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Esteghlal F.C.

2017–18 season
President	Amir hosein fat’hi
Head coach	Winfried Schäfer
Stadium	Azadi Stadium
Iran Pro League	3rd
Hazfi Cup	Champions
AFC Champions League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Ali Ghorbani (7) All: Mame Thiam (12)
Highest home attendance	85,000
Lowest home attendance	0
Average home league attendance	27,200
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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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

Squad information

Players and squad numbers last updated on 8 July 2017.

No.	Name	Nat.	Position(s)	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed in	Contract until	Signed from	Notes
Goalkeepers
1	Mehdi Rahmati		GK	(1983-02-02)2 February 1983 (aged 34)	2015	2019	Paykan	Captain
19	Arshia Babazadeh		GK	(1995-11-05)5 November 1995 (aged 22)	2016	2022	De Anza Force
22	Hossein Hosseini		GK	(1992-06-30)30 June 1992 (aged 25)	2012	2019	Youth system
Defenders
2	Khosro Heydari		RB / RM / RW	(1983-09-14)14 September 1983 (aged 34)	2011	2019	Sepahan	Vice-captain
4	Roozbeh Cheshmi		DM / CB / CM	(1993-07-24)24 July 1993 (aged 24)	2015	2019	Saba Qom
5	Majid Hosseini		CB / DM	(1996-06-20)20 June 1996 (aged 21)	2014	2019	Youth system
13	Armin Sohrabian		LB / CB	(1995-07-26)26 July 1995 (aged 22)	2017	2019	Sepahan
18	Milad Zakipour		LB / LM	(1995-11-23)23 November 1995 (aged 22)	2016	2021	Naft Tehran
21	Vouria Ghafouri		RB / RM	(1987-09-20)20 September 1987 (aged 30)	2016	2018	Sepahan
33	Pejman Montazeri		CB / RB	(1983-09-06)6 September 1983 (aged 34)	2017	2019	Al Ahli
90	Leandro Padovani Celin		CB	(1983-12-21)21 December 1983 (aged 34)	2016	2018	Sepahan
Midfielders
6	Omid Ebrahimi		DM / CM	(1987-09-15)15 September 1987 (aged 30)	2014	2018	Sepahan
14	Farshid Bagheri		DM / CB / CM	(1992-06-05)5 June 1992 (aged 25)	2016	2018	Saba Qom
16	Mehdi Ghaedi		LW / RW	(1998-12-05)5 December 1998 (aged 19)	2017	2020	Iranjavan
20	Server Djeparov		AM / CM / LM	(1982-10-03)3 October 1982 (aged 35)	2017	2018	Lokomotiv Tashkent
23	Dariush Shojaeian		RW / LW / AM	(1992-04-07)7 April 1992 (aged 25)	2017	2020	Gostaresh Foulad
24	Omid Noorafkan		DM / LB / LW	(1997-04-09)9 April 1997 (aged 20)	2015	2019	Youth system
28	Mohsen Karimi		LW / RW	(1994-09-20)20 September 1994 (aged 23)	2014	2020	Youth system
77	Behnam Barzay		RW / LW	(1993-02-11)11 February 1993 (aged 24)	2015	2020	Rah Ahan
80	Bojan Najdenov		CM	(1991-08-27)27 August 1991 (aged 26)	2018	2019	Smouha
88	Farshid Esmaeili		AM / LW / SS	(1994-02-23)23 February 1994 (aged 23)	2015	2020	Fajr Sepasi
Forwards
9	Ali Ghorbani		CF / LW / RW	(1990-09-18)18 September 1990 (aged 27)	2016	2018	Naft Tehran
11	Jaber Ansari		SS / LW	(1987-01-10)10 January 1987 (aged 30)	2015	2019	Gostaresh Foulad
25	Mame Baba Thiam		CF	(1992-10-09)9 October 1992 (aged 25)	2018	2019	Juventus
Players transferred during the season
30	Azim Gök		CB	(1996-01-25)25 January 1996 (aged 21)	2016	2019	Youth system
17	Yaghoub Karimi		LB / LM	(1991-08-31)31 August 1991 (aged 26)	2014	2018	Sepahan
8	Mojtaba Jabbari		AM	(1983-06-16)16 June 1983 (aged 34)	2017	2019	Al Ahli
7	Hassan Beyt Saeed		LW / CF / RW	(1990-04-01)1 April 1990 (aged 27)	2017	2019	Esteghlal Khuzestan
10	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh		CF	(1990-01-23)23 January 1990 (aged 27)	2017	2018	Naft Tehran

