Allahyar Sayyadmanesh (Persian: اللهیار صیادمنش; born 29 June 2001) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a forward and winger for Belgian Pro League club Westerlo and the Iran national team.[2][3]
 Sayyadmanesh with Esteghlal in 2018 AFC Champions League | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 29 June 2001 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Amol, Iran | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward, winger | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Westerlo | |||||||||||||
| Number | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2015 | Arash Amol | |||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Padideh Sari | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Saipa | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Esteghlal | 15 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Fenerbahçe | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2019 | → İstanbulspor (loan) | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | → Zorya Luhansk (loan) | 35 | (12) | |||||||||||
| 2022 | → Hull City (loan) | 12 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Hull City | 25 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2024– | Westerlo | 21 | (5) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Iran U17 | 12 | (9) | |||||||||||
| 2018– | Iran U23 | 9 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2019– | Iran | 8 | (1) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:36, 22 March 2024 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||
In 2018, he was named by The Guardian as one of the 60 best young talents in world football.[4]
Club career
editEarly years
editSayyadmanesh started to play club football when he was 8. He began his career at Arash Amol, where he was top goalscorer in Iran's under-10 league. After four years, he joined Padideh Sari, where he spent two years. He later spent a year in Saipa's youth academy.
Esteghlal
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On 12 June 2018, Sayyadmanesh signed a five-year contract with Esteghlal.[5][6] He was assigned the number 16 shirt, previously worn by Mehdi Ghaedi, who decided to change his number.[7]
Fenerbahçe
editOn 3 May 2019, Sayyadmanesh signed a five-year contract with Turkish club Fenerbahçe in a $850,000 transfer.[8][9][10] He was loaned to TFF 1. League club İstanbulspor on 2 September 2019 on a season-long loan.[11] Sayyadmanesh left Fenerbahçe on 9 July 2022 to join English Club Hull City.
Zorya Luhansk
editOn 6 October 2020, Sayyadmanesh was loaned to Ukrainian club Zorya Luhansk on a year-and-a-half long deal, with an option to buy him for €3.5 million.[12] On 25 October 2020, he scored on his league debut for Zorya in a 4–0 win against Rukh Lviv.[13] On 3 December 2020, he scored the winning goal in a 1–0 win against English Premier League club Leicester City in the group stage of the Europa League.[14] Sayyadmanesh was selected to be among the Ukraine Premier League's best eleven players of the 2020–21 season.[15]
Hull City
editOn 31 January 2022, Sayyadmanesh was loaned to English club Hull City on a half-year deal until the end of the 2021–22 season.[16] He made his debut on 5 February 2022 in the home match against Preston North End when he came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Richie Smallwood.[17] On 15 April 2022, Sayyadmanesh scored on his league debut for Hull City in a 2–1 win against Cardiff City.[18]
On 9 July 2022, Sayyadmanesh signed permanently for the English club Hull City from Turkish side Fenerbahçe with transfer fee €4.5 million.[19] He signed a four-year contract with an option of a further year.[20]
Westerlo
editOn 31 January 2024, Sayyadmanesh signed for Belgian Pro League club Westerlo on a two-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[21]
International career
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Sayyadmanesh was a member of the Iran U17 national team which qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup quarter-final in India.
