Iranian national futsal team

Iran
Īrān

Nickname (s)	Team Melli Futsal
Association	FFIRI
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	Givova
Trainer	Mohammad Nazemalsharieh
captain	Mohammad Taheri
Home stadium	Azadi Indoor Stadium
FIFA code	IRN
FIFA rank	6th
home Away
Balance sheet
362 games 238 wins 50 draws 74 defeats
statistics
First international Iran 19: 6 Kuwait ( Hong Kong ; May 2, 1992 )
Biggest win Iran 36-0 Singapore ( Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia ; March 7, 1999 )
Biggest defeat Brazil 8-1 Iran ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; October 6, 2000 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	5 ( first : 1992 )
Best results	3rd place ( 2016 )
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	11 ( first : 1999 )
Best results	Asian champions: 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2016
(As of October 1, 2016)

The Iranian national futsal team is a representative selection of Iranian futsal players . The team represents the Iranian Football Association at international matches. The team is the dominant team in Asia and has won 11 out of 14 Asian championships. Her greatest achievement is reaching third place at the 2016 World Cup in Colombia.

Performing in tournaments

Iran won 11 out of 14 Asian Cups. In 2006 they were clearly defeated by their eternal rivals Japan 5-1 in the semifinals and finished third in the end. In 2012 they lost the semifinals against Thailand and came third again.

The national team qualified seven times for World Cup finals under the auspices of FIFA . When they participated for the first time in 1992 they came under the last four straight away and lost 6: 9 to the Spanish selection in the small final . In the following three competitions you failed in the preliminary round. In 2008 they reached the second round for the first time since 1992 and failed there because of the slightly worse goal difference against the Italians with the same number of points . In 2012 , the selection reached the round of 16. Iran won the first medal at the 2016 World Cup in Colombia . There they were eliminated in the semifinals against Russia , who would later be runner-up , but won the game for third place in a shootout against the favored Portuguese .

In 2007 and 2009, the Iranian team took second place in the Grand Prix de Futsal, which is organized annually by the Brazilian Association .

Futsal World Cup

Futsal World Cup
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
1989	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992	4th Place	8th	5	0	3	36	30th	+6
1996	Preliminary round	3	1	0	2	12	13	−1
2000	Preliminary round	3	1	0	2	6th	9	−3
2004	Preliminary round	3	1	0	2	9	13	−4
2008	Intermediate round	7th	4th	2	1	24	19th	+5
2012	Round of 16	4th	2	1	1	9	8th	+1
2016	3rd place	7th	2	3	2	22nd	24	−2
All in all	7/8	35	16	6th	13	118	116	+2

Futsal Asian Cup

Futsal Asian Cup
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
1999	winner	6th	6th	0	0	90	7th	+83
2000	winner	6th	6th	0	0	56	10	+46
2001	winner	7th	7th	0	0	97	13	+84
2002	winner	6th	6th	0	0	61	7th	+54
2003	winner	6th	6th	0	0	60	13	+47
2004	winner	7th	7th	0	0	81	12	+69
2005	winner	8th	6th	1	1	58	15th	+43
2006	3rd place	5	4th	0	1	46	12	+34
2007	winner	6th	6th	0	0	50	9	+41
2008	winner	6th	6th	0	0	48	2	+46
2010	winner	6th	6th	0	0	57	9	+48
2012	3rd place	6th	5	0	1	45	9	+36
2014	2nd place	6th	5	1	0	52	8th	+44
2016	winner	6th	6th	0	0	48	4th	+44
All in all	14/14	87	82	2	3	849	130	+719

Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games

Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
2005	winner	5	5	0	0	41	3	+38
2007	winner	7th	7th	0	0	73	12	+61
2009	winner	5	4th	1	0	64	7th	+57
2013	winner	5	5	0	0	43	9	+34
All in all	4/4	22nd	21st	1	0	221	31	+190

Grand Prix de Futsal

Grand Prix de Futsal
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
2005	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2007	2nd place	6th	4th	0	2	19th	17th	+2
2008	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2009	2nd place	6th	4th	1	1	26th	22nd	+4
2010	4th Place	6th	3	1	2	24	15th	+9
2011	4th Place	6th	4th	0	2	22nd	13	+9
2013	3rd place	5	2	1	2	15th	16	−1
2014	3rd place	4th	3	0	1	25th	11	+14
2015	2nd place	5	4th	0	1	23	8th	+15
2016	pending	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	7/11	38	24	3	11	154	102	+52

Futsal Confederations Cup

Futsal Confederations Cup
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
2009	winner	4th	4th	0	0	15th	4th	+11
2013	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014	not qualified	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/3	4th	4th	0	0	15th	4th	+11

Futsal West Asian Championship

• 2007 - West Asian Champion
• 2012 - West Asian Champion

Futsal West Asian Championship
year	round	Played	Won	draw	Lost	Gates	Goals conceded	Goal difference
2007	Winner *	3	3	0	0	21st	4th	+17
2009	not participated	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Iran 2012	winner	4th	4th	0	0	40	6th	+34
All in all	2/3	7th	7th	0	0	61	10	+51

^* Iran played with an U-23 selection

Current squad

The following players have been nominated for the 2016 Futsal World Cup .

No.	Item	player	Calls	Gates	society
1	TW	Sepehr Mohammadi			Giti Pasand Isfahan
2	TW	Alireza Samimi			Mes Sungun
3	ST	Ahmad Esmaeilpour			Giti Pasand Isfahan
4th	FROM	Mohammad Keshavarz			Giti Pasand Isfahan
5	FROM	Hamid Ahmadi			Dabiri Tabriz
6th	MF	Mohammad Reza Sangsefidi			Tasisat Daryaei
7th	MF	Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh			Giti Pasand Isfahan
8th	MF	Ghodrat Bahadori			Farsh Ara Mashhad
9	FROM	Afshin Kazemi			Giti Pasand Isfahan
10	MF	Mohammad Taheri			Shahrvand sari
11	MF	Mehran Alighadr			Giti Pasand Isfahan
12	ST	Hossein Tayyebi			Tasisat Daryaei
13	ST	Farhad Tavakoli			Sherkat Melli Haffari
14th	ST	Mahdi Javid			Giti Pasand Isfahan

Award

• 2010: AFC Futsal Team of the Year

Web links

• List of all games on futsalplanet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Futsal World Ranking. Futsal World Ranking, October 4, 2016, accessed October 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ WAFF Futsal Championship Iran 2007. Futsal World Ranking, accessed on October 4, 2016 (English).