Esteghlal F.C. is an Iranian professional association football club base in Tehran. The club was formed in Ferdowsi Street, central Tehran on 26 September 1945 as Docharkhesavaran and was renamed to Taj F.C. on 11 February 1950. In spring of 1979 and only a few weeks after the Iranian revolution the club was renamed to its current name, Esteghlal F.C.
Chairmen
Key
Chairmen with this background in the "Chairman" column are italicised to denote acting chairmen.
+List of Esteghlal F.C. chairmenChairmanTenure Parviz KhosravaniSeptember 1945 – June 1950 Parviz SheikhanJune 1950 – February 1979 Enayatollah Atashi (acting)April 1979 – May 1979 Abbas KordnouriMay 1979 – May 1985 Nader FaryadshiranJune 1985 – September 1985 Abbas NekoyehJanuary 1986 – June 1989 Ali Agha-MohammadiJune 1989 – September 1989 Kazem OliaeiOctober 1989 – May 1996 Ali Fathollahzadeh28 October 1996 – 20 May 2003 Mohammadhossein Gharib20 May 2003 – 25 June 2005 Kazem Oliaei13 July 2005 – 30 January 2005 Mohammadhossein Gharib30 January 2005 – 1 September 2006 Manouchehr Salehi (acting)4 September 2006 – 14 October 2006 Meghdad Najafnejad14 October 2006 – 27 February 2007 Mohammadreza Bahmani (acting)February 2007 – 30 April 2007 Ali Fathollahzadeh30 April 2007 – 17 September 2008 Amir Reza Vaezi-Ashtiani20 September 2008 – 31 May 2010 Ali Fathollahzadeh9 June 2010 – 17 May 2014 Bahram Afsharzadeh17 May 2014 – 2 August 2016 Reza Hassanikho3 August 2016 – 6 August 2016 Reza Eftekhari7 August 2016 – 22 June 2018 Amir Hossein Fathi22 June 2018 – 10 December 2019 Esmaeil Khalilzadeh (acting)12 December 2019 – 25 February 2020 Ali Fathollahzadeh (acting)26 February 2020 – 20 March 2020 Ahmad Saadatmand29 March 2020 – 30 September 2020 Ahmad Madadi1 October 2020 – 24 September 2021 Mostafa Ajorlu24 September 2021 – 15 October 2022 Ali Fathollahzadeh15 October 2022 – 11 April 2023 Hojjat Karimi (acting)11 April 2023 – 5 July 2023 Ali Khatir8 July 2023 – 1 May 2024 Farshid Samiei(acting)1 May 2024 – 20 July 2024 Farshid Samiei20 July 2024 – 8 January 2025 Ali Nazari Juybari8 January 2025 – 13 August 2025 Ali Tajernia(acting)13 August 2025 — Present
See also
List of Esteghlal F.C. records and statistics List of Esteghlal F.C. honours
Footnotes
References
Sources
Esteghlal seasons stats Page Iran Premier League Stats RSSSF database about Iranian league football. Persian League
Bibliography