Persian Gulf League Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1‌ GK  IRN Mehdi Rahmati (Captain) 2 DF  IRN Khosro Heydari (Vice-captain) 4 MF  IRN Roozbeh Cheshmi 5 DF  IRN Majid Hosseini 6 MF  IRN Omid Ebrahimi (3rd-captain) 9 FW  IRN Ali Ghorbani 11 FW  IRN Jaber Ansari 13 DF  IRN Armin Sohrabian 14 MF  IRN Farshid Bagheri 16 MF  IRN Mehdi Ghaedi 18 DF  IRN Milad Zakipour 19 GK  IRN Arshia Babazadeh 20 MF  UZB Server Djeparov

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  IRN Vouria Ghafouri 22 GK  IRN Hossein Hosseini 23 MF  IRN Dariush Shojaeian 24 MF  IRN Omid Noorafkan 25 FW  SEN Mame Thiam 28 MF  IRN Mohsen Karimi 33 DF  IRN Pejman Montazeri 70 FW  IRN Mohammad Javad Mohammadi 77 MF  IRN Behnam Barzay 80 MF  MKD Bojan Najdenov 88 MF  IRN Farshid Esmaeili 90 DF  BRA Padovani

AFC Champions League Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1‌ GK  IRN Mehdi Rahmati (Captain) 2 DF  IRN Khosro Heydari (Vice-captain) 4 MF  IRN Roozbeh Cheshmi 5 DF  IRN Majid Hosseini 6 MF  IRN Omid Ebrahimi (3rd-captain) 7 FW  SEN Mame Thiam 8 MF  IRN Farshid Esmaeili 9 FW  IRN Ali Ghorbani 10 MF  MKD Bojan Najdenov 11 FW  IRN Jaber Ansari 13 DF  IRN Armin Sohrabian 14 MF  IRN Farshid Bagheri 16 MF  IRN Mehdi Ghaedi

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF  IRN Milad Zakipour 19 GK  IRN Arshia Babazadeh 20 MF  UZB Server Djeparov 21 DF  IRN Vouria Ghafouri 22 GK  IRN Hossein Hosseini 23 MF  IRN Dariush Shojaeian 24 MF  IRN Omid Noorafkan 28 MF  IRN Mohsen Karimi 33 DF  IRN Pejman Montazeri 70 FW  IRN Mohammad Javad Mohammadi 77 MF  IRN Behnam Barzay 90 DF  BRA Padovani

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Source
16	LM		Mehdi Ghaedi	18	Iranjavan	Transfer	Summer	2020
26	CF		Fardin Najafi	19	Esteghlal Academy	Promotion	Summer	2020
27	AM		Hossein Heydari	18	Esteghlal Academy	Promotion	Summer	2022
7	LW		Hassan Beyt Saeed	27	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Transfer	Summer	2019
10	CF		Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	27	Naft Tehran	Transfer	Summer	2018
23	AM		Dariush Shojaeian	25	Gostaresh Foulad	Transfer	Summer	2020
32	DM		Sina Khadempour	20	Naft Tehran	Transfer	Summer	2022
33	CB		Pejman Montazeri	33	Al Ahli	Transfer	Summer	2019
70	RW		Mohammad Javad Mohammadi	21	Haf Semnan	Transfer	Summer	2022
13	LB		Armin Sohrabian	21	Sepahan	Transfer	Summer	2019
8	AM		Mojtaba Jabari	34	Al Ahli	Transfer	Summer	2019
77	LW		Sajjad Aghaei	18	Persepolis Academy	Transfer	Summer	2022
20	AM		Server Djeparov	34	Sepahan	End of loan	Summer	2018
77	RW		Behnam Barzay	24	Unattached	Transfer	Winter	2020
80	CM		Bojan Najdenov	26	Smouha	Transfer	Winter	2019
25	CF		Mame Thiam	26	Juventus	Transfer	Winter	2019

