2008–09 Esteghlal F.C. season

Esteghlal Tehran FC
2008–09 season
President	Ali Fathollahzadeh (until Sep 2008); Vaezi Ashtiani
Head coach	Amir Ghalenoei
IPL	Champions
Hazfi Cup	Fourth round
Champions League	Group Stages
Top goalscorer	League: ; Arash Borhani (20); All: ; Arash Borhani (27)
	← 2007–08 2009–10 →

This is a list of Esteghlal F.C.'s results at the 2008–09 IPL, 2009 ACL, Super Cup 2008 and 2008–09 Hazfi Cup. The club is competing in the Iran Pro League, Hazfi Cup. Iranian Super Cup and Asian Champions League.

PresidentAli Fathollahzadeh (until Sep 2008)
Vaezi Ashtiani

Head coachAmir Ghalenoei

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Hazfi CupFourth round

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Country	No.	Position	Name	2008-2009
				IPL						Hazfi						ACL
				App	GS	Min				App	GS	Min				App	GS	Min
IRN	1	GK	Vahid Talebloo	2	-	187	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	3	MF	Mehdi Amirabadi	3	1	228	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	4	MF	Hossein Kazemi	2	-	187	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	5	DF	Bijan Koshki	2	-	171	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	6	DF	Hadi Shakouri	1	-	94	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	7	FW	Farhad Majidi (c)	1	-	83	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	8	MF	Mojtaba Jabari	3	1	264	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	9	FW	Arash Borhani	1	-	46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	10	FW	Siavash Akbarpour	3	-	273	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	11	MF	Meysam Maniei	3	-	148	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	12	FW	Ahmad Khaziravi	1	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	13	DF	Ebrahim Taghipour	1	-	94	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	14	MF	Yadollah Akbari	2	-	57	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	15	FW	Alireza Abbasfard	1	-	16	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	16	MF	Hashem Beikzadeh	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
BRA	17	MF	Fábio Januário	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	18	MF	Mehrdad Pooladi	1	-	44	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	19	FW	Ali Alizadeh	3	-	237	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	20	DF	Pirouz Ghorbani	3	1	281	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	21	MF	Milad Nouri	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	22	GK	Ashkan Namdari	1	-	94	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	23	MF	Omid Ravankhah	1	-	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	27	MF	Khosro Heydari	3	-	281	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
IRN	33	DF	Pejman Montazeri	3	-	281	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

