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This is a list of notable players who have played for Zob Ahan Football Club by decade.
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This is a list of notable players who have played for Zob Ahan Football Club by decade.
| Name | Position | Zob Ahan career | Apps in PL | Goals in PL | Appearances | Goals | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Rasoul Korbekandi | Goalkeeper | 1969–1980 | |||||
| Mahmood Ebrahimzadeh | Forward | 1976–1986 | |||||
| Reza Sahebi | Forward | 1997–2003 | 49 | ||||
| Ali Akbar Ostad-Asadi | Defender | 1995–2003 | |||||
| Rahman Rezaei | Defender | 1996–2001 | |||||
| Ebrahim Taghipour | Defender | 2000–2005 | |||||
| Sepehr Heidari | Defender | 2000–2007, 2012–2014 | 175 | 13 | |||
| Amir Vaziri | Forward | 2001–2004 | 15 | ||||
 Sergiu Chirilov | Forward | 2003–2004 | 14 | 0 | |||
| Gheorghe Stratulat | Midfielder | 2003–2007 | 115 | 7 | |||
| Mehdi Rajabzadeh | Forward | 2003–07, 2010–11, 2012–18 | 296 | 93 | [A] | ||
 Armenak Petrosyan | Goalkeeper | 2003–2005 | 72 | 0 | |||
| Farshad Bahadorani | Defender | 2003–2006, 2012–2014 | 4 | ||||
| Ghasem Haddadifar | Midfielder | 2003– | 305 | 14 | 376 | 19 | |
| Faraz Fatemi | Forward | 2004–2006 | 45 | 7 | |||
| Mostafa Salehinejad | Defender | 2004–2010 | 124 | 5 | |||
| Mohammad Mansouri | Midfielder | 2004–2010 | 155 | 8 | |||
| Mohammad Salsali | Defender | 2004–2014 | 220 | 11 | |||
| Levon Stepanyan | Midfielder | 2005–2006 | 11 | 0 | |||
 Issa Ndoye | Goalkeeper | 2005–2009 | 60 | 0 | |||
| Hassan Ashjari | Midfielder | 2005–2010 | 139 | 2 | |||
| Esmaeil Farhadi | Forward | 2005–2015 | 280 | 44 | 308 | 47 | |
| Keivan Amraei | Forward | 2006–2010 | 70 | 14 | 73 | 14 | |
| Mohammad Reza Khalatbari | Forward | 2006–2011, 2019– | 129 | 34 | 157 | 43 | |
| Mohammad-Ali Ahmadi | Defender | 2006–2012 | 124 | 6 | |||
| Farshid Talebi | Defender | 2006–2012 | 138 | 12 | 167 | 12 | |
| Mohsen Mosalman | Midfielder | 2007–2015, 2018 | 137 | 18 | 153 | 18 | |
 Igor Castro | Forward | 2008–2012 | 121 | 30 | 153 | 40 | |
| Seyed Mohammad Hosseini | Defender | 2008–2012 | 97 | 23 | 117 | 25 | |
| Sina Ashouri | Midfielder | 2008–2016 | 131 | 5 | 152 | 5 | |
| Shahab Gordan | Goalkeeper | 2009–2012 | 85 | 0 | 102 | 0 | |
| Mohammad Ghazi | Forward | 2009–2012 | 83 | 16 | 111 | 27 | |
| Payam Sadeghian | Midfielder | 2009–2013 | 61 | 6 | 67 | 6 | |
| Hossein Mahini | Defender | 2010–2012 | 61 | 3 | 85 | 3 | |
| Felipe Alves | Midfielder | 2011–2012 | 28 | 1 | 29 | 1 | |
| Davoud Haghi | Midfielder | 2011–2012 | 30 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
 Hugo Machado | Midfielder | 2011–2013 | 27 | 3 | 28 | 3 | |
 Hawar Mulla Mohammed | Midfielder | 2011–2012 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 1 | |
 Aco Stojkov | Forward | 2012 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| Gevorg Kasparov | Goalkeeper | 2012–2014 | 22 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |
| Carlos Santos | Defender | 2013-2015 | 43 | 3 | 49 | 4 | |
| Morteza Tabrizi | Midfielder | 2013–2018 | 138 | 39 | 180 | 53 | |
| Ehsan Pahlavan | Midfielder | 2013– | 108 | 8 | 131 | 13 | |
| Mehrdad Ghanbari | Defender | 2014–2017 | 53 | 3 | 61 | 3 | |
| Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri | Goalkeeper | 2014–2019 | 131 | 0 | 176 | 0 | |
 Ali Hamam | Defender | 2014–2018 | 81 | 4 | 108 | 4 | |
| Walid Ismail | Defender | 2014–2015 | 23 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |
| Masoud Hassanzadeh | Forward | 2014–2016 | 43 | 15 | 55 | 17 | |
| Danial Esmaeilifar | Midfielder | 2014– | 81 | 5 | 104 | 6 | |
| Mehdi Mehdipour | Midfielder | 2014– | 72 | 2 | 106 | 2 | |
| Hadi Mohammadi | Defender | 2014– | 71 | 5 | 93 | 5 | |
| Kaveh Rezaei | Forward | 2015–2016 | 34 | 11 | 45 | 14 | |
| Mohammad Reza Hosseini | Midfielder | 2015–2019 | 96 | 12 | 133 | 14 | |
| Mohammad Nejad Mehdi | Defender | 2015– | 95 | 3 | 128 | 7 | |
| Vahid Mohammadzadeh | Defender | 2016– | 99 | 2 | 125 | 5 | |
| Rabih Ataya | Midfielder | 2017–2018 | 29 | 1 | |||
| Mehdi Khalil | Goalkeeper | 2020– | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
A. ^ Mehdi Rajabzadeh is top goal scorer of 2006–07 with 17 goals.
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