Iran men's national handball team

Iran
Information
NicknameTeam Melli
AssociationIRIHF
CoachRafael Silva
Assistant coachShahdad Mortaji
Hamid Sadeghi
CaptainMojtaba Heidarpour
Colours
1st
2nd
3rd
Results
World Championship
Appearances2 (First in 2015)
Best result21st (2015)
Asian Championship
Appearances16 (First in 1989)
Best result 3rd (2014)
Last updated on Unknown.
Iran men's national handball team
Medal record
Asian Championship
2014 Bahrain
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou Team
2006 Doha Team
Islamic Solidarity Games
2021 Konya
West Asian Games
2005 Doha

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
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
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
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 D L GS GA
2002 Round-robin 4th place 5 2 0 3 148 139
2005 Final round Runners-up 5 4 0 1 137 127
Total 2/2 10 6 0 4 285 266

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.

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 36) 1.80 m 130 800 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
4 RW Milad Ghalandari (1998-08-23) 23 August 1998 (age 26) 1.80 m 46 164 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
7 CB Pouya Norouzinejad (1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 (age 30) 1.88 m 130 500 VfL Eintracht Hagen
9 P Yasin Kabirianjoo (1994-07-02) 2 July 1994 (age 30) 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 34) 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 33) 1.95 m 20 0 Shahid Shameli Kazeroon
23 RB Mohammad Reza Oraei (1999-08-04) 4 August 1999 (age 25) 1.94 m 25 40 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
24 CB Mohammad Mehdi Behnamnia (1998-12-02) 2 December 1998 (age 26) 1.86 m 10 30 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan
28 LW Mohammad Reza Kazemi (2001-01-20) 20 January 2001 (age 24) 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 32) 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 28) 1.98 m 4 12 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.