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This article lists various football records in relation to the Iran national football team (Team Melli). The page is updated where necessary after each Iran match, and is correct as of 9 January 2008.

Appearances

Most appearances
Javad Nekounam, 151 caps, 2000 -Still Active
Ali Daei, 149 caps, 1993 - 2006
Other centurions
Ali Karimi, 127 caps, 1998 - 2013
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 111 caps, 1996 - 2009
Most consecutive appearances
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Most appearances as a substitute
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Most appearances as a substitute without ever starting a game
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Longest Iranian career
Shortest Iranian career
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Youngest player
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Oldest player
?
Oldest debutant
?
Most appearances at the World Cup finals
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 6 Games, 1998, 2006
Most appearances without ever playing at the World Cup finals
?
Most non-playing selections for the World Cup finals
?
Oldest player to feature at the World Cup finals
Ali Daei, 37 years, 2006
Oldest outfield player to feature at the World Cup finals
?
Youngest player to feature at the World Cup finals
Hossein Kaebi, 20 years and 9 months, 2006.
First player to debut at the World Cup finals
?
Most appearances at the Asian Championship finals
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Most consecutive appearances at the Asian Championship finals
?
Most appearances without ever playing at the Asian Championship finals
?
Appearances at three Asian Championship final tournaments
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 4 Tournaments 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
Most non-playing selections for the Asian Championship finals
?
Oldest player to feature at the Asian Championship finals
Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
Oldest outfield player to feature at the Asian Championship finals
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Youngest player to feature at the Asian Championship finals
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First player to debut at the Asian Championship finals
?
Most appearances on aggregate at the World Cup and Asian Championship finals
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 2 World Cups 1998, 2006 and 4 Asian Cups 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007
Most appearances without ever playing at the World Cup finals or the Asian Championship finals
?
Fewest appearances while still playing at the World Cup finals and Asian Championship finals
?
Most appearances without ever being in a World Cup or Asian Championship finals squad
?
Most consecutive years of appearances
?
Longest wait between appearances
?
Most tournaments appeared in consecutively
?
Appearances in three separate decades
First player to make tournament appearances in three separate decades
Mostafa Arab
First appearance by a player who had never played for an Iranian club
Ferydoon Zandi, vs Bahrain Bahrain on 9 February 2005
First player to debut as a substitute
Mohammad Mohajer, on 25 August 1941 vs Afghanistan
Last appearance by a player from outside the top division of a country
?
Most appearances per Iranian club
Most appearances with non-Iranian

Most capped players

As of 2 September 2016, the players with the most caps for Iran are:

# Name Career Caps Goals
1 Javad Nekounam 2000–2015 151 39
2 Ali Daei 1993–2006 149 109
3 Ali Karimi 1998–2013 127 38
4 Mehdi Mahdavikia 1996–2009 110 13
5 Jalal Hosseini 2007–0000 104 7
6 Andranik Teymourian 2005–0000 98 9
7 Karim Bagheri 1993–2010 87 50
8 Hossein Kaebi 2002–2011 84 1
9 Hamid Reza Estili 1990–2000 82 12
10 Mohammad Nosrati 2002–2013 81 5
11 Javad Zarincheh 1987–2000 80 1
= Ehsan Hajsafi 2008–0000 80 6
13 Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh 1987–1998 79 0
14 Ali Parvin 1970–1980 76 13
= Mehdi Rahmati 2004–2012 76 0
16 Yahya Golmohammadi 1993-2006 74 5
17 Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 2000–2008 73 14
18 Ebrahim Mirzapour 2001–2011 71 0
19 Hadi Aghily 2006–2013 68 10
20 Mehrdad Minavand 1996-2003 67 4

The records are collected based on data from FIFA and RSSSF.
bold names denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

