Iran men's national handball team

Iran
Information
Nickname	Team Melli
Association	IRIHF
Coach	Mohsen Taheri
Colours
Results
World Championship
Appearances	1 (First in 2015)
Best result	21st (2015)
Asian Championship
Appearances	12 (First in 1989)
Best result	3rd (2014)
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Iran men's national handball team

Medal record
Asian Games
	2010 Guangzhou	Team
	2006 Doha	Team
Asian Championship
	2014 Manama

The Iran national handball team is the national handball team of Iran and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.

Tournament records

World Championship

• 2015: 21st place

Asian Championship

• 1989: 8th place
• 1991: 11th place
• 1993: 9th place
• 2000: 5th place
• 2002: 5th place
• 2004: 7th place
• 2006: 4th place
• 2008: 4th place
• 2010: 7th place
• 2012: 5th place
• 2014: Bronze Medal
• 2016: 5th place

Asian Games

• 1986: 5th place
• 1998: 4th place
• 2006: Bronze Medal
• 2010: Silver Medal
• 2014: 4th place

West Asian Games

• 2002: 4th place
• 2005: Silver Medal

Team

Current squad

This is the squad for the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.

Head coach: Borut Maček

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 2 LW Mojtaba Heidarpour (1988-09-20) 20 September 1988 1.79 m 21 75 Samen Sabzevar 3 LB Mohammadreza Rajabi (1986-01-10) 10 January 1986 1.88 m 145 662 Naft Al-Janoob HC 4 RW Milad Masaeli (1988-05-28) 28 May 1988 1.82 m 72 245 Samen Sabzevar 6 LB Sajjad Esteki (1990-04-23) 23 April 1990 1.88 m 63 350 Dinamo București 7 CB Pouya Norouzinejad (1994-06-23) 23 June 1994 1.85 m 27 70 Magnesium Ferdows 8 P Alireza Mousavi (1990-04-27) 27 April 1990 1.98 m 97 360 Dinamo București 9 P Mehdi Bijari (1983-12-05) 5 December 1983 1.90 m 47 95 Samen Sabzevar 10 CB Allahkaram Esteki (1988-03-19) 19 March 1988 1.92 m 95 437 Dinamo București 17 P Mojtaba Karamian (1989-03-13) 13 March 1989 1.95 m 23 98 Magnesium Ferdows 18 LW Ehsan Abouei (1990-03-05) 5 March 1990 1.75 m 35 180 Shahrdari Tabriz HC 20 LW Amin Kazemi (1988-05-07) 7 May 1988 1.83 m 57 195 Bafgh Yazd 22 RB Sajjad Nadri (1990-05-28) 28 May 1990 1.91 m 40 182 Samen Sabzevar 23 GK Saeid Heidarirad (1990-09-22) 22 September 1990 1.92 m 32 0 Sanat Mes Kerman 24 LB Afshin Sadeghi (1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 1.81 m 21 55 Samen Mashhad 26 GK Mohsen Babasafari (1987-06-28) 28 June 1987 1.94 m 32 0 Gahar Zamin 36 RB Jalal Kiani (1989-09-28) 28 September 1989 1.83 m 42 122 Magnesium Ferdows 87 RW Omid Sekenari (1988-04-24) 24 April 1988 1.83 m 63 226 Magnesium Ferdows 89 GK Saeid Barkhordari (1989-05-07) 7 May 1989 1.89 m 55 0 Samen Sabzevar

Former coaches

• Yury Klimov
• Yuri Kidyaev (2009–2010)
• Borut Maček (2010)
• Ivica Rimanić (2011–2012)
• Rafael Guijosa (2012–2014)
• Borut Maček (2014–2015)
• Irfan Smajlagić (2015–2016)
• Mohsen Taheri (2016–)

Past squads

• 2006 Asian Games — Bronze medal

• Farid Alimoradi, Alireza Rabie Dolatabadi, Mostafa Sadati, Iman Ehsannejad, Hossein Shahabi, Ali Akbar Khoshnevis, Masoud Zohrabi, Peiman Sadeghi, Hojjat Rahshenas, Saeid Pourghasemi, Mohammad Reza Jafarnia, Hani Zamani, Mohammad Reza Rajabi, Allahkaram Esteki and Rasoul Dehghani. Head Coach: Yury Klimov

Notable players

• Iman Jamali (later Hungary)

External links

• Official website
• IHF profile