Background
He was born on 1 December 1946 in Tehranno, Tehran.
He was born on 1 December 1946 in Tehranno, Tehran.
He graduated in sports and now teaches at schools.
He had played for Iran national football team and spent most of his career at Persepolis. First years He began his playing career with Boostan and Poolad (under-19 and under-23 team of ) and was promoted to the first team in 1964, by Abbas Ekrami. He showed good performances and became one of the starting players after the 1966-1967 season.
He received a red card in a match against Tehranjavan, this led to an involvement between players and coaches.
Two days after the match, IFF (Iran"s football association) ruled a one-year suspension for but club officials announced the dissolution of. Persepolis After was dissolved, Ashtiani and many other players of the team joined another Tehran based club, Persepolis.
He played with the team in Asian Club Championship in his first season. After he was recalled from loan in 1970, he showed good form in a friendly match against Hamburg SV which the German club offered him a contract to join to the team, which Ashtiani rejected to play for Persepolis until his retirement.
He also had bids from Manchester City and First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Arabi.
After the retirement of Persepolis captains Jafar Kashani and Homayoun Behzadi, Ashtiani became captain of the club when he was only 28 making him the youngest captain of Persepolis, a record that was broken by Alireza Haghighi in 2010. He retired in the summer of 1976 at the age of 30. Loan to Paykan Ashtiani and many other players of Persepolis joined Paykan on loan after an agreement between the two club"s presidents.
He played for one season at Paykan and was invited for the first time to the Iran national football team
He made 35 appearances for the Iran national football team from 1969 to 1974 and was part of the Iranian team competing in the football tournament of the Olympics in Munich 1972. He was an assistant coach of Büyük Vatankhah at Persepolis in 1974-1975 season, while he was also club captain.
Later, he was chosen as an assistant coach of Iran national under-23 football team He then managed Poora for two seasons in 2nd Division.
After the resignation of Persepolis" longtime team manager, Mahmoud Khordbin, he was appointed as team manager of Persepolis and held the post until Khordbin"s reappointment.
He is currently part of the club"s technical committee. Club Persepolis Iranian Football League: 1971-1972 1973-1974, 1974-1975 (Runner-up), 1975-1976 National Individual.