Iran men's national volleyball team


The Iran Men's National Volleyball Team is the national men's volleyball team of Iran. It is governed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation and takes part in international volleyball competitions.
They are currently the strongest team in Asia. As of October 2019, Iran ranks 8th in the FIVB World Rankings.
Iran has three Title in the Asian Championship in 2011 Tehran, 2013 Dubai and 2019 Tehran.
In their first appearance in the competition since joining the 2013 World League, Iranians have been a dominant force in Group 1 of the competition, posing a challenge for any opponent. Defeating Italy and Cuba in these games, Iran introduced itself as a formidable contender.
In 2014 World League campaign, Iran's national team reached a fourth place finish in Group 1 after a straight-set defeat to their Italian hosts in the bronze medal match. In these games, Iran had already defeated Brazil, Italy and Poland.
Iranians have competed in World Championship four times with their best result obtained in 2014 Poland where they ended up in 6th place. In these games they had moved up from the first and second rounds with, respectively, four and five wins; their only defeat was in front of France.
They defeated Japan to win the gold medal at the Asian Games Korea in 2014. Consecutively, in 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, Iran cruised past Japan and South Korea to win the gold medal.
Iran made it to the Olympic Games for the first time in their history in 2016 as the top ranked Asian squad at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan. They finished at the 5th place in the competitions.

History

The History of Iran’s Volleyball dates back to 1920 around ago when brought volleyball regulations to Iran.
During the World War II, forces of Allies occupied Iran, sport Contacts especially in volleyball was done with soldiers of these forces; it was a new way for familiarity with volleyball of the other countries. At that time a friendly match was fixed between Iran and Russian Army team.
In 1958 for the first time national men’s team of Pakistan was invited to Tehran, guest team had some friendly matches with national team, club teams and Army team.
Iran national team first attend at 1958 Asian Games.

Tournament records

Notes: Gold, silver, bronze backgrounds indicate 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishes, respectively. Bold text indicates best finish in tournament. B indicates that the team was represented by its B team.

Olympic Games

World Championship

World Cup

World Grand Champions Cup

World League

Nations League

Asian Championship

Asian Games

Asian Cup

Other tournaments

Previous matches

Forthcoming matches

Team

Current squad

The following is the Iranian roster in the 2020 Men's Volleyball Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.
No.NameDate of birthHeightWeightSpikeBlock2020 club
Shahram Mahmoudi20 07 1988 Shahrdari Urmia
Milad Ebadipour17 10 1993 PGE Skra Belchatow
Reza Abedini19 05 1991 Paykan Tehran
Saeid Marouf20 10 1985 Beijing BAIC Motor
Mohammad Mousavi22 08 1987 Cerrad Enea Czarni Radom
Purya Fayazi12 01 1993Free agent
Mohammad Reza Hazratpour31 03 1999 Shahrdari Urmia
12Mojtaba Mirzajanpour07 10 1991 Shahrdari Varamin
15Ali Asghar Mojarrad30 10 1997 Shahrdari Varamin
16Ali Shafiei21 09 1991 Shahrdari Urmia
19Mohammad Reza Moazzen20 09 1991 Paykan Tehran
20Porya Yali21 01 1999 Paykan Tehran
21Morteza Sharifi27 05 1999 Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K.
24Javad Karimi01 03 1998 Noliko Maaseik

Head coaches

Note: The following list may not be complete.

A Team

Coaching staff

B Team

Stadium

The team's home arena are Azadi Indoor Stadium and Azadi Volleyball Hall.

Kit providers

The table below shows the history of kit providers for the Iran national volleyball team.

Sponsorship

Primary sponsors include: main sponsors like MCI and Tourism Bank, Refah Stores other sponsors: Roamer.

Notable squads