Out

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Source
5	CB		Hossein Kanaanizadegan	23	Saipa	Released	Summer
20	CB		Taha Shariati	17	Saipa	Transfer	Summer
31	CB		Alireza Sayyar	23	Unattached	Released	Summer
27	DM		Hossein Abarghouei	20	Gostaresh Foulad	Transfer	Summer
13	LW		Miad Yazdani	24	Sepidrood Rasht	Loan	Summer
9	CF		Kaveh Rezaei	25	Charleroi	End of contract	Summer
74	AM		Mojtaba Haghdoust	21	Naft Tehran	End of loan	Summer
3	CB		Róbson Januário de Paula	23	Bahia	End of loan	Summer
77	RW		Behnam Barzay	24	Sanat Naft Abadan	End of contract	Summer
12	LB		Mohammad Reza Hashemi	20	Shemushack	Transfer	Summer
	GK		Mehrdad Lashni	19	Mes Rafsanjan	Transfer	Summer
32	DM		Sina Khadempour	20	Naft Tehran	Loan	Summer
77	LW		Sajjad Aghaei	18	Aluminium Arak	Loan	Summer
7	LW		Hassan Beyt Saeed	27	Foolad	Transfer	Winter
30	CB		Azim Gök	21	Malavan	Loan	Winter
17	LM		Yaghoub Karimi	26	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Transfer	Winter
8	AM		Mojtaba Jabari	34	Unattached	Released	Winter
10	CF		Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	27	Qatar	Transfer	Winter
15	CB		Hrayr Mkoyan	31	Shirak	Transfer	Winter

Pre-season and friendlies

10 July 2017 (2017-07-10) 2	Esteghlal	2 – 0	Pars Jonoubi	Yerevan, Armenia
18:30 AMT (UTC+04:00)	S. Shahbazzadeh 68' A. Ghorbani 83'	Report		Stadium: Yerevan Football Academy Attendance: 400

15 July 2017 (2017-07-15) 3	Ararat	1 – 2	Esteghlal	Yerevan, Armenia
18:30 AMT (UTC+04:00)	88'	Report	A. Ghorbani 20', 42'	Stadium: Yerevan Football Academy Attendance: 200

22 July 2017 (2017-07-22) 4	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Baadraan	Tehran, Iran
18:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Jaber Ansari 57'	Report	Saeed Vasei 43'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 0

Competitions

Overview

Last updated: 16 May 2018 (2018-05-16).
Source: Competitions

Iran Pro League

Standings

1. Esteghlal qualified to AFC Champions League group stage directly by winning the Hazfi Cup

Results summary

Last updated: 3 May 2018.
Source: Ipl Stats

Results by round

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

28 July 2017 (2017-07-28) 1	Sanat Naft	1 – 0	Esteghlal	Abadan
21:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	J. Karrar 18' M. Shadkam  41'	Report		Stadium: Takhti Abadan Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar

4 August 2017 (2017-08-04) 2	Esteghlal	0 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tehran
21:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	M. Zakipour  91' S. Shahbazzadeh  93'	Report	H. Bahrami  19' A. Alaei  84' Y. Delfi  86'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Vahid Kazemi

11 August 2017 (2017-08-11) 3	Esteghlal	1 – 0	Tractor Sazi	Tehran
20:45 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Djeparov 42' Shojaeian  67'	Report	Taheran  41'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 61,000 Referee: Bijan Heydari Man of the Match: Server Djeparov

17 August 2017 (2017-08-17) 4	Saipa	1 – 0	Esteghlal	Tehran
20:45 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Abbaszadeh 58' (pen.)  58' Shahalidoost  78'  Akhbari  90+3'	Report	Rahmati  57' Cheshmi  80'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 27,000 Referee: Mohammad Zahedifar Man of the Match: Mohammad Abbaszadeh

22 August 2017 (2017-08-22) 5	Esteghlal	0 – 2	Padideh	Tehran
18:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	H. Beyt Saeed  41'	Report	Mohammad Ghazi 15' Hossein Mehraban 72'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 18,000 Referee: Alireza Faghani Man of the Match: Mohammad Ghazi

15 September 2017 (2017-09-15) 6	Pars Jonoubi Jam	2 – 0	Esteghlal	Jam
20:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Ali Dashti 38' Farshad Salarvand 90+6'	Report	Roozbeh Cheshmi  33' F. Bagheri  85' H. Hosseini  90'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 16,000 Referee: Mohammad Seyed Ali Man of the Match: Ali Dashti

20 September 2017 (2017-09-20) 7	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Zob Ahan	Tehran
20:00 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Cheshmi 12' 93' Padovani  90'	Report	NejadMehdi 78'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 22,000 Referee: Payam Heydari

