Iran defeated Lebanon 29-19 at the 2nd edition of the AHF West Asian Women’s Handball Championship on Friday. The Iranian team had already humiliated Iraq 43-8 in the first day of the competition. The Iranian girls are going to face Qatar on Sunday. The competition began in Jordan’s Amman on Thursday and will be underway until February […]

Tractor Sazi striker Farzad Hatami will miss the upcoming match against Al Gharafa of Qatar due to injury. Tractor Sazi football team will play in Doha’s Thani bin Jassim Stadium against Al Gharafa on Monday. The striker sustained an injury in the match against Saudi Arabia’s Al Ahli in Matchday One of the AFC Champions […]

TEHRAN – Nigerian media reports suggest that Qatari and Saudi Arabian football clubs have shown interest in signing Persepolis’s striker Godwin Mensha. Mensha scored Persepolis’s first goal against Nasaf of Uzbekistan in Group C of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday, where they won the match 3-0. The 28-year-old striker, who joined Persepolis in May […]

Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi has been handed a six months ban for deliberately losing a bout to avoid facing an opponent from Zionist regime. United World Wrestling (UWW) has confirmed the sanction and also handed a two year penalty to his coach Hamidreza Jamshidi. An investigation was launched in December after it was alleged that Karimi […]

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 […]