Kiyan Nassiri

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Kiyan Nassiri
Personal information
Full name Kiyan Nassiri Giri
Date of birth (2000-11-17) 17 November 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder / Winger
Team information
Current team
 Chennaiyin
Youth career
CC&FC [1]
Mohammedan
Mohun Bagan
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–2024 Mohun Bagan 46 (3)
2024– Chennaiyin 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Kiyan Nassiri Giri (born 17 November 2000) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as an winger for Indian Super League club Chennaiyin.

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Personal life

Kiyan is the son of former Iran national youth team player and East Bengal legend Jamshid Nassiri. [2] His mother Suzanne hails from Shillong. [3] He grew up in Queens Mansion at Park Street. He was a student of St. James' School, where he led the school team to victory in the Debanjan Cup Interschool Tournament in 2015. [4]

Club career

Earlier career

Kiyan is the son of East Bengal legend Jamshid Nassiri. [5] [6] He was always passionate about football and during his school days he was called up for the Bengal U14 camp in Kalyani in 2014. During the U14 camp in Kalyani, in which he made 5 appearances and scored 6 goals. He went on to play for the Mohammedan Sporting U16 I-league squad. During the 2017–18 season, he joined Calcutta Football Club, [7] and was the highest scorer in the league helping the team to promotion that season.

Mohun Bagan

In 2019, he joined Mohun Bagan to play for their U-19 side in the Zee Bangla Football League and was sent on trial for the senior team. Kibu Vicuna was impressed by his performance at 2019–20 pre-season trial in Goa and promoted him to the senior team. [8] He made his professional debut on 1 March 2020, by coming as a seventy ninth minute substitute against TRAU FC in a 3–1 win. [9]

Mohun Bagan

Following the merger of ATK and Mohun Bagan in 2020 to become Mohun Bagan, he signed a long term contract with the club and was included in senior squad for the 2021–22 Indian Super League season. Ahead of the team's inter-zonal semifinal match against Uzbek side FC Nasaf in the 2021 AFC Cup, Kiyan was called up in twenty-two member squad. [10] He debuted for the side against Nasaf. [11]

He scored a hat-trick for Mohun Bagan in their 3–1 derby win against East Bengal on 29 January 2022, [12] and became the youngest ever player in the Indian Super League to do so. As 2022–23 season began, Nassiri appeared with the club on 20 August against Rajasthan United at the 131st edition of Durand Cup, in which he scored the opener but lost the match by 3–2. [13]

Career statistics

Club

As of 4 May 2024 [14]
ClubSeasonLeagueNational Cup AFC OthersTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Mohun Bagan 2019–20 I-League 10———10
Mohun Bagan 2020–21 Indian Super League 00—1 [a] 0—10
2021–22 133—4 [a] 0—173
2022–23 1603 [b] 1—4 [c] 2233
2023–24 1613 [b] 05 [a] 13 [c] 1273
Total4646110173699
Chennaiyin 2024–25 Indian Super League20———20
Career total4846110173719
  1. 1 2 3 Appearance(s) in AFC Cup
  2. 1 2 Appearance(s) in Super Cup
  3. 1 2 Appearance(s) in Durand Cup

Honours

Mohun Bagan

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "ডার্বির হিরো কিয়ানের পায়েখড়ি হওয়া সিসিএফসির প্রতিটা ঘাস আজ যেন গর্বিত" [Today, every grass of CC&FC where the hero of the derby Kiyan first played, is proud]. xtratimebangla.in (in Bengali). Kolkata: এক্সট্রা টাইম ওয়েব ডেস্ক. 30 January 2022. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
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