page_title: Sardar Azmoun
section_title: 2017–18
hierarchical_section_title: Sardar Azmoun / Club career / Return to Rubin Kazan / 2017–18
caption_attribution_description: English: Sardar Azmoun
context_page_description: Sardar Azmoun is an Iranian professional footballer who plays for Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg and the Iran national team as a forward.
  Azmoun made his debut for the Iran national team in 2014 aged 19. He has been a regular with Team Melli playing in the 2015 and 2019 AFC Asian Cup as well as the 2018 FIFA World Cup. As of March 2020, he has scored 32 goals in 50 games.
  After Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Azmoun is the second most expensive Iranian player of all-time. He is both the youngest Iranian to score in a Champions League game, as well as the Iranian record-holder for the most goals scored in UEFA Champions League games, having scored 4 goals in the two seasons he has taken part in the tournament.
context_section_description: In June 2017, Azmoun returned to Rubin Kazan. He appeared in a friendly on 28 June 2017 as a second-half substitute, wearing number 69. FC Rostov confirmed the transfer agreement with Rubin on 14 July 2017.
caption: Azmoun playing for Rubin Kazan in 2017
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