🖐️🖐️🖕 یازده ابدیAsian Success
When it comes to continental football, the blue side of the city have more to cheer about than their arch rivals.
Esteghlal, then known as Taj, won the 1970 Asian Club Championship – a precursor to the AFC Champions League – beating Israel’s Hapoel Tel Aviv 2-1 in the final in Tehran.
They then repeated their success in the 1990-91 competition when they defeated China’s Liaoning FC by the same scoreline in Dhaka, and remain the most successful Iranian team on the continental stage.