He made his senior national team debut on 6 June 2019, in a friendly against Syria, as an 80th-minute substitute for Karim Ansarifard. Nine minutes after coming on, he scored the last goal of the game in a 5–0 victory.[22] The goal broke Saeid Ezatolahi's record of the youngest goalscorer in Iran national team's history by almost two years.[23]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of 9 November 2024[2]
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Esteghlal | 2018–19 | Persian Gulf Pro League | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | – | 18 | 2 | |
| Fenerbahçe | 2019–20 | Süper Lig | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | ||
| İstanbulspor (loan) | 2019–20 | TFF First League | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 11 | 1 | ||
| Zorya Luhansk (loan) | 2020–21 | Ukrainian Premier League | 19 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4[c] | 1 | – | 26 | 6 | |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8[d] | 2 | – | 24 | 9 | |||
| Total | 35 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 18 | ||
| Hull City (loan) | 2021–22 | EFL Championship | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 12 | 1 | ||
| Hull City | 2022–23 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 1[e] | 0 | 20 | 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 37 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 3 | ||
| Westerlo | 2023–24 | Belgian Pro League | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 9[f] | 0 | 16 | 0 | |
| 2024–25 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | |||
| Total | 21 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 31 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 117 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 184 | 26 | ||
- ^ Includes Hazfi Cup, Turkish Cup, Ukrainian Cup, FA Cup and Belgian Cup
- ^ Appearance(s) in AFC Champions League
- ^ Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Two appearances in UEFA Europa League, six appearances and two goals in UEFA Europa Conference League
- ^ Appearance in EFL Cup
- ^ Appearances in Jupiler Pro League Europe playoffs
International
edit- As of 21 March 2024[2]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 2019 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 8 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sayyadmanesh goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 June 2019 | Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran |  Syria |
5–0 | 5–0 | Friendly |
Honours
editZorya Luhansk
- Ukrainian Cup runner-up: 2020–21
Iran U16
- AFC U-16 Championship runner-up: 2016[25]
Individual
- Iranian Young Player of the Year: 2019
- Ukrainian Premier League player of the Month: 2020–21 (February)
- Hull City Player of the Month: April 2022[26]
References
edit- ^ "Allahyar Sayyadmanesh". Hull City A.F.C. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ a b c Allahyar Sayyadmanesh at Soccerway
- ^ Article title[dead link]
- ^ Christenson, Marcus. "Next Generation 2018: 60 of the best young talents in world football". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Allahyar Sayyadmanesh Joins Iran's Esteghlal on Five-Year Contract". Tasnim News Agency. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- ^ "صیادمنش به استقلال پیوست" [Sayyadmanesh joined Esteghlal]. Esteghlal. 12 June 2018. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ "پیراهن انصاری را پس میگیرند؟". Iran Varzeshi. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ^ Sayyadmanesh Officially Joins Fenerbahce / Tasnim News Agency
- ^ "Sayyadmanesh Joined to Fenerbahçe". Gazete Damga. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Sayyadmanesh Joined to Team". Fenerbahçe Sports Club. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Son dakika transfer | Fenerbahçe Allahyar Sayyadmanesh'i İstanbulspor'a kiraladı". Hurriyet (in Turkish). 2 September 2019.
- ^ "Официальный сайт ФК "Заря" – Луганск". zarya-lugansk.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ^ "Sayyadmanesh scores for Zorya on debut". Persian Football. 26 October 2020.
- ^ "City Beaten By Late Zorya Strike In Ukraine". LCFC.com. 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, Ukrayna'da sezonun 11'inde". 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Bilgilendirme" [Press Statement] (in Turkish). Fenerbahçe S.K. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Hull City 0–1 Preston North End". BBC Sport. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Hull City 2–1 Cardiff City". BBC Sport. 15 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "ACUN ILICALI CANLI YAYINDA! | GÜNDEM ÖZEL". Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ "Sayyadmanesh signs permanently". Hull City A.F.C. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ "Allahyar joins Westerlo permanently". www.wearehullcity.co.uk. 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "Iran v Syria game report". ESPN. 6 June 2019.
- ^ لژیونرِ استقلال جوانترین گلزن تاریخ تیم ملی شد
- ^ "Allahyar Sayyadmanesh". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ "Final match report". globalsportsarchive.com. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Sayyadmanesh wins Player and Goal of the Month for April". Hull City A.F.C. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
External links
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- Allahyar Sayyadmanesh – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Allahyar Sayyadmanesh at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)
- Allahyar Sayyadmanesh at Soccerway
- Eurosport.com
- Allahyar Sayyadmanesh at National-Football-Teams.com
- F.F.I.R.I. (in Persian)