Iran popular football team Persepolis advanced to the AFC Champions League final for the first time ever with a 1-1 draw with Al Sadd of Qatar on Tuesday, winning 2-1 on aggregate. Persepolis had previously defeated Al Sadd twice and lost once to the Qataris in the current season. In the match held in Tehran’s […]

 Alireza Karimi Machiani from Iran won a bronze medal at the men’s senior freestyle Wrestling World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Monday. He beat his Georgian rival Dato Marsagishvili 12-1 at the 92kg. The other bronze at this category was snatched by Japan’s Atsushi Matsumoto, edging Mongolian Turtogtokh Luvsandorj 6-5. J’den Cox from the U.S., […]

 Iran international midfielder Saman Ghoddos insists he has made the right decision in choosing to play for his country of birth over Sweden. Ghoddos represented Iran in the 2018 World Cup, where Team Melli narrowly missed out on progression with their draw against Portugal in their last match. “I almost selected Sweden to play in […]

 Hassan Yazdani Charati and Parviz Hadi Basmanj from Iran won two bronze medals at the men’s senior freestyle Wrestling World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. Defending world and Olympic champion Yazdani claimed the bronze medal after beating Russian Dauren Kurugliev 11-5 in the 86kg. The U.S.’s David Morris Taylor beat Turkey’s Fatih Erdin 12-2 […]

Iran participated in the sixth edition of the event with five athletes. Armin Hadipour Seighalani won the gold medal in the men’s under-58kg final after defeating the top seed Tae-Hun Kim from South Korea. The Iranian scored first with a head shot to lead by three points, but almost immediately Kim responded with a body […]

 Persepolis defensive midfielder Kamal Kamyabinia will be ready for the vital match against Al Sadd of Qatar. The Iranian giants are to host Al Sadd on Tuesday in the return leg of the AFC Champions League semi-finals. Kamyabinia suffered a shoulder injury on Thursday in the match against Navad Urmia in Iran’s Hazfi Cup and […]

 Esteghlal football team defeated Saipa 2-1 to move up to fifth place in the Iran Professional League table. On Friday, the Blues earned their third victory in the current season, beating Saipa 2-1 in Tehran’s Takhti Stadium. Ali Dashti put Saipa into the lead just seven minutes into the match after dribbling past four Esteghlal […]

Iran national football team edged past Bolivia 2-1 in a friendly match in front of male and female fans on Tuesday. In the match held in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, about 100 female fans – most of them family of players, federation employees and relatives – were allowed to attend the match. Albion’s record signing Alireza […]

Kioumars Heydari, commander of the Army Ground Forces, attended the competition. Chogan is an ancient Iranian team sport played on horseback with the objective of scoring goals using a long-handled mallet. Chogan was included on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in late 2017.

Azmoun announced his retirement from international football soon after the 2018 World Cup when he became the target of numerous insults on social media for failing to score in any of Iran’s three group stage games at the competition. BUT he came out of the retirement amid criticism. Azmoun had a nerve to say that […]