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باشگاه فوتبال استقلال تهران
File:Esteghlal Logo Official.png
Full nameEsteghlal Tehran Football Club
Nickname(s)(The Blues)
(Crown)
(SS)
Founded26 September 1945; 79 years ago (1945-09-26)
(as Docharkheh Savaran)
GroundAzadi Stadium
Tehran, Iran
Capacity100,000
OwnerMinistry of Youth Affairs and Sports
ChairmanAli Fathollahzadeh
Head CoachAmir Ghalenoei
LeagueIran Pro League
2012–13Iran Pro League, 1st
Websitehttp://www.fcesteghlal.ir/
Current season

Esteghlal Tehran Football Club (باشگاه فوتبال استقلال تهران, meaning independence in Persian) known before the Iranian Revolution as Taj Tehran Football Club (باشگاه فوتبال تاج تهران, meaning Crown in Persian) is an Iranian professional Football Club based in Tehran that plays in The Iran Pro League. Founded in 1945 initially as Docharkhe savaran (دوچرخه سواران) meaning 'The Cyclists' in Persian and later in 1949, the name of the club was first changed to Taj (تاج), that means 'Crown' in Persian; a name that was quickly transformed into a football powerhouse in Iranian soccer competitions. The name of the club was finally modified into Esteghlal (Persian: Esteghlal) that is the current name of the club, meaning 'Independence', subsequent to the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In 1970, under the management of Zdravko Rajkov, Esteghlal Tehran became the first Iranian football club to win the Asian Cup. They have won several official titles in the national and international stage since 1970, including eight Iranian League (1st tier) titles[1] and a record 6 Hazfi Cups,[2][3] with two titles in Asian Cup (in 1970 and 1991), so there are two golden stars printed on the badge of the team official kit.

Esteghlal is one of the most popular football clubs in Asian football in both domestic and continental competitions. Furthermore, they are the most successful Iranian football club in Asian football competitions with two AFC Champions League titles.

History

Establishment

File:Esteghlal F.C former Logo.jpg
Esteghlal's former emblem

On 20 September 1945, three Iranian military officers—Mirzani, Jananpour and Navab—started a sports club on Ferdowsi Street, Tehran. Since the founders of the club were mostly interested in cycling, the club's original name was Docharkhe Savaran (Persian: دوچرخه سواران), meaning 'The Cyclists' in Persian. Esteghlal football club played its first official match in 1946.

Emerging success

In 1949, the club officially changed its name to Taj. The club became the most beloved team in Iran after some years, and won numerous league AFC ChampionsLeague, Hazfi Cups and IPL.

The club has been successful in recent years and is always a contender for the league championship. In the past few years it has finished 2nd or 3rd in the league, and Amir Ghalenoei was able to get the team its first championship in the IPL in the 2005–06 season after his third and final year as the manager.

1979 Revolution

After the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the club was confiscated by the newly established Islamic government and put under the control of the Physical Education Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: سازمان تربیت بدنی جمهوری اسلامی ايران), a governmental organization, and change its name to Esteghlal(Persian: استقلال), 'Independence' in Persian. Taj (Persian: استقلال قهرمان) means 'Crown' in Persian; after the revolution, any sign of the previous monarchist regime was not tolerated.

Tehran Derby

Main article: Tehran derby
Other important rivalries: Esteghlal–Sepahan rivalry

The club's main rival and its opponent in the Tehran Derby is Persepolis F.C. The first derby match between the clubs took place on April 5, 1968 at Amjadieh Stadium. Today, all derbies and home matches occur at the 84.412 capacity Azadi Stadium which is invariably sold out for the derby.

In 1995, IRIFF began to invite foreign referees to officiate the derby to ease fan and player suspicions of referee bias. This occurred after the events of the 38th derby. In the 38th derby (January 11, 1995), Persepolis was leading in the match by a score of 2–0 until the last 10 minutes of the match. Esteghlal scored two goals in quick succession, including one which was a penalty. This angered the Persepolis fans and players who felt the referee was biased towards Esteghlal (there was speculation about Esteghlal bribing the referee and the officials). Persepolis fans stormed the field, and fights broke out on the pitch between fans and players. Following this match it was decided that Iranian referees would no longer be used for the derby. After 13 years of foreign referees, the second leg of the 2008–09 season Derby saw an Iranian once again refereeing the game. The game ended a draw with goals coming from Mojtaba Jabari and Maziar Zare.

AFC Champions League

Taj Tehran after winning the Asian Champion Club Tournament in 1970

Esteghlal is one of the most successful clubs in Asian Champion's League with 2 champions titles in 1970, 1991, in 1970 victory against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Supporters and Fans

Esteghlal is one of the highest supported teams in Iranian football. It is said in unofficial counts that the club has over 30 million fans.The club is based in Tehran and is popular in all parts of country. Esteghlal also has a fan base in Afghanistan And Persian Gulf countries.[4]

Famous Fans

Stadium

Main article: Azadi Stadium
More than 100,000 Esteghlal fans in the last match of the 2012–13 season at the Azadi Stadium.

