List of Esteghlal F.C. players

This is a list of players who have played for Esteghlal Football Club.

World Cup Players

1978 FIFA World Cup Iraj Danaeifard Andranik Eskandarian Hassan Nazari Hassan Rowshan

1998 FIFA World Cup Parviz Boroumand Alireza Mansourian Mehdi Pashazadeh Javad Zarincheh

2006 FIFA World Cup Reza Enayati Amir Hossein Sadeghi Vahid Talebloo

2014 FIFA World Cup Khosro Heydari Amir Hossein Sadeghi Andranik Teymourian Hashem Beikzadeh

2018 FIFA World Cup Rouzbeh Cheshmi Omid Ebrahimi Pejman Montazeri Majid Hosseini

Olympic Players

1972 Summer Olympics Ali Jabbari Mansour Rashidi Javad Ghorab Javad Allahverdi

1976 Summer Olympics Mansour Rashidi Hassan Nazari Andranik Eskandarian Hassan Rowshan Nasser Hejazi

List of players

Notable players with at least three seasons at the club are listed according to the date of their first-team official debut for the club.

Nat	Name	Position	Esteghlal career
	Ali Danaeifard	Midfielder	1945–50
	Pierre Karlów	Goalkeeper	1945–56
	Mahmoud Bayati	Forward	1949–60
	Boyuk Jeddikar	Forward	1949–57, 1958–68
	Aref Gholizadeh	Defender	1950–63
	Hossein Soroudi	Defender	1951–54
	Parviz Koozehkanani	Forward	1950–57
	Mohammad Ranjbar	Defender	1956–64
	Kambozia Jamali	Midfielder	1956–68
	Mohammad Bayati	Goalkeeper	1958–65
	Hassan Habibi	Defender	1960–64
	Parviz Aboutaleb	Forward	1961–67
	Ahmad Monshizadeh	Midfielder	1964–73
	Mansour Pourheidari	Defender	1965–75
	Ali Jabbari	Midfielder	1965–75
	Jalal Talebi	Midfielder	1967–71
	Akbar Eftekhari	Forward	1968–71
	Karo Haghverdian	Midfielder	1968–73
	Parviz Ghelichkhani	Midfielder	1968–71
	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi	Forward	1968–75
	Akbar Kargarjam	Defender	1969–76
	Ezatollah Janmaleki	Defender	1969–77
	Mehdi Lavasani	Defender	1969–79
	Nasser Hejazi	Goalkeeper	1969–77, 1980–86
	Nasrollah Abdollahi	Defender	1970–74
	Iraj Danaeifard	Forward	1970–72, 1977–80
	Javad Allahverdi	Defender	1970–74
	Javad Ghorab	Midfielder	1971–76
	Hassan Rowshan	Forward	1971–78, 1982–83, 1984–88
	Mohammad Reza Adelkhani	Forward	1972–76, 1977–79
	Andranik Eskandarian	Defender	1972–78
	Mansour Rashidi	Goalkeeper	1973–78
	Masoud Mojdehi	Forward	1973–77
	Hadi Naraghi	Forward	1973–79
	Parviz Mazloumi	Forward	1973–75, 1978–88
	Hassan Nazari	Defender	1975–78
	Saeid Maragehchian	Midfielder	1975–87
	Asghar Hajiloo	Defender	1976–88
	Reza Naalchegar	Forward	1978–88
	Shahrokh Bayani	Midfielder	1978–85, 1989–92
	Behtash Fariba	Forward	1979–88
	Shahin Bayani	Defender	1979–86, 1989–94
	Abdolali Changiz	Forward	1981–86, 1990–92
	Reza Ahadi	Midfielder	1980–86, 1987–92
	Jafar Mokhtarifar	Forward	1983–87, 1989–95
