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Sardar Azmoun
2026-11-14 03:39:56 · Cedar Herald Index
Sardar Azmoun (; born 1 January 1995) is an Iranian professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Iran national team.
Azmoun played his first game for the Iran national team in 2014 when he was 19. He played in the 2015, 2019 AFC Asian Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Azmoun is the second-most expensive Iranian player of all-time behind Alireza Jahanbakhsh. He is the youngest Iranian to score in a Champions League game and he is the highest Iranian scorer in the UEFA Champions League, scoring four goals.

Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list Iran's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Azmoun goal.

Youth level
Under-17
Under-20
Under-23
Honours
Zenit Saint Petersburg
Russian Premier League: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
Russian Cup: 2019–20
Russian Super Cup: 2020, 2021
Iran U17
WAFF U-15 Championship: 2009
Iran U20
AFF U-19 Youth Championship: 2012
Iran
CAFA Nations Cup: 2023
Jordan International Tournament: 2023
Individual
CIS Cup top goalscorer: 2012
AFC Asian Cup Team of the Tournament: 2019
Russian Football Union No. 1 Players: 2019–20, 2020–21
Russian Premier League Player of the Season: 2020–21
Russian Premier League Player of the Month: March 2019
Russian Premier League top goalscorer: 2019–20
IFFHS Asian Men's Team of the Year: 2020
References
Other websites
Serdar Azmoun
Interview with RubinTV
1995 births
Living people
Iranian footballers
Iranian expatriate footballers
Iran international footballers
Association football forwards
2018 FIFA World Cup players
2019 AFC Asian Cup players