Iran national football team will play several friendly matches as part of preparation for the 2018 World Cup. Team Melli will start their friendlies with a match against Libya on March 14 in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. The warm-up match was originally scheduled to be played behind closed doors but the Iranian football federation announced the […]

Ice-cool Roger Federer roared into an Australian Open quarter-final with Tomas Berdych Monday as former champion Angelique Kerber stuttered into an enticing clash with Madison Keys. The defending champion swatted aside one-time training partner Marton Fucsovics 6-4, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 to make the last eight for an incredible 14th time. The Swiss maestro, 36, has […]

Javad Mahjoub bagged a bronze medal for Iran’s national judo team in Tunisia Grand Prix 2018. Javad Mahjoub was the only judoka from Iran who managed to win a bronze medal in men’s +100kg weight division from Judo Grand Prix 2018. The winner of the gold medal in 2013 Bangkok Asian Championships Javad Mahjoub advanced […]

TEHRAN – The Fencing Confederation of Asia has elected an Iranian sports official as the head of the technical commission for the Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships. President Fencing Confederation of Asia, Celso L. Dayrit, in a letter on Sunday, elected the head of Fencing Federation of Iran, Abbas Ali Faryabi, as the official in charge of the technical commission […]

Mohammadreza Safdarian from Iran claimed a bronze medal at the 2018 International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) Ice Climbing World Tour on Saturday. Safdarian finished in third place with a time of 16.272sec in the Men Lead. Russian climbers Dengin Alexey and Tomilov Maksim won the gold and silver medals, clocking 17.292sec and 16.290sec respectively. […]

Zlatko Kranjcar has parted company with Iranian top-flight football club Sepahan. Kranjcar replaced Abdollah Veisi in May on a two-year contract but was forced to leave Isfahan after a run of results that has seen Sepahan creep closer to the relegation zone. Karim Ghanbari has taken charge of the team as interim coach. Sepahan newly-appointed […]

TEHRAN – United World Wrestling (UWW) has selected Iran as the host country for the U23 freestyle world wrestling championships in 2020. According to a proposal presented by Iran on a collaborative holding of the U23 world wrestling championships of combined events, Iran will hold the championships in the freestyle category and Finland will host competitions in the […]

Padideh football team and Esteghlal played out a goalless draw in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Friday. In the match held in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad’s Samen Stadium, Esteghlal had a chance to move up one place to fifth in the table with an away win but failed to get three points. Esteghlal captain […]

Iran national football team started the New Year as the world’s 34th placed football team in the FIFA ranking. Team Melli, who have been drawn along with Spain, Portugal and Morocco in the 2018 World Cup Group B, are still the best Asian team. Portugal and Spain are third and sixth respectively in the ranking […]

TEHRAN  – Qatar SC has completed the signing of Iranian striker Sajjad Shahbazzadeh on Wednesday. Shahbazzadeh became surplus to requirements in Iranian club Esteghlal after he failed to find the net in eight matches in Iran Professional League. The 27-year-old Iranian striker will play along with Brazilian striker Patrick Fabiano in Qatar SC. Qatar SC […]