He has been the most successful coach in the Iran Pro League and managed several clubs, including Esteghlal, Mes Kerman, Sepahan S.C. and Tractor, with two of which he won a total of five championships and two Hazfi Cup titles.

He began his career in the late 1970s after passing a technical test for Rah Ahan, one of the oldest clubs in the Iranian football.

Shahin had several national players such as Nasrollah Abdollahi, Mehdi Dinvarzadeh, Hamid Majd Teymouri.

Ebrahimi left the club in 1984, succeeded by Mehrab Shahrokhi who was the head coach for a short period before being replaced by Nasrollah Abdollahi.

He made his debut in a game against Persepolis in a quarter final Hazfi Cup match where he lost his penalty kick.

IRIFF appointed Ghalenoei as head coach of the Iran national football team on 17 July 2006 to succeed Branko Ivanković.

After finishing first in the qualifying round 2 points ahead of South Korea and then finishing first in the group stage of the final tournament in Malaysia, Iran lost to South Korea in the penalty shoot-outs of the Quarters Final match and was eliminated from the 2007 Asian Cup.

After a period of discussion in the Iranian football federation, his contract was not renewed and national team was left with a caretaker manager for several months.

Sepahan had excellent performance in AFC Champions League as well and qualified for quarter final with five wins in seven matches.

However, after that he left Sepahan on 4 June 2011 due to conflict with the new board director[3] though he had led the club to the quarter finals of the AFC Champions League as the best team of the west Asian division.