Iran men's national handball team

Iran men's national handball team
Medal record
Asian Championship
Asian Games
Islamic Solidarity Games
West Asian Games

Iran
Iran
Information
Nickname	Team Melli
Association	IRIHF
Coach	vacant
Assistant coach	Shahdad Mortaji; Hamid Sadeghi
Captain	Mojtaba Heidarpour
Colours
Results
World Championship
Appearances	2 (First in 2015 )
Best result	21st (2015)
Asian Championship
Appearances	16 (First in 1989)
Best result	3rd (2014)
	Last updated on Unknown.

Last updated June 17, 2024

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

Tournament record

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1938	Not an IHF member
1954
1958
1961
1964
1967
1970
1974
1978	did not enter
1982
1986
1990	did not qualify
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
2005
2007
2009
2011
2013
2015	President’s Cup	21st place	7	2	0	5	185	225
2017	did not qualify
2019
2021
2023	Main round	24th place	6	1	0	5	150	198
2025	to be determined
2027	to be determined
2029
2031
Total	2/30		13	3	0	10	335	423

Asian Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1977	did not enter
1979
1983
1987
1989	Final round	8th place	4	1	0	3	106	114
1991	Placement 9th–12th	11th place	4	1	1	2	110	132
1993	Preliminary round	9th place	2	0	0	2	50	58
1995	did not enter
2000	Round-robin	5th place	4	0	0	4	61	132
2002	Placement 5th–6th	5th place	4	2	1	1	104	96
2004	Placement 5th–8th	7th place	5	2	0	3	131	138
2006	Final round	4th place	5	2	0	3	122	110
2008	Final round	4th place	6	3	0	3	184	179
2010	Placement 5th–8th	7th place	6	3	0	3	161	146
2012	Placement 5th–10th	5th place	5	3	0	2	124	115
2014	Final round	3rd place	7	3	3	1	215	171
2016	Knockout stage	5th place	7	5	0	2	199	184
2018	Knockout stage	5th place	6	4	0	2	195	157
2020	Final round	6th place	6	2	1	3	176	151
2022	Final round	4th place	8	5	0	3	221	206
2024	Final round	6th place	7	3	0	4	185	161
Total	16/21		86	39	6	41	2,344	2,250

Asian Games

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
1982	did not enter
1986	Round-robin	5th place	5	1	0	4	90	185
1990	did not enter
1994	did not enter
1998	Final round	4th place	5	2	0	3	126	146
2002	did not enter
2006	Final round	3rd place	8	5	0	3	220	203
2010	Final round	Runners-up	6	4	0	2	185	156
2014	Final round	4th place	7	3	0	4	188	164
2018	Classification 5th–8th	5th place	6	3	0	3	202	152
2022
2026	to be determined
2030
2034
Total	7/11		37	18	0	19	1,011	1,006

Other tournaments

Islamic Solidarity Games

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
2005	did not enter
2017	did not enter
2021	Knockout stage	3rd place	4	3	0	1	121	85
Total	1/3		4	3	0	1	121	85

West Asian Games

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	GS	GA
2002	Round-robin	4th place	5	2	3	148	139
2005	Final round	Runners-up	5	4	1	137	127
Total	2/2		10	6	4	285	266

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 (age 35)	1.80 m	130	800	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
4	RW	Milad Ghalandari	(1998-08-23) 23 August 1998 (age 25)	1.80 m	46	164	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
7	CB	Pouya Norouzinejad	(1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 (age 29)	1.88 m	130	500	VfL Eintracht Hagen
9	P	Yasin Kabirianjoo	(1994-07-02) 2 July 1994 (age 29)	1.93 m	20	20	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
11	LB	Reza Yadegari	(2000-04-15) 15 April 2000 (age 24)	1.96 m	0	0	Mes Kerman
13	LB	Mehdi Mousavi	(1989-04-09) 9 April 1989 (age 35)	1.88 m	200	200	Mes Kerman
14	P	Salaman Barbat	(1990-12-16) 16 December 1990 (age 33)	1.86 m	100	400	Mes Kerman
16	GK	Mohammad Siavoshi	(1985-04-02) 2 April 1985 (age 39)	1.95 m	130	0	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
18	RB	Saber Heidari	(2004-03-25) 25 March 2004 (age 20)	1.91 m	14	20	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
22	GK	Ali Rahimi	(1992-01-06) 6 January 1992 (age 32)	1.95 m	20	0	Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
23	RB	Mohammad Reza Oraei	(1999-08-04) 4 August 1999 (age 24)	1.94 m	25	40	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
24	CB	Mohammad Mehdi Behnamnia	(1998-12-02) 2 December 1998 (age 25)	1.86 m	10	30	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
28	LW	Mohammad Reza Kazemi	(2001-01-20) 20 January 2001 (age 23)	1.86 m	5	40	Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
31	RB	Vahid Masoudi	(1997-05-01) 1 May 1997 (age 27)	1.92 m	12	20	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
32	RW	Mohammad Kiani	(1992-10-10) 10 October 1992 (age 31)	1.90 m	20	30	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
33	CB	Mehrdad Samsami	(1991-02-26) 26 February 1991 (age 33)	1.94 m	152	89	Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
44	LB	Afshin Sadeghi	(1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 (age 31)	1.98 m	90	300	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
69	GK	Omid Reza Sarpoushi	(1998-03-09) 9 March 1998 (age 26)	1.90 m	20	4	Mes Kerman
77	LB	Shahab Sadeghzadeh	(1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 (age 30)	1.92 m	80	100	Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
99	P	Ali Kouhzad	(1996-12-19) 19 December 1996 (age 27)	1.98 m	4	12	Shahid Shameli Kazeroon

Former coaches

Yury Klimov
Yuri Kidyaev (2009–2010)
Borut Maček (2010)
Ivica Rimanić (2011–2012)
Rafael Guijosa (2012–2014)
Borut Maček (2014–2015)
Irfan Smajlagić (2015–2016)
Mohsen Taheri (2016)
Alireza Habibi (2017)
Borut Maček (2017)
Zoran Kastratović (2018)
Alireza Habibi (2019–2020)
Manuel Montoya (2021–2022)
Veselin Vujović (2022–2023)

Past squads

2006 Asian Games – Bronze medal

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

Iman Jamali (later Hungary)

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References

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

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[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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v t e Men's national handball teams of Asia (AHF)
Western Asia	Bahrain Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
Central Asia	Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
South Asia	Afghanistan Bangladesh India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka
Southeast Asia	Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand Vietnam
East Asia	China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea South Korea
Oceania	Australia New Zealand The teams are members of the OCHF and therefor not members of the AHF. But they participate at the Asian Championship.
Former	Korea (unified)

Medal record
Asian Championship
	2014 Bahrain
Asian Games
	2010 Guangzhou	Team
	2006 Doha	Team
Islamic Solidarity Games
	2021 Konya
West Asian Games
	2005 Doha