Iran men's national volleyball team

History

Tournament records

Results and fixtures

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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

Current squad

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Medal record
World Grand Champions Cup
Asian Championship
Asian Games
Asian Cup

Iran
Nickname(s)	Sarv Qaamataan سرو قامتان
Association	IRIVF
Confederation	AVC
Head coach	Vladimir Alekno
FIVB ranking	8 (as of October 2019)
Uniforms
Summer Olympics
Appearances	2 (First in 2016)
Best result	5th (2016)
World Championship
Appearances	6 (First in 1970)
Best result	6th (2014)
World Cup
Appearances	4 (First in 1991)
Best result	8th (2015, 2019)
Asian Championship
Appearances	18 (First in 1979)
Best result	(2011, 2013, 2019)
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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 (I.R.I.V.F.) 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.

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.[1]

Iran national volleyball team in Rio, Brazil 2016. Olympic games

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.

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1964	Did not enter or Did not qualify
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016	5th place	6	2	4	8	12
2020	Qualified
2024	Future events
2028	Future events
Total	2/15	6	2	4	8	12

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1949	Did not enter
1952
1956
1960
1962
1966
1970	21st place	11	4	7	16	24
1974	Did not enter
1978	Did not enter
1982	Did not qualify
1986	Did not enter
1990	Did not qualify
1994	Did not qualify
1998	19th place	3	0	3	0	9
2002	Did not enter
2006	21st place	5	0	5	2	15
2010	19th place	3	1	2	5	7
2014	6th place	12	7	5	26	21
2018	13th place	8	4	4	14	16
2022	Future events
Total	6/19	42	16	26	63	92

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1965	Did not enter
1969
1977
1981
1985
1989	Did not qualify
1991	11th place	8	1	7	5	23
1995	Did not qualify
1999
2003
2007
2011	9th place	11	5	6	16	25
2015	8th place	11	4	7	16	24
2019	8th place	11	4	7	19	25
Total	4/14	41	14	27	56	97

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1993	Did not qualify
1997
2001
2005
2009	5th place	5	1	4	8	14
2013	4th place	5	3	2	10	10
2017	3rd place	5	4	1	12	10
2025	Future event
Total	3/7	15	8	7	30	34

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1990	Did not enter
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010	Did not qualify
2011
2012
2013	9th place	10	5	5	20	21
2014	4th place	16	7	9	28	32
2015	7th place	12	6	6	25	21
2016	8th place	9	4	5	15	22
2017	11th place	9	3	6	11	23
Total	5/28	56	25	31	99	119

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1975	Did not enter
1979	6th place	6	3	3	12	10
1983	Did not enter
1987	10th place	5	2	3	7	10
1989	8th place	8	3	5	15	13
1991	7th place	7	3	4	11	12
1993	5th place	6	3	3	9	10
1995	4th place	5	2	3	6	11
1997	6th place	5	2	3	8	11
1999	5th place	6	4	2	13	10
2001	5th place	6	4	2	14	10
2003	3rd place	7	5	2	16	12
2005	6th place	5	3	2	12	10
2007	5th place	9	5	4	17	18
2009	Runners-up	8	7	1	22	10
2011	Champions	8	8	0	24	2
2013	Champions	7	7	0	21	1
2015	Runners-up (B)	8	6	2	20	9
2017	5th place (U23)	8	6	2	20	10
2019	Champions	8	7	1	22	4
2021	Future event
Total	18/20	122	80	42	269	173

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
1958	Runners-up	4	3	1	9	6
1962	Did not enter
1966	3rd place	8	5	3	16	14
1970	5th place	7	3	4	11	14
1974	4th place	5	2	3	7	9
1978	Did not enter
1982
1986
1990
1994	5th place	9	5	4	16	16
1998	Did not enter
2002	Runners-up	6	4	2	12	10
2006	6th place	3	1	2	6	7
2010	Runners-up	9	8	1	25	4
2014	Champions	8	8	0	24	2
2018	Champions	5	5	0	15	0
2022	Future event
2026
2030
2034
Total	10/16	64	44	20	141	82

