2013–14 Esteghlal Khuzestan F.C. season

The 2013–14 season are the Esteghlal Khuzestan Football Club's first season in the Iran Pro League and the top division of Iranian football. They are also competing in the Hazfi Cup.

Esteghlal Khuzestan

2013–14 season
Manager	Abdollah Veisi
Stadium	Takhti Stadium
Persian Gulf Cup	12th
Hazfi Cup	Round of 32 vs Alvand Hamedan
Top goalscorer	League: Milad Meydavoudi (5) All: Milad Meydavoudi (5)
Highest home attendance	10,000 vs Esteghlal (23 August 2013)
Lowest home attendance	2,000 vs Zob Ahan (24 July 2013)
Average home league attendance	4,500

Squad

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  BRA Fábio Carvalho 2 DF  IRN Mohammad Tayyebi 4 DF  IRN Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Captain) 7 FW  IRN Mehdi Chahkoutahzadeh 8 MF  MLI Idrissa Traoré ^U23 9 MF  IRN Mahmoud Tighnavard 10 FW  IRN Milad Meydavoudi 11 FW  IRN Mohammad Mo'avi ^U23 12 DF  MLI Moussa Coulibaly 13 DF  IRN Hossein Kaebi (3rd Captain) 14 MF  IRN Mehdi Kheiri 15 MF  IRN Karim Shaverdi 16 FW  IRN Ebrahim Salehi ^U23 17 DF  IRN Ramtin Soleimanzadeh 18 MF  IRN Hossein Mo'avi ^U21

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW  IRN Ali Bigdeli 20 FW  IRN Hadi Khanifar 21 FW  IRN Shahrokh Shams ^U23 22 GK  IRN Parviz Karimi 23 MF  IRN Iman Mobali (2nd Captain) 24 MF  IRN Ala Khallafzadeh ^U23 25 DF  IRN Farzad Jafari 26 DF  IRN Mohammad Mad Malisi 27 FW  IRN Ehsan Alvanzadeh 29 MF  IRN Ramin Khosravi 30 FW  IRN Mohammad Ousani 33 GK  IRN Ali Akbar Ahaki ^U21 35 FW  IRN Sajjad Ghasemnejad ^U21 40 MF  IRN Adel Kolahkaj 66 DF  IRN Saeid Chahjouei

Transfers

Summer

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 4 DF  IRN Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh ^PL (from Saba Qom)[1] 1 GK  IRN Fábio Carvalho ^PL (from Paykan)[2][3] 13 DF  IRN Hossein Kaabi ^PL (from Sanat Naft)[4] 14 MF  IRN Mehdi Kheiri ^PL (from Naft Tehran)[5] 7 FW  IRN Mehdi Chahkoutahzadeh (from Iranjavan)[6] 16 MF  IRN Ebrahim Salehi (from Iranjavan)[6] 15 MF  IRN Karim Shaverdi (from Pas Hamedan)[7] 23 MF  IRN Iman Mobali ^PL (from Paykan)[8] 33 GK  IRN Ali Akbar Ahaki (from Foolad U21)[9] 40 MF  IRN Adel Kolahkaj ^PL (from Persepolis)[10] 10 FW  IRN Milad Meydavoodi ^PL (from Aluminium Hormozgan)[10] 8 MF  MLI Idrissa Traoré (from Djoliba)[11] 12 DF  MLI Moussa Coulibaly (from Djoliba)[11] 19 FW  IRN Ali Bigdeli (from Esteghlal Ramhormoz)[12]

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  IRN Alireza Ebrahimi (to Mes Kerman) 1 GK  IRN Khaled Shahitavi (Released)[12] 4 DF  IRN Kousha Bakhtiarizadeh (Released)[12] 5 DF  IRN Mojtaba Zare Mehrjerdi (Released)[12] 8 MF  IRN Rouhollah Nemati (Released)[12] 10 FW  IRN Hamid Khodabandelou (to Damash)[12] 12 GK  IRN Mohammad Nobegan (Released)[12] 15 MF  IRN Hassan Yousefi (Released)[12] 19 FW  IRN Mohammad Abiat (Released)[12] 21 MF  IRN Aboutaleb Ghanbarizadeh (Released)[12] 22 GK  IRN Mostafa Mirzaei (Released)[12] 23 DF  IRN Mohammad Amin Farajifard (Released)[12] 24 MF  IRN Shahab Ghanbari (Released)[12] 27 MF  IRN Mojtaba Babaei (Released)[12] 32 DF  IRN Saeid Anafcheh (Released)[12] 33 GK  IRN Amin Jahanmehr (Released)[12] — MF  IRN Pouria Darakeh (Released)[12] — MF  IRN Mohammad Sarfaraz (Released)[12] — DF  IRN Nabi Saki (Released)[12]

