Tasnim - Iran striker Mehdi Taremi has joined Portuguese club Rio Ave FC from Al Gharafa of Qatar.
The 27-year-old forward has signed a two-year deal with the Primeira Liga side for an undisclosed fee.
It is Taremi's first European move, having played for Iranian giant Persepolis between 2014-2018 where he twice emerged top scorer in the league....
MNA Iranian striker Sardar Azmoun has inked a 3.5-year contract with Russian top-flight team FC Zenit Saint Petersburg from Rubin Kazan.
The striker arrived at Russian Premier League leaders Zenit for an undisclosed fee, believed to be around 12m, Sky Sports reported.
Wolves had agreed a 1.7m loan fee with Kazan for the striker, with an option ...
Reuters - Iran's coach believes Alireza Jahanbakhsh will be fit for the Asian Cup tournament that kicks off this week, keeping the Brighton & Hove Albion winger in the squad hit by injuries.
Jahanbakhsh joined the Premier League side last summer from AZ Alkmaar where he finished the 2017-18 season as the leading scorer in the top Dutch division....
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 ...
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 ...
MNA The project of building football camps in Kish Island will start soon as a step to prepare the region for a probable co-hosting of 2022 Qatar World Cup, said sports director of Kish Free Zone Organization Bahram Afsharzadeh.
The project of building football camps will soon begin, he told Mehr News Agency, adding that such camps should ...
MNA Iranian Perspolis FC drew 1-1 versus Al Sadd of Qatar in the return match of the 2018 AFC Champions League semi-final on Tuesday.
The winner of Iranian Persian Gulf League Perspolis took on Qatari Al Sadd on Tuesday in the second leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final which was held in 80,000-capacity Azadi Stadium in Tehran. ...
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 ...
IRNA Iranian football club FC Persepolis beat al-Duhail with a sensational comeback at quarter-finals and advanced to the next round.
Iranian representative at AFC Champions League in quarter-finals faced Qatari rival al-Duhail SC on Monday evening at Azadi Stadium in the Iranian capital and won the match 3-2.
This is while the Qatari team had ...
IRNA - Iranian football federation's senior adviser said that football federation is seriously pursuing the right of Iranian teams to take part in international competitions.
Hamid Reza Asefi noted that Iranian teams' competitions at international competitions have always been one of the priorities of the football federation that has been pursued ...
BBC - An Iranian photographer has caught the world's attention after she defied restrictions that prevent women from covering men's sporting events.
Parisa Pourtaherian, 26, was unable to enter the Vatani Stadium in northern Iran to cover a top-flight football match last month.
But she was undeterred and covered the game from a nearby rooftop using ...
Press TV - The first ever goalkeeper of the Iran mens national football team, Ghorban Ali Taari, has passed away at the age of 93.
Taari, who was born in the Iranian capital city of Tehran, died athis home there on Friday.
The late keeper had just one international appearance. He was the custodian of the Iran soccer team, nicknamed Team Melli,...
ITY Watch - Manchester Citys strategy of signing relatively unknown players for small fees with the aim of profiting in some way could continue after it was revealed that a club scout watched Iran wingerSaman Ghoddosat the weekend.
Ghoddos plays for stersunds FK in the Allsvenskan, Swedens top flight, and featured for 90 minutes against Elfsborg ...
Press TV - Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, which currently competes in the Premier League,has completed the signing of Iranian professional winger and attacking midfielderAlireza Jahanbakhsh for a club record fee from Dutch side AZ Alkmaar.
On Wednesday, the 24-year-old penned a a five-year contract until June 2023, and becameBrighton's ...
Press TV - The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has demanded a formal apology from German sportswear manufacturerAdidas over its decision to exclude Irans name from the list of countries with access to its services.
In a letter addressed to head of the Federations Marketing Committee Hedayat Mombini on Monday, FFIRI ...
Tasnim Iranian national football team's head coach Carlos Queiroz has reportedly rejected Egypts offer to replace Hector Cuper.
Hector Cuper has left his role after failing to pick up a point in the World Cup group stage and the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) was reportedly considering Queiroz as a new head coach.
Cuper's team finished bottom ...
Press TV - Iranian referee Alireza Faghani together with compatriot linesmen Reza Sokhandan and Mohammad Mansouri have been picked to officiate the 2018 Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup third-place playoff between Belgium and England.
The worlds soccer governing body chose the trio for the penultimate fixture ...
IFP - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says Iran is really pleased that the recent operation in Thailand led to the rescue of 12 teenagers trapped in a cave.
In a Thursday message to Thailands Foreign Ministry officials, Qassemi said Iranian people shared the Thai nations concern about the fate of the teenagers, and watched ...