Year	Rank	Pld	W	L	SW	SL
2008	Champions	6	5	1	16	8
2010	Champions	6	6	0	18	6
2012	Runners-up (B)	6	5	1	16	7
2014	4th place (B)	6	4	2	14	9
2016	Champions (B)	6	6	0	18	5
2018	Runners-up (B)	5	4	1	14	5
2020	Was qualified but tournament cancelled
Total	6/6	35	30	5	96	40

West Asian Games
- 2005 – Runners-up
Islamic Solidarity Games
- 2005 – Champions
- 2013 – Champions (B)
- 2017 – Champions (U21)
Universiade
- 2017 – Champions


Date	Competition	Location	Opponent	Result
2020
7 January 2020	2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	China	Chinese Taipei	3–0 W
8 January 2020	2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	China	Kazakhstan	3–0 W
9 January 2020	2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	China	China	3–0 W
11 January 2020	2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	China	South Korea	3–2 W
12 January 2020	2020 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament	China	China	3–0 W


Date	Competition	Location	Opponent
2021
24 July 2021	2020 Olympic Volleyball Tournament	Japan	Poland
26 July 2021	2020 Olympic Volleyball Tournament	Japan	Venezuela
28 July 2021	2020 Olympic Volleyball Tournament	Japan	Canada
30 July 2021	2020 Olympic Volleyball Tournament	Japan	Italy
1 August 2021	2020 Olympic Volleyball Tournament	Japan	Japan

Iran volleyball team members Ju-2015

The following is the Iranian roster in the 2020 Men's Volleyball Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.

Head coach: Vladimir Alekno
Assistant coach: Tomaso Totolo
Assistant coach:.......
Assistant coach:.......
Doctor and physiotherapist: .......
Fitness coach:.......

No.	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2020 club
1	Shahram Mahmoudi	20 July 1988	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	342 cm (135 in)	332 cm (131 in)	Shahrdari Urmia
2	Milad Ebadipour	17 October 1993	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	350 cm (140 in)	310 cm (120 in)	PGE Skra Belchatow
3	Reza Abedini	19 May 1991	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	354 cm (139 in)	348 cm (137 in)	Paykan Tehran
4	Saeid Marouf	20 October 1985	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	331 cm (130 in)	311 cm (122 in)	Beijing BAIC Motor
6	Mohammad Mousavi	22 August 1987	2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	362 cm (143 in)	344 cm (135 in)	Volley Piacenza
7	Purya Fayazi	12 January 1993	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	335 cm (132 in)	325 cm (128 in)	Free agent
8	Mohammad Reza Hazratpour	31 March 1999	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	300 cm (120 in)	290 cm (110 in)	Shahrdari Urmia
12	Mojtaba Mirzajanpour	7 October 1991	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	355 cm (140 in)	348 cm (137 in)	Shahrdari Varamin
15	Ali Asghar Mojarrad	30 October 1997	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	330 cm (130 in)	310 cm (120 in)	Shahrdari Varamin
16	Ali Shafiei	21 September 1991	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	348 cm (137 in)	345 cm (136 in)	Shahrdari Urmia
19	Mohammad Reza Moazzen	20 September 1991	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	292 cm (115 in)	281 cm (111 in)	Paykan Tehran
20	Porya Yali	21 January 1999	2.09 m (6 ft 10 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	335 cm (132 in)	320 cm (130 in)	Paykan Tehran
21	Morteza Sharifi	27 May 1999	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	340 cm (130 in)	320 cm (130 in)	Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K.
24	Javad Karimi	1 March 1998	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	330 cm (130 in)	310 cm (120 in)	Noliko Maaseik

Note: The following list may not be complete.

