2016–17 Esteghlal F.C. season
The 2016–17 season is the Esteghlal Football Club's 16th season in the Persian Gulf Pro League, their 23rd consecutive season in the top division of Iranian football, and 71st year in existence as a football club. They also compete in the Hazfi Cup.
Club
Other information
Chairman |
Reza Eftekhari |
Deputy Chairman |
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Media Officer |
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Director of Football |
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Ground (capacity and dimensions) |
Azadi Stadium (78,116 / 110x75m) |
Training ground |
Nasser Hejazi Training Camp |
Kit
First team squad
- Last updated: 1 December 2016
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Out for Injuries |
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Released - retired |
No. |
Name |
Nationality |
Position(s) |
Since |
Date of Birth (Age) |
Signed from |
Ends |
Games |
Goals |
Goalkeepers |
1 |
Mehdi Rahmati |
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GK |
2015 |
(1983-02-02)2 February 1983 (aged 33) |
Paykan |
2019 |
203 |
0 |
19 |
Arshia Aghababazadeh |
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GK |
2016 |
(1995-11-05)5 November 1995 (aged 21) |
De Anza Force |
2017 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
Hossein Hosseini |
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GK |
2012 |
(1992-06-30)30 June 1992 (aged 24) |
Bargh Shiraz |
2019 |
3 |
0 |
Defenders |
2 |
Khosro Heydari |
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RB, RM |
2011 |
(1983-09-14)14 September 1983 (aged 33) |
Sepahan |
2019 |
241 |
7 |
3 |
Róbson Januário de Paula |
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CB, LB |
2016 |
(1994-02-14)14 February 1994 (aged 22) |
Bahia |
2017 |
12 |
0 |
5 |
Hossein Kanaanizadegan |
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CB, RB |
2016 |
(1994-03-23)23 March 1994 (aged 22) |
Persepolis |
2018 |
2 |
0 |
15 |
Hrayr Mkoyan |
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CB, RB |
2014 |
(1986-09-02)2 September 1986 (aged 30) |
FC Shirak |
2018 |
66 |
0 |
18 |
Milad Zakipour |
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LB, LW |
2016 |
(1995-11-23)23 November 1995 (aged 21) |
Naft Tehran |
2019 |
1 |
0 |
20 |
Meysam Majidi |
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LB, LM |
2015 |
(1986-10-25)25 October 1986 (aged 30) |
Esteghlal Khuzestan |
2017 |
31 |
3 |
21 |
Vouria Ghafouri |
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RB, RM |
2016 |
(1987-09-20)20 September 1987 (aged 29) |
Sepahan |
2017 |
9 |
0 |
24 |
Omid Noorafkan |
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LB, DM |
2015 |
(1997-04-09)9 April 1997 (aged 19) |
Youth system |
2017 |
11 |
0 |
33 |
Majid Hosseini |
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CB, RB |
2014 |
(1996-06-20)20 June 1996 (aged 20) |
Youth system |
2017 |
11 |
0 |
55 |
Mohammad Amin Hajmohammadi |
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CB |
2015 |
(1991-02-14)14 February 1991 (aged 25) |
Naft Tehran |
2017 |
18 |
1 |
90 |
Leandro Padovani Celin |
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CB |
2016 |
(1983-12-21)21 December 1983 (aged 33) |
Sepahan |
2017 |
8 |
0 |
Midfielders |
4 |
Roozbeh Cheshmi |
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DM, CM, CB |
2015 |
(1993-07-24)24 July 1993 (aged 23) |
Saba Qom |
2019 |
26 |
0 |
6 |
Omid Ebrahimi |
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DM, CM |
2014 |
(1987-09-16)16 September 1987 (aged 29) |
Sepahan |
2017 |
76 |
21 |
7 |
Bakhtiar Rahmani |
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AM, CM |
2016 |
(1991-09-23)23 September 1991 (aged 25) |
Tractor Sazi |
2018 |
14 |
1 |
8 |
Yaghoub Karimi |
