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
Information
Nickname	Team Melli
Association	IRIHF
Coach	Rafael Guijosa
Assistant coach	Shahdad Mortaji Hamid Sadeghi
Captain	Mojtaba Heidarpour
Colours
1st 2nd 3rd
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.

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

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.^[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 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 25) 1.96 m 0 0 Mes Kerman 13 LB Mehdi Mousavi (1989-04-09) 9 April 1989 (age 36) 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 40) 1.95 m 130 0 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan 18 RB Saber Heidari (2004-03-25) 25 March 2004 (age 21) 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 28) 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 34) 1.94 m 152 89 Shahid Shameli Kazeroon 44 LB Afshin Sadeghi (1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 (age 32) 1.98 m 90 300 Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan 69 GK Omid Reza Sarpoushi (1998-03-09) 9 March 1998 (age 27) 1.90 m 20 4 Mes Kerman 77 LB Shahab Sadeghzadeh (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 (age 31) 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

• 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)
• Majid Rahimizadeh(2023–2024)
• Rafael Silva (2024–)

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)