TEHRAN – Persepolis football team lost to Sanat Naft Abadan in penalty shootout in the Iran’s Hazfi Cup quarter-final on Tuesday. Sanat Naft defeated Persepolis 5-4 on penalties after the match had ended 1-1 after 120 minutes. Farshad Ahmadzadeh scored for Persepolis in the 26th minute but Ali Abdollahzadeh equalized the match just three minutes […]

Attila Hejazi has been appointed as new head coach of Iranian football club Naft Tehran on Sunday. Hejazi took charge of the Tehran-based team until the end of the Iran Professional League (IPL) season. Hejazi replaced Hamid Derakhshan in the struggling team. Naft sits five points above the relegation zone. Attila is son of the […]

English Championship leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers are interested in signing Saman Ghoddos from Swedish side Ostersunds. The 24-year-old forward has played a key role in Ostersunds’ impressive Europa League campaign, scoring four goals and setting up three in 11 appearances (including qualifying), derbytelegraph.co.uk reported. Queens Park Rangers had already showed interest in buying the Iranian international […]

TEHRAN – Two football matches in Hazfi Cup were postponed because of air pollution in Tehran, capital of Iran. Esteghlal match against Iranjavan Bushehr was canceled on Monday and Iran football officials also postponed a match between Persepolis and Sanat Naft in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. No new date for the fixtures has been announced. Iran […]

Luka Modric’s signed shirt worn at FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017 is raising money for the Iranian earthquake victims. The shirt is going to raise funds for the victims’ families and survivors of last month earthquake in Kermanshah province in western of Iran. Modric’s shirt has been brought for auction by Persepolis coach Branko […]

TEHRAN – National Iranian chess squad overcame Belarus to stand in the third place overall at FIDE World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2017 in India. World Youth Chess Olympiad-2017 was competed at Karnavati Club in India. Thirty teams from twenty-five countries had taken part at the prestigious event of World Chess Calendar for Under-16 players. […]

FC Lokomotiv Moscow became the first team to seal the Mundialito throne for the second occasion, following their narrow win over Iranian side Pars Jonoubi in the final of the competition. Despite bagging a wide advantage in the first period, the 2012 champions saw their opponents react and climb back, pulling two goals back to […]

TEHRAN  – Iran won the title of the International Blind Judo Tournament in Turkey on Saturday. The Iranian judo fighters won two golds, two silvers and two bronzes in the competition. Hossein Darabi in 100kg and Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh in +105kg won gold medals. Sajjad Khodadadi in 66kg and Sajjad Hajebi in 90kg seized two silvers […]

Iran qualified for the 2017 IBSA Blind Football Asian Championships final match after defeating Thailand in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Saturday. Reigning Asian champions Iran were made to work hard by Thailand in the semi-final. The first half was a tight affair and there were no goals at half-time. But in the second minute of […]

Pars Jonoubi beach soccer team qualified for the final match of the Mundialito de Clubes underway in Vargem-Grande Paulista in Sao Paulo in Brazil on Saturday. Pars Jonoubi defeated Brazilian Flamengo and advanced to the final match. The Iranian team kicked off the competition with a 7-6 loss to Spanish Levante but defeated Argentina’s CA […]