Esteghlal prodigy midfielder Omid Noorafkan joined Belgium’s SC Charleroi. According to Belgium media, Noorafkan has signed a two-year contract with SC Charleroi reportedly worth €250.000. Noorafkan, who has represented Iran at U-17 and U-20 levels, made his senior international debut in March 2018, aged 20, in a friendly match against Sierra Leone. Mehdi Bayat, Iranian […]

 Signing a 3-years contract, eminent Welsh coach John Benjamin Toshack will join Iran’s soccer club of Tractor Sazi of Tabriz as the head coach. The new owner of the Iranian football club Mohammad Reza Zonouzi had promised to hire a professional coach. He finally lived up to his word on Friday by reaching an agreement with […]

TEHRAN – Iran defeated China in straight sets (25-19, 25-20, 25-15) in Volleyball Nations League on Friday in the Ufa Arena in Russia. With the teams roughly equal with their average heights, both would expect to bring a solid blocking performance to their matches.  But with statistics of 13-6 in kill blocks, only Iran can […]

TEHRAN – Iran national football team edged past Lithuania in a friendly match at the 45,000-seater Otkritie Arena, the home stadium of Spartak Moscow, on Friday. Karim Ansarifard scored the only goal of the match in the 88th minute. Iran, making their fifth appearance in the World Cup finals, kick off their campaign against Morocco […]

TEHRAN – Australia, known as Socceroos, leapfrogged Iran to be the top ranked AFC nation in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday. With just seven days remaining before the 2018 World Cup, Iran moved down one place to 37th, while Australia moved up four places to 36th. Iran could have stayed as the Asian […]

Defending champions Persepolis will play Padideh in the opening match in Mashhad. The Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal has been scheduled for Week 8. The Iran Professional League is a professional football league competition for clubs at the highest level of the Iranian football league system. Persepolis are the most-decorated football team with 11 […]

Six young Iranian free-style wrestlers have reached the final, while seven others will compete for a place in an international competitions in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the first stage of an international free-style wrestling competitions held in Bucharest, Romania yesterday, out of fourteen young Iranian representatives, six reached the final matches, while seven others […]

TEHRAN – Iran national football team head coach Carlos Queiroz says the cruel sanctions against Iran have disrupted Team Melli’s preparation for the 2018 World Cup. Iran were scheduled to play Greece and Kosovo football teams in Turkey’s training camp but the matches were canceled and Queiros says Iran’s World Cup preparations were hit by […]

Ivan Zaytsev surged back to top form as Italy rebounded from their first Volleyball Nations League defeat to sink Iran 3-0 (25-23, 25-18, 25-20) early Sunday. Zaytsev, the prolific and hard-hitting Italian wing spiker, had struggled in his team’s loss to Canada a day earlier but was back to his best in racking up 14 […]

 Iran secured a nail-biting 3-2 victory over Argentina in the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) on Friday. The second week of VNL competitions kicked off in San Juan, Argentina, where Kolakovic’s men proved their quality against their former coach Julio Velasco. Iran won the second, third and fifth sets (25-22, 25-22 and 15-9) while losing first […]