Esteghlal F.C. is an Iranian professional association football club base in Tehran. The club was formed in Ferdowsi Street, central Tehran on 26 September 1945 [1] as Docharkhesavaran and was renamed to Taj F.C. on 11 February 1950. In spring of 1979 and only a few weeks after the Iranian revolution the club was renamed to its current name, Esteghlal F.C. [2]
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 Parviz Khosravani | September 1945 – June 1950 |
 Parviz Sheikhan | June 1950 – February 1979 |
 Enayatollah Atashi (acting) | April 1979 – May 1979 |
| Abbas Kordnouri | May 1979 – May 1985 |
| Nader Faryadshiran | June 1985 – September 1985 |
| Abbas Nekoyeh | January 1986 – June 1989 |
| Ali Agha-Mohammadi | June 1989 – September 1989 |
| Kazem Oliaei | October 1989 – May 1996 |
| Ali Fathollahzadeh [3] | 28 October 1996 – 20 May 2003 |
| Mohammadhossein Gharib | 20 May 2003 – 25 June 2005 |
| Kazem Oliaei [4] | 13 July 2005 – 30 January 2005 |
| Mohammadhossein Gharib | 30 January 2005 – 1 September 2006 |
| Manouchehr Salehi (acting) | 4 September 2006 – 14 October 2006 |
| Meghdad Najafnejad | 14 October 2006 – 27 February 2007 |
| Mohammadreza Bahmani (acting) | February 2007 – 30 April 2007 |
| Ali Fathollahzadeh | 30 April 2007 – 17 September 2008 |
| Amir Reza Vaezi-Ashtiani | 20 September 2008 – 31 May 2010 |
| Ali Fathollahzadeh [5] [6] | 9 June 2010 – 17 May 2014 |
| Bahram Afsharzadeh [7] | 17 May 2014 – 2 August 2016 |
| Reza Hassanikho [8] | 3 August 2016 – 6 August 2016 |
| Reza Eftekhari | 7 August 2016 – 22 June 2018 |
| Amir Hossein Fathi | 22 June 2018 – 10 December 2019 |
| Esmaeil Khalilzadeh (acting) | 12 December 2019 – 25 February 2020 |
| Ali Fathollahzadeh (acting) | 26 February 2020 – 20 March 2020 |
| Ahmad Saadatmand [9] [10] | 29 March 2020 – 30 September 2020 |
| Ahmad Madadi [11] | 1 October 2020 – 24 September 2021 |
| Mostafa Ajorlu | 24 September 2021 – 15 October 2022 |
| Ali Fathollahzadeh | 15 October 2022 – 11 April 2023 |
| Hojjat Karimi (acting) | 11 April 2023 – 5 July 2023 |
| Ali Khatir | 8 July 2023 – 1 May 2024 |
| 1 May 2024 – 20 July 2024 |
| Farshid Samiei [12] | 20 July 2024 – 8 January 2025 |
| Ali Nazari Juybari [13] | 8 January 2025 – Present |
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