TEHRAN – Iranian female wushu fighters collected 11 medals to land second overall at the 14th World Wushu Championships. Final showdowns of the international sportive tournament in in the western Russian city of Kazan saw Iran clinching more medals at various divisions. Persian wushu practitioners finished runner-up in the tournament after winning eight gold, one […]

TEHRAN – Persepolis football team of Iran is eighth in the latest Club Asia Ranking, released by footballdatabase.com. Iran Professional League title-holder Persepolis is the country’s sole representative in the AFC Champions League. Branko Ivankovic’s team sits eighth in the ranking with 1560 points. Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia, who has defeated Persepolis 4-0 in […]

TEHRAN  – FIFA has banned the Iranian national football team’s midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi Iran’s first match at the 2018 World Cup. FIFA says its disciplinary panel imposed a two-game suspension on the 21-year-old midfielder for his red card against South Korea in a qualifying match in Seoul on Aug. 31. Ezatolahi brought his boot down […]

TEHRAN – Winfried Schäfer has been named as new head coach of Esteghlal football team on Monday. The 67-year-old coach has penned a one year contract, with the option of extension. The former Cameroon and Thailand head coach replaced Alireza Mansourian in the Iranian popular football team. Schäfer has also worked at VfB Stuttgart, FK […]

TEHRAN – Iran U-17 football coach Abbas Chamanian says that they have a common goal in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 and are working as a team to reach that target. The prestigious competition will kick off on Friday in Goa, India. Iran has fond memories of Goa and is hopeful that this can […]

TEHRAN – Iranian national football team’s striker Sardar Azmoun says that he will make a decision about his future after the 2018 World Cup. Team Melli striker currently plays at Rubin Kazan, despite being linked with European giants Liverpool, Arsenal and Lazio. “I want to play in the big leagues and I will make the […]

German football coach Winfried Schafer has been linked with a move to Iran’s Esteghlal. Schafer is without a team after parting company with Jamaica in last September. A source close to the club said Esteghlal General Manager Reza Eftekhari is now in Dubai to negotiate with the 67-year-old coach. Winfried Schafer started his coaching career […]

Barcelona continued their 100% start to life in La Liga in bizarre circumstances, beating Las Palmas 3-0 at an empty Camp Nou. The club had asked for the match to be postponed due to protests across Catalonia over the controversial Catalan independence referendum in which more than 750 people have been injured, many in the Spanish city. […]

Younes Emami and Kamran Ghasempour claimed a gold and a bronze medal respectively at the Dmitry Korkin 2017 wrestling tournament. Emami won the gold medal in the 65kg weight category at the Sports Training Center in the Russian city of Yakutsk after beating his Russian opponent 5-1 in the final match on Saturday. Ghasempour claimed […]

Iranian top flight football club Gostaresh Foolad sacked Luka Bonacic after Thursday’s 2-1 defeat by Tractor Sazi in Tabriz’s derby. The 62-year-old coach Luka Bonacic took charge of Gostaresh Foolad on a one-year contract in May but was sacked following the poor results in the IPL. Gostaresh Foolad sits bottom of the IPL table with seven […]