26 September 2017 (2017-09-26) 8	Sepidrood	1 – 2	Esteghlal	Rasht
16:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	ebrahimi 86' (pen.)		Jaber Ansari 53' Majid Hosseini  54' Dariush Shojaeian 68' Heydari  84'	Stadium: Sardar Jangal stadium Attendance: 6,000

13 October 2017 (2017-10-13) 9	Esteghlal	0 – 0	Foolad	Tehran
17:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Cheshmi  95'	Report		Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 30,000

20 October 2017 (2017-10-20) 10	Persepolis	1 – 0	Esteghlal	Tehran
15:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	A. Alipour 23' (pen.)		Cheshmi  22' Farshid Bagheri  50' Omid Ebrahimi  59' Vouria Ghafouri  87' Milad Zakipour  89' Farshid Esmaeili  96' Dariush Shojaeian  96'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 85,000

31 October 2017 (2017-10-31) 11	Esteghlal	2 – 0	Naft Tehran	Tehran
17:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Mohammadizadeh 56' (og.) Farshid Bagheri  62'} J. Ansari 66'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 18,000

15 November 2017 (2017-11-15) 12	Siah Jamegan	0 – 0	Esteghlal	Mashhad
14:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Amraei  76' Badamaki  77' Seifollahi  82' Malekian  82'	Report	Esmaeili  18' Djeparov  49' Ghaedi  84'	Stadium: Samen Stadium Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Mehdi Seyedali

25 November 2017 (2017-11-25) 13	Esteghlal	2 – 0	Gostaresh	Tehran
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	F. Esmaeili 63', 86'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: N/C

6 December 2017 (2017-12-06) 15	Esteghlal	3 – 0	Sepahan	Tehran
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	A. Ghorbani 4' S. Djeparov 36', 47'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 25,000

22 December 2017 (2017-12-22) 16	Esteghlal	4 – 0	Sanat Naft	Tehran
17:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	M. Karimi 15', 42', 67' D. Shojaeian 55'} Milad Zakipour 63'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 15,000

28 December 2017 (2017-12-28) 17	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 3	Esteghlal	Ahvaz
16:25 IRST (UTC+03:30)			V. Ghafouri 7' M. Karimi  61' O.G 48' Djeparov  61' R. Cheshmi 15', 73'	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium

12 January 2018 (2018-01-12) 19	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Saipa	Tehran
16:35 IRST (UTC+03:30)	D. Shojaeian 23' F. Bagheri  50' Noorafkan  71'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 33,000

19 January 2018 (2018-01-19) 20	Padideh	0 – 0	Esteghlal	Mashhad
15:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)			M. Hosseini  74' B. Barzay  83' Ali Ghorbani  89'	Stadium: Samen Stadium Attendance: 35,000

25 January 2018 (2018-01-25) 21	Esteghlal	4 – 0	Pars Jonoubi Jam	Tehran
16:50 IRST (UTC+03:30)	S. Djebarov 4' B. Barzay 31' A. Ghorbani 34', 48', 65' Noorafkan  41'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 24,000

4 February 2018 (2018-02-04) 22	Zob Ahan	2 – 1	Esteghlal	Isfahan
17:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)			V. Ghafouri 31' M. Hosseini  59' B. Barzay  67' Cheshmi  85' Shojaeian  87'	Stadium: Foolad Shahr

8 February 2018 (2018-02-08) 23	Esteghlal	3 – 0	Sepidrood	Tehran
18:15 IRST (UTC+03:30)	F. Esmaeili 14' O. Ebrahimi 64' J. Ansari 42', 77'			Stadium: Azadi Stadium

24 February 2018 (2018-02-24) 24	Foolad	1 – 4	Esteghlal	Ahvaz
16:00 IRST (UTC+03:30)	Rahim Zahivi 12'		M. Thiam 2', 90+2' R. Cheshmi 7', 38' D. Shojaeian 17' Hossein Hosseini  83'	Stadium: Ghadir Stadium

1 March 2018 (2018-03-01) 25	Esteghlal	1 – 0	Persepolis	Tehran
15:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	V. Ghafouri 43', 52' Thiam  45' Farshid Esmaeili  54' Djeparov  77'	Report		Stadium: Azadi Stadium