Winter

In: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 25 DF  IRN Farzad Jafari (from Esteghlal Ahvaz)[13] 9 MF  IRN Mahmoud Tighnavard (from Mes Kerman)[14] 66 DF  IRN Saeid Chahjouei (from Shahrdari Bandar Abbas)[15] 29 DF  IRN Mohammad Ebrahim Khosravi (from Alvand Hamedan) 30 FW  IRN Mohammad Ousani (from Shahrdari Dezful)

Out: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  IRN Mehdi Nazari (to Badr Hormozgan)[13] 5 DF  IRN Hamed Mahmoudi (to Shahrdari Tabriz)[13] 6 MF  IRN Mansour Noami (to Badr Hormozgan)[13] 17 DF  IRN Ramtin Soleymanzadeh (On loan at Fajr Sepasi)[16] 23 MF  IRN Iman Mobali (on loan at Esteghlal)

Competitions

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
10	Gostaresh	30	7	11	12	31	34	−3	32
11	Rah Ahan	30	7	10	13	25	34	−9	31
12	Est. Khuzestan	30	6	11	13	26	37	−11	29
13	Zob Ahan	30	6	11	13	24	36	−12	29
14	Fajr Sepasi (R)	30	6	11	13	20	34	−14	29	Qualification to relegation play-offs

Updated to match(es) played on 11 April 2014. Source: FIFA.com
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(R) Relegated.

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
30	6	11	13	26	37	−11	29	5	4	6	16	20	−4	1	7	7	10	17	−7

Last updated: 11 April 2014.
Source: Match reports

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
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H
Result	W	D	D	L	L	L	W	D	L	L	W	D	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	L	L	W	L	D	D	D	L	L	L
Position	2	4	7	10	10	13	11	10	12	12	11	11	9	10	11	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	11	11	11	11	12	12	12

Updated to match(es) played on 11 April 2014. Source: Match reports
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

24 July 2013 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	2 – 0	Zob Ahan Esfahan	Ahvaz
22:00 UTC+4:30	Kolahkaj  84' Meydavoodi  89' M.Nazari	Summary	Aliabadi Haddadifar	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Shahin Hajbabaei

1 August 2013 2	Mes Kerman	1 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Kerman
22:00 UTC+4:30	Hassanzadeh  90+2' Tighnavard	Summary	Chahkoutahzadeh  4' Traoré   45'	Stadium: Shahid Bahonar Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Ghasem Vahedi

6 August 2013 3	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 0	Saipa	Ahvaz
22:00 UTC+4:30	M.Tayebi Kolahkaj	Summary	Shiri	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Jamshid Daneshmehr

11 August 2013 4	Malavan	2 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Bandar-e Anzali
19:45 UTC+4:30	Rafkhaei  44' Zare  87' (pen.) Salarzadeh Feshangchi Yousefi	Summary	M.Nazari Traoré Salehi  90'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Ashkan Khorshidi

16 August 2013 5	Esteghlal Khuzestan	2 – 4	Naft Tehran	Ahvaz
20:30 UTC+4:30	Mobali  44'  71' (pen.) Bakhtiarizadeh	Summary	Oladi  10' Norouzi  12', 16' Navidkia  83' Hajmohammadi	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Mohsen Ghahremani

23 August 2013 6	Foolad	3 – 2	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Ahvaz
19:45 UTC+4:30	Hatami  28' Rahmani  34' Rafiei  83' Yousefi	Summary	Meydavoudi  3' Kheiri  90+1' Tayyebi   32' Bakhtiarizadeh Khanifar	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mehdi Seyedali

31 August 2013 7	Esteghlal Khuzestan	2 – 0	Esteghlal	Ahvaz
19:00 UTC+4:30	Kolahkaj  38' Bigdeli  75' Kaebi	Summary	Montazeri	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Mohammadreza Akbarian

5 September 2013 8	Gostaresh Foulad	1 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tabriz
18:00 UTC+4:30	Mohammadpouri  90'	Summary	Meydavoudi  10' Traoré Mahmoudi	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Majid Kamani

13 September 2013 9	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 2	Sepahan	Ahvaz
18:45 UTC+4:30	Kaebi Meydavoudi	Summary	Gholami  10' Aghily  69' Papi Khalilzadeh Đalović Ahmadi	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Mouood Bonyadifar

