The case on Alireza Karimi, the Iranian wrestler who intentionally lost a match at the U23 World Championship in Poland to avoid facing off an Israeli rival, is about to be wrapped up, with the final verdict likely to bring Iran a one-year suspension. It appears that last week, the insistence of the International Olympic […]

Iran’s national football squad, while keeping its first place in Asia football ranking, has climbed up to 33rd place in FIFA’s Feb. ranking, up one spot since January. The FIFA World Ranking is a ranking system for men’s national teams in association football, currently led by Germany. The teams of the member nations of FIFA, […]

Unai Emery said that the preparation for this game started at the Camp Nou last season but he cannot have meant like this. It was not three goals in seven minutes and it is not decisive yet but Paris Saint-Germain did concede twice in that period to leave them facing another premature European exit. They still have […]

Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has parted company with Brazilian beach soccer coach Marco Octavio. Marco Octavio had been appointed as Team Melli coach for the fourth time in July 2017 but he leaves the Iranian team ahead of Persian Beach Soccer Cup due to personal problems. Team Melli came first […]

TEHRAN – Iranian international striker Saman Ghoddos has signed a two-year extension to remain in Swedish top flight team Östersund for another two years until 2020. “I really like everyone knows about it. I will continue my adventure here,” Ghoddos told Östersund’s website. “I have to perform even better in the future. There will be […]

Iran freestyle team discovered their opponents at the upcoming Men’s Freestyle World Cup in the United States in Iowa City, Iowa. Iran have been drawn with the U.S., Japan and Georgia in Group A in the dual-meet based event. The United States freestyle team, who won their first team gold in 22 years at the […]

The Iranian referee team comprising Alireza Afghani has been announced by the AFC to judge today’s match between a Chinese and South Korean team at the 2018 AFC Champions League. China’s Shanghai Shenhua and South Korea’s Suwon Samsung Bluewings from Group E will face one another today at the 2018 AFC Champions League. The match will […]

Iran’s northern province of Alborz will host the 29th edition of International Fajr Taekwondo Competitions slated to be held in April, 2018. This is the second time the Iranian Alborz province is going to host the International Fajr Taekwondo Competitions after 14 years. Invitation letters have been sent to different countries to take part in […]

TEHRAN – Esteghlal football team of Iran left it late before salvaging a 2-2 draw against Al Rayyan in Group D of the AFC Champions League at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha on Tuesday. Al Rayyan captain Rodrigo Tabata opened their own goal just seven minutes into the match. Moroccan Abderrazak Hamdallah levelled […]

TEHRAN – Persepolis were in a class of their own as they defeated FC Nasaf to open their 2018 AFC Champions League Group C campaign on a high on Tuesday. The 2017 semi-finalist took the lead 20 minutes in when Nigerian forward Godwin Mensha headed home Vahid Amiri’s cross from the right flank to put […]