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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vahid Hashemian Korbekandi[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1976-07-21)21 July 1976 (age 49) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tehran, Iran | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Fath Tehran | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Fath Tehran | 25 | (8) | |||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Pas | 26 | (9) | |||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Hamburger SV | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | VfL Bochum | 87 | (34) | |||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Bayern Munich | 9 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Hannover 96 | 80 | (9) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | VfL Bochum | 41 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Persepolis | 22 | (4) | |||||||||||
| Total | 302 | (67) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2009 | Iran[2] | 50 | (15) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Hamburger SV (academy coach) | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Hamburger SV U17 (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | Hamburger SV II (caretaker) | |||||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | Iran (assistant) | |||||||||||||
| 2025 | Persepolis | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Vahid Hashemian Korbekandi (Persian:وحيد هاشميان کربکندی; born 21 July 1976) is an Iranianfootball coach and former player. He subsequently worked as assistant coach toDragan Skočić atIran national team during his tenure. He played as aforward, spending most of his career inGermany. He made 50 appearances for the Iran national team scoring 15 goals.
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Hashemian started his professional football career withPas Tehran in hishomeland. He arrived inGermany for the 1999–2000 season to play forHamburger SV. Playing alongside his fellow Iranian internationalMehdi Mahdavikia, he had just 12 appearances, so he left the club forVfL Bochum to show his real ability. He had three good seasons with Bochum, scoring 34 goals in 87 appearances. During his last season there he scored 16 goals, helping Bochum to finish fifth in theBundesliga and qualify for the 2004–05UEFA Cup. This promptedBayern Munich to grant him in a €2 million contract, hence giving him the chance to follow in the footsteps ofAli Daei.[3] He just scored one goal for Bayern Munich against SC Freiburg in DFB-Pokal while Bayern Munich could beat 7-0.
After one season with Bayern Munich, he joinedHannover 96 at the start of the 2005–06 season. On 23 April 2008, VfL Bochum officials announced that he would return to their club in the season 2008–09. Hashemian signed a two-year contract with an option for one extra year. He scored only one goal for the team and was benched most of the times in his first season. On 30 December 2010, Hashemian signed a deal withIran Pro League sidePersepolis.[4] Where he was able to win theHazfi Cup. On 19 July 2011, he extended his contract with the Iranian clubPersepolis for another year. On 20 May 2012, it was announced that he will be leaving the club at the end of the season. On 21 July 2012, on his 36th birthday, he announced his retirement from football.[5]
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Hashemian debuted for theIran national team on 1 December 1998 in a friendly match againstKazakhstan. After the2000 Asian Cup he refused to play forTeam Melli but after four years finally decided to come and help his country to qualify for the World Cup. Hashemian was a key player for Iran national team in recent years and scored vital goals for the national team, such as netting an important goal in aWorld Cup qualification game againstQatar in October 2004, as well as scoring two magnificent goals in a win overJapan inTehran in March 2005. He played all three of Iran's games in the2006 World Cup.
He started in the line-up in all the games at2007 Asian Cup, underAmir Ghalenoi, but declined to play for the Iran national team in the first round of2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifying. Hashemian was later invited for the second round of World Cup Qualifying playing in Iran's 1–1 tie versusSaudi Arabia. He announced that he would retire from the national team and he wished to coachTeam Melli when he retires from football.