Goals

First goal
Masoud Boroumand vs  Turkey in a Friendly 26-Oct-47
Most goals
Ali Daei, 109, (1993 - 2006)
Most goals in a match
Four goals in a match
Three goals in a match
Scoring in most consecutive matches
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Most goals on debut
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Most goals in a single World Cup tournament
?
Most goals in total at World Cup tournaments
?
Most goals in a single World Cup qualifying campaign
?
Most goals in a single World Cup finals match
?
Most goals in a single World Cup qualifying match
?
First goal in a World Cup finals match
Iraj Danaeifard, 1978 FIFA World Cup vs  Scotland
First goal in a World Cup qualifying campaign
Gholam Vafakhah, vs  Kuwait on 6-May-73 (1974 World Cup Qualification)
Oldest goalscorer at the World Cup finals
Yahya Golmohammadi, 35 years, 2006
Youngest goalscorer at the World Cup finals
Mehdi Mahdavikia, 20 years, 1998
Most goals in a single Asian Championship tournament
?
Most goals in total at Asian Championship tournaments
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship qualifying campaign
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship finals match
?
Most goals in a single Asian Championship qualifying match
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First goal in an Asian Championship finals match
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First goal in an Asian Championship qualifying campaign
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Oldest goalscorer at the Asian Championship finals
Ali Daei, 35 years, 2004
Youngest goalscorer at the Asian Championship finals
?
Most goals in a single calendar year
?
Most goals scored from penalties
?
Most goals in penalty shoot-outs
[1] ?
Most goals scored by a defender
?
Oldest goalscorer
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Youngest goalscorer
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First goal by a substitute
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Fastest goal from kickoff
?
Fastest goal at Azadi
?
Fastest goal at the World Cup finals
?
Fastest goal at the Asian Championship finals
?
Fastest goal by a substitute
?
Most appearances for an outfield player without ever scoring
?
Goals in three separate decades
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Most consecutive goalscoring tournaments
?
First Iranian goalscorer at the Azadi Stadium
Parviz Ghelichkhani vs Australia Australia 24 August 1973

Top goalscorers

As of 8 June 2014, the players with the most goals for Iran are:

# Name Career Goals Caps Avg/Game
1 Ali Daei 1993–2006 109 149 0.73
2 Karim Bagheri 1993–2010 50 87 0.57
3 Javad Nekounam 2000–2015 39 151 0.25
4 Ali Karimi 1998–2013 38 127 0.30
5 Gholam Hossein Mazloomi 1969–1977 19 48 0.47
Farshad Pious 1984–1994 19 34 0.56
7 Ali Asghar Modir Roosta 1990–1998 18 32 0.56
Naser Mohammadkhani 1982–1990 18 25 0.72
9 Vahid Hashemian 1998–2009 15 50 0.30
Sardar Azmoun 2014–0000 15 18 0.83
11 Hamid Alidoosti 1977–1986 14 28 0.5
Reza Ghoochannejhad 2012–0000 14 29 0.46
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht 2000–2008 14 77 0.18
14 Hassan Rowshan 1974–1980 13 48 0.33
Homayoun Behzadi 1962–1972 13 35 0.37
Ali Parvin 1970–1980 13 76 0.17
Ali Jabbari 1965–1974 13 37 0.35
Mehdi Mahdavikia 1996–2009 13 111 0.11
19 Parviz Ghelichkhani 1964–1977 12 64 0.19
Behtash Fariba 1977–1986 12 16 0.75
Karim Ansarifard 2009–0000 12 52 0.21
Hamid Reza Estili 1990–2000 12 82 0.15
23 Gholamreza Rezaei 2008–2013 11 50 0.25
Hossain Faraki 1977–1980 11 22 0.50
Abdolsamad Marfavi 1987–1993 11 31 0.35
Hossein Kalani 1967–1973 11 24 0.23
Khodadad Azizi 1992–2004 11 47 0.46
28 Masoud Boroumand 1947–1958 10 13 0.77
Karim Bavi 1986–1989 10 23 0.43
Reza Hassanzadeh 1989–1998 10 22 0.45
Arash Borhani 2003–2010 10 37 0.27
Farhad Majidi 1996–2011 10 45 0.22
Hadi Aghili 2006–2012 10 69 0.16

The records are collected based on data from FIFA and RSSSF.
bold names denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

Captains

First captain
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Most appearances as captain
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Youngest captain
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Red cards

Most red cards
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List of all Iranian players sent off

Miscellaneous

First substitute
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Club providing the most Iranian internationals in total
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Non-Iranian club providing the most Iranian internationals in total
?
Most appearances on aggregate from one club's players
?
Most goals on aggregate from one club's players
?
Most penalty saves
?
Most penalty saves in shoot outs
?
Most penalty misses
?
Shortest player
?
Tallest player
?
Heaviest player
?
Longest-lived player
?
Most clubs represented by one player in an Iranian career
?
Iranian players who later became manager/head coach
?

Home record

As of 5 March 2014

Stadium City Played W D L GF GA GD Win % First Match Most Recent
Aryamehr/Azadi Stadium Tehran 129 87 27 15 288 77 +211 67.97% 4 May 1973, v. North Korea 29 March 2016, v. Oman
Amjadieh Stadium Tehran 26 18 3 5 69 19 +50 69.23% 26 October 1950, v. Afghanistan 15 March 1977, v. Hungary
Enghelab Stadium Karaj 2 2 0 0 6 2 +4 100% 2 May 2012, v. Mozambique 3 March 2014, v. Kuwait
Taj Gozari/Hafezieh Stadium Shiraz 2 2 0 0 4 0 +4 100% 6 April 1977, v. Syria 22 April 1977, v. Saudi Arabia
Takhti Mashhad Stadium Mashhad 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 100% 5 February 1985, v. North Korea 5 February 1985, v. North Korea
Takhti Tabriz Stadium Tabriz 6 3 3 0 26 3 +23 50% 17 May 1996, v. Qatar 19 September 2002, v. Paraguay
Takhti Tehran Stadium Tehran 3 3 0 0 11 1 +10 100% 7 August 2008, v. Palestine 13 August 2008, v. Syria
Yadegar-e Emam Stadium Tabriz 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 100% 21 April 1997, v. Kenya 21 April 1997, v. Kenya
Total 169 116 33 20 407 102 +305 69.46% 26 October 1950, v. Afghanistan 5 March 2014, v. Oman