Name	From	To	notes
Sardar Nasrollahkhan[2]	1958		1958 Asian Games Runners-up
Fereydoon Sharifzadeh	1958	1963
Hossein Jabbarzadegan	1964	1966	1966 Asian Games 3rd place
Miloslav Ejem	1970	1972
Tadaee Korada	1974		1974 Asian Games 4th place
Park Sung	1979
Yadollah Kargarpisheh	1979	1981
Farough Fakhredini	1987
Masoud Salehieh	1987	1989
Hossein Ali Mehranpour	1989	1991
Mohammad Heidarkhan	1991
Ivans Bugajenkovs	1993
Fumihiko Matsumoto	1994
Masoud Salehieh	1995		1995 Asian Championship 4th place
Mehdi Saberpour	1997
Fumihiko Matsumoto	1998
Mostafa Karkhaneh	1999	2001
Hossein Ali Mehranpour	2001
Park Ki-won	2002	2005	2002 Asian Games Runners-up 2003 Asian Championship 3rd place
Milorad Kijac	2006
Zoran Gajić	2007	2008
Hossein Maadani	2008	2010	2008 Asian Cup Champions 2009 Asian Championship Runners-up 2010 Asian Cup Champions 2010 Asian Games Runners-up
Julio Velasco	2011	2014	2011 Asian Championship Champions 2013 Asian Championship Champions 2013 World Grand Champions Cup 4th place
Slobodan Kovač	2014	2015	2014 World League 4th place 2014 World Championship 6th place 2014 Asian Games Champions
Raúl Lozano	2016		2016 Olympic Games 5th place
Igor Kolaković	2017	2020	2017 World Grand Champions Cup 3rd place 2018 Asian Games Champions 2019 Nations League 5th place 2019 Asian Championship Champions 2020 Olympic Games Qualification

Position	Staff
Head Coach	Vladimir Alekno[3]
Assistant Coach	Tomaso Totolo Naser Shahnazi Behrouz Ataee
Doctor&Physiotherapist	Siyamak afroozi
Fitness Coach	Daniel Mišić
Analyzer	Navid Moshajari
U23 Coach	Vacant
U21 & B team Coach	Behrouz Ataei
U19 Coach	Mohammad Vakili
Team Manager	Amir Khosh Khabar

Last updated: 8 August 2018
Source:

Name	From–To	notes
Mohammad Vakili	2012	2012 Asian Cup Runners-up
Hossein Maadani	2013	2013 Islamic Solidarity Games Champions
Peyman Akbari	2014–2015	2014 Asian Cup 4th place 2015 Asian Championship Runners-up
Nasser Shahnazi[4]	2016	2016 Asian Cup Champions
Juan Manuel Cichello	2017
Behrouz Ataei	2018	2018 Asian Cup Runners-up

Azadi stadium with Iranian fans

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

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

Period	Kit provider
2000–2008	Asics Mikasa Fuerza Mizuno Ideal
2008–	Merooj

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

Brief History of Iran Men’s Volleyball

(in Persian) Asian Volleyball Championship
(in Persian) Volleyball at the Asian Games
(in Persian) Iran Volleyball History

5th place

Was qualified but tournament cancelled

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[1] Brief History of Iran Men’s Volleyball

Medal record

World Grand Champions Cup
	2017 Japan
Asian Championship
	2011 Tehran
	2013 Dubai
	2019 Tehran
	2009 Manila
	2015 Tehran
	2003 Tianjin
Asian Games
	2014 Incheon	Team
	2018 Jakarta–Palembang	Team
	1958 Tokyo	Team
	2002 Busan	Team
	2010 Guangzhou	Team
	1966 Bangkok	Team
Asian Cup
	2008 Nakhon Ratchasima
	2010 Urmia
	2016 Nakhon Pathom
	2012 Vinh Yen
	2018 Taipei

National volleyball teams of Asia (AVC)
Asian Volleyball Confederation
Zone 1 - West Asia	Bahrain Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
Zone 2 - Central Asia	Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Zone 3 - East Asia	China Chinese Taipei Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea South Korea
Zone 4 - Southeast Asia	Brunei Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Timor-Leste Vietnam
Zone 5 - Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands FS of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Niue Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Asian Men's Volleyball Championship