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1978
First appearance
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Iran national football team
26 players called up for World Cup 2026.
Alireza Beiranvand
Payam Niazmand
Hossein Hosseini
Saleh Hardani
Ehsan Hajisafi
Shoja Khalilzadeh
Milad Mohammadi
Hossein Kanani
Arya Yousefi
Ali Nemati
Ramin Rezaeian
Danial Iri
Saeid Ezatolahi
Alireza Jahanbakhsh
Mohammad Mohebbi
Saman Ghoddos
Roozbeh Cheshmi
Mehdi Torabi
Mohammad Ghorbani
Amirmohammad Razaghinia
Mehdi Taremi
Mehdi Ghayedi
Ali Alipour
Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh
Shahriyar Moghanloo
Dennis Dargahi
Announced: 2026-06-22
Sources: FIFA
Iran arrive at World Cup 2026 in Group G, representing AFC.
Amir Ghalenoei leads the tactical plan, with the group phase defining whether IRN can build momentum into the knockout rounds.
Group rivals include New Zealand, Belgium, Egypt. Every result can shift the path to the round of 32.
Iran national football team
The Iran national football team, recognised as IR Iran by FIFA since 2018, represents Iran in men's international senior football and is governed by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI). At the continental level, Iran has won three AFC Asian Cup championships in 1968, 1972, and 1976. They have also won three Asian Games in 1974, 1990, and 1998. The nation's best performance at the world level was reaching the quarter-finals at the 1976 Summer Olympics. At the FIFA World Cup, Iran have qualified seven times but have never progressed beyond the group stages; they have however, won three matches: against the United States in 1998, Morocco in 2018, and Wales in 2022. At the regional level, Iran has won four WAFF Championships and one CAFA Nations Cup. The team also won intercontinental AFC–OFC Challenge Cup in 2003.
See Iran fixtures and simulate their possible path to the final.
A practical way to separate obvious contenders from teams whose bracket path can become dangerous in the expanded 48-team format.
A clear overview of how national teams reach the expanded 48-team World Cup and why qualification differs by confederation.
An explanation of group-stage ranking logic, football tiebreakers, and why goal difference can decide an entire tournament path.
How group rankings become knockout slots, why paths shift, and how the simulator advances teams round by round.