LG Cup Four Nations Tournament

Host nation(s) / year Round Pld W D* L GS GA Dif Pts
Iran 1998 LG Cup Third Place 2 1 0 1 1 2 -1 3
Iran 2000 LG Cup Third Place 2 1 1 0 4 2 +2 4
Egypt 2001 LG Cup (Egypt) Fourth Place 2 0 0 2 0 2 -2 0
Iran 2001 LG Cup (Iran) Champions 2 2 0 0 9 2 +7 6
Morocco 2002 LG Cup (Morocco) Champions 2 1 1 0 1 0 +1 4
Iran 2002 LG Cup (Iran) Champions 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
Nigeria 2003 LG Cup (Nigeria) Fourth Place 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
Iran 2003 LG Cup (Iran) Third Place 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 3
Jordan 2006 LG Cup (Jordan) Unknown 2 2 1 1 0 2 0 +2 4
Total (All Matches) 9/9 17 7 5 5 24 14 +10 26
Total (Only Official Matches) * 9/9 13 6 3 4 19 10 +9 21
  • consist of only official international "A" Senior matches (not include Youth, B Team and club team results).
  • Source: http://www.rsssf.com/tablesl/lgcup.html
  • 1-Third Place Match [Jun 1] Iran not play Ghana [Iran waited for 35 minutes on the pitch, while Ghana did not show up at all, apparently demanding prize money for the fourth place finishers (uncommon in LG tournaments). Eventually Iran left, without obtaining any information from the Nigerian 'organisers'. One day later, the Nigerian FA awarded Ghana third place (and the relevant prize money) because Iran had left the pitch (sic!). Iran have understandably protested.]
  • 2-apparently only 2 matches were played ([Oct 4] Iraq 0-2 Iran and [Oct 6] Jordan 0-0 Iran), structure of tournament unclear.

Minor Tournament

Host nation(s) / year Round Pld W D* L GS GA Dif Pts
Iran 1969 Friendship Cup Runners-up 4 3 0 1 13 5 +8 9
Iran 1971 Cyrus Cup Champions 5 5 0 0 10 2 +8 15
Brazil 1972 Independence Cup Round 1 4 0 1 3 3 8 -5 1
Iran 1974 Iran Cup Champions 4 2 2 0 4 1 +3 8
Iran 1975 Iran Cup Round 1 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1
Iran 1978 Afro-Asian Cup Champions 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3
Pakistan 1982 Quaid-E-Azam Cup Champions 6 5 1 0 22 1 +21 16
India 1985 Nehru Cup Round 1 3 1 0 2 5 5 0 3
Iran 1986 Fajr Cup Runners-up 5 3 2 0 11 2 +9 11
Kuwait 1989 Peace and Friendship Cup Fourth Place 5 1 3 1 5 4 +1 6
IranAlgeria 1991 Afro-Asian Cup Runners-up 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
Hong Kong 1998 Lunar New Year Cup Third Place 2 0 1 1 1 2 -1 1
Kuwait 1999 Ciao February Cup Runners-up 2 1 0 1 3 4 -1 3
Canada 1999 Canada Cup Runners-up 3 1 2 0 4 3 +1 5
Iran 2001 Civilization Cup Third Place 2 1 1 0 6 2 +4 4
Hong Kong 2003 Lunar New Year Cup Runners-up 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4
Iran 2003 AFC–OFC Challenge Cup Champions 1 1 0 0 3 0 +3 3
Iran 2005 Tehran Cup Third Place 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
Oman 2008 Oman Cup Third Place 2 1 0 1 2 1 +1 3
Qatar 2010 Qatar Friendship Cup Fourth Place 3 1 0 2 4 5 -1 3
Total (All Matches) 20/20 60 30 15 15 107 52 +55 105
Total (Only Official Matches) * 20/20 37 18 8 11 70 34 +36 62

Special Tournament

Two Tournament for A team but iran send B team and club team.

Host nation(s) / year Round Pld W D* L GS GA Dif Pts
India 2003 Afro-Asian Games Round 1 3 0 1 2 2 4 -2 1
Saudi Arabia 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games Third Place 6 3 3 0 16 1 +15 12
Total 2/2 9 3 4 2 18 5 +13 16
  • all matches is unofficial international "A" Senior matches.

