Club: | Esteghlal F.C. |
Season: | 2020–21 |
Stadium: | Azadi Stadium |
Chrtitle: | President |
Chairman: | Ahmad Madadi |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Mahmoud Fekri (until 2 March 2021) Farhad Majidi (from 3 March 2021) |
League: | Pro League |
League Result: | 3rd |
Cup1: | Hazfi Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Runner-up |
Cup2: | AFC Champions League |
Cup2 Result: | Round of 16 |
League Topscorer: | Amir Arsalan Motahari (7) |
Season Topscorer: | Mehdi Ghayedi (9) |
Average Attendance: | 0 |
Prevseason: | 2019–20 |
Nextseason: | 2021–22 |
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The 2020–21 Esteghlal Football Club season is the club's 75th season in existence and the 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Iranian football. In addition to the domestic league, Esteghlal participates in this season's editions of the Hazfi Cup, and the AFC Champions League.
Last updated: [1]
Name | Position | Date of Birth (Age) | Since | End | Signed from | |||
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Goalkeepers | ||||||||
1 | Hossein Hosseini | GK | 2020 12, df=yes | 2012 | 2021 | Youth Sector | ||
12 | Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | GK | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2022 | Tractor | ||
90 | Sina Saeidifar | GK | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2024 | Youth Sector | ||
Defenders | ||||||||
2 | Mohammad Naderi | LB / CB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2021 | Kortrijk | ||
3 | Mohammad Hossein Moradmand | CB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2022 | Shahr Khodro | ||
4 | Siavash Yazdani | CB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Sepahan | ||
5 | Aref Gholami | CB / RB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2022 | Foolad | ||
20 | Ahmad Mousavi | RB / RW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2022 | Gol Gohar | ||
21 | Vouria Ghafouri | RB / RW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2022 | Sepahan | ||
27 | Matin Karimzadeh | LB / LM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2023 | Pars Jonoubi | ||
33 | Hrvoje Milić | LB / LM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Crotone | ||
70 | Mohammad Daneshgar | CB / RB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2018 | 2022 | Saipa | ||
Midfielders | ||||||||
6 | Masoud Rigi | DM / CM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Shahr Khodro | ||
8 | Farshid Esmaeili | AM / LW / RW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2015 | 2021 | Fajr Sepasi | ||
9 | Mehdi Mehdipour | CM / DM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2023 | Zob Ahan | ||
11 | AM / RW / LW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2021 | Gostaresh Foulad | |||
15 | Sina Khadempour | DM / CB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2023 | Naft Tehran | ||
22 | Babak Moradi | LW / LB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2022 | Machine Sazi | ||
66 | Saeid Mehri | CM / DM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2021 | 2023 | Tractor | ||
79 | RW / RB | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2025 | Tractor | |||
88 | Arash Rezavand | AM / CM / RW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Saipa | ||
Forwards | ||||||||
7 | Cheick Diabaté | CF | 2020 12, df=yes | 2019 | 2021 | Osmanlıspor | ||
10 | Mehdi Ghayedi | CF / SS / LW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2017 | 2023 | Iranjavan | ||
17 | Arman Ramezani | CF | 2020 12, df=yes | 2021 | 2022 | Persepolis | ||
72 | Arsalan Motahari | CF / RW | 2020 12, df=yes | 2020 | 2021 | Zob Ahan | ||
Players transferred during the season | ||||||||
14 | Farshid Bagheri | DM / CM | 2020 12, df=yes | 2016 | 2021 | Saba Qom |
See main article: List of Iranian football transfers summer 2020 and List of Iranian football transfers winter 2020–21.
Name | Moving from | Transfer window | Transfer window | Source | ||||||
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40 | Amir Hossein Khodamoradi | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2023 | [2] | ||||
41 | Arash Dajliri | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2023 | [3] | ||||
42 | Fardin Rabet | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2025 | |||||
43 | Mohammad Abedi | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2024 | |||||
74 | Erfan Rohani | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2024 | [4] | ||||
— | Amir Mohammad Bahrehmand | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2022 | |||||
99 | Sajjad Aghaei | Zob Ahan | End of loan | Summer | 2022 | [5] | ||||
12 | Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | Tractor | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [6] | ||||
27 | Matin Karimzadeh | Pars Jonoubi | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | [7] | ||||
22 | Babak Moradi | Machine Sazi | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [8] | ||||
20 | Ahmad Mousavi | Gol Gohar | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [9] | ||||
3 | Mohammad Hossein Moradmand | Shahr Khodro | Transfer | Summer | 2022 | [10] | ||||
9 | Mehdi Mehdipour | Zob Ahan | Transfer | Summer | 2023 | [11] | ||||
2 | Mohammad Naderi | Kortrijk | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | [12] | ||||
— | Mikaeil Sheikhi | Karun Ramhormoz | Transfer | Summer | 2025 | [13] | ||||
— | Alireza Khodabakhshi | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2025 | [14] | ||||
71 | Mohammad Hossein Fallah | Nirooye Zamini | Transfer | Summer | 2025 | [15] | ||||
79 | Sobhan Khaghani | Tractor | Transfer | Summer | 2025 | [16] | ||||
44 | Mohammad Javad Behafarin | Esteghlal Academy | Promoted | Summer | 2025 | |||||
55 | Erfan Golmohammadi | Nassaji | Loan | Winter | 2021 | |||||
66 | Saeid Mehri | Tractor | Transfer | Winter | 2023 | [17] | ||||
63 | Amirhossein Bayat | Persepolis | Transfer | Winter | [18] | |||||
23 | Arman Ramezani | Persepolis | Transfer | Winter | 2022 | [19] |
See main article: 2020–21 Persian Gulf Pro League.
Opposition | Home score | Away score | Double | |
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Aluminium Arak | 2–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | |
Foolad | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | |
Gol Gohar | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | |
Machine Sazi | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | |
Mes Rafsanjan | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | |
Naft MIS | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
Nassaji | 1–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | |
Paykan | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0-0 | |
Persepolis | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–3 | |
Saipa | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | |
Sanat Naft | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
Sepahan | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–4 | |
Shahr Khodro | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | |
Tractor | 2–1 | 3–1 | 5–2 | |
Zob Ahan | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
See main article: 2021 Hazfi Cup.
See main article: 2021 AFC Champions League.
See main article: 2021 AFC Champions League group stage.
|-! colspan="18" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"| Players transferred/loaned out during the season
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.
Rank | Player | Pro League | Hazfi Cup | Champions League | Total | |
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1 | Mehdi Ghayedi | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |
2 | Cheick Diabaté | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | |
Vouria Ghafouri | 6 | 2 | 0 | |||
Arsalan Motahari | 7 | 0 | 1 | |||
4 | Farshid Esmaeili | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
6 | Mohammad Naderi | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
7 | Arman Ramezani | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mohammad Daneshgar | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
Mehdi Mehdipour | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sobhan Khaghani | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
11 | Mohammad Hossein Moradmand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ahmad Mousavi | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Hrvoje Milić | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Matin Karimzadeh | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Own goals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
Total | 36 | 6 | 14 | 56 |
Rank | Player | Pro League | Hazfi Cup | Champions League | Total | |
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1 | Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | 10 | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
2 | Hossein Hosseini | 6 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
Total | 16 | 2 | 3 | 21 |
Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more are included only.