Hashemian gained hisUEFA B Licence in 2008 while playing in Bundesliga,[6] before completing hisA Licence in 2012.[7] Hashemian was named as one of the 24 coaches handpicked by theDFB to take part in its 10-month course,Fußballlehrer, in 2014.[8] He also took a three-weeks internship underPep Guardiola atBayern Munich, as part of the program, and obtained the german certificate equivalent toUEFA Pro Licence.[9][10]
Hashemian then started his coaching career inOberliga Hamburg, where he worked for the next 14 months.[9] Accepting a job offer by Thomas Bliemeister, then-coach of SV Halstenbek-Rellingen who took position as the club's technical director, he was appointed as the coach on 26 October 2012.[7] In July 2013 he signed with Niendorfer TSV, but left the team in the mid-season in order to pursue his professional training.[11]
In early 2017, Hashemian signed a contract withHamburger SV and was assigned as an individual trainer at the club'syouth academy for six months.[12] During the 2017–18 season, he was assistant to the club's U17 coach, Pit Reimers.[12] Replacing Steffen Weiß, the club officially appointed him as the coach of itsreserve team in April 2018, because hisFußballlehrer license prevented a lawsuit against the club by demoted playersWalace andMërgim Mavraj, while the former coach did not have any. A few days later, Achim Feifel took over the team and Hashemian was returned to his old job.[13] By the end of season, Weiß remained to coach the reserve team again for the next season and Hashemian rejected an offer to extend his contract as a youth academy trainer He left HSV in May 2018, when the contract expired.[14]
On 4 July 2025, Hashemian signed a contract withPersian Gulf Pro League sidePersepolis.[15][16]
In July 2012, his wife Bita gave birth to a daughter named Elena.[6]
Hashemian has registered a trademark named "German Sports", in order to produce and sell sports equipment under his own name.[6] He has founded German Home LTP GmbH, a company in Germany that specializes in exporting home appliances to Iran.[6]
On 30 January 2026, Hashemian offered condolences to the families of those killed during the2025–2026 Iranian protests on hisInstagram.[17]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Fath Tehran | 1996–97 | Second Division | 25 | 8 | – | – | ||||||
| Pas Tehran | 1997–98 | Azadegan League | – | – | – | |||||||
| 1998–99 | – | 4[a] | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||
| Hamburger SV | 1999–00 | Bundesliga | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 4[b] | 1 | 15 | 1 | |
| 2000–01 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 1 | ||
| VfL Bochum | 2001–02 | 2. Bundesliga | 21 | 8 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 22 | 8 | ||
| 2002–03 | Bundesliga | 34 | 10 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 37 | 11 | |||
| 2003–04 | 32 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1[c] | 1 | – | 34 | 18 | |||
| Total | 87 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 36 | ||
| Bayern Munich | 2004–05 | Bundesliga | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2[d] | 0 | 2[e] | 0 | 15 | 1 |
| Hannover 96 | 2005–06 | Bundesliga | 29 | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 32 | 5 | ||
| 2006–07 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 33 | 5 | ||||
| 2007–08 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 80 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 11 | ||
| VfL Bochum | 2008–09 | Bundesliga | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 1 | ||
| 2009–10 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 41 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 44 | 3 | ||
| Persepolis | 2010–11 | Pro League | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | 4[f] | 0 | 15 | 2 | |
| 2011–12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | 2[g] | 0 | 17 | 3 | |||
| Total | 22 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 32 | 5 | ||
| Career total | 301 | 67 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 3 | ||||||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 1998 | 3 | 3 |
| 1999 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 7 | 2 | |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2005 | 8 | 3 | |
| 2006 | 9 | 3 | |
| 2007 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 15 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 December 1998 | Sisaket, Thailand |  Kazakhstan | 2–0 | 1998 Asian Games | |
| 2 | ||||||
| 3 | 8 December 1998 | Bangkok, Thailand |  Oman | 2–4 | 1998 Asian Games | |
| 4 | 7 June 1999 | Edmonton, Canada |  Guatemala | 2–2 | 1999 Canada Cup | |
| 5 | 24 May 2000 | Amman, Jordan | Kazakhstan | 3–0 | 2000 WAFF | |
| 6 | ||||||
| 7 | 13 October 2004 | Doha, Qatar |  Qatar | 3–2 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 8 | ||||||
| 9 | 25 March 2005 | Tehran, Iran |  Japan | 2–1 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification | |
| 10 | ||||||
| 11 | 13 November 2005 | Tehran, Iran |  Togo | 2–0 | Friendly | |
| 12 | 30 January 2006 | Tehran, Iran |  Costa Rica | 3–2 | Friendly | |
| 13 | 31 May 2006 | Tehran, Iran |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5–2 | Friendly | |
| 14 | 2 September 2006 | Seoul, Korea Republic |  South Korea | 1–1 | 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification | |
| 15 | 2 July 2007 | Tehran, Iran |  Jamaica | 8–1 | Friendly |
| Team | From | To | Competition | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| SV Halstenbek-Rellingen e.V. | 24 October 2012 | 3 May 2013 | Oberliga Hamburg[21] | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 37.50 |
| Niendorfer TSV 1919 e.V. | 1 July 2013[21] | 31 December 2013[21] | Oberliga Hamburg[21] | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 36.84 |
| Hamburger SV II | 4 April 2018[22] | 8 April 2018[13] | Regionalliga Nord[23] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0.0 |
| Persepolis | 4 July 2025 | 26 October 2025 | Persian Gulf Pro | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 25.0 |
| Total | 36 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 45 | 35 | +10 | 33.33 | |||
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