	Sadegh Varmazyar	Defender	1984–97
	Majid Namjoo-Motlagh	Midfielder	1984–90, 1991–92
	Amir Hashemi	Forward	1985–90, 1992–94
	Javad Zarincheh	Defender	1987–91, 1993–2003
	Farshad Falahatzadeh	Defender	1987–94, 2000–01
	Reza Hassanzadeh	Defender	1988–95, 1996–2000
	Amir Ghalenoei	Midfielder	1989–97
	Samad Marfavi	Forward	1989–93, 1996–97
	Abbas Sarkhab	Forward	1988–95
	Hamid Babazadeh	Goalkeeper	1990–97
	Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh	Goalkeeper	1990–93
	Iman Alami	Midfielder	1991–96
	Mahmoud Fekri	Defender	1992–96, 1998–2007
	Mehdi Pashazadeh	Defender	1992–98, 2000–03
	Mohammad Taghavi	Defender	1993–2000
	Behzad Gholampour	Goalkeeper	1994–98
	Edmond Akhtar	Forward	1994–99
	Mohammad Khorramgah	Defender	1994–2003
	Serjik Teymourian	Midfielder	1994–98
	Alireza Mansourian	Midfielder	1995, 1997–98, 2002–08
	Alireza Akbarpour	Forward	1996–2006
	Farhad Majidi	Forward	1997–2000, 2007–11, 2012–13
	Farzad Majidi	Midfielder	1997–2007
	Sirous Dinmohammadi	Midfielder	1998–99, 2000–03
	Parviz Boroumand	Goalkeeper	1998–2004
	Mohammad Navazi	Midfielder	1998–2004, 2006–08
	Ali Latifi	Forward	1998–2001,
	Ali Mousavi	Forward	1998–99, 2000–03
	Hadi Tabatabaei	Goalkeeper	1999–2003
	Sattar Hamedani	Midfielder	1999–2004
	Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh	Defender	1999–2000, 2001–03
	Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht	Midfielder	1999–2006, 2013–14
	Mehdi Hasheminasab	Defender	2000–03
	Pirouz Ghorbani	Defender	2000–09
	Ali Samereh	Forward	2000–05
	Yadollah Akbari	Midfielder	2001–04, 2008–09
	Vahid Talebloo	Goalkeeper	2002–11, 2015–16
	Reza Enayati	Forward	2003–06, 2009–10, 2014–15
	Amir Hossein Sadeghi	Defender	2003–08, 2009–11, 2012–15
	Mehdi Amirabadi	Defender	2004–12
	Hossein Kazemi	Midfielder	2004–07, 2008–10
	Siavash Akbarpour	Forward	2004–07, 2008–10, 2012–14
	Mojtaba Jabbari	Midfielder	2005–13, 2017
	Mehdi Rahmati	Goalkeeper	2005–07, 2011–14, 2015–19
	Mohsen Yousefi	Midfielder	2006–08, 2009–12
	Pejman Montazeri	Defender	2007–14, 2017–19
	Arash Borhani	Forward	2007–16
	Omid Ravankhah	Midfielder	2007–11
	Khosro Heydari	Midfielder	2008–10, 2011–19
	Hashem Beikzadeh	Defender	2008–10, 2012–15
	Hanif Omranzadeh	Defender	2008–16
	Hossein Hosseini	Goalkeeper	2012–14, 2016–Present
	Hrayr Mkoyan	Defender	2014–17
	Omid Ebrahimi	Midfielder	2014–18
	Majid Hosseini	Defender	2014–15, 2016–18
	Rouzbeh Cheshmi	Defender	2015–Present
	Farshid Esmaeili	Midfielder	2015–Present
	Omid Noorafkan	Midfielder	2015–18
	Vouria Ghafouri	Defender	2016–Present
	Mehdi Ghayedi	Forward	2017–Present

List of foreign players

• Bold players are/were National players.

