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]
In 2018, he was named by The Guardian as one of the 60 best young talents in world football.[4]
Sayyadmanesh 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.
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]
On 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.
On 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]
On 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]
On 31 January 2024, Sayyadmanesh signed for Belgian Pro League club Westerlo on a two-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[21]
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]Since his debut, Sayyadmanesh has been in and out of the national team.
| 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 | EFL Championship | 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 | 26 | 6 | 2 | 0 | – | 9 | 1 | 37 | 7 | |||
| 2025–26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| Total | 39 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 59 | 7 | ||
| Career total | 135 | 23 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 181 | 28 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 2019 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 8 | 1 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 June 2019 | Azadi Stadium, Tehran, Iran |  Syria |
5–0 | 5–0 | Friendly |
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