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LM, LB, AM |
2014 |
(1991-08-31)31 August 1991 (aged 25) |
Sepahan |
2017 |
50 |
1 |
11 |
Jaber Ansari |
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AM, RW, LW, SS |
2015 |
(1987-01-10)10 January 1987 (aged 29) |
Gostaresh Foulad |
2017 |
46 |
11 |
13 |
Mi'ad Yazdani |
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AM, LW, RW |
2016 |
(1992-08-26)26 August 1992 (aged 24) |
Sepidrood Rasht |
2019 |
1 |
0 |
14 |
Farshid Bagheri |
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DM, CB |
2016 |
(1992-06-05)5 June 1992 (aged 24) |
Saba Qom |
2018 |
12 |
0 |
28 |
Mohsen Karimi |
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LM, LW |
2014 |
(1994-09-20)20 September 1994 (aged 22) |
Youth system |
2018 |
38 |
8 |
74 |
Mojtaba Haghdoust |
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AM, CF |
2016 |
(1996-01-22)22 January 1996 (aged 20) |
Naft Tehran |
2017 |
6 |
0 |
88 |
Farshid Esmaeili |
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AM, SS |
2015 |
(1994-02-23)23 February 1994 (aged 22) |
Fajr Sepasi |
2018 |
33 |
1 |
Forwards |
9 |
Kaveh Rezaei |
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CF |
2016 |
(1992-04-05)5 April 1992 (aged 24) |
Zob Ahan |
2017 |
14 |
4 |
16 |
Arash Afshin |
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CF, LW, RW |
2016 |
(1990-01-21)21 January 1990 (aged 26) |
Malavan |
2018 |
4 |
0 |
17 |
Ali Ghorbani |
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CF |
2016 |
(1990-09-18)18 September 1990 (aged 26) |
Naft Tehran |
2018 |
13 |
4 |
77 |
Behnam Barzay |
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RW, LW, SS |
2015 |
(1993-02-11)11 February 1993 (aged 23) |
Rah Ahan |
2017 |
27 |
3 |
Persian Gulf Pro League squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
- List of Esteghlal squad in Iran league Organization[2]
- [U19 = Under 19 Player | U21 = Under 21 Player | U23 = Under 23 Player][3]
New contracts
Transfers
In
Summer
Out
Summer
Loan in
Summer
Loan out
Summer
Competitions
Overall
Source: Competitions
Note: Current position/round ONLY use for team still a part of competition.
Competition record
Competition |
Record |
G |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Win % |
Persian Gulf Pro League |
7001120000000000000♠12 |
7000400000000000000♠4 |
7000600000000000000♠6 |
7000200000000000000♠2 |
7001150000000000000♠15 |
7001110000000000000♠11 |
+4 |
7001333300000000000♠33.33 |
Hazfi Cup |
7000300000000000000♠3 |
7000300000000000000♠3 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
7000300000000000000♠3 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
+3 |
7002100000000000000♠100.000 |
AFC Champions League |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
5000000000000000000♠0 |
+0 |
!— |
Total |
7001130000000000000♠13 |
7000600000000000000♠6 |
7000500000000000000♠5 |
7000200000000000000♠2 |
7001140000000000000♠14 |
7000900000000000000♠9 |
+5 |
7001461500000000000♠46.15 |
Last updated: 18 November 2016 |
Persian Gulf Pro League
Standings
2016–17 Iran Pro League Table
Updated to games played on 2 December 2016.
Source: IPL Stats
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results summary
Overall | Home | Away |
Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
−2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
−1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
−1 |
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Ipl Stats
Results by round
Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Result | D | L | L | D | D | D | W | W | W | D | D | W | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Position | 7 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Last updated: 1 December 2016.
Source: "Ipl".
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.
