Iranian football club Esteghlal is set to have its winter training camp in Doha, Qatar. According to the team’s website, the Blues will fly to Qatar on Sunday to hold their camp from January 6 to 20 in Doha. Esteghlal will be preparing for the second half of the Iran Professional League (IPL) season. Esteghlal […]

 Esteghlal’s German midfielder Markus Neumayr joined Swiss football club Aarau on Monday. The 32-year-old player joined Iran’s Esteghlal on July 31 on a two-year contract but was released by the team on Dec. 16. Neumayr started his football career playing for local clubs before moving to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2003, however, within a few months, […]

Esteghlal football team from Iran has chosen Doha, Qatar as neutral venue to host Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in the 2019 AFC Champions League. Esteghlal, who has been drawn in Group C, has announced it will host the Saudi Arabian team in Doha. On Tuesday, Zob Ahan chose Iraqi city Karbala to host Al-Nassr. […]

Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar has confirmed that the country’s most popular football teams Esteghlal and Persepolis will be ceded to the private sector by auction. The government cabinet has agreed abandoning the two big cultural-sport companies to the private sector, Soltanifar said. The long awaited privatization of the clubs will […]

Esteghlal coach Winfried Schaefer has criticized the referee for ruling out their goal against Padideh. Esteghlal was held to a goalless draw by Padideh in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. Referee Shahab Zahedi disallowed Esteghlal goal in the 79th minute but TV replay showed it was a correct goal. “I […]

Esteghlal football team was held to a goalless draw by Padideh in the last match of Iran Professional League (IPL) prior to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. In the match held in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium in front of about 40, 000 spectators, Padideh went top of the table after earning one point. Esteghlal remained in […]

Persepolis football team and Tractor Sazi of Tabriz played out a goalless draw in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Sunday. In the match, held on a rainy day in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, the two teams showed a lackluster performance in front of 35,000 spectators. In Mashhad, Padideh defeated Saipa 1-0 to remain top of the IPL […]

Iran’s Esteghlal and Persepolis learned their fates at the new season of the 2019 AFC Champions League (IPL) on Thursday. The challenge for the group stage of the ACL was finalized following the competition’s official draw in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Esteghlal of Iran have been drawn with Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal, the 2017 runners-up and […]

 Esteghlal football team defeated Saipa 2-1 to move up to fifth place in the Iran Professional League table. On Friday, the Blues earned their third victory in the current season, beating Saipa 2-1 in Tehran’s Takhti Stadium. Ali Dashti put Saipa into the lead just seven minutes into the match after dribbling past four Esteghlal […]

The Iranian Esteghlal football team have failed to reach the semi-final stage of AFC Champions League after a 2-2 draw with Qatari Al Sadd in the return match in Doha. The Qatari Al Sadd easily defeated Iranian Esteghlal 3 to 1 in the first leg of the AFC Champions league quarter-finals. The return leg of […]