Iranian football club Esteghlal is set to have its winter training camp in Doha, Qatar. According to the team’s website, the Blues will fly to Qatar on Sunday to hold their camp from January 6 to 20 in Doha. Esteghlal will be preparing for the second half of the Iran Professional League (IPL) season. Esteghlal […]

Tractor Sazi’s Irish striker Anthony Stokes returned to Iran Thursday morning. The 30-year-old forward had left Tractor Sazi football team in late November due to personal issues but later announced that he would return to Tabriz. Stokes, who played for Republic of Ireland from 2007 to 2014, scored 10 goals in 11 matches for the […]

 Yemen national football team coach Jan Kocian says they can dream of victory over Iran in their 2019 AFC Asian Cup opener. The Middle Eastern side, the lowest-ranked team in the competition at 135th in the world, begin their Group D campaign next Monday against Iran, the continent’s top team at 29th, at the Mohamed […]

 Esteghlal’s German midfielder Markus Neumayr joined Swiss football club Aarau on Monday. The 32-year-old player joined Iran’s Esteghlal on July 31 on a two-year contract but was released by the team on Dec. 16. Neumayr started his football career playing for local clubs before moving to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2003, however, within a few months, […]

 Iran national football team beat Qatar 2-1 in a friendly match in Doha as part of preparation for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup on Monday. Mehdi Taremi gave Team Melli the lead in the 17th minute and Hassan Al-Haydos equalized the match from the penalty spot in the 42nd minute. Sardar Azmoun scored the winner […]

 Iran winger Alireza Jahanbakhsh says that they will “fight for their dreams” to end a 43-year trophy drought in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Iran national football team last lifted Asian football’s most coveted trophy on home soil in 1976, when they completed the third leg of three consecutive championship wins that mark the country […]

An Iranian weightlifter at 55 kg division has grabbed 3 gold medals at an international weightlifting championships underway in Bahrain. According to the official website of Iran Weightlifting Federation, on the first day of Weightlifting Championships, hosted by Bahrain’s Manama in three cadets, junior and adult divisions, the Iranian weightlifter at 55 kg Payman Dehghani from […]

Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says his future depends on what Team Melli will do at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Iran have been drawn in Group D of the competition along with Yemen, Vietnam and Iraq. Team Melli will start the campaign with a match against Yemen on Jan. 7. Queiroz […]

Persepolis football club have confirmed the signing of KV Kortrijk defender Mohammad Naderi but the Reds have not agreed with Reza Ghoochannejhad “Gucci” over financial issues. The 22-year-old defender has joined the Iranian giants on a six-month loan deal. Naderi joined the Belgian First Division A side in July from Tractor Sazi of Iran. He […]

 Iranian chess grandmaster Sarasadat Khademalsharieh put in a dazzling performance by finishing runner-up in the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Competition 2018, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Dec. 29-31. Khademalsharieh snatched the second place, winning the $25,000 prize, in a heated rivalry among 204 female chess grandmasters. Chinese chess grandmaster Ju Wenjun won the first […]