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Squad of Iran for Asia World Cup Qualifiers 2026

#				Player		Height		Age			Position	Team
22				Hosseini, S		1.85		31			GK	Esteghlal
1				Beiranvand		1.98		31			GK	Tractor
12				Niazmand		1.93		28			GK	Sepahan
--				Pourhamidi		1.86		25			GK	Tractor
12				Shakouri, A				17			GK
--				Kanaani		1.88		29			DF     Centre-back	Perspolis
4				Khalilzadeh		1.83		34			DF     Centre-back	Tractor
19				Hosseini, SM		1.87		27			DF     Centre-back	Kayseri
3				Gholami, Aref		1.83		26			DF     Centre-back/Right-back	Tractor
15				Cheshmi		1.92		30			DF     Centre-back/Defensive midfielder	Esteghlal
13				Fallah		1.84		22			DF     Centre-back	Esteghlal
15				Hazbavi		1.82		20			DF     Centre-back	Sepahan
3				Hajsafi (c)		1.76		33			DF     Left-back/Left-midfield	AEK
5				Mohammadi, M		1.78		30			DF     Left-back/Left-midfield	Perspolis
18				Jalali, Abolfazl		1.77		25			DF     Left-back/Left-midfield	Esteghlal
16				Goudarzi, H		1.81		22			DF     Left-back/Centre-back	Sepahan
23				Rezaeian		1.85		33			DF     Right-back/Right-midfield	Esteghlal
2				Moharrami		1.74		27			DF     Right-back/Right-midfield	Dinamo Zg
2				Hardani, Saleh		1.76		27			DF     Right-back	Sepahan
21				Noorafkan		1.82		26			MF     /Left-back	Sepahan
14				Ghoddos		1.76		30			MF     Attacking midfielder
8				Ebrahimi		1.79		36			MF     Box-to-Box midfielder	Al Shamal
18				Karimi, A		1.86		29			MF     Box-to-Box midfielder	Kayseri
11				Asadi, R		1.90		27			MF     Box-to-Box midfielder	Sepahan
--				Hosseinnezhad		1.80		20			MF     Box-to-Box midfielder	Dynamo Mh
6				Ezatolahi		1.90		27			MF     Defensive midfielder	Shabab AE
17				Karimi, Mohammad		1.77		27			MF     Defensive midfielder	Sepahan
17				Mehri		1.82		25			MF     Defensive midfielder	Perspolis
--				Ghorbani, M		1.86		22			MF     Defensive midfielder/Centre-back	Sepahan
--				Yousefi, Aria		1.81		21			MF     Either side midfield/Either side back	Sepahan
7				Saharkhizan				20			FW	Orenburg
16				Torabi		1.85		29			FW     Left-wing	Tractor
7				Jahanbakhsh (c)		1.80		30			FW     Right-wing	Heerenveen
--				Gholizadeh		1.76		27			FW     Right-wing	L.Poznan
10				Ansarifard		1.88		33			FW     Striker	Aris.Thes
20				Azmoun (c)		1.78		28			FW     Striker	Shabab AE
9				Taremi (c)		1.87		31			FW     Striker	Inter
8				Sayyadmanesh		1.82		22			FW     Striker/Either side wing	Westerlo
--				Azadi		1.88		23			FW     Striker	Nassaji
--				Moghanlou		1.87		28			FW     Striker	Sepahan
--				Aghaeipour		1.81		23			FW     Striker/Either side wing	Sepahan
10				Ghayedi		1.66		24			FW     Either side wing/Striker	Kalba
7				Mohammadi, Mehrdad		1.78		30			FW     Either side wing/Striker	Esteghlal
--				Mohebi, M		1.86		24			FW     Either side wing/Striker	Rostov
19				Limouchi		1.79		23			FW     Either side wing/Striker	Sepahan
Coach
From Mar-23 Ghalenoei From Sep-22 To Dec-23 De Sá ( Asst ) From Mar-23 Alhoei ( Asst ) From Mar-23 Teymourian ( Asst ) From Apr-23 To Apr-24 Motahari ( Asst ) From May-23 Rezaei ( Asst ) From Jun-23 Manicone ( Asst )
Asia World Cup Qualifiers 2026 squad         12-Oct-23 / 30-Nov-25

Asia World Cup Qualifiers 2026 Afghanist - Australia - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Bhutan - Brunei - Cambodia - Ch Taipei - China, PR - E. Timor - Guam - Hong Kong - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Japan - Jordan - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan - Laos - Lebanon - Macau - Malaysia - Maldives - Mongolia - Myanmar - N. Korea - Nepal - Oman - Pakistan - Palestine - Philippin - Qatar - S. Korea - Saudi Arb - Singapore - Sri Lanka - Syria - Tajikistan - Thailand - Turkmenis - U.A.E. - Uzbekistan - Vietnam - Yemen