Matches
Win
Draw
Loss
Postponed
Hazfi Cup
Win
Draw
Loss
Postponed
AFC Champions League
Qualifying play-off
Win
Draw
Loss
Postponed
Friendly Matches
Pre-season
Mid-season
Statistics
Appearances and goals
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Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
No |
P |
N |
Name |
S |
P |
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GP |
M |
S |
P |
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GP |
M |
S |
P |
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GP |
M |
S |
P |
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GP |
M |
1 | 1 !GK | | Mehdi Rahmati |
11 | 11 | -10 | 0 | -0.9 | 990 |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | -0.0 | 330 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.0 | 0 |
14 | 14 | -10 | 0 | -0.7 | 1320 |
2 | 6 !RM | | Khosro Heydari |
9 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 689 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 78 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
10 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 867 |
3 | 2 !CB | | Róbson Januário |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 900 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 210 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1110 |
4 | 4 !DM | | Cheshmi |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5 | 20 !CB | | Kanaanizadegan |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 180 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 180 |
6 | 40 !DM | | Omid Ebrahimi |
12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0.1 | 1080 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 90 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0.1 | 1170 |
7 | 8 !AM | | Rahmani |
10 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 847 |
3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 240 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
13 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0.1 | 1087 |
8 | 7 !LM | | Yaghoub Karimi |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 700 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 240 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 940 |
9 | 90 !CF | | Kaveh Rezaei |
12 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0.3 | 1077 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 | 210 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
14 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 0.3 | 1287 |
11 | 8000 !LW | | Jaber Ansari |
10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0.3 | 888 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 210 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
12 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0.3 | 1098 |
13 | 8000 !LW | | Mi'ad Yazdani |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 12 |
14 | 400 !DM | | Farshid Bagheri |
6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 490 |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 302 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 792 |
15 | 200 !CB | | Hrayr Mkoyan |
9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 800 |
2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 260 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
11 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1070 |
16 | 900 !CF | | Arash Afshin |
0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 21 |
1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 130 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 151 |
17 | 9000 !CF | | Ali Ghorbani |
6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0.6 | 470 |
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0.6 | 148 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
7 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0.6 | 618 |
18 | 3 !LB | | Milad Zakipour |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
20 | 30 !LB | | Meysam Majidi |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 |
21 | 3000 !RB | | Vouria Ghafouri |
9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 772 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 772 |
22 | 10 !GK | | Hossein Hosseini |
1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | -1.0 | 90 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | -1 | 0 | -1.0 | 90 |
24 | 300 !LB | | Omid Noorafkan |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 90 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 90 |
28 | 70 !LM | | Mohsen Karimi |
2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1.1 | 252 |
2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 240 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0.7 | 492 |
33 | 2000 !CB | | Majid Hosseini |
4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 361 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 210 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 571 |
55 | 20000 !CB | | Hajmohammadi |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
77 | 9 !RW | | Behnam Barzay |
0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 21 |
1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 88 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | 109 |
87 | 80 !AM | | Haghdoust |
0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 140 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 222 |
88 | 800 !AM | | Farshid Esmaeili |
7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 616 |
1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 217 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 808 |
90 | 200000 !CB | | Padovani |
5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 451 |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 240 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 691 |
Last updated: 30 November 2016 |
Starting 11
- Considering starts in all competitions.
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Starting 11 line-up
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Disciplinary record
Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more are included only.
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Top scorers
The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.
Last updated: 4 October 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Top Assister
The list is sorted by shirt number when total assists are equal.
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Clean sheets
The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.
Rnk |
No. |
Player |
Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
TOTALS |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Goals conceded
The list is sorted by shirt number when total 'minutes played' are equal.
Rnk |
No. |
Player |
Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
Minutes Played |
1 |
1 |
Mehdi Rahmati |
5 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
270 min |
2 |
22 |
Hossein Hosseini |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
90 min |
TOTALS |
6 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
360 min |
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Summary
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Total |
Home |
Away |
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Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
Pro League |
Hazfi Cup |
ACL |
Total |
Games played | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Games won | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Games drawn | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Games lost | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Goals scored | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Goals conceded | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Goal difference | -2 | 0 | 0 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | -1 |
Clean sheets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Top scorer | 1 | – | – | 1 | 4 players |
Top assister | 1 | – | – | 1 | 4 players |
Most appearances |
Most minutes played |
Last updated: 11 August 2016.
Source: Competitive matches
Awards
Team
Player
No. |
Player |
Award |
Month |
Source |
See also
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