Iran’s Esteghlal, Sepahan among Opta Power Rankings Top 10
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian football teams Esteghlal and Sepahan are among the 10 top teams in the Opta Power Rankings.
Al Hilal leads the Asian team in the rankings. It may not be much of a surprise to see the top three teams in this list all come from Saudi Arabia. Al Nassr and Al Ittihad are second and third respectively in the ranking.
Tehran-based club Esteghlal, who has won nine Iranian league titles and a record seven Hazfi Cups, sits eighth.
Esteghlal is the only Iranian club still in existence to win the AFC Champions League, doing so twice in 1970 and 1990-91 (Pas Tehran also won it in 1992-93 but the club was dissolved in 2007).
Sepahan is ninth in the Opta Power Rankings. The Isfahan-based team has won five Persian Gulf Pro League titles, but has not lifted it since 2014-15. It is the only Iranian side to have competed in the FIFA Club World Cup, doing so in 2007.
The Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system that assigns an ability score to nearly 13,500 domestic football teams on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best team in the world.
These Opta Power Rankings are updated daily and currently rank teams from 183 different countries and 413 unique domestic leagues, providing a truly global rating system in men’s football.
