Ebrahim Ashtiani

First years

He began his playing career with Boostan and Poolad (under-19 and under-23 team of Shahin) and was promoted to the first team in 1964, by Abbas Ekrami. He showed good performances and became one of the starting players after the 1966–67 season. He received a red card in a match against Tehranjavan, this led to an involvement between players and coaches. Two days after the match, IFF (Iran's football association) ruled a one-year suspension for Shahin but club officials announced the dissolution of Shahin.

Persepolis

After Shahin was dissolved, Ashtiani and many other players of the team joined another Tehran based club, Persepolis. He played with the team in Asian Club Championship in his first season. After he was recalled from loan in 1970, he showed good form in a friendly match against Hamburg SV which the German club offered him a contract to join to the team, which Ashtiani rejected to play for Persepolis until his retirement. He also had bids from Manchester City and Al-Arabi. He assisted the first goal of Persepolis in a historic 6–0 derby win to Hossein Kalani. After the retirement of Persepolis captains Jafar Kashani and Homayoun Behzadi, Ashtiani became captain of the club when he was only 28 making him the youngest captain of Persepolis, a record that was broken by Alireza Haghighi in 2010. He retired in the summer of 1976 at the age of 30.

Loan to Paykan

Ashtiani and many other players of Persepolis joined Paykan on loan…

Ashtiani won the Asian Cup in Thailand in 1972 as well as the football tournament of the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. He made 35 appearances for the Iran national football team from 1969 to 1974 and was part of the Iranian team competing in the football tournament of the Olympics in Munich 1972.

Club

Shahin Tehran Football League: 1965 Persepolis Iranian Football League: 1971–72 1973–74, 1974–75 (Runner-up), 1975–76

National

AFC Asian Cup: 1968, 1972

Individual

Iranian Footballer of the Year: 1971 AFC Asian Cup most valuable player: 1972