2008–09 Esteghlal F.C. season

Esteghlal Tehran FC

2008–09 season
Chairman	Ali Fathollahzadeh (until Sep 2008) Vaezi Ashtiani
Manager	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 IPL 2008-09, 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.

Iran Pro League 2008/09

Esteghlal squad IPL statistics

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	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

IPL Esteghlal Schedule

Last updated Apr 26 2009

#	Date	Home	Score	Away	Goal	Yellow card	Red card	Attendance	Ref.	Rank
1	2008-08-05	Esteghlal	2-0	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	Esteghlal	-	Farhad Majidi ,Alireza Abbasfard	-	10,000	Hedayat Mombini	12
5	2008-10-17	Esteghlal	1-1	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	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

Results by round

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

Last updated: 26 Apr 2009.
Source: "Ipl".
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results summary

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

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

Source: "Ipl".

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Esteghlal	34	19	9	6	70	34	+36	66	2010 AFC Champions League Group stage
2	Zob Ahan	34	19	9	6	58	42	+16	66
3	Sanat Mes	34	17	10	7	54	36	+18	61

Updated to games played on 26 March 2009.
Source: http://www.iplstats.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Scorers in IPL 2008/09

Goalscorers

20

• Arash Borhani^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

12

• Siavash Akbarpour

8

• Mojtaba Jabari

6

• Hossein Kazemi

5

• Pirouz Ghorbani

4

• Alireza Abbasfard
• Fábio Januário

3

• Farhad Majidi

2

• Mehdi Amirabadi

1

• Khosro Heydari
• Hashem Beikzadeh
• Ali Alizadeh
• Mehrdad Pooladi

Goalassistants

8

• Fábio Januário

7

• Khosro Heydari

5

• Siavash Akbarpour

4

• Mojtaba Jabari
• Meysam Maniei

3

• Ali Alizadeh
• Farhad Majidi

2

• Yadollah Akbari
• Alireza Abbasfard
• Hashem Beikzadeh
• Arash Borhani

1

• Pirouz Ghorbani
• Hossein Kazemi
• Mehdi Amirabadi
• Mehrdad Pooladi

Cards

Player
Farhad Majidi	4	1	0
Siavash Akbarpour	4	0	0
Arash Borhani	4	0	0
Hossein Kazemi	4	0	0
Fábio Januário	4	0	0
Ali Alizadeh	3	0	0
Khosro Heydari	3	0	0
Mojtaba Jabari	3	0	0
Alireza Abbasfard	2	0	0
Yadollah Akbari	1	1	0
Pirouz Ghorbani	2	0	0
Hadi Shakouri	2	0	0
Mehdi Amirabadi	2	0	0
Hashem Beikzadeh	1	0	0
Mehrdad Pooladi	1	0	0
Bijan Koshki	1	0	0

Matches played

29

• Vahid Talebloo

28

• Pirouz Ghorbani

27

• Khosro Heydari

2007-08 Hazfi Cup Esteghlal Schedule

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

Bracket

Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
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)

Scorers in Hazfi Cup 2008/09

Goalscorers

5

• Arash Borhani

1

• Ahmad Khaziravi
• Mehdi Amirabadi
• Farhad Majidi
• Milad Nouri
• Ali Alizadeh

Goalassistants

2

• Mehdi Amirabadi

1

• Ahmad Khaziravi
• Meysam Maniei

Cards

Player
Ahmad Khaziravi	1	0	0
Mehrdad Pooladi	1	0	0
Farhad Majidi	1	0	0
Mehdi Amirabadi	1	0	0
Yadollah Akbari	1	0	0
Ali Alizadeh	1	0	0
Fábio Januário	1	0	0

Scorers in 2008-09 season

Last updated Apr 16 2009

Goalscorers

26

• Arash Borhani

12

• Siavash Akbarpour

Goalassistants

8

• Fábio Januário

Asian Champions League 2009

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Ittihad	6	3	3	0	14	4	+10	12	AFC Champions League 2009 Round of 16
2	Umm Salal	6	2	2	2	6	13	−7	8
3	Al Jazira	6	0	5	1	6	7	−1	5
4	Esteghlal	6	0	4	2	6	8	−2	4

Updated to games played on 19 May 2009.
Source: AFC Champions League Official Page
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Head-to-Head: used when head-to-head record is used to rank tied teams.

Home \ Away^[1]	ITT	JAZ	EST	UMM
Al-Ittihad		1–1	2–1	7–0
Al Jazira	0–0		2–2	0–1
Esteghlal	1–1	1–1		1–1
Umm Salal	1–3	2–2	1–0

Source: AFC Champions League Official Page
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Esteghlal schedule ACL 2009

Al-Ittihad v Esteghlal

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

Esteghlal v Al-Jazira

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

Umm-Salal v Esteghlal

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

Esteghlal v Umm-Salal

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

Esteghlal v Al-Ittihad

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

Al-Jazira v Esteghlal

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

Scorers in ACLeague 2009

Goalscorers

2

• Arash Borhani
• Ali Alizadeh

1

• Hossein Kazemi
• Hadi Shakouri

Goalassistants

1

• Khosro Heydari
• Meysam Maniei

Cards

Player
Vahid Talebloo	2	0	0
Ebrahim Taghipour	2	0	0
Hossein Kazemi	1	0	0
Khosro Heydari	1	0	0
Farhad Majidi	1	0	0
Pirouz Ghorbani	1	0	0
Bijan Koshki	1	0	0
Siavash Akbarpour	1	0	0
Hadi Shakouri	1	0	0
Fábio Januário	1	0	0

2008/2009 Transfers

In: No. Position Player Age Fee From Transfer Window 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. Out: No. Position Player Age Fee To Transfer Window 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 References Iran Pro League Statistics Persian League رحيمي مقدم: آرش برهاني گل اول استقلال را نزد Season: IPL2008-2009 Week: 10 Profile of Arash Borhani - IPL 2008-2009 Video of the goal Arash Borhani has 12 Goals in 1/2 season: http://ffiri.ir/html/images/lig8/5.jpg