Iran’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh named top scorer in Dutch Eredivise
Iran’s Alireza Jahanbakhsh named top scorer in Dutch Eredivise

 With 21 goals for the Dutch professional football club AZ Alkmaar, Iran international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh has capped off the season as the top scorer in the Eredivisie league. The Iranian star playing winger for AZ Alkmaar capped off the season with a hat-trick in the 88th minute to seal a 6-0 win against PEC Zwolle, […]

 With 21 goals for the Dutch professional football club AZ Alkmaar, Iran international winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh has capped off the season as the top scorer in the Eredivisie league.

The Iranian star playing winger for AZ Alkmaar capped off the season with a hat-trick in the 88th minute to seal a 6-0 win against PEC Zwolle, raising his total goals tally to 21. The tally made him the first Asian ever to finish as the highest-scoring player in an Eredivisie campaign.

Meanwhile, the AZ Alkmaar finished third in the Eredivisie league with 71 points. Jahanbakhsh is the third AZ Alkmaar player to win the Eredivisie top goalscorer title in the last 10 years.

The FootballTalentScout twitter account described Alireza Jahanbakhsh’s stats in the Eredivisie this season as ‘unreal’ with 33 games, 21 goals, 12 assists, 78 key passes and 111 successful dribbles.