Special Friendly Match

Host nation(s) / year Opponent Pld W D* L GS GA Dif Pts
Spain 75th Anniversary of Real Madrid Argentina 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
Japan 1999 Kirin World Challenge Cup Japan 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
Total 2/2 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2


Friendly Match Results

This table consist of only 2 sided team friendly match results (not include 3 and 4 nations cup and other friendly and Minor Tournament). Also only official international "A" Senior matches (not include Youth, B Team and club team results).

  • As a 11 Nov 2016
Year Pld W D L GS GA Dif Pts
1941 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
1950 Friendly Match 3 2 0 1 10 7 +3 6
1952 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
1962 Friendly Match 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1
1966 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
1971 Friendly Match 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
1973 Friendly Match 1 1 0 0 0 1 -1 0
1974 Friendly Match 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
1975 Friendly Match 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
1976 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
1977 Friendly Match 2 0 1 1 0 2 -2 2
1978 Friendly Match 5 0 2 3 2 5 -3 2
1980 Friendly Match 2 2 0 0 5 0 +5 6
1985 Friendly Match 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3
1986 Friendly Match 2 1 0 1 5 2 +3 3
1989 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1
1990 Friendly Match 2 0 0 2 0 3 -3 0
1992 Friendly Match 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3
1996 Friendly Match 9 4 3 2 9 6 +3 15
1997 Friendly Match 5 3 1 1 7 3 +4 10
1998 Friendly Match 3 0 1 2 1 6 -1 1
1999 Friendly Match 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
2000 Friendly Match 7 2 3 2 8 11 -3 9
2001 Friendly Match 3 1 1 1 7 7 0 4
2002 Friendly Match 4 2 1 1 7 5 +2 7
2003 Friendly Match 2 0 0 2 2 5 -3 0
2004 Friendly Match 2 1 0 1 1 2 -1 3
2005 Friendly Match 4 3 0 1 8 4 +4 9
2006 Friendly Match 4 3 1 0 11 6 +5 10
2007 Friendly Match 5 3 1 1 13 7 +6 10
2008 Friendly Match 6 3 2 1 5 3 +2 11
2009 Friendly Match 10 3 4 2 10 10 0 13
2010 Friendly Match 5 3 1 1 6 4 +2 10
2011 Friendly Match 4 4 0 0 10 0 +10 12
2012 Friendly Match 5 1 3 1 10 6 +4 6
2013 Friendly Match 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
2014 Friendly Match 6 2 3 1 5 3 +2 9
2015 Friendly Match 5 3 1 1 6 4 +2 10
2016 Friendly Match 3 3 0 0 17 2 +15 9
Total 124 54 35 35 180 123 +57 196

All Time General Statistics Record / Overview of Results

As of 11 November 2016
  • consist of only official international "A" Senior matches (not include Youth, B Team and club team results).
Tournament Pld W D L GF GA Dif Pts
FIFA World Cup 12 1 3 8 7 22 -15 6
FIFA World Cup Qualification 122 75 31 16 261 79 +182 256
AFC Asian Cup 62 37 18 7 119 45 +74 129
AFC Asian Cup Qualification * 53 40 8 5 143 30 +113 128
Olympics (not official) 9 2 1 6 6 20 -14 7
Olympics Qualification (not official) 22 14 6 2 48 8 +40 48
Asian Games 47 30 5 12 86 34 +52 95
West Asian Championship 28 19 7 2 56 16 +40 64
Central Asian Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total Official Matches (Exclude Olympics Qual and Olympics) 324 202 72 50 683 232 +451 678
RCD Cup / ECO Cup 11 8 1 2 27 9 +18 25
LG Cup 13 6 3 4 19 10 +9 22
Minor Tournament 37 18 8 11 70 34 +36 62
Special Friendly Match 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
Friendly Match** 124 54 35 35 180 123 +57 196
All of Friendly Matches and Other Tournaments 187 86 49 52 298 178 +120 307
Total Official and Friendly Matches 511 288 121 102 981 410 +571 985
  • Exclude of 2019 AFC Asian Cup Qual because of counted in FIFA World Cup Qual (2018) matches.
    • consist of only 2 sided team friendly match results (not include 3 and 4 nations cup and other friendly and Minor Tournament).

FIFA World Ranking

FIFA World Rankings for Iran, August 1993 – March 2014[2]
Highest FIFA ranking
15 (July 2005)[2]
Lowest FIFA ranking
122 (May 1996)[2]
Best mover
65 (July 1996)[2]
Worst mover
-43 (October 1995)[2]

References

  1. ^ Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs do not count on a player's overall scoring tally.
  2. ^ a b c d e fifa.com
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