20 September 2013 10	Shahid Sepasi	2 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Shiraz
17:15 UTC+4:30	Ansari  38' Madanchi Heidari  77'	Summary	Meydavoudi  14' Traoré Mahmoudi	Stadium: Hafezieh Stadium Referee: Hasan Akbari

27 September 2013 11	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1 – 0	Saba Qom	Ahvaz
18:30 UTC+4:30	Bakhtiarizadeh  90+1' M.Noami Shaverdi	Summary	Momeni Hosseini	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Farshid Afshar

4 October 2013 12	Damash Gilan	0 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Rasht
17:00 UTC+4:30		Summary	Tayyebi Kheiri Traoré	Stadium: Shahid Dr. Azodi Stadium Referee: Jamshid Mohammadi

17 October 2013 13	Esteghlal Khuzestan	3 – 2	Rah Ahan	Ahvaz
18:00 UTC+4:30	Alvanzadeh  16' Kheiri  56' Salehi  65' Bakhtiarizadeh	Report	Barzay  18' Manouchehri  89' M.Zarei Rezaian Zamani	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Bijan Heydari

27 October 2013 14	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1 – 4	Tractor Sazi	Ahvaz
15:30 UTC+3:30	Meydavoudi  44' A.Khallafzadeh Mobali	Summary	Ansarifard  8', 83', 88' Gordani  43' Ahmadzadeh Kiani Fakhreddini Asadi	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Jamshid Daneshmehr

6 November 2013 15	Persepolis	0 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tehran
15:15 UTC+3:30	Hosseini Sadeghian Aliasgari	Summary	Bakhtiarizadeh Salehi Kheiri	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Referee: Mohammadreza Akbarian

28 November 2013 16	Zob Ahan	0 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Isfahan
15:00 UTC+3:30	Tabrizi S.Abdollahpour	Report	Salehi  38' Coulibaly	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Stadium Referee: Majid Kamani

6 December 2013 17	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1 – 1	Mes Kerman	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+3:30	Ta'mini  65' (o.g.) Tighnavard  90+2' Meydavoudi	Report	Rezaei Ta'mini  78'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Hassan Akrami

12 December 2013 18	Saipa	1 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Karaj
15:00 UTC+3:30	Sobhani  24'  79' Zeinali  90'	Report	Ousani Tayyebi  77'	Stadium: Enghelab Stadium Referee: Ghasem Vahedi

19 December 2013 19	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 2	Malavan	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+3:30	Karimi	Summary	Kouroshi  54' Rafkhaei  61' (pen.)	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Babak Vasilehbar

24 December 2013 20	Naft Tehran	0 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tehran
15:00 UTC+3:30	V.Ghafouri	Summary	Bakhtiarizadeh Tighnavard A.Ahaki	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Shahin Haj Babaei

3 January 2014 21	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 2	Foolad	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+3:30	Kaebi Jafari Ousani	Summary	Sharifat  33', 90+2' Vali Rahmani	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Ahmad Salehi

11 January 2014 22	Esteghlal	1 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tehran
16:40 UTC+3:30	Ghazi  75' Samuel Nikbakht	Summary	Bakhtiarizadeh	Stadium: Azadi Stadium Referee: Shahin Haj Babaei

16 January 2014 23	Esteghlal Khuzestan	3 – 1	Gostaresh Foulad	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+3:30	Tighnavard  57' Coulibaly  72' A.Khalafzadeh  85' Traoré	Summary	Mousavi  89'	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Mehdi Seyedali

26 January 2014 24	Sepahan	3 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Fuladshahr
14:30 UTC+3:30	Karimi  35' Sharifi  45+1' Aghily  70'	Summary	Kheiri  76' Khosravi	Stadium: Foolad Shahr Stadium Referee: Ghasem Vahedi

31 January 2014 25	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 0	Shahid Sepasi	Ahvaz
15:00 UTC+3:30	M.Tayebi Meydavoudi	Summary	Jokar	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Ahamd Salehi

7 February 2014 26	Saba Qom	1 – 1	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Qom
15:00 UTC+3:30	Enayati  78' (pen.) Sadeghi Lotfi	Summary	Salehi  2' M.Tayebi	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Stadium Referee: Hassan Akrami

16 February 2014 27	Esteghlal Khuzestan	1 – 1	Damash Gilan	Ahvaz
15:30 UTC+3:30	Coulibaly  84' (pen.) Traoré Meydavoudi	Summary	Motevaselzadeh  71' Hassanzadeh	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Rasoul Rahbarfam

