Football World Cup 2018 / Iran

Football World Cup 2018 : Iran
Trainer	Carlos Queiroz
captain	Ashkan Dejagah
Qualified as	Winner Asia Group 1
World rankings before the tournament	37
Tournament result	Out after the preliminary round
Games won	1
Games tie	1
Games lost	1
Gates	2: 2

This article covers the Iranian national soccer team at the 2018 World Cup . Iran entered the finals for the fifth time and for the first time for the second time in a row. Iran qualified as the second team for the finals after record world champions Brazil, but dropped out in the group stage.

qualification

The team qualified through the qualification of the Asian Football Association AFC .

Games

Sardar Azmoun, Iran's top scorer

Iran continued to rely on Portuguese Carlos Queiroz in qualifying , who has coached the team since 2011. They only had to intervene in the second round and met Guam , India , Oman and Turkmenistan in the group stage . Iran won six of the eight resulting games and played twice. As group winners, Iran qualified for the third round, which again took place as a group stage. Here the Iranians met South Korea , Qatar , Syria , Uzbekistan and the People's Republic of China . Iran did not lose a game in this round either, winning six out of ten games and drawing four times. They did not concede a goal nine times, but did not score a goal in three games themselves. Only in the last game against Syria - Iran had already qualified as the second team for the finals two game days earlier - they conceded two goals and with the draw Syria qualified for the fourth round, in which the team failed to Australia.

A total of 33 players were used in the 18 games, 16 of whom were also in the squad for the 2015 Asian Cup . No player was used in all games. Vahid Amiri had 17 missions , Mehdi Taremi had 16 missions and Sardar Azmoun , Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Ramin Rezaeian were used 14 times each . The top Iranian goalscorers were Sardar Azmoun with 11 and Mehdi Taremi with 8 goals. Overall, 1r Iranians scored at least once in the goal and scored 36 goals.

Andranik Teymourian , who wore the captain's armband in six games, made his 100th international match on October 6, 2016 and Jalal Hosseini on March 24, 2016 in a qualifying match.

Second round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Iran
June 16, 2015	Daşoguz	Turkmenistan	-	Iran	1: 1 (1: 1)	Sardar Azmoun (4th)
3rd September 2015	Tehran	Iran	-	Guam	6: 0 (4: 0)	Ashkan Dejagah (10th / penalty), Mehdi Taremi (31st, 65th) Sardar Azmoun (34th, 41st), Mehdi Torabi (89th)
September 8, 2015	Bangalore	India	-	Iran	0: 3 (0: 1)	Sardar Azmoun (29th), Andranik Teymourian (47th), Mehdi Taremi (50th)
October 8, 2015	Muscat	Oman	-	Iran	1: 1 (0: 0)	Jalal Hosseini (71st)
November 12, 2015	Tehran	Iran	-	Turkmenistan	3: 1 (1: 0)	Morteza Pouraliganji (6th), Saeid Ezatolahi (64th), Ashkan Dejagah (83th / penalty)
17th November 2015	Dededo	Guam	-	Iran	0: 6 (0: 2)	Mehdi Taremi (12th, 63rd) Kamaleddin Kamyabinia (30th), Ramin Rezaeian (49th), Masoud Shojaei (51th / penalty), Karim Ansarifard (53th)
March 24, 2016	Tehran	Iran	-	India	4: 0 (1: 0)	Ehsan Hajsafi (33./Elfm., 66./Elfm.), Sardar Azmoun (61.), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (78.)
March 29, 2016	Tehran	Iran	-	Oman	2: 0 (2: 0)	Sardar Azmoun (16th, 23rd)

Final table of the second round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Iran	8th	6th	2	0	026: 300	+23	20th
2.	Oman	8th	4th	2	2	011: 700	+4	14th
3.	Turkmenistan	8th	4th	1	3	010:110	−1	13
4th	Guam	8th	2	1	5	003:160	−13	07th
5.	India	8th	1	0	7th	005:180	−13	03

