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Iran recorded their first World Cup victory in the second game [15] beating and eliminating the United States 2–1 with Hamid Estili and Mehdi Mahdavikia scoring goals for Iran. The Iran-US World Cup match was preheated with certain excitement because of each country's political stance after the Iranian revolution and the Iran hostage crisis ...
Top goalscorers Ali Daei is the world's former all-time leading goalscorer in international matches, having scored 108 goals in 148 matches Karim Bagheri is the world's most scoring midfielder of all-time with 50 goals in 87 matches.
Amir Ghalenoei. [] Ghalenoei was appointed as manager of the Iran national football team on July 17, 2006, to succeed Branko Ivanković. After a quarterfinals finish during the 2007 Asian Cup, Ghalenoei was on the outs as Team Melli manager late in the year. Iran lost out to South Korea in a penalty shoot-out.
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, 2019 and 2023 editions of the AFC Asian Cup, as well as the 2018 and 2022 editions of the FIFA World Cup. After Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Azmoun is the second- most expensive Iranian player of all-time.
3–0. Syria. Kanaanizadegan 2' Azmoun 38' Ansarifard 81'. Report. Azadi Stadium, Tehran. Attendance: 0. Referee: Mooud Bonyadifard (Iran) 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier – Second round. 3 June 2021.
Iran national football team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. Iran have appeared in the FIFA World Cup on six occasions: in 1978, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022. They are yet to have progressed from the group stages. [ 1 ][ 2 ]
He made his debut in a friendly match against Iraq on 4 January 2015, just before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup. During the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, first-choice goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi was denied a visa for entry to Guam ahead of their fixture, alongside left back Ehsan Hajsafi. Beiranvand was thus given his first competitive start for ...
The Iran men's national football team has participated in 14 editions of the AFC Asian Cup, first appearing in the 1968 Asian Cup after automatically qualifying as hosts. Overall, Iran is one of the most successful teams in Asia, having won three titles from 1968 to 1976. However, after the 1976 Asian Cup, Iran's best performance is just third ...