Iran national under-23 football team

Iran under-23
Nickname(s) Team Omid ("Team Hope")
Association FFIRI
Confederation AFC (Asia)
Head coach Mohammad Khakpour
Captain Rouzbeh Cheshmi
Home stadium Azadi Stadium
FIFA code IRN
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Iran 2–1  Kuwait
(Kuwait City, Kuwait; December 3, 1977)[1]
Biggest win
 Iran 10–0 Afghanistan U23 Afghanistan
(Busan, South Korea; September 28, 2002)
Biggest defeat
 Iran 2–6 Japan U23 Japan
(Tehran, Iran; February 9, 2001)
AFC U-22 Championship
Appearances 2 (first in 2013)
Best result Quarter-finals: 2016
Asian Games
Appearances 14 (first in 1951)
Best result Champions: 1974, 1990, 1998, 2002

Iran national under-23 football team, also known as Iran U-23 or Iran Olympic Team; represents Iran in international football competitions in Olympic Games, Asian Games and AFC U-22 Asian Cup, as well as any other under-23 international football tournaments. It is controlled by the Iran Football Federation.

History

The winner of the gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games, the team was prepared to defend its championship title at the football tournament of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Despite a suspension by FIFA, preventing Iran to enter any international football competition,[2] the Iran under-23 team was given special permission to participate in the Asian Games,[3] where they won the bronze medal.

Tournament records

Olympic Games

Olympic Games record Olympic Games qualifications
Hosts/year Result GP W D L GS GA Squad GP W D L GS GA
Spain 1992Did not qualify ------ -8521196
United States 1996Did not qualify------ -421194
Australia 2000Did not qualify------ -411236
Greece 2004Did not qualify------ -6303229
China 2008Did not qualify ------ -612367
United Kingdom 2012Did not qualify------ -411215
Brazil 2016Did not qualify------ -8503219
Japan 2020To be determined------ -------
Total0/8 ------ -40187158146

AFC U-23 Championship

AFC U-23 Championship record AFC U-23 qualification
Hosts/Year Result GP W D* L GS GA Squad GP W D L GS GA
Oman 2013Group stage311165Squad5410132
Qatar 2016Quarter-finals420267Squad4301152
Total2/273131212-9711284
*Denotes draws which include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

Asian Games

Asian Games record
Year Round PLD W D L GS GA
South Korea Busan 2002Champions 6420162
Qatar Doha 2006Third place6411106
China Guangzhou 2010Fourth place7 5 0 214 8
South Korea Incheon 2014Group Stage2 01 1 2 5
Total4/42113444221

Wild card players

WAFF U-23 Championship

Hosts/Year Result GP W D L GS GA
Qatar 2015Champions431083
Total1/1431080

Results and fixtures

  Win   Draw   Loss

Previous matches

Date Venue Opponent Competition Result Iranian scorers Report
2016
12 January 2016 Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha  Syria 2016 AFC U-23 Championship 2–0 (W) Motahari  64', Mi. Mohammadi  72' Report
15 January 2016 Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha  Qatar 2016 AFC U-23 Championship 1–2 (L) Karimi  90+1' Report
18 January 2016 Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha  China PR 2016 AFC U-23 Championship 3–2 (W) Motahari  38', Pahlavan  40', Torabi  48' Report
22 January 2016 Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha  Japan 2016 AFC U-23 Championship 0–3 (a.e.t.) (L) Report

Forthcoming matches

Date Competition Location Opponent

Coaching staff

Position Name
Head coach Iran Mohammad Khakpour
Assistant coach Iran Hadi Tabatabaei
Goalkeeping coach Iran Saeid Azizian
Fitness coach Australia Ken Stead
Analyzer Iran Mohammad Asghari
Doctor Iran Mehdi Abarashi
Technical director Iran Mohammad Mayeli Kohan
Technical adviser Iran Mojtaba Taghavi
Team manager Iran Habib Kashani
Executive director Iran Mohammad Rasaei
Iran Hossein Okhovat

Players

Current squad

0#0 Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1 1GK Mohammadreza Akhbari (1993-02-15) 15 February 1993 13 1 Iran Tractor Sazi
12 1GK Ali Mohsenzadeh (1993-02-13) 13 February 1993 1 0 Unattached
22 1GK Amir Abedzadeh (1993-04-26) 26 April 1993 3 0 Portugal Barreirense

2 2DF Mohammad Daneshgar (1994-01-20) 20 January 1994 11 2 Iran Naft Tehran
3 2DF Vahid Heydarieh (1993-01-02) 2 January 1993 13 3 Unattached
4 2DF Rouzbeh Cheshmi (1993-06-24) 24 June 1993 16 2 Iran Esteghlal
5 2DF Hossein Kanaanizadegan (1994-03-23) 23 March 1994 5 1 Iran Esteghlal
13 2DF Ali Abdollahzadeh (1993-01-04) 4 January 1993 10 1 Iran Sanat Naft
15 2DF Mohammad Hossein Moradmand (1993-06-22) 22 June 1993 5 2 Iran Padideh
18 2DF Saeb Mohebi (1993-08-28) 28 August 1993 4 0 Iran Rah Ahan
21 2DF Reza Aliari (1994-03-15) 15 March 1994 5 0 Iran Naft Tehran

6 3MF Mahan Rahmani (1996-06-15) 15 June 1996 7 0 Iran Paykan
7 3MF Ali Karimi (1994-02-11) 11 February 1994 18 5 Croatia Dinamo Zagreb
8 3MF Farshid Esmaeili (1994-02-21) 21 February 1994 8 0 Iran Esteghlal
9 3MF Mohsen Karimi (1994-09-20) 20 September 1994 3 0 Iran Esteghlal
11 3MF Milad Mohammadi (1993-09-29) 29 September 1993 15 3 Russia Terek Grozny
14 3MF Milad Kamandani (1994-07-07) 7 July 1994 13 1 Iran Padideh
16 3MF Alireza Naghizadeh (1993-03-04) 4 March 1993 11 5 Iran Gostaresh Foolad
17 3MF Mehdi Torabi (1994-09-10) 10 September 1994 6 1 Iran Saipa
19 3MF Ehsan Pahlavan (1993-07-25) 25 July 1993 20 3 Iran Zob Ahan
20 3MF Shahin Saghebi (1993-08-25) 25 August 1993 13 1 Iran Malavan

10 4FW Amir Arsalan Motahari (1993-03-10) 10 March 1993 21 14 Iran Naft Tehran
23 4FW Mehrdad Mohammadi (1993-09-29) 29 September 1993 7 3 Iran Sepahan

Previous squads

AFC U-23 Championships

Honours

1st, gold medalist(s) Gold Medal (1): 2002
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Bronze Medal (1): 2006
4th place (1): 2010

U-23 teams were favoured by AFC and the IOC since 2002 Asian Games.The Senior team competed in the games before 2002.

1st, gold medalist(s) Gold Medal (1): 2015

Friendly Tournaments

Managers

See also

References

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.