#	Date	Home	Score	Away	Goal	Yellow card	Red card	Attendance	Ref.	Rank
1	2008-08-05	Esteghlal	2-0^{[permanent dead link]}	Aboomoslem	Mojtaba Jabbari (57), Mehdi Amirabadi (67)	-	-	30,000	Khodadad Afsharian	1
2	2008-08-09	Pegah	1-0	Esteghlal	-	Ali Alizade	-	10,000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	7
3	2008-08-17	Esteghlal	1-1	Sepahan	Pirouz Ghorbani (74)	Mehrdad Pooladi, Hossain Kazemi	-	30,000	Mohsen Torky	6
4	2008-08-24	Mes Kerman	1-0^{[link removed]}	Esteghlal	-	Farhad Majidi, Alireza Abbasfard	-	10,000	Hedayat Mombini	12
5	2008-10-17	Esteghlal	1-1^{[permanent dead link]}	Bargh	Samad Zare (16) o.g	Pirooz Ghorbani, Farhad Majidi	-	50000	Mahmoud Rafei	5
6	2008-09-12	Saba QOM	3-1	Esteghlal	Siavash Akbarpour (57)	-	-	15000	Khodadad Afsharian	17
7	2008-09-18	Esteghlal	6-0	Esteghlal Ahvaz	Arash Borhani (21), (68), Pirooz Ghorbani (34), Hashem Bayk Zadeh (50), Farhad Majidi (73), (90)	-	-	25000	Shahin Hajbabaei	8
8	2008-09-27	Esteghlal	2-1^{[permanent dead link]}	Rah Ahan	Pirooz Ghorbani (34), Arash Borhani (39)	Hashem Bayk Zadeh, Siavash Akbarpour	-	50000	Alireza Faghani	6
9	2008-10-03	Persepolis	1-1	Esteghlal	Arash Borhani (47)	Arash Borhani	-	95000	Saed Kamil	7
10	2008-10-07	Esteghlal	5-2	Moghavemat	Meysam Maniei ^[1]^[2](11), Khosrow Haydari (33), Siavash Akbarpour (63) (69), Fabio Daniel Janavario (75)	Mojtaba Jabbari	-	15000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	6
11	2008-10-21	PAS Hamedan	2-4	Esteghlal	Ali Alizade (30), Mojtaba Jabbari (72) (74), Arash Borhani (90+2)	Hossain Kazemi, Khosrow Haydari	-	12000	Mohsen Torky	4
12	2008-10-27	Esteghlal	3-2	Paykan	Arash Borhani (33)pen, (37), (42)	Yadollah Akbari, Fabio Daniel Janavario	Yadollah Akbari	30000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	3
13	2008-10-31	Esteghlal	2-0	Zob Ahan	Hossain Kazemi (77), Mojtaba Jabbari (84)	-	-	50000	Mohsen Ghahremani	3
14	2008-11-06	Malavan	2-2	Esteghlal	Siavash Akbarpour (32), Alireza Abbasfard (90+3)	Ali Alizade, Hadi Shakori, Hossain Kazemi, Pirooz Ghorbani, Alireza Abbasfard	-	15000	Masoud Moradi	3
15	2008-11-21	Esteghlal	0-1^{[permanent dead link]}	Foolad	-	-	-	40000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	3
16	2008-11-29	Saipa	0-2	Esteghlal	Pirooz Ghorbani (66), Arash Borhani (68)	Siavash Akbarpour	-	20000	Hedayat Mombeini	3
17	2008-12-03	Esteghlal	5-0^{[permanent dead link]}	Payam Mashhad	Siavash Akbarpour (39) (44) (76), Arash Borhani (67) (84)pen	Arash Borhani	-	10000	Saeed Bakhshizadeh	2
18	2008-12-07	Aboomoslem	0-2^{[permanent dead link]}	Esteghlal	Mehdi Amirabadi (13), Siavash Akbarpour (90)	Siavash Akbarpour, Ali Alizade, Mehdi Amirabadi	-	10000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	1
19	2008-12-12	Esteghlal	4-2	Damash Gilan	Mehdi Noori (25) o.g, Pirooz Ghorbani (43), Hossain Kazemi (74), Arash Borhani (75)	Khosrow Haydari	-	40000	Toraj Haghverdi	1
20	2008-12-30	Sepahan	2-1	Esteghlal	Arash Borhani (74)	-	-	18000	Rahim Rahimi Moghadam	1
21	2009-01-03	Esteghlal	2-1^{[link removed]}	Mes Kerman	Hossain Kazemi (54), Arash Borhani (90)	Arash Borhani	-	20000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	1
22	2009-01-16	Bargh	1-4	Esteghlal	Hossain Kazemi (27) (53), Fabio Daniel Janavario (46), Siavash Akbarpour (56)	Arash Borhani, Hadi Shakori, Fabio Daniel Janavario	-	30000	Mohsen Ghahremani	1
23	2009-01-23	Esteghlal	2-1	Saba QOM	Alireza Abbasfard (38), Farhad Majidi (46)	Fabio Daniel Janavario	-	60000	Ahmad Salehi	1
24	2009-01-31	Esteghlal Ahvaz	0-3	Esteghlal	Siavash Akbarpour (1), Alireza Abbasfard (32), Arash Borhani (84)	Farhad Majidi	-	20000	Masoud Moradi	1
25	2009-02-04	Rah Ahan	1-5^{[permanent dead link]}	Esteghlal	Hossain Kazemi (10), Arash Borhani (31)pen (88), Mojtaba Jabbari (50), Siavash Akbarpour (55)	Hossain Kazemi, Fabio Daniel Janavario	-	20000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	1
26	2009-02-13	Esteghlal	1-1^{[permanent dead link]}	Persepolis	Mojtaba Jabbari (56)	Mehdi Amirabadi, Khosrow Haydari, Farhad Majidi	-	90000	Mohsen Torky	1
27	2009-02-18	Moghavemat	4-1	Esteghlal	Alireza Abbasfard (70)	Mojtaba Jabbari, Bijan Koshki	-	17000	Hedayat Mombeini	1
28	2009-02-22	Esteghlal	1-0	PAS Hamedan	Siavash Akbarpour (22)	Bijan Koshki, Khosrow Haydari, Siavash Akbarpour	Farhad Majidi	15000	Alireza Faghani	1
29	2009-02-28	Paykan	1-1	Esteghlal	Mojtaba Jabbari (65)	-	-	10000	Yadolah Jahanbazi	1
30	2009-03-04	Zob Ahan	1-1^{[permanent dead link]}	Esteghlal	Mojtaba Jabbari (56)pen	Hashem Beikzadeh, Siavash Akbarpour, Pirouz Ghorbani	Ghorbani, Namdari	15000	Mohsen Torky	1
31	2009-04-03	Esteghlal	3-0	Malavan	Arash Borhani (32, 36), Fabio Daniel Janavario(79)	Omid Reza Ravankhah	-	20000	Saeed Mozafari Zadeh	1
32	2009-04-12	Foolad	0-0	Esteghlal	-	Mojtaba Jabbari, Siavash Akbarpour	-	30,000	Masoud Moradi	2
33	2009-04-16	Esteghlal	1-1	Saipa	Arash Borhani(88)pen	Fabio Daniel Janavario	-	40,000	Mohsen Ghahremani	2
34	2009-04-26	Payam Mashhad	0-1	Esteghlal	Fabio Daniel Janavario (42)	Pirooz Ghorbani, Omid Reza Ravankhah, Hossain Kazemi	Ebrahim Taghipour	50,000	Alireza Faghani	1

