Iran men's national handball team

The Iran national handball team is the national handball team of Iran and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.

Iran
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Information
NicknameTeam Melli
AssociationIRIHF
CoachVeselin Vujović
Assistant coachShahdad Mortaji
Hamid Sadeghi
CaptainMojtaba Heidarpour
Colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
1st
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
2nd
Results
World Championship
Appearances2 (First in 2015)
Best result21st (2015)
Asian Championship
Appearances16 (First in 1989)
Best resultBronze 3rd (2014)
Last updated on Unknown.
Iran men's national handball team
Medal record
Asian Championship
Bronze medal – third place2014 Bahrain
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place2010 GuangzhouTeam
Bronze medal – third place2006 DohaTeam
Islamic Solidarity Games
Bronze medal – third place2021 Konya
West Asian Games
Silver medal – second place2005 Doha

Tournament records

World Championship
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Nazi Germany 1938Not an IHF member
Sweden 1954
East Germany 1958
West Germany 1961
Czechoslovakia 1964
Sweden 1967
France 1970
East Germany 1974
Denmark 1978did not enter
West Germany 1982
Switzerland 1986
Czechoslovakia 1990did not qualify
Sweden 1993
Iceland 1995
Japan 1997
Egypt 1999
France 2001
Portugal 2003
Tunisia 2005
Germany 2007
Croatia 2009
Sweden 2011
Spain 2013
Qatar 2015President’s Cup21st place7205185225
France 2017did not qualify
Denmark Germany 2019
Egypt 2021
Poland Sweden 2023Main round24th place6105150198
Croatia Denmark Norway 2025to be determined
Germany 2027
Total2/28133010335423

Asian Championship
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Kuwait 1977did not enter
China 1979
South Korea 1983
Jordan 1987
China 1989Final round8th place4103106114
Japan 1991Placement 9th–12th11th place4112110132
Bahrain 1993Preliminary round9th place20025058
Kuwait 1995did not enter
Japan 2000Round-robin5th place400461132
Iran 2002Placement 5th–6th5th place421110496
Qatar 2004Placement 5th–8th7th place5203131138
Thailand 2006Final round4th place5203122110
Iran 2008Final round4th place6303184179
Lebanon 2010Placement 5th–8th7th place6303161146
Saudi Arabia 2012Placement 5th–10th5th place5302124115
Bahrain 2014Final round3rd place7331215171
Bahrain 2016Knockout stage5th place7502199184
South Korea 2018Knockout stage5th place6402195157
Kuwait 2020Final round6th place6213176151
Saudi Arabia 2022Final round4th place8503221206
Bahrain 2024to be determined
Total16/2179366372,1592,089

Asian Games
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
India 1982did not enter
South Korea 1986Round-robin5th place510490185
China 1990did not enter
Japan 1994
Thailand 1998Final round4th place5203126146
South Korea 2002did not enter
Qatar 2006Final round3rd place8503220203
China 2010Final roundRunners-up6402185156
South Korea 2014Final round4th place7304188164
Indonesia 2018Classification 5th–8th5th place6303202152
China 2022
Japan 2026to be determined
Qatar 2030
Saudi Arabia 2034
Total7/1137180191,0111,006

Islamic Solidarity Games
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Saudi Arabia 2005did not enter
Azerbaijan 2017
Turkey 2021Knockout stage3rd place430112185
Total1/3430112185

West Asian Games
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Kuwait 2002Round-robin4th place5203148139
Qatar 2005Final roundRunners-up5401137127
Total2/210604285266

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]

Head coach: Veselin Vujović

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
2 LW Mojtaba Heidarpour (1988-09-20) 20 September 1988 1.80 m 130 800 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
4 RW Milad Ghalandari (1998-08-23) 23 August 1998 1.80 m 46 164 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
7 CB Pouya Norouzinejad (1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 1.88 m 130 500 Germany VfL Eintracht Hagen
9 P Yasin Kabirianjoo (1994-07-02) 2 July 1994 1.93 m 20 20 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
11 LB Reza Yadegari (2000-04-15) 15 April 2000 1.96 m 0 0 Iran Mes Kerman
13 LB Mehdi Mousavi (1989-04-09) 9 April 1989 1.88 m 200 200 Iran Mes Kerman
14 P Salaman Barbat (1990-12-16) 16 December 1990 1.86 m 100 400 Iran Mes Kerman
16 GK Mohammad Siavoshi (1985-04-02) 2 April 1985 1.95 m 130 0 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
18 RB Saber Heidari (2004-03-25) 25 March 2004 1.91 m 14 20 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
22 GK Ali Rahimi (1992-01-06) 6 January 1992 1.95 m 20 0 Iran Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
23 RB Mohammad Reza Oraei (1999-08-04) 4 August 1999 1.94 m 25 40 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
24 CB Mohammad Mehdi Behnamnia (1998-12-02) 2 December 1998 1.86 m 10 30 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
28 LW Mohammad Reza Kazemi (2001-01-20) 20 January 2001 1.86 m 5 40 Iran Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
31 RB Vahid Masoudi (1997-05-01) 1 May 1997 1.92 m 12 20 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
32 RW Mohammad Kiani (1992-10-10) 10 October 1992 1.90 m 20 30 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
33 CB Mehrdad Samsami (1991-02-26) 26 February 1991 1.94 m 152 89 Iran Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
44 LB Afshin Sadeghi (1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 1.98 m 90 300 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
69 GK Omid Reza Sarpoushi (1998-03-09) 9 March 1998 1.90 m 20 4 Iran Mes Kerman
77 LB Shahab Sadeghzadeh (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 1.92 m 80 100 Iran Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
99 P Ali Kouhzad (1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 1.98 m 4 12 Iran Shahid Shameli Kazeroon

Former coaches

Past squads
  • Farid Alimoradi, Alireza Rabie Dolatabadi, Mostafa Sadati, Iman Ehsannejad, Hossein Shahabi, Ali Akbar Khoshnevis, Masoud Zohrabi, Peyman Sadeghi, Hojjat Rahshenas, Saeid Pourghasemi, Mohammad Reza Jafarnia, Hani Zamani, Mohammad Reza Rajabi, Allahkaram Esteki and Rasoul Dehghani. Head Coach: Yury Klimov

Notable players

References
  1. "برگزاری آخرین مرحله اردوی تدارکاتی تیم ملی هندبال پیش از اعزام به لهستان" (in Persian). irihf.ir. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  2. "Team Roster Iran" (PDF). ihf.info. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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