Payam Sadeghian (; born 29 February 1992) is a retired

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Club career

Zob Ahan

Sadeghian showed himself as a starting line-up player first time in 2011–12 IPL and made an assist for Mohammad Hosseini against Foolad. He also scored a goal and made another assist in a match against

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. On 9 September 2011, he made another assist for Esmaeil Farhadi against

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. Two weeks later, he played the full 90 minutes against Shahin Bushehr and made an assist for Mohammad Ahmadpouri. He made an assist for Mohammad Ghazi on 2 October 2011 to show his assist ability another time.

Persepolis

He signed a two-year contract with

on 9 June 2013. He made his debut in a match against

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as a substitute for Gholamreza Rezaei and made an assist two minutes later for Mehdi Seyed Salehi. In his first season with Persepolis he was instrumental in their success and was one of their most important players. In August 2014 Sadegian was banned three months for shoving a referee during a match against Foolad. He was fired by Persepolis on 27 April 2015 after a dispute with coach

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Naft Tehran

On 1 July 2015, Sadeghian joined Naft Tehran on a five-year contract. He scored his first goal for the club on 27 October 2015 in a 2–1 victory against Padideh.

Saba Qom

After falling out with the management at Naft, Sadeghian left the club and on 8 January 2016 he signed with Saba Qom and reunited with former coach

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Machine Sazi

On 28 May 2016, Sadeghian signed with newly promoted Tabrizi side Machine Sazi. This club also is his father's (Hassan Sadeghian) team. Sadeghian assisted in his first match for the club against Foolad.

Osmanlıspor

On 30 August 2017, Sadeghian signed a three–year contract with Turkish club

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. On 4 November 2017, Sadeghian made his first appearance for the club in a match against Fenerbahce, coming on as a second-half substitute and immediately contributing an assist. Sadeghian made his second appearance on 28 November 2017 in a

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match, he played 85 minutes and recorded two assist. In his first five matches for the club, Payam recorded four assists. Three in the cup and one in the league. Sadeghian scored his first goal for the club on 3 March 2018 from a penalty kick against Kasimpasa.

International career

Under-17

He captained the team to the championship for the first time in the

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. At the tournament he played in all the games apart from the final due to suspension. He scored Iran's first goal at the tournament against Bahrain. Winning the tournament qualified Iran for the

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, Sadeghian again scored Iran's first goal at the tournament against Gambia in the 44th minute making the most from a poorly taken free kick from the goalkeeper. He played a key role in Iran's qualification from its group, unbeaten with 7 points.

Under-20

He was again a vital part of Iran's U19's participation at the

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. He played in Iran's first two games, Iran losing both and failing to qualify from its group.

Under-22

He was called up by Ali Reza Mansourian to participate in the team's training camp in Italy. During a friendly match against the Italy B team he scored 2 goals in Iran's 6-2, including Iran's first with an outstanding free kick.

Senior

Sadeghian made his debut for the senior Iran team against

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, as a substitute in 2012. He was called up again to the squad by

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in March 2014, and played in Iran's match against

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which Iran won 3-2.

Statistics

Club

International goals

U17

U23

Senior

Honours

Club

;Zob Ahan *

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Runner-up (1):

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Iran Pro League The Persian Gulf Pro League (, ''Lig-e Bartar-e Xalij-e Fârs''), formerly known as the Iran Premier League (, ''Lig-e bartar-e Irân''), is a professional association football league in Iran and the highest level of the Iranian football league s ...

Runner-up (1): 2009–10 ;Persepolis *

Runner-up (1): 2013–14

International

;Iran *

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Individual

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Top Assistant (1): 2013–14

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadeghian, Payam 1992 births Living people Iranian men's footballers Footballers from Tabriz Zob Ahan Esfahan F.C. players Persepolis F.C. players Naft Tehran F.C. players Saba Qom F.C. players Machine Sazi F.C. players Ankaraspor footballers Persian Gulf Pro League players Süper Lig players TFF 1. Lig players Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Iran men's under-20 international footballers Iran men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Men's association football midfielders Iranian expatriate men's footballers Sepidrood Rasht S.C. players 21st-century Iranian sportsmen