Third round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Iranian goal scorers
September 1, 2016	Tehran	Iran	-	Qatar	2: 0 (0: 0)	Reza Ghoochannejhad (90th + 4), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (90th + 6)
September 6, 2016	Shenyang	China	-	Iran	0-0
October 6, 2016	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	-	Iran	0: 1 (0: 1)	Jalal Hosseini (27.)
October 11, 2016	Tehran	Iran	-	South Korea	1: 0 (1: 0)	Sardar Azmoun (25.)
15th November 2016	Paroi	Syria	-	Iran	0-0
23rd March 2017	Doha	Qatar	-	Iran	0: 1 (0: 0)	Mehdi Taremi (52nd)
March 28, 2017	Tehran	Iran	-	China	1: 0 (0: 0)	Mehdi Taremi (46.)
June 12, 2017	Tehran	Iran	-	Uzbekistan	2: 0 (1: 0)	Sardar Azmoun (23rd), Mehdi Taremi (88th)
August 31, 2017	Seoul	South Korea	-	Iran	0-0
5th September 2017	Tehran	Iran	-	Syria	2: 2 (1: 1)	Sardar Azmoun (45th, 64th)

Third round final table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Iran	10	6th	4th	0	010: 200	+8	22nd
2.	South Korea	10	4th	3	3	011:100	+1	15th
3.	Syria	10	3	4th	3	009: 800	+1	13
4th	Uzbekistan	10	4th	1	5	006: 700	−1	13
5.	China	10	3	3	4th	008:100	−2	12
6th	Qatar	10	2	1	7th	008:150	−7	07th

Note: The third-placed team from Syria could not prevail in the playoffs of the group third against Australia.

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Iranian goal scorers
5th October 2017	2-0	Togo	Tehran	Karim Ansarifard (51st, 60th)
October 10, 2017	1: 1	Russia	Kazan	Sardar Azmoun (57.)
9th November 2017	2: 1	Panama	Graz ( AUT )	Ashkan Dejagah (16th / penalty), Saman Ghoddos (19th)
November 13, 2017	1-0	Venezuela	Nijmegen ( NLD )	Alireza Jahanbakhsh (57.)
March 14, 2018	canceled	Libya	Tehran
17th March 2018	4-0	Sierra Leone	Tehran	Mohammad Khanzadeh (14th), Ali Gholizadeh (16th, 48th), Kaveh Rezaei (35th)
23 March 2018	0: 1	Tunisia	Radès
March 27, 2018	2: 1	Algeria	Graz ( AUT )	Sardar Azmoun (11th), Mehdi Taremi (19th)
18th May 2018	1-0	Uzbekistan	Tehran	Rouzbeh Cheshmi (17th)
May 28, 2018	1: 2	Turkey	Istanbul	Ashkan Dejagah (90th + 2 / penalty)
2nd June 2018	canceled	Greece	Istanbul ( TUR )
3rd June 2018	canceled	Kosovo	Istanbul ( TUR )
June 8, 2018	1-0	Lithuania	Moscow ( RUS )	Sardar Azmoun (88.)

Remarks:

Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup.

Quarter

Team Quartier was the training center for Lokomotiv Bakowka in MICRODISTRICT Bakowka of Odintsovo ( Moscow Oblast ) on the southwestern outskirts of Moscow , where the team could train.

Squad

There were 35 players in the preliminary roster. For reporting on June 4, Seyed Hossein Hosseini (gate), Ahmad Abdolahzadeh , Saeed Aghaei , Mohammad Ansari , Steven Beitashour , Voria Ghafouri , Ali Gholizadeh , Jalal Hosseini , Ali Karimi , Omid Norafkan , Soroush Rafiei and Kaveh Rezaei were deleted .