The Azadi Stadium is Iran's national stadium and the largest in the country. The Azadi Stadium officially had a capacity of 100,000 people at the beginning[68][69] and was built to host the 1974 Asian Games. The stadium is part of the much larger Azadi Sports Complex, and is surrounded by a rowing river, football training pitches, a weightlifting complex, swimming facilities and indoor volleyball and futsal courts, among many other amenities. Today Azadi Stadium - with a capacitiy of 84.412 after renovations in 2002[70] - is the fifth biggest association football stadium in the world, fourth in Asia and first in West Asia.[68][71]

Esteghlal's home stadium is the Azadi (Persian: ورزشگاه آزادی), a football stadium in Tehran, Iran. The Stadium's former name was Aryamehr Stadium but was changed after the Iranian Revolution. The stadium has been filled over capacity on numerous occasions, for example when it faces rivals Persepolis F.C. in the Tehran Derby or in several AFC Champions League matches. Prior to the construction of Azadi, Esteghlal used to play their games at Amjadieh Stadium.

Players

Current Squad

See also: 2013–14 Esteghlal F.C. season

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Iran IRN Mehdi Rahmati (Vice-Captain)
2 DF Iran IRN Khosro Heydari
3 DF Trinidad and Tobago TRI Jlloyd Samuel
4 DF Iran IRN Amir Hossein Sadeghi
5 DF Iran IRN Hanif Omranzadeh
6 MF Iran IRN Javad Nekounam
7 FW Iran IRN Farhad Majidi (Captain)
No. Pos. Nation Player
9 FW Iran IRN Arash Borhani
10 FW Iran IRN Siavash Akbarpour
11 FW Iran IRN Mohammad Ghazi
16 DF Iran IRN Hashem Beikzadeh
17 FW Iran IRN Mehdi Nazari
18 MF Iran IRN Pejman Nouri
20 MF Iran IRN Ahmad Jamshidian

For recent transfers, see List of Iranian football transfers summer 2013.

Reserves and Academy

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
21 DF Iran IRN Armen Tahmasian
22 GK Iran IRN Hossein Hosseini
25 MF Iran IRN Mehran Ghasemi
26 DF Iran IRN Mahdi Eslami
26 MF Iran IRN Farid Lamali
27 FW Iran IRN Babak Jabari
35 GK Iran IRN Hadi Rishi Esfahani
— GK Iran IRN Mehrdad Mohammad-Hosseini
— MF Iran IRN Fardin Abedini

Notable Players

Players with Dual Nationality

World Cup players

Olympic Players

Club Captains

Farhad Majidi is the captain of Esteghlal since 2008.
# Name Nat Career in
Esteghlal 		Captaincy Shirt
Num
1
Reza Adelkhani Iran 1972–75 1973–75
-
2
Hassan Rowshan Iran 1969–78
1984–88 		1975–78
10
3
Nasser Hejazi Iran 1967–77
1980–86 		1980–86
1
4
Shahin Bayani Iran 1979–92 1986–92
5
5
Amir Ghalenoei Iran 1989–97 1992–97
8
6
Javad Zarincheh Iran 1986–01 1997–01
2
7
Mehdi Pashazadeh Iran 1997–98
2000–03 		2001–03
10
8
Mahmoud Fekri Iran 1992–93
1995–07 		2003–07
6
9
Alireza Mansourian Iran 1995–97
2003–08 		2007–08
10
10
Farhad Majidi Iran 1997–99
2000–01
2007– 		2008–
7

Club Managers

Notable Managers

Only managers who have won at least one trophy are mentioned.

Name Period Trophies
Domestic International
IPL HC AL ACL
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Zdravko Rajkov 1969–76
0
1
2
1
Iran Mansour Pourheidari
1979–83
1995–96
2000–02
0
2
2
1
Iran Nasser Hejazi 1996–99
0
0
1
0
Iran Amir Ghalenoie 2003–06
2008–09
2012–
3
2
0
0
Iran Parviz Mazloumi 2010–12
0
1
0
0

IPL managers

Name Nat From To Record
P W D L Win %
Mansour Pourheidari Iran February 2000 July 2002 26 13 9 4 50%
Roland Koch[72] Germany July 2002 July 2003 26 8 8 10 31%
Amir Ghalenoie[73][74][75] Iran July 2003 July 2006 86 46 30 10 53%
Samad Marfavi[76] Iran July 2006 Aug 2007 30 14 10 6 47%
Nasser Hejazi Iran Aug 2007 Nov 2007 14 5 5 4 36%
Firooz Karimi Iran Nov 2007 May 2008 20 6 5 9 30%
Amir Ghalenoie[77] Iran May 2008 May 2009 34 19 9 6 56%
Samad Marfavi[78] Iran May 2009 May 2010 34 16 11 7 47%
Parviz Mazloomi Iran June 2010 June 2012 68 37 20 11 54%
Amir Ghalenoie Iran June 2012 Present 34 19 10 5 56%

