RT - Tehran has sharply criticized the decision by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to move matches set to take place in Iran to the UAE, describing the venue change as politically motivated. Iranian President Hassan Rouhanis chief of staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, condemned the confederations actions as unprofessional, local media reported on Wednesday....

IRNA Former Coach of Iran's Persepolis Club Branko Ivankovi? said on Wednesday that during his four-year life in Iran, he saw no security concerns in Iran. Speaking to IRNA, Ivankovi? said his long stay in Iran is the best response with regard to national security in Iran. The Croatian professional football manager expressed hope for solving ...

Reuters - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has shifted two preliminary matches in its elite club competition from Iran to neutral venues because of security concerns, Asian soccers governing body said on Wednesday. Shahr Khodro FC were scheduled to host Bahrains Riffa and Esteghlal FC were set to play Kuwait SC on Tuesday but both Asian Champions ...

FNA - Iran will file a complaint with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a ruling of the Asian Football Confederation to ban the country's football clubs from hosting the upcoming championship league matches. "We will prepare the bill (of complaint) within the next two days. The clubs will also do this legal task alongside the football ...

MNA Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar held a phone conversation with the President of the Asian Football Confederation, Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, on Sunday. The phone talk comes as AFC has informed the Iranian football federation that Iranian teams should host their rivals in neutral venues during the 2020 ...

MNA A spokesman with the Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation noted that Iran is fully ready to host international teams. Iran is fully ready to host various teams as it has been repeatedly proved during the past several years, Amirmahdi Alavi said on Friday, pointing to the successful holding of the 2018 AFC Champions League final at Azadi ...

Tasnim The-afc.com wrote that Esteghlal of Iran moved into the heart of 2019 AFC Champions League for the two Round-of-16 places with win over the Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia in Doha. After convincingly winning its first two games of the group, Al Hilal succumbed to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Esteghlal on Matchday Three. The Saudi side, however,...

MNA Iran U-23 football team have won a four-team tournament in Qatar by wining the host country. The Iranian team won the tournament with two wins and six points. Irans last match was against the host countrys team and defeated its rival 2-1 on Monday. Other participants in the quartet tournament other than Iran and Qatar were Olympic teams ...

Press TV - Iran football manager, Carlos Queiroz, has announced his final 23-man squad, who will accompany the Cheetahs to the United Arab Emirates, for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Saeed Ezatolahi and Ali Gholizadeh, who picked up injuries just days before the tournament, will unfortunately miss the event. The 3-time Asian Champions, who have been pitted ...

Press TV - The Asian Football Confederation has named Iran's Sardar Azmoun as one of its top-10 Asian strikers, praising Sardar and referring to him as the Iranian Golden Boy. Less than a month before the 20-19 Asian Cup in the UAE, the Asian Football Confederation has dubbed 10 target men, as the most threatening strikers in Asia, whose nations ...

MNA Iranian top futsal player Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh won the 2018 AFC Futsal Player of the Year in a ceremony held Wednesday night in Muscat, Oman. Islamic Republic of Irans status as a global force in world futsal was further underlined after Ali Asghar Hasanzadeh, who was part of the IR Iran side which finished third in the 2016 FIFA ...

Tasnim Iran national football team and Persepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand has been reportedly nominated for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Player of the Year. The Persepolis goalie is joined by Japanese striker Yuma Suzuki who currently plays in Kashima Antlers and Al Sadd of Qatar defender Abdelkarim Hassan. Beiranvand had an eye ...

Tasnim - SPIA Asia and the AFC have shortlisted the top 10 nominees for the Best Football League of the Year for the Inspiring and Developing categories. Australia, China PR, The Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, The United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan are the shortlisted nominees for the Inspiring League ...

MNA Persepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand has been chosen as the AFC Champions League Player of the Week. As announced by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) website, Beiranvand pulled off an impressive six saves to keep his side in the match in Doha, securing a cleansheet and giving teammate Ali Alipour the platform to dispatch ...

IRNA Iranian Persepolis FC won Qatari al-Sadd FC to pave its way for advancing to AFC Champions League finals. Persepolis defeated al-Sadd in the first leg of AFC Champions League semi-finals in Qatari rivals home Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Duha, Qatar with a 1-0 lead and got even closer to the finals. Ali Alipoor scored the only goal of the ...

ESPN - Asia's five teams are all home from Russia, but January's 2019 Asian Cup already looms large on the horizon. Here's a look at lessons all the AFC nations learned from the 2018 World Cup and what needs to be done in the coming weeks and months. South Korea Despite the stunning2-0win against Germany, South Korea's World Cup was a disappointment....

MNA As Iran gets ready for the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) website has looked back at Iran's finest World Cup moments, putting them to vote. After qualifying for two consecutive editions of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in their history, Islamic Republic of Iran will aim to spring a major surprise ...

Press TV - The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has lodged a complaint with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) against professional football clubAl-Hilal of Saudi Arabia over its players failure to observe a period of silence for the victims of a recent plane crash in central Iran. While footballers from Iranian ...

Tasnim - The Islamic Republic of Irans Aliasghar Hasanzadeh was named the AFC Futsal Player of the Year for the third time, ahead of compatriot Touhid Lotfi and Thailands forward Jirawat Sornwichian. After receiving the award in 2014 and 2016, the 30-year-old from the city of Qom joins the ranks of compatriot Vahid Shamsaei, who also won the accolade ...

Press TV - The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has stated that teams from Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer need to meet each other in neutral venues. Speaking at an AFC Competitions Committee session in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo on Friday, Presidentof the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of ...