#	Name	Nat	Pos	App	Goal	from	Career	to
1	Pierre Karlów		GK	?	0	?	1945–56	?
2	Rufat Quliyev		MF	24	4	Shafa Baku	2000–02	Sanat Naft
3	Roger Fabrizio		FW	14	2	?	2003–04	?
4	Rafael Gomes		DF	2	0	Vasco da Gama	2003–04	Bragantino
5	Đorđe Topalović		GK	22	0	Zemun	2004–05	Oghab Tehran
6	Akvsenti Gilauri		DF	44	2	Sioni Bolnisi	2004–07	Pegah Gilan
7	Ladu Akhalaia		FW	0	0	?	2004	?
8	Joílson da Silva		FW	12	3	Zob Ahan	2006–07	Chonburi
9	Léonard Kweuke		FW	9	0	Cintra Yaoundé	2006–07	Steel Azin
10	Srđan Urošević		MF	9	1	Zemun	2007	Hamarkameratene
11	Januário		MF	78	8	Foolad Sepahan	2008–10 2012	Sepahan Retired
12	Rinaldo Cruzado		MF	21	2	Sporting Cristal	2009–10	Juan Aurich
13	Felipe Alves de Souza		MF	25	0	Malavan	2010–11	Zob Ahan
14	Anderson Ricardo dos Santos		FW	7	0	FC Seoul	2010	Botafogo-SP
15	André Luiz		DF	19	0	Paraná	2010–11	J. Malucelli
16	Hawar Mulla Mohammed		MF	17	4	Persepolis	2011	Zob Ahan
17	Waleed Ali		MF	2	1	Kuwait SC	2011	Retired
18	Jlloyd Samuel		DF	92	10	Bolton Wanderers	2012–14	Paykan
19	Goran Jerković		FW	26	9	Tauras Tauragė	2011–12	Buriram United
20	Karrar Jassim		MF	35	2	Tractor Al-Talaba	2011 2014–15	Ajman Club Naft Al-Wasat
21	Jacques Elong Elong		MF	6	0	DAC Dunajská Streda	2012	Naft Maysan
22	Rodrigo Tosi		FW	9	2	Tractor	2012	DPMM FC
23	Liam Reddy		GK	0	0	Sydney FC	2012	Sydney United
24	Vicente Arze		MF	11	3	Charleroi	2012–13	Hoverla Uzhhorod
25	Goran Lovre		MF	3	0	Partizan	2013	SSV Ulm 1846
26	Boubacar Kébé		FW	7	3	Damash Gilan	2013–14	Al-Hilal
27	Antônio Carvalho		FW	12	1	Boavista	2014	XV de Piracicaba
28	Alberto da Silva		GK	0	0	Bangu	2014	Cabofriense
29	Hrayr Mkoyan		DF	76	0	Shirak	2014–17	Shirak
30	Rivaldo Barbosa		MF	3	0	Figueirense	2014	Clube de Regatas Brasil
31	Hendrik Helmke		MF	0	0	FF Jaro	2015	Al Ahly
32	Pero Pejić		FW	14	5	Kukësi	2015–16	Kukësi
33	Adil Chihi		MF	6	0	Fulham	2016	FSV Frankfurt
34	Róbson		DF	36	0	Bahia (loan)	2016–17	Boavista (loan return)
35	Leandro Padovani		DF	41	2	Sepahan	2016–18	Injured and could not continue playing
36	Server Djeparov		MF	40	6	Lokomotiv Tashkent	2017–18	Zhetysu
37	Mame Baba Thiam		FW	13	12	Juventus	2018	Ajman Club
38	Bojan Najdenov		MF	5	0	Smouha	2018	KF Laçi
39	Markus Neumayr		MF	10	0	Kasımpaşa	2018	Aarau
40	Humam Tariq		MF	18	1	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya	2018–19	Ismaily
41	Alhaji Gero		FW	10	1	Östersunds	2018	Östersunds
42	Esmaël Gonçalves		FW	18	3	Pakhtakor	2019	Matsumoto Yamaga
43	Ayanda Patosi		MF	19	4	Lokeren (loan)	2019	Baniyas (loan return)
44	Godwin Mensha		FW	18	1	Persepolis	2019	Ajman Club
45	Cheick Diabaté		FW	19	14	Osmanlıspor	2019–Present
46	Hrvoje Milić		DF	14	2	Crotone	2019–Present
47	Nikolay Bodurov		DF	3	0	CSKA Sofia	2020	Pirin Blagoevgrad

Notes

A. ^ Gholam Hossein Mazloumi is top goal scorer of 1973–74 with 15 goals and 1974–75 with 10 goals.

B. ^ Ali Samereh is top goal scorer of 2000–01 with 14 goals.

C. ^ Reza Enayati is top goal scorer of 2004–05 with 20 goals and 2005–06 with 21 goals.

D. ^ Arash Borhani is top goal scorer of 2008–09 with 20 goals.

E. ^ Cheick Diabaté is top goal scorer of 2019–20 with 15 goals.

References

"sss87.persiangig.com". |- "Esteghlal F.C. official website".