27 March 2014 28	Rah Ahan	1 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tehran
16:30 UTC+3:30	Alipour  60' Ashoubi  68'	Summary		Stadium: Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium Referee: Mohammadreza Akbarian

6 April 2014 29	Tractor Sazi	1 – 0	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Tabriz
17:30 UTC+4:30	Ansarifard  14' Lak	Summary	Karimi Shaverdi Salehi	Stadium: Yadegar-e Emam Stadium Referee: Mehdi Seyedali

11 April 2014 30	Esteghlal Khuzestan	0 – 1	Persepolis	Ahvaz
19:00 UTC+4:30	Kaebi Traoré Coulibaly	Summary	Abbaszadeh  31' (pen.) Alishah Sadeghian Kafshgari	Stadium: Takhti Stadium Referee: Yadollah Jahanbazi

Hazfi Cup

23 October 2013 Round of 32	Alvand Hamedan	1 – 1 (6 – 5 p)	Esteghlal Khuzestan	Hamedan
15:00 UTC+4:30	Akbari  58'	[ Summary]	Traoré  29' (pen.)	Stadium: Qods Stadium Attendance: 3,000

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Iran Pro League		Hazfi Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK		Fábio Carvalho	8	0	8	0	0	0
2	DF		Mohammad Tayyebi	27	1	26+1	1	0	0
4	DF		Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh	16	1	16	1	0	0
7	MF		Mehdi Chahkoutahzadeh	11	1	6+5	1	0	0
8	MF		Idrissa Traoré	25	0	23+2	0	0	0
9	MF		Mahmoud Tighnavard	12	1	12	1	0	0
10	FW		Milad Meydavoudi	29	5	26+3	5	0	0
11	FW		Mohammad Mo'avi	13	0	3+10	0	0	0
12	MF		Moussa Coulibaly	16	2	16	2	0	0
13	DF		Hossein Kaebi	20	0	17+3	0	0	0
14	MF		Mehdi Kheiri	24	3	13+11	3	0	0
15	MF		Karim Shaverdi	9	0	8+1	0	0	0
16	FW		Ebrahim Salehi	18	4	11+7	4	0	0
19	MF		Ali Bigdeli	12	1	12	1	0	0
20	MF		Hadi Khanifar	26	0	22+4	0	0	0
21	FW		Shahrokh Shams	17	0	5+12	0	0	0
22	GK		Parviz Karimi	22	0	22	0	0	0
24	DF		Ala Khalafzadeh	7	1	5+2	1	0	0
25	DF		Farzad Jafari	6	0	5+1	0	0	0
27	FW		Ehsan Alvanzadeh	5	1	4+1	1	0	0
29	MF		Ramin Khosravi	12	0	12	0	0	0
30	FW		Mohammad Ousani	9	0	6+3	0	0	0
33	GK		Ali Akbar Ahaki	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
40	MF		Adel Kolahkaj	20	2	17+3	2	0	0
66	DF		Saeid Chahjouei	4	0	4	0	0	0
Players who left Esteghlal Khuzestan during the season:
3	DF		Mehdi Nazari	4	0	3+1	0	0	0
5	DF		Hamed Mahmoudi	4	0	4	0	0	0
6	MF		Mansour Noami	4	0	2+2	0	0	0
17	DF		Ramtin Soleimanzadeh	12	0	12	0	0	0
23	MF		Iman Mobali	25	2	24+1	2	0	0

Goal scorers

Place	Position	Nation	Number	Name	Persian Gulf Cup	Hazfi Cup	Total
1	FW		10	Milad Meydavoudi	5	0	5
2	FW		16	Ebrahim Salehi	4	0	4
3	MF		14	Mehdi Kheiri	3	0	3
4	MF		40	Adel Kolahkaj	2	0	2
	MF		23	Iman Mobali	2	0	2
	DF		12	Moussa Coulibaly	2	0	2
7	MF		7	Mehdi Chahkoutahzadeh	1	0	0
	MF		19	Ali Bigdeli	1	0	1
	DF		4	Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh	1	0	1
	FW		27	Ehsan Alvanzadeh	1	0	1
	DF		2	Mohammad Tayyebi	1	0	1
	MF		9	Mahmoud Tighnavard	1	0	1
	DF		24	Ala Khalafzadeh	1	0	1
	MF		8	Idrissa Traoré	0	1	1
				Own Goal	1	0	1
TOTALS					26	1	27

References

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External links

• Iran Premier League Statistics
• Persian League