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	L	D	L	D	L	W	W	D	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	D	L	W	D	D	W	D	D	W
Position	1	7	6	12	5	17	8	6	7	6	4	3	3	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	12	4	1	41	14	+27	7	5	5	29	20	+9

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
In Azadi Stadium	20	14	5	1	49	16	+33	47
In Other Stadiums	14	5	4	5	21	18	+3	19

2008–09 Esteghlal F.C. season

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2008–09 season

President	Ali Fathollahzadeh (until Sep 2008) Vaezi Ashtiani
Head coach	Amir Ghalenoei
IPL	Champions
Hazfi Cup	Fourth round
Champions League	Group Stages
Top goalscorer	League: Arash Borhani (20) All: Arash Borhani (27)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	12	4	1	41	14	+27	7	5	5	29	20	+9

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Esteghlal (C)	34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	Qualification for the 2010 AFC Champions League
2	Zob Ahan	34	19	9	6	58	42	+16	66
3	Mes	34	17	10	7	54	36	+18	61
4	Sepahan	34	14	14	6	46	34	+12	56
5	Persepolis	34	15	10	9	50	41	+9	55

Round	Date	Home	Score	Away	Venue	Goal	Yellow card	Red card	Fans	Ref
Third Round	2008-11-25	Esteghlal	8-1	Damash Gilan	Azadi /Tehran	Arash Borhani (18) (43)pen (66) (69) (89), Ahmad Khaziravi (61)pen, Mehdi Amirabadi (80), Farhad Majidi (90+3)	Ahmad Khaziravi, Fábio Januário	-	2000	Alireza Faghani
1/32	2009-04-30	Mes Rafsanjan	2-2 (5-3)	Esteghlal	Nosh Abad /Rafsanjan	Milad Nouri(25), Ali Alizadeh(30)pen	Mehrdad Pooladi, Farhad Majidi, Mehdi Amirabadi, Yadollah Akbari, Ali Alizadeh	-	6,000	Toraj Haghverdi