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	22nd	Amir Abedzadeh	Marítimo Funchal	04/26/1993	001	00	2018	May 19, 2018
	01	Alireza Beiranvand	Persepolis Tehran M	09/21/1992	022nd	00	2015	06/08/2018	3
	12	Rashid Mazaheri	Zob Ahan Isfahan	05/18/1989	003	00	2016	11/13/2017
Defense	04th	Roozbeh Cheshmi	Esteghlal Tehran	07/24/1993	009	01	2017	06/08/2018	1
	03	Ehsan Hajsafi	Olympiacos Piraeus	02/25/1990	093	06th	2008	06/08/2018	3		1			2014	3	0
	19th	Seyed Majid Hosseini	Esteghlal Tehran	06/20/1996	001	00	2018	May 19, 2018	2
	13	Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh	Padideh Mashhad	05/11/1991	011	01	2012	May 19, 2018
	05	Milad Mohammadi	Achmat Grozny	09/29/1993	019th	00	2015	06/08/2018	2
	15th	Pejman Montazeri	Esteghlal Tehran	09/06/1983	047	02	2011	May 19, 2018						2014	3	0
	08th	Morteza Pouraliganji	al-Sadd Sports Club	04/19/1992	027	02	2015	06/08/2018	3
	23	Ramin Rezaeian	KV Ostend	March 21, 1990	028	01	2015	06/08/2018	3
midfield	11	Vahid Amiri	Persepolis Tehran M	04/02/1988	033	02	2015	May 28, 2018	3		1
	09	Omid Ebrahimi	Esteghlal Tehran	04/16/1987	029	00	2012	06/08/2018	3		1
	06th	Saeid Ezatolahi	Amkar Perm	10/01/1996	025th	01	2015	May 19, 2018	2
	07th	Masoud Shojaei	AEK Athens M	06/09/1984	075	08th	2004	06/08/2018	1		1			2006, 2014	4th	0
	02	Mahdi Torabi	Saipa Alborz	09/10/1994	015th	04th	2015	May 28, 2018
Storm	10	Karim Ansarifard	Olympiacos Piraeus	04/03/1990	062	15th	2009	May 28, 2018	3	1	1			2014	1	0
	20th	Sardar Azmoun	Rubin Kazan	01/01/1995	033	24	2014	06/08/2018	3		1
	21st	Ashkan Dejagah	Nottingham Forest	07/05/1986	044	09	2012	May 28, 2018						2014	3	0
	14th	Saman Ghoddos	Östersunds FK	09/06/1993	009	02	2017	May 28, 2018	3
	16	Reza Ghoochannejhad	SC Heerenveen	09/20/1987	043	16	2012	06/08/2018						2014	3	1
	18th	Alireza Jahanbakhsh T	AZ Alkmaar	08/11/1993	038	04th	2014	06/08/2018	3		1			2014	3	0
	17th	Mahdi Taremi	al-Gharafa SC	07/18/1992	027	12	2015	06/08/2018	3
Coaching staff	Trainer	Carlos Queiroz		03/01/1953			2011		3					2010, 2014	7th

(*) only the games and goals that were played or scored before the start of the World Cup are given (as of June 8, 2018 after the games against Turkey and Lithuania),

1. ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list
2. ↑ T = top scorer of the league in the 2017/18 season
3. ↑ Clubs in italics play in the season before or during the World Cup in the 2nd division of their country, M = champions in the World Cup year, P = cup winners in the World Cup year
4. ↑ With Portugal
5. ↑ 4 with Portugal

Finals

Group draw

Kazan Saransk St. Petersburg Bakovka

Venues and quarters (blue / corset) of the Iranian team

For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1st, Iran was assigned to Pot 3. In Group B, the team will face European champions Portugal , ex-world champions Spain and Morocco .

The Iranians met Portugal, the home country of their coach, in the preliminary round of the 2006 World Cup and lost 2-0. There was also a defeat in a friendly game. The Iranians have never played against Morocco and Spain. Iran played in Kazan shortly before the group draw and has not yet played in the other two preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group B matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Spain	3	1	2	0	006: 500	+1	05
2.	Portugal	3	1	2	0	005: 400	+1	05
3.	Iran	3	1	1	1	002: 200	± 0	04th
4th	Morocco	3	0	1	2	002: 400	−2	01

Friday, June 15, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Saint Petersburg
Morocco	-	Iran	0: 1 (0: 0)	90. + 5 ′ Bouhaddouz
Wed., June 20, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
Iran	-	Spain	0: 1 (0: 0)
Mon., June 25, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk
Iran	-	Portugal	1: 1 (0: 1)	90 + 3 / penalty ' Ansarifard

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andranik Teymourian - Century of International Appearances
2. ^ Seyed Jalal Hosseini - Century of International Appearances
3. ↑ ^{a b} weltfussball.de: "Test match cancellation: Zoff between Iran and Greece"
4. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
5. ↑ fifa.com: ufige World Cup squad at a glance
6. ↑ Turkey vs. Iran 2 - 1 . soccerway.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
7. ↑ Iran vs. Lithuania 1 - 0 . soccerway.com. Retrieved April 15, 2019.