Current Management Team

Amir Ghalenoei, current Esteghlal head coach.
Position Name
Head coach Iran Amir Ghalenoei
Assistant coach Iran Majid Saleh
First team coach Iran Sattar Hamedani
Second team coach Iran Karim Boostani
Goalkeeper coach Iran Hamid Babazadeh
Football academy president Iran Asghar Hajiloo[79]
Technical adviser Iran Morteza Mohasses
Doctor Iran Kaveh Sotoudeh
Physiotherapist Iran Amin Noroozi
Psychologist Iran Abbas Montazeri
Analyzer Iran Iman Alami
Analyzer Iran Nima Rasouli
Technical manager Iran Mansour Pourheidari
Team Manager Iran Mirshad Majedi

Chairmen

Chairman Tenure
Iran Parviz Khosravani
September 1945 – June 1960
Iran Parviz Sheikhan
June 1960 – February 1979
Iran Ali Abdullahi Nourozi
May 1979 – May 1983
Iran Kazem Oliaei
January 1988 – May 1996
Iran Ali Fathollahzadeh
May 1996 – May 2003
Iran Hossein Gharib
June 2003 – July 2005
Iran Kazem Oliaei
July 2005 – December 2005
Iran Hossein Gharib
December 2005 – September 2006
Iran Meghdad Najafnejad
September 2006 – May 2007
Iran Ali Fathollahzadeh
May 2007 – September 2008
Iran Amir Reza Vaezi Ashtiani
September 2008 – May 2010
Iran Ali Nazari Juybari
May 2010 – June 2010
Iran Ali Fathollahzadeh
June 2010–present

Achievements

Domestic

League

Cups

Continental

Unofficial titles

  • Caspian Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1996
  • Kish Quartet Competition Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1996
  • Ettehad Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1973
  • Turkmenistan President's Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1998
  • Bordoloi Trophy:
    • Winners (1): 1989
  • Milz Cup:
    • Winners (4): 1969 , 1970 , 1971, 1989
    • Runners-Up (1): 1972
  • Qatar Independence Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1991
  • Emirates Quartet Competition Cup:
    • Runners-Up (1): 1996

Statistics and records

Statistics in IPL

Statistics in ACL

  • Most goals scored in a match: 8 – 0 (1 time)
  • Most goals conceded in a match: 4 – 0 (1 time)
  • Player with the most goals in a single match: Ali Jabari with 3 goals

Statistics in Hazfi Cup

  • Most goals scored in a match: 13 – 0 (1 time)
  • Most goals conceded in a match: 0 – 3 (1 time)
  • Player with the most goals in a single match: Arash Borhani with 5 goals

General statistics

Esteghlal have been the most successful Iranian club in Asia and one of the most successful football clubs in Iran.

  • Table Shows The Iran Premier League Ranking For The Successful Clubs in These All 12 Seasons.
Pos. Club Seasons Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Best Rank
1 Esteghlal 12 372 183 117 72 568 360 +208 666 Champions
2 Sepahan 12 372 174 111 87 561 369 +192 628 Champions
3 Persepolis 12 372 158 127 87 531 408 +123 595 Champions
4 Zob Ahan 12 372 152 121 99 461 376 +85 577 2nd
  • And The Following Table Lists Clubs By Number of Winners And Runner-up In AFC Champions League (Asian Club Championship Also Included).
Team Winners Runners-Up Years Won Years Lost
South Korea Pohang Steelers 3 0 1996–97, 1997–98, 2009 -
Iran Esteghlal FC 2 2 1970, 1990–91 1991–92, 1998–99
Saudi Arabia Al-Hilal FC 2 2 1991–92, 1999–2000 1986–87, 1987–88
South Korea Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 2 2 1995–96, 2010 1996–97, 2004
Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad FC 2 1 2004, 2005 2009

Season-by-season

For details on seasons, see List of Esteghlal F.C. seasons

Sponsorship

IPL shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Period Kit Manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
2001-02 Daei SWE LG
2002-03
2003-04 Jouraban Aiwa
2004-05 Aghili Sharp
2005-06 Abi Pooshan SAGEM
2006-07 Merooj MTN Irancell
2007-08 CCC
Aghili Shahrvand Chain Stores
2008-09 Uhlsport Iran Mobile Market
2009-10
2010-11 City Bank
2011-12
2012–13 Refah Bank

World Ranking

As of 17 May 2013[80]
Current Rank Country Team
101 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
102 Netherlands Vitesse
103 Mexico Club América
104 Iran Esteghlal F.C.
105 Italy Cagliari Calcio

See also

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  80. ^ Current Standings – IFFHS.de

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