28 March 2018 (2018-03-28) 26	Naft Tehran	1 – 2	Esteghlal	Tehran
18:45 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Mohsen Bengar 37'	Report	J. Ansari 75' O. Noorafkan 88', 88'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Seyed Mehdi Seyed Ali Man of the Match: Omid Noorafkan

6 April 2018 (2018-04-06) 27	Esteghlal	4 – 1	Siah Jamegan	Tehran
18:55 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	F.Esmaeili 50', 84' A. Ghorbani 67', 76'	Report	Ali Asgari 80'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar Man of the Match: Farshid Esmaeili

11 April 2018 (2018-04-11) 28	Gostaresh	1 – 1	Esteghlal	Tabriz
17:30 IRDT (UTC+04:30)	Reza Khaleghifar 57'	Report	A. Ghorbani 11'	Stadium: Bonyan Diesel Attendance: 1000 Man of the Match: A. Ghorbani 67'

Hazfi Cup

8 September 2017 (2017-09-08) Round of 32	Gol Gohar	1 – 2	Esteghlal	Sirjan
17:45 DST+04:30	M. Gholami 76' (pen.)	Report	O. Noorafkan 56' K. Heydari 85'	Stadium: Gol Gohar Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar

20 October 2017 (2017-10-20) Round of 16	Esteghlal	2 – 1	Nassaji	Tehran
16:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	F. Esmaeili 28' A. Ghorbani 59'	Report	M. Ousani 71'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar

19 December 2017 (2017-12-19) Quarter Final	Esteghlal	3 – 0	Iranjavan Bushehr	Tehran
13:30 IRST (UTC+03:30)	M. Hosseini 45+4' S. Djeparov 50' A. Ghorbani 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Reza Adel

30 January 2018 (2018-01-30) Semi-Final	Sanat Naft Abadan	1 – 2	Esteghlal	Abadan
14:45 IRST (UTC+03:30)	L. Pereira 61'	Report	P. Montazeri 8' D. Shojaeian 44'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Alireza Faghani

3 May 2018 (2018-05-03) Final	Esteghlal	1 – 0	Khooneh be Khooneh	Khorramshahr
17.15 DST+04:30	Mame Thiam 35'	Report		Stadium: Khorramshahr Stadium Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Hossein Zargar Man of the Match: Mame Thiam

AFC Champions League

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Esteghlal	6	3	3	0	9	5	+4	12	Advance to knockout stage
2	Al-Ain	6	2	4	0	10	6	+4	10
3	Al-Rayyan	6	1	3	2	7	11	−4	6
4	Al-Hilal	6	0	2	4	3	7	−4	2

13 February 2018 (2018-02-13)	Al-Rayyan	2 – 2	Esteghlal	Doha, Qatar
18:10 UTC+3	Hamdallah 18' Tabata 28'	Report	Tabata 6' (o.g.) Ghorbani 88'	Stadium: Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium Attendance: 5,038 Referee: Hettikamkanamge Perera (Sri Lanka)

20 February 2018 (2018-02-20)	Esteghlal	1 – 0	Al-Hilal	Muscat, Oman
19:30 UTC+4	Thiam 46'	Report		Stadium: Al-sib Stadium Attendance: 4,175 Referee: Ryuji Sato (Japan)

6 March 2018 (2018-03-06)	Al-Ain	2 – 2	Esteghlal	Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain
19:20 UTC+4	Berg 63' Khalil 89' (pen.)	Report	Thiam 52', 77'	Attendance: 10,036 Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Yaacob (Malaysia)

12 March 2018 (2018-03-12)	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Al-Ain	Tehran, Iran
--:-- UTC+3:30	Thiam 42' (pen.)		Shiotani 78'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 90000

2 April 2018 (2018-04-02)	Esteghlal	2 – 0	Al-Rayyan	Tehran, Iran
--:-- UTC+4:30	Server Djeparov 3' Vouria Ghafouri 58' (pen.)			Stadium: Azadi Stadium

16 April 2018 (2018-04-16)	Al-Hilal	0 – 1	Esteghlal	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
--:-- UTC+3		Report	Vouria Ghafouri 36'	Stadium: Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium Attendance: 4500

Round of 16

8 May 2018 (2018-05-08) First leg	Zob Ahan	1 – 0	Esteghlal	Esfahan, Iran
	Gvelesiani 92' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Foolad Shahr Stadium Attendance: 15,000

15 May 2018 (2018-05-15) Second leg	Esteghlal	3 – 1 (3 – 2 agg.)	Zob Ahan	Tehran, Iran
20:45 --:-- UTC+4:30	M. Thiam 11' (pen.), 41', 64'	Report	G. Hadadifar 65'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Attendance: 75,680 Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Iran Pro League		Hazfi Cup		Champions League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	IRN	Mehdi Rahmati	18	0	10	0	4	0	4	0
2	DF	IRN	Khosro Heydari	25	1	15	0	4	1	6	0
4	MF	IRN	Roozbeh Cheshmi	38	3	26	3	5	0	7	0
5	DF	IRN	Majid Hosseini	33	1	24	0	4	1	5	0
6	MF	IRN	Omid Ebrahimi	33	2	23	2	4	0	6	0
9	FW	IRN	Ali Ghorbani	40	9	27	6	5	2	8	1
11	FW	IRN	Jaber Ansari	26	4	22	4	1	0	3	0
13	DF	IRN	Armin Sohrabian	13	0	8	0	1	0	4	0
14	MF	IRN	Farshid Bagheri	30	0	18	0	5	0	7	0
16	MF	IRN	Mehdi Ghaedi	14	0	12	0	2	0	0	0
18	DF	IRN	Milad Zakipour	25	0	21	0	2	0	2	0
20	MF	UZB	Server Djeparov	39	6	26	4	5	1	8	1
21	DF	IRN	Vouria Ghafouri	36	6	24	4	4	0	8	2
22	GK	IRN	Hossein Hosseini	25	0	20	0	1	0	4	0
23	MF	IRN	Dariush Shojaeian	33	5	24	4	3	1	6	0
24	MF	IRN	Omid Noorafkan	34	2	24	1	4	1	6	0
25	FW	SEN	Mame Baba Thiam	13	12	6	4	1	1	6	7
27	MF	IRN	Hossein Heydari	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	IRN	Mohsen Karimi	6	3	5	3	1	0	0	0
33	DF	IRN	Pejman Montazeri	25	1	15	0	3	1	7	0
70	MF	IRN	Mohammad Javad Mohammadi	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
77	MF	IRN	Behnam Barzay	8	1	5	1	1	0	2	0
80	DF	MKD	Bojan Najdenov	5	0	4	0	0	0	1	0
88	MF	IRN	Farshid Esmaeili	34	6	23	5	4	1	7	0
90	DF	BRA	Leandro Padovani	8	0	6	0	2	0	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
7	FW	IRN	Hassan Beyt Saeed	10	0	9	0	1	0	0	0
8	MF	IRN	Mojtaba Jabbari	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	IRN	Sajjad Shahbazzadeh	9	0	8	0	1	0	0	0
17	DF	IRN	Yaghoub Karimi	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
30	DF	IRN	Azim Gök	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 27 April 2018 (2018-04-27)
Source: Competitions

Goalscorers

Rank	No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Pro League	Hazfi Cup	AFC CL	Total
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		Jaber Ansari	4	0	0	4
6	28	FW		Mohsen Karimi	3	0	0	3
	4	MF		Roozbeh Cheshmi	3	0	0	3
7	6	MF		Omid Ebrahimi	2	0	0	2
	24	MF		Omid Noorafkan	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: 16 May 2018 (2018-05-16)

Clean sheets

Rank	Name	Pro League	Hazfi Cup	AFC CL	Total
1	Hossein Hosseini	10	0	1	11
2	Mehdi Rahmati	6	2	2	10
Total		16	2	3	21

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more are included only.

N	P	Nat.	Name	Pro League			Hazfi Cup			AFC CL			Total			Notes
1	GK		Mehdi Rahmati	1			1			1			3
4	MF		Roozbeh Cheshmi	8						2			10
14	MF		Farshid Bagheri	4			1						5
16	FW		Mehdi Ghaedi				1						1
18	DF		Milad Zakipour	3			2						5
23	MF		Dariush Shojaeian	4	1		1			1			6	1
88	MF		Farshid Esmaeili							1			1

Last updated: 7 August 2017 (2017-08-07)
Source: Matches
Only competitive matches
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

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5. بیت سعید بالاخره آبی‌پوش شد
6. سجاد شهباززاده به خانه اش برگشت
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External links

• Iran Premier League Statistics
• Persian League

• Esteghlal F.C. seasons
• Iranian football clubs 2017–18 season