Iran_men's_national_handball_team
The Iran national handball team is the national handball team of Iran and is controlled by the IR Iran Handball Federation.
Quick Facts Information, Nickname ...
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| Information | ||||
| Nickname | Team Melli | |||
| Association | IRIHF | |||
| Coach | vacant | |||
| Assistant coach | Shahdad Mortaji Hamid Sadeghi | |||
| Captain | Mojtaba Heidarpour | |||
| Colours | ||||
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| Results | ||||
| World Championship | ||||
| Appearances | 2 (First in 2015) | |||
| Best result | 21st (2015) | |||
| Asian Championship | ||||
| Appearances | 16 (First in 1989) | |||
| Best result |  3rd (2014) | |||
| Last updated on Unknown. | ||||
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Quick Facts Medal record, Asian Championship ...
| Medal record | ||
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| Asian Championship | ||
 | 2014 Bahrain | |
| Asian Games | ||
 | 2010 Guangzhou | Team |
| 2006 Doha | Team |
| Islamic Solidarity Games | ||
| 2021 Konya | |
| West Asian Games | ||
| 2005 Doha | |
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World Championship
More information Year, Round ...
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
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 1938 | Not an IHF member | |||||||
 1954 | ||||||||
 1958 | ||||||||
| 1961 | ||||||||
 1964 | ||||||||
| 1967 | ||||||||
 1970 | ||||||||
 1974 | ||||||||
 1978 | did not enter | |||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||
 1986 | ||||||||
| 1990 | did not qualify | |||||||
| 1993 | ||||||||
 1995 | ||||||||
 1997 | ||||||||
 1999 | ||||||||
| 2001 | ||||||||
 2003 | ||||||||
 2005 | ||||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||
 2009 | ||||||||
| 2011 | ||||||||
 2013 | ||||||||
 2015 | President’s Cup | 21st place | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 185 | 225 |
| 2017 | did not qualify | |||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||
 2023 | Main round | 24th place | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 150 | 198 |
 2025 | to be determined | |||||||
| 2027 | ||||||||
| 2029 | ||||||||
| 2031 | ||||||||
| Total | 2/30 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 335 | 423 | |
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Asian Championship
More information Year, Round ...
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
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 1977 | did not enter | |||||||
 1979 | ||||||||
 1983 | ||||||||
 1987 | ||||||||
| 1989 | Final round | 8th place | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 106 | 114 |
| 1991 | Placement 9th–12th | 11th place | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 110 | 132 |
 1993 | Preliminary round | 9th place | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 58 |
| 1995 | did not enter | |||||||
 2000 | Round-robin | 5th place | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 61 | 132 |
 2002 | Placement 5th–6th | 5th place | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 104 | 96 |
| 2004 | Placement 5th–8th | 7th place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 131 | 138 |
 2006 | Final round | 4th place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 122 | 110 |
| 2008 | Final round | 4th place | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 184 | 179 |
 2010 | Placement 5th–8th | 7th place | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 161 | 146 |
 2012 | Placement 5th–10th | 5th place | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 124 | 115 |
 2014 | Final round | 3rd place | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 215 | 171 |
| 2016 | Knockout stage | 5th place | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 199 | 184 |
 2018 | Knockout stage | 5th place | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 195 | 157 |
| 2020 | Final round | 6th place | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 176 | 151 |
| 2022 | Final round | 4th place | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 221 | 206 |
| 2024 | Final round | 6th place | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 185 | 161 |
| Total | 16/21 | 86 | 39 | 6 | 41 | 2,344 | 2,250 | |
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Asian Games
More information Year, Round ...
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D | L | GS | GA |
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 1982 | did not enter | |||||||
 1986 | Round-robin | 5th place | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 90 | 185 |
| 1990 | did not enter | |||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||
| 1998 | Final round | 4th place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 126 | 146 |
 2002 | did not enter | |||||||
| 2006 | Final round | 3rd place | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 220 | 203 |
| 2010 | Final round | Runners-up | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 185 | 156 |
| 2014 | Final round | 4th place | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 188 | 164 |
 2018 | Classification 5th–8th | 5th place | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 202 | 152 |
| 2022 | ||||||||
| 2026 | to be determined | |||||||
| 2030 | ||||||||
| 2034 | ||||||||
| Total | 7/11 | 37 | 18 | 0 | 19 | 1,011 | 1,006 | |
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Other tournaments
Islamic Solidarity Games
West Asian Games
Current squad
Squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.[1][2]
Head coach: Veselin Vujović
More information No., Pos. ...
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Yury Klimov- Yuri Kidyaev (2009–2010)
Borut Maček (2010)
Ivica Rimanić (2011–2012)
Rafael Guijosa (2012–2014)- Borut Maček (2014–2015)
- Irfan Smajlagić (2015–2016)
Mohsen Taheri (2016)- Alireza Habibi (2017)
- Borut Maček (2017)
Zoran Kastratović (2018)- Alireza Habibi (2019–2020)
- Manuel Montoya (2021–2022)
Veselin Vujović (2022–2023)
- 2006 Asian Games –
Bronze medal
- Farid Alimoradi, Alireza Rabie Dolatabadi, Mostafa Sadati, Iman Ehsannejad, Hossein Shahabi, Ali Akbar Khoshnevis, Masoud Zohrabi, Peyman Sadeghi, Hojjat Rahshenas, Saeid Pourghasemi, Mohammad Reza Jafarnia, Hani Zamani, Mohammad Reza Rajabi, Allahkaram Esteki and Rasoul Dehghani. Head Coach: Yury Klimov
- Iman Jamali (later Hungary)
- "برگزاری آخرین مرحله اردوی تدارکاتی تیم ملی هندبال پیش از اعزام به لهستان" (in Persian). irihf.ir. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- "Team Roster Iran" (PDF). ihf.info. 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