Quarterfinals		Semifinals	Finals

Shamoushak	2
Saipa	1	Shamoushak
Shahrdari Tabriz	0	Saba Battery
Saba Battery	1
Malavan	2
Sepahan Novin	1	Malavan
Mes Rafsanjan	2 (5)	Mes Rafsanjan
Esteghlal	2 (3)

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ITT	UMS	JAZ	EST
1	Al-Ittihad	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	12	Advance to knockout stage	—	7–0	1–1	2–1
2	Umm-Salal	6	2	2	2	6	13	−7	8	Advance to knockout stage	1–3	—	2–2	1–0
3	Al-Jazira	6	0	5	1	6	7	−1	5		0–0	0–1	—	2–2
4	Esteghlal	6	0	4	2	6	8	−2	4		1–1	1–1	1–1	—

2009-03-11 G1	Al-Ittihad	2 – 1	Esteghlal	Jeddah
20:30	Moteab 87' Aboucherouane 90+3'	Report	Borhani 77'	Stadium: Prince Abdullah al-Faisal Stadium Attendance: 19,000 Referee: Masaaki Iemeto

2009-03-18 G2	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Al-Jazira	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
15:00	Hossein Kazemi 45+4'	report	Fernando Baiano 10'	Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Ravshan Irmatov

2009-04-07 G3	Umm-Salal	1 – 0	Esteghlal	Qatar SC Stadium, Doha
19:00	Fábio César 67'	Report		Attendance: 2,521 Referee: Abdul Malik Bashir

2009-04-22 G4	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Umm-Salal	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
16:00	Borhani 44'	Report	Ghanem 71'	Attendance: 27,165 Referee: Abdullah Al-Hilali

19 May 2009 G6	Al-Jazira	2 – 2	Esteghlal	Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Dubai
20:30 (UTC+4)	Ahmed 49' Saad 70'	Report	Alizadeh 79' Shakouri 84'	Attendance: 1,600 Referee: Sun Baojie

No.	Position	Player	Age	Fee	To
2	DF	Amir Hossein Sadeqi	26	Undisclosed	Mes F.C.
4	DF	Saeed Lotfi	27	Undisclosed	Paykan F.C.
7	MF	Mohammad Navazi	33
9	FW	Mohsen Bayatiniya	28	Undisclosed	Saba F.C.
10	MF	Alireza Mansourian	36
13	MF	Mohsen Yousefi		Undisclosed	Saba F.C.
16	DF	Hossein Koushki		Undisclosed	Payam F.C.
21	FW	Asghar Nadali
22	FW	Hamid Shafiei	27	Undisclosed	F.C. Aboomoslem
25	MF	Hossein Ghanbari		Undisclosed	PAS F.C.
30	GK	Mahyar Hassan Nejad

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	12	4	1	41	14	+27	7	5	5	29	20	+9

2009-05-05 G5	Esteghlal	1 – 1	Al-Ittihad	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
17:00	Alizadeh 89'	Report	Aboucherouane 80'	Attendance: 15,885 Referee: Mohsen Basma

No.	Position	Player	Age	Fee	From
4	MF	Hossein Kazemi	28	Undisclosed	Sepahan F.C.
6	DF	Hadi Shakouri	26	Undisclosed	Zob Ahan F.C.
10	FW	Siavash Akbarpour	23	Undisclosed	Al-Dhafra
13	DF	Ebrahim Taghipour	31	Undisclosed	Pegah F.C.
14	MF	Yadollah Akbari	34	Undisclosed	PAS F.C.
15	FW	Alireza Abbasfard	26	Undisclosed	Saba F.C.
16	MF	Hashem Beikzadeh	24	Undisclosed	Moghavemat F.C.
17	MF	Fábio Januário	28	Undisclosed	Foolad F.C.
21	MF	Milad Nouri	22	Undisclosed	Steel Azin F.C.
27	MF	Khosro Heydari	24	Undisclosed	PAS F.C.

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	12	4	1	41	14	+27	7	5	5	29	20	+9