mohammad Javad Mohammadi | Arvand Karun | End of loan | Summer | 2022 | |||||
80 | Mohammad Dehghan Nejad | Saipa | Transfer | Winter | 2020 | |||||
88 | Arash Rezavand | Saipa | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [12] | ||||
7 | Cheick Diabaté | Osmanlıspor | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [13] | ||||
38 | Ali Tari | Zob Ahan | Transfer | Summer | 2024 | |||||
5 | Aref Gholami | Foolad | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [14] | ||||
— | Erfan Khalili | Niroo Zamini | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | |||||
19 | Hossein Pour Hamidi | Esteghlal Khuzestan | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | |||||
33 | Hrvoje Milić | Crotone | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [15] | ||||
— | Hossein Bijani | Foolad | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [16] | ||||
30 | Azim Gök | Malavan | End of loan | Winter | 2021 | |||||
72 | Amir Arsalan Motahari | Zob Ahan | Transfer | Winter | 2021 | [17] | ||||
20 | Nikolay Bodurov | Unattached | Transfer | Winter | 2021 | [18] |
See main article: 2019–20 Persian Gulf Pro League.
See main article: 2019–20 Hazfi Cup.
See main article: 2020 AFC Champions League.
See main article: 2020 AFC Champions League qualifying play-offs.
See main article: 2020 AFC Champions League group stage.
See main article: 2020 AFC Champions League knockout stage.
|-! colspan="18" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"| Players transferred/loaned out during the season