In a poll conducted by the-afc.com, 91 percent of participants voted for the Iranian player.
Persepolis brought plenty of drama to the 2018 AFC Champions League as the Iranian side's never-say-die attitude helped them advance all the way to the final.
In the last 16 against the UAE's Al Jazira, it was a case of 'cometh the hour, cometh the man'.
Having seen their second-half goal cancelled out, the Tehran side was heading for the exit door with 89 minutes gone, only for captain Jalal Hosseini to come up with a finish any striker would be proud of as the center-back volleyed home to send the 80,000 inside Azadi Stadium into raptures.
Koki Yonekura (Gamba Osaka), Hao Junmin (Shandong Luneng), Abdulrahman Ghareeb (Al Ahli Saudi) and Kwon Kyung-won (Al Ahli